GRANNY HERALD PUTS ITS INKY FINGER ON MATARIKI

 

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The NZ Herald inadvertently puts its inky, stinky, globalist editorial finger right on the Matariki button. New Zealand didn't ask for Matariki Weekend: it was imposed as a fait accompli, unsolicited, on a nation which needed another holiday like it needed a hole in the head by a Prime Minister we needed like we needed a hole in the head.

PM Jacinda Ardern held this country in thrall and she knew that her fan club of 'She'll Be Right' Kiwis would be thrilled to bits by her 'gift' of another day off work. And Granny Herald's idea of a fun alternative to clocking in (booze and transgender sex) illustrates the state of the nation which settles for much less of what it once had: morality, mutual respect and common decency.


Five years ago, who'd heard of Matariki? A tiny minority of Maori and a clique of leftist academics who'd written pompous papers on it, who'd noticed the communist, globalist trend to indigeneity and the rise of iwi grifters, and hitched their careers to the ideology of Maorification.

We shouldn't be surprised at the success of this manoeuvre. Not when the Catholic Church (or rather, its Ape, led by 'Pope Francis'), noticing the drop in planned giving,  and emptying pews, seized its heretical, modernist opportunity and jumped on the Maori bandwagon. 

“It is an error," said a real Pope (Pius IX, in 1864) "to believe that man is free to embrace and profess any religion he shall choose, guided by his reason alone.” But when the post-Vatican II popes embraced ecumenism, indifferentism and syncretism (the heresies of blending religions) the NZ Catholic Bishops enthusiastically followed suit and developed their own variant, by adopting Matariki and the pagan pantheon of Te Atua.

God is God is God. The word does not equate with 'atua' which means, according to Te Aka Māori Dictionary, "god (lower case 'g'), demon, supernatural being, deity, ghost, object of superstitious regard."

 A bunch of stars is not 'the eyes of God', as claimed in a Matariki liturgy devised for Catholic children in supposedly Catholic schools in 2026 - a ritual which prays only for 'our common home' and saving the planet rather than saving souls, which is the Suprema Lex of the Catholic religion.

Something called Tō Tātou Whakapono Our Faith, approved by the NZ Bishops, "is actively founded on the principles of honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi. This is an active expression of our Catholic Special Character. New Zealand Catholic Bishops commit to the principles of Protection Partnership and Participation." Seems very much as if NZ Catholic Bishops commit to the principles of socialism, an ideology which was and is strictly forbidden to Catholics by several successive popes. If NZ's Catholic Bishops are as socialist as they sound, they're not Catholics any more than the communist globalists in the Vatican are Catholic.

"Māori tikanga and Catholic practice are the collective set of values and principles, which inform, guide and direct the way people relate to Atua/God." There it is. For NZ's Catholic Bishops, customary practices for behaviour in Māori culture (not in European or Asian culture, note) equates with the practice of the Catholic religion, "outside of which there is no salvation". 

What's more, " Māori Before English: Religious Education in Aotearoa NZ" https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/8/947  tells us that "the new religious education curriculum for Catholic schools in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrates an extraordinary commitment to the inclusion of Māori culture and language" and posits the theory that there exists a "call that Māori need to be allowed to develop a theology from within their own culture and language." 

The Catholic Church in New Zealand used to be the Church of Nice. Now it's the church of Apostasy, abandoning the Catholic religion and throwing the faithful  - especially the children in its schools - under the buses to socialism and paganism. 

Read Judy Gill who knows her stuff on this, from bitter experience:  https://goodoil.news/the-catholic-church-and-matariki/#google_vignette

NZ Herald knows its (shrinking) readership. It knows what turns its readers on and it fills the awful vacuum created by loss of faith in God with what appeals to the worst in human nature - to the inclination to sin, the mention of which to NZ's Catholic Bishops seems anathema.  

Look. It's great that Maori enjoy whanau and celebrate the Maori New Year but what does it mean in practical terms, beyond planting things and eating and drinking things? In the Christian New Year it means making good resolutions. 

