POPE LEO, PLEASE - BRING BACK THE BOX!

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Pre-Vatican II: the way we were

It's infuriating, it's frustrating, misleading and promoted by popes - Leo XIV's idea that the heretic 'Pope Francis' is in heaven. And the same notion expressed by Benedict XVI (as Cardinal Ratzinger) in regard to +John Paul II, who in spite of his 'canonisation' by the counterfeit, conciliar church, was no saint either. https://www.wmreview.org/p/leo-xiv-doubles-down-on-conviction 

They might have believed it themselves but it's not the truth and it helps to expose the truth about the Novus Ordo Mass and the collapse of the Church, typified recently by statistics from Spain (see graph below). 

When a cradle Catholic dies these days, after not darkening a church door for decades, Novus Ordo-ites say "she's at peace". How does that work? Even if she received the Last Rites (Anointing, Confession, Viaticum), unless she also had an Apostolic Pardon, the Church teaches that at best, she's in Purgatory. And, except for the guarantee of future beatific vision, Purgatory is torment. She's hardly "at peace". 

So the awful consequence of priests blithely assuring their flocks that they're all going to heaven, and the assumption that the 'dear departed' are