In the Catholic New Year, January 1 celebrates the Octave of the Birth of Jesus Christ, through Whom all things were made - including the stars Pleiades/Matariki - and to Whom all power is given on earth and in heaven. It's He Whom we must celebrate.

 Cringe: Dawn Matariki Karakia at the Pompallier Catholic Diocesan Centre yesterday

From Rodney Hide with his head screwed on - as always 

 

Sitting through karakia I am invariably reminded of the book of Daniel in which faithful Israelites found themselves serving in the courts of pagan Babylon. They showed respect to the authorities, excelled in their duties, and contributed to the empire’s good order.

 

Yet when the king’s table demanded compromise with idolatry or when the law forbade prayer to the true God, Daniel and his companions drew a firm line. They would not bow. 

 

 

Dog in the mangerism

That ancient precedent speaks directly to Christians in today’s New Zealand, where state institutions are steadily importing elements of pre-colonial Māori cosmology into schools, official ceremonies, and the public square.

 

It is a peculiar development because the Maori and English who founded New Zealand were Christian.  By 1845 half of all Maori were attending Christian services with claims that 90% of Māori had converted by 1852. 

 

The Treaty era and subsequent missions reflected a meeting of peoples who, despite deep cultural differences, largely accepted the Christian worldview. That shared foundation helped shape a nation of ordered liberty. 

 

The god of Matariki AND the god of food 

 

Today, secularism has hollowed out explicit Christianity, creating a spiritual vacuum that Māori spiritual concepts are filling under the banner of biculturalism. We need a ritual and so we pop in Maori prayer and protocol. 

 

It fills the gap and appears inclusive.  But this is no neutral enrichment. It presents a direct challenge to the First and Second Commandments: “You shall have no other gods before me” and “You shall not make for yourself an idol.”

Mana, Modern Chiefs, and Unaccountable Power

The resulting friction is increasingly apparent.  Central to this friction is “mana” -- inherited and achieved spiritual prestige that traditionally placed tribal leaders beyond casual challenge. Protecting mana drove behaviour and demanded reciprocity.

 

In contemporary politics and business, we see echoes of this: figures shielded by cultural deference who operate with an aura of chiefly authority that resists scrutiny. Questioning them risks being framed as cultural disrespect rather than legitimate democratic accountability. 

We see this tension evident in the iwi corporates and the multitude of Maori trusts enriched with taxpayer cash and legal advantage.  They are unaccountable and to question them is to cross the cultural line.

This sits uneasily with Christian teaching on authority. Scripture demands that all power be exercised with humility and held accountable to transcendent law.

 

New Zealand’s parliamentary tradition, itself influenced by biblical limits on kingship, assumes open debate and the right to criticise without fear of spiritual taboo. When mana-based status effectively elevates some voices above challenge, it imports a tribal hierarchy into institutions meant to serve all citizens equally.

 

We had a recent demonstration with Hon Shane Jones lashing journalists questioning his travel expenses.  To him they were trying to “malign the Matua's name” .

 

Utu Versus Grace

Pre-colonial ethics revolved around “utu” -- restoring balance through equivalent return, whether gift or grievance. Forgiveness was secondary to equilibrium and the preservation of mana.

 

Christianity subverts this with radical grace: the Cross settles the ultimate debt, freeing individuals to forgive as they have been forgiven. Repentance and personal transformation replace ritual balance.

Public policy and education increasingly take us back to pagan times.

 

Treaty settlements go on forever and there is no forgiveness for the white children who in school must take on the supposed sins of their forefathers.  There is no trial, no defence, and no forgiveness.  And the unchallenged sins of the forefathers travel down through the generations without end.

 

 

The god of Matariki meets the god of money

Karakia, Atua, and the Commandments in Schools

The tension is sharpest in education. “Karakia” opening school days or events are downplayed as “cultural mindfulness.” But whenever I check I find they invoke specific “atua” -- immanent spiritual powers tied to the “whakapapa” lineage descending from Ranginui and Papatūānuku.

 

For a Christian child, this is not neutral poetry. It directly engages the First Commandment’s prohibition against other gods and the Second’s warning against idols.

Daniel’s friends refused to bow to Nebuchadnezzar’s image even under threat of death. Modern Christian parents face a softer but real pressure: participate or be marked as divisive.

 

The state has no business compelling children into spiritual practices that violate their family’s faith. Respect for Māori culture—its art, history, and “manaakitanga” -- does not require participation in its cosmology.

A Call for Principled Pluralism

 

New Zealand’s institutions should not replace one spiritual monopoly with another. Secularism’s neutrality was always a fiction; the vacuum is now being filled. Christians, like Daniel in Babylon, can serve faithfully, show courtesy, and contribute to the common good while refusing to compromise core allegiance.

 

Families must teach children to stand respectfully yet pray silently to the God of Scripture. Pastors and leaders should articulate these distinctions clearly rather than acquiesce for the sake of social harmony.

The nation was not built on animism and tribal reciprocity. Its strengths -- rule of law, individual rights, and capacity for forgiveness -- drew deeply from Christian soil.

 

Importing a rival metaphysical system wholesale into public life, while marginalising the historic faith, serves neither Māori nor non-Maori well. It breeds quiet resentment and weakens the shared public square.

Our schools should pursue cultural appreciation without spiritual compulsion. Christians must respond with clarity, courage, and the same steadfastness Daniel showed in Babylon. The Commandments have not changed. Neither has the God who gave them.

Rodney Hide is a former Minister and ACT Party leader

https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/rodney-hide-daniel-in-the-public-square-m%C4%81ori-spiritualism-an

 

 

 

Martyrs of Damascus, hacked to death by Druz Muslims for refusing to convert to Islam

 Martyrs of  Damascus, please pray for New Zealand

TRADS WANT LATIN MASS SIDESHOW IN SYNODAL CIRCUS

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"Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Reverend Spider to the Traditional Fly.

Pearls will be clutched at any suggestion of 'Pope Leo XIV' (oka Robert FtR Prevost) being likened to something so disliked as a fly, even when graced with a capital 'F'. So let's suppose it's Cardinal Victor Manuel Touchme Fernandez, whom all straight people find repellent, that we're talking about here, in connection with the stupendous scandal of the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Faith's summary excommunication of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX).

But. It's not the SSPX that's the Fly in this scenario. It's the traditional movement in the Catholic Church - excluding the Society, who by their 'illicit' episcopal consecrations on July 1 at Econe, have escaped the 'parlour': the trap set for Trad Inc, conservative and Recognise and Resisters and 'traditional Catholic groups, by the Vatican II Synodal church. 

Already the bishops (who are reliably reputed to be 80% gay), and who stayed shtum during the outrages of the Bergoglian regime, are crawling out from under their diocesan stones to offer blandishments, expansions and concessions for celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. Now that the SSPX, the major force for preservation of the Mass and Church doctrine have been fakely 'excommunicated' by Bergoglio's successor, they find the courage to align themselves ever so slightly with the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. (After all, the EF affords such opportunities for lavender and lace.)

Rome desperately wants to corral the traditional Catholics it has treated with such contempt with Traditionis Custodes, and to stop the hemorrhage of thousands (with their pocketbooks) who were blown away by the the SSPX Declaration of Faith and by the ceremonials at Econe. So Rome will allow the Latin Mass, a little. For a while. But no sermons such as those preached by the SSPX, which teach Catholic doctrine.  

Because what anti-Catholic Rome will not allow is the Catholic religion. That is why the Society had to consecrate its own bishops, and that is why those bishops were 'excommunicated' by a Prefect of the DDF whose office and raison d'etre is to preserve and guard the Deposit of Faith, but who proved by his insane formula that he's a better writer of soft porn than of legislation by canon.

Softly, softly catchee monkey. Prevost's Vatican will allow a managed Latin Mass, in the meantime. And the prominent traditional Catholic voices who've rushed to distance themselves from the SSPX - Dr Taylor Marshall. Joseph Shaw, Latin Mass Society chairman for England and Wales, Fr Dominic White OP, of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and Federatio Internationalis Una Voce -  will walk into the Spider's web of error, and once caught in it will eventually have to accept the inevitable: the Novus Ordo in Latin.



That's the next step in the Synodal church agenda for the gradual abolition of the Traditional Latin Mass. And the Catholic religion. 

– And now, dear little children, who may this story read,

To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:

Unto an evil counsellor, close heart, and ear, and eye,

And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

 

Long before the SSPX consecrations and consequent excommunications, others and I, unlike Trad. Inc., have warned and pointed out with monotonous regularity that the overarching issue is not the Traditional Latin Mass alone, but the new Vatican II religion issuing out of Rome.

 

We have stated repeatedly that there could be no compromise over the liturgy while adhering to the false Synodal anti-Catholic religion.

 

At this late stage of total apostasy in the Synodal Abomination, one does not need to be a prophet to predict that, in the wake of the SSPX excommunications, Rome will use access to the TLM as the bargaining chip to keep “Traditional” Catholics on a short leash and domesticated within the Synodal Church.

 

This past week, it has been telling how a choir of voices from within the kosher postconciliar concentration camp has called for exactly that: unity with error in exchange for access to the TLM.

 

Among the earliest episcopal responses was that of Bishop Czesław Kozon of Copenhagen. Speaking to Catholic News Agency, Kozon argued that the older liturgy should continue to have a place within the life of the Church, observing that the “Old Mass” should remain available so long as there are believers “who like to have it and are associated with it.”

 

A similar position was adopted by Bishop Fredrik Hansen of Oslo in a pastoral letter issued after the SSPX consecrations. Addressing Catholics who had attended SSPX chapels because of their attachment to the pre-conciliar liturgy, Hansen wrote directly to those “who are attracted to the pre-conciliar liturgy and the spirituality associated with it.” He pledged that, “if it is necessary and it serves for the good of the Church and of souls, I will also expand this kind of Mass celebration in our local Church.”

 

We knew that 

 

Perhaps the most high-profile intervention came from Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former personal secretary to Benedict XVI and now Apostolic Nuncio to the Baltic States. In an interview with the Corriere della Sera, Gänswein argued that the arch-heretic Francis had been “wrong” to impose the restrictions contained in Traditionis Custodes, insisting that the decision “can and must be corrected.”

 

He further proposed that Rome should become “more flexible, generous and paternal” toward Catholics  attached to the traditional liturgy. Wow, Georg, how generous of you to beg the modernist heretics to allow us access to what is rightfully ours!

 

Other senior prelates likewise proposed institutional solutions. Cardinal Gerhard Müller criticized the suppression of the former Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, describing its abolition as an “error” because important competencies had been dispersed.

 

He advocated the creation of a new body possessing “some independence and autonomy” that could address both the liturgical and doctrinal questions surrounding traditionalist communities seeking full communion.

 

 In a similar vein, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, argued that the Church should reconsider the application of Traditionis Custodes so as to accommodate Catholics devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass who did not share what he described as the “ideology” of the SSPX.

 

What Koch, of course, means by “ideology” is Catholicism. As long as you renounce the Catholic faith, they will let you have the TLM, which means nothing without the accompanying Catholic doctrine it represents.

 

 

Just for a laugh

Sell-out “Traditional” religious communities in full communion with Apostate Rome echoed these appeals. The Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer, while reaffirming fidelity to the unHoly See, asked the usurpers to demonstrate “paternal solicitude” toward “all those Catholic faithful who feel themselves linked to some previous liturgical and disciplinary forms of the Latin tradition,” quoting directly from Ecclesia Dei.

 

These episcopal and religious interventions were reinforced by influential lay organizations. Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, unequivocally rejected the SSPX’s unilateral episcopal consecrations, yet argued that the Synodal Church should reassure those Synodalists who wished to remain fully enslaved while preserving their liturgical heritage.

 

He expressed the hope that the crisis would lead “to a change, reassuring those who don’t support the society’s action and wish to separate the liturgy from any thought of schism.” Shaw stressed that attachment to the Traditional Latin Mass should never be equated with support for canonical rupture with the heretical Synodal Religion.

 

The Latin Mass Society and Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce jointly reaffirmed their communion with Rome while warning against allowing restrictions on the traditional liturgy to drive otherwise faithful Synodalists toward the margins of ecclesial life. (Margins, in this case, of course, means driving them to Catholicism.)

 

Another treacherous proposal came from Fr. Dominic White, O.P., Prior of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. While insisting that “being Catholic means being in full and regular communion,”White nevertheless argued that every diocese should make provision for the Traditional Latin Mass at “a convenient time and place.”

 

He further suggested the establishment of a canonical structure similar to the Personal Ordinariates, thereby providing a stable ecclesial home for Catholics attached to the older liturgy without requiring any compromise in communion with the Holy See. In other words, White wants Catholicism to be reduced to a side freak show in the Synodal circus.

 

You get the picture.

 

What will probably happen next is that Leo XIV will come up with a very generous gesture, such as “freeing up” access to the TLM (in exchange for obedience to the false religion), just enough to dupe the faithful into thinking he is the good guy. (I can already hear the slobbering, sycophantic praise coming from the Trad. Inc. camp.)

 

Once everyone is neatly rounded up into the cage, in the not-too-distant future, a change to the TLM will be announced that will either be a hybrid between the TLM and the Novus Ordo Missae, or simply the Novus Ordo Missae in Latin.

 

Imagine this in Latin ...

 

And all the good little “trads” will have to obey.

 

Whatever you do, do not succumb to this trade-off, which is akin to Esau selling his birthright. Worse still, do not let the TLM become the “30 pieces of silver” for which you betray Christ and the Catholic Church.https://radicalfidelity.substack.com/p/do-not-fall-for-the-coming-tlm-deception

 

“Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver” by Rembrandt van Rijn



 Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on your Church

TUCHO'S EXCOMMUNICATIONS UNJUST, INVALID, A JOKE

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'Photoshopped', possibly - but habitual, obviously

 

Take a good long look, you good Catholics - Trad Inc or Novus Ordo - at the man pictured above: Cardinal Victor Manuel 'Tucho' 'Fernandez, Prefect of the Dicastery of the Faith,  who would have you believe he's excommunicated the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), in its entirety. Enjoy a good, long laugh at his expense. 

That'd be better for the morale than tearing your hair out in rage and disbelief, which is the only other rational reaction to the Vatican circus for which Fernandez acts as ringmaster. A laugh would provide a little light relief for you, and potentially hundreds of thousands of other faithful Catholics whom this pervert is trying to gaslight into believing they're now outside the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. 

And dear Trad Inc, before you trip over yourselves to cry 'photoshopped' at the peculiar sleight of hand in the Lavender Mafia-style image above, please note its duplication below. A Prince of the Church makes a habit, apparently, of elevating the very Body and Blood of Christ for Its adoration by the faithful, without bothering to use his two hands to do so. 

His gesture symbolises the decree of 'excommunication' which he didn't bother to do correctly, either. Or to do it validly. Or to do it justly. His 'decree' doesn't meet canon law criteria for a proper Declaration of Excommunication, and nor does it carry the signature of 'Pope Leo XIV' aka Antipope 'FtR' Prevost, who pretends to be the Reigning Pontiff.

Canon law says if the person in question (in this case, the SSPX) believes - even erroneously - that there’s a state of necessity, then excommunication latae sententiae is not incurred. And Tucho's legerdemain - his mocking, single-handed elevation of Host and Chalice - likewise symbolises the apostate Vatican and its postconciliar new religion's regime.  

What's your POINT, Your Eminence, in even trying to excommunicate the SSPX - or anyone else, for that matter? Haven't you said that 'everyone is saved'? So why go through this 'excommunication' rigmarole? What's the point even, of the Catholic Church, and your high office within it? Are you simply maintaining what you evidently believe to be an elaborate fiction because the Church provides you with a very good living - for reasons unknown to anyone but a very small number of prelates possessed of possibly incriminating information? 

The same applies to Robert Prevost, who has worshipped the demon Pachamama, and who maintains that 'we're all one'. In other words, you're both heretics who have incurred excommunication latae sententiae and have no authority to excommunicate anyone, otherwise correctly or incorrectly. 

Furthermore, it's not all that long since March 5, 2023, when in your cathedral of La Plata, as Bishop Fernández, you denounced the 'classifications' and 'labels', canonical and moral, developed by the Church over the centuries. Now, after your meteoric rise to the Prefecture of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, you yourself promulgate the 'decree of excommunication', targeting bishops, members, and faithful of the SSPX following the episcopal ordinations of July 1.

Somehow one suspects that you, Your Eminence, will live to regret this truly risible faux pas as much as you and the Vatican must regret the publication of your trashy, pornographic penning in Mystical Passion - Spirituality and Sensuality (and the rest of your oeuvre - at last count, 105 books on Goodreads). As one suspects also that quotes from Mystical Passion were the reason for Blogger deleting the last post on this blog, "LEO WANTS TO STOP 600,000 CATHOLICS RECEIVING CHRIST" https://juliadufresne.blogspot.com/.../leo-wants-to-stop..

In other words, it seems that you, a Prince of the Church, have written text which violates even the guidelines of the 'Blogger community', let alone violating the guidelines for Christians, i.e. the Ten Commandments and the precepts of the Church. 

Good Catholics will want to pray for you, Your Eminence. And for the rest of the hierarchy of what pretends to be the Mystical Body of Christ, for your repentance, healing and conversion to the one true Church. Good Catholics may also want to make donations to the SSPX instead of the postconciliar new world church. Because the pragmatic view would be that depriving Rome of income would hurt far more than depriving it of prayer.

Modernist, apostate Rome cannot comprehend that its neglect of prayer costs them cash, for which it cares far more than for souls. "No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." (Mt 6:24.) 

Tucho invites the question, where's his other hand?  

As the dust settles from the cruel announcement of the penalty of excommunication for the SSPX bishops, priests and many laity attached to the Society, some excellent resources are being made available to help combat the error that these very unjust excommunications are in fact valid.

 

• SSPX – Official response
• The Catholic Esquire – Short, concise video
• Kennedy Hall – Longer, complete video
• Fr. Gerald Murray – Critique of the decree (doesn’t support the consecration decision)
• Fr Gerald Murray – Dissertation on the first excommunications from 1995
• Infovaticana – Details of Canon Law
• Rorate Caeli – Another canonical analysis
• Roberto de Mattei – Opposing view, historical information
• Bishop Schneider – interview on potential excommunication
• The Perdie Channel – Short video of Consecration ceremony
• Examples of selective application of penalties

 

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Official response from the SSPX regarding the excommunications

From the FSSPX.NEWS website, you can find the Letter to the Holy Father regarding the Decree of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

From the Letter:

“We are certain that one day You yourself, or one of Your successors, will wish to adopt the program of Saint Pius X: “To restore all things in Christ,” Instaurare omnia in Christo.

On that day, the Holy Father will discover in the Society of Saint Pius X not a nest of serpents and scorpions, but a small army of loyal sons, ready to do anything to sustain Him in the restoration of all things in Our Lord, and to vindicate before all mankind the imprescriptible rights of Christ the King over all souls and over all nations.”

Short, concise video

This video from Catholic Esquire gets right to the point. This is perfect for those who are short on time and who want to convince the average Catholic that the excommunication penalty simply does not apply to the Society’s episcopal consecrations of July 1st.

Longer, complete video

Kennedy Hall has made a very long (2 hour) video examining every angle of the issue. In his usual charitable way, he breaks down the injustices and invalidity of the excommunication penalty.

This resource is helpful for those who have plenty of time and who want a very thorough understanding of the situations and objections to the validity of the excommunications.

Critique of the decree on excommunications by a non-supporter of the consecrations

This video from Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal looks at the Vatican’s decree, and the canonical confusion surrounding the Society of Saint Pius X. Fr.

Murray is a canonist who did not support the consecrations yet sees inconsistencies in the decree. He refers to the documents announcing the excommunications, as ‘a mess.’ There is some discussion of Traditiones Custodes and the Latin Mass generally.

 

covered in the post deleted by Blogger  https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/07/03/watch-fernandez-issues-crazy-demands-of-the-sspx/

 

Refutation of the SSPX excommunications from 1995

This article looks at the 1995 thesis by the same canonist as above, Fr. Gerald Murray. Fr. Murray, a Novus Ordo priest in fact made the SSPX excommunications the topic of his doctoral thesis.

Details of Canon Law

This article from Infovaticana is quite in-depth. It looks closely at the various canons involved in the decree and its notes, examining also the internal inconsistencies in Cardinal Fernandez’ approach. This is helpful when dealing with those who have more than a passing interest in the excommunications.

From the article:

“The two documents published on 2 July by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith—a Decree and an Explanatory Note (Prot. N. 99/2009), both signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández and the secretaries Armando Matteo and John J. Kennedy—present defects of canonical technique that drastically limit their actual scope.

Analysed in accordance with Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, their juridical effect is reduced to the declaration of six excommunications. With respect to the more than seven hundred priests of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X and their faithful, the formula employed lacks penal efficacy.”

Another canonical analysis

This critique comes from the Canon of Shaftesbury, a judicial vicar in a major archdiocese, and argues that the documents issued by the DDF were so flawed that they did not accomplish what they were intended to do. It concludes:

“The Decree of July 2, 2026 accomplished one thing: it named six bishops as having incurred latae sententiae excommunication, consistent with the Church’s practice since 1988. It did not declare the excommunication of any priest, and the note that purports to extend that condemnation is not a legally operative instrument. Three pontificates have consistently treated Society priests as canonically irregular but not excommunicated; a non-binding Explanatory Note does not change that situation.

 

“The faithful who attend SSPX Masses and seek the Society’s sacraments have not been excommunicated. The censure against the named bishops, even if valid, has not been declared against the priests; an undeclared censure does not impede the faithful from seeking sacraments for just cause under can. 1335 §2; and the confessional and matrimonial faculties previously granted by papal act remain in effect. Nothing in the July 2 documents changes the practical canonical situation for the faithful.”

Opposing view – historical and philosophical approach

 

Professor Roberto de Mattei has written two articles, one prior to and another after the Consecrations. Although not an avid supporter of the Society or of its decision to go ahead with the consecrations, he presents a balanced approach for anyone unfamiliar with backstory to the Consecrations.

 

Professor de Mattei also correctly identifies the source of the conflict between the Society and Rome, the ‘underlying doctrinal dilemma’.

 

These articles are helpful for those wanting to understand a reasonable argument from the other side of the debate.

 

Bishop Athanasius Schneider interview

In his text published on the website of Diane Montagna prior to the consecrations, Bishop Schneider addressed the The Core Question Regarding the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X.

From the text:

“The resolution of the SSPX question is hindered not only by a reluctance to confront, with intellectual honesty, the underlying doctrinal issues and to acknowledge the existence of doctrinal ambiguities requiring correction but also by an unhealthy mentality that has developed within the Church over the past several centuries: namely, the primacy of legalism or juridical positivism, together with an excessive papal-centrism that approaches a quasi-divinization of both the office and the person of the Pope.”

 

“Since the Council, with some of the mentioned ambiguous teachings, a process has been underway to establish, with the authority of the Roman Pontiff, a so-called “Church of Vatican II” or the “Conciliar Church.” This tendency, in our day under the new name of the “Synodal Church,” basically aims to be a relativist religion adapted to the world.

 

Attempts to disguise this new trend toward an ambiguous, relativistic, and worldly form of the Catholic Church through a hermeneutic of continuity are dishonest and unconvincing.”

 

 

Manifest heresy

Short video of Consecration ceremony

This 5 minutes video from The Perdie Channel covers the entire Mass from beginning to the rainstorm. It may be useful to share this with those who have no idea how the Society operates.

 

From the footage, it is clear that even of one does not agree with the Society’s attitude toward Tradition, these are Catholics who act as though they truly believe – in the True Faith, Real Presence, and in the promises of our Lord and His Mother.

 

Examples of selective application

 

Apart from the obvious flaws in the Vatican’s documents, the disconnect between Rome’s treatment of the SSPX and its toleration of other abuses which are rampant in the Church is highly disturbing.

 

For a start, there are the obvious examples of two Popes scandalising the faithful by engaging in the worship of a false deity (see Francis here and Leo XIV here). There is also the matter of the Pope approving, after the fact, the illicit consecrations of bishops by the Chinese Communist Party.

 

They've not been excommunicated

 

 

Then there are some events which have taken place in the past few weeks that remove any doubt that we are are indeed living in a time of crisis.

 

This is critical since the validity or invalidity of the penalty of excommunication for illicitly consecrating bishops rests on whether or not the context for those consecrations is, in fact, in a state of necessity. The following examples make it clear that that state does exist, and it is even more obvious now than it was in 1988.

 

One particularly egregious event was the appearance of the former papal household preacher at a Mass held in honour of a homosexual couple’s 50th anniversary of their relationship.

The sacrilege was rendered even more profane by one member of the couple distributing the Precious Blood at Communion. To date there has been no censure of any clergy who officiated at this event, nor any official condemnation at all.

Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe OP (pride of the Dominicans) blesses a sodomitic couple during Holy Mass 

 

Another striking example of selective punishment comes in the form of an illicit ‘episcopal consecration’ which is also invalid. In this case, Bishop Joseph V. Brennan of California took part in the ‘consecration’ of an American Episcopalian ‘bishop’. That is, a Catholic Bishop was involved in the simulated consecration of a non-Catholic bishop.

 

This happened in April and there has so far been no mention of any censure coming from the Vatican. As the author of a report on this event points out,  

“The Episcopal Church rejects the extraordinary and universal ordinary magisterium (and the ordinary magisterium of Vatican II), but no penalties will be applied to Brennan, whereas the SSPX only provisionally rejects some limited decrees of post-Vatican II magisterium until they can be reconciled with the Extraordinary and Universal Ordinary Magisterium.”

 

Then there is the ongoing case of Fr Marko Rupnik, who has been credibly accused of performing sexualised rituals with several nuns and also absolved an accomplice who participated in those rituals.

 

The latter crime incurred automatic excommunication, but the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF, now known as the DDF) lifted the decree only weeks later. Although Rupnik is technically under some restrictions, in practice he is free to move around and continue his work as an artist.

 

Still another blatant example of inconsistency comes from the Pope himself. His address to the people of the United States on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA included this snippet:

“Among the most cherished of these principles is religious freedom – the right of every person to worship according to conscience and to practice their faith openly…” ¹

 

The American people’s freedom of worship he claims to admire stands in stark contrast to the restrictions he has placed on the Society of Saint Pius X. From failing to meet personally with the Society’s leaders, to refusing to allow the consecration of new bishops, to attempting to withdraw the faculties of its priests, Pope Leo has shown that the ‘right of every person to worship according to conscience’ does not extend to the Society of Saint Pius X.

 

In the face of so many errors and inconsistencies, we will conclude with some salient words from Archbishop Lefebvre:

 

“Excommunication is indifferent to us. It is not we who have changed. We would be condemned by those who would themselves have been excommunicated by previous popes.”

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1. ‘Religious liberty’ is a proposition condemned by pre-conciliar Popes including Gregory XVI and Pius IX.  St. Augustine said it was ‘liberty of perdition’ to promote the idea that “… liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right…” St. Augustine, epistle 105 (166). ‘Freedom of religion’ is more accurately the freedom to practise the true Faith, that is, Catholicism.  ↩︎Resources for refuting the validity of the excommunications - Pax Orbis

 

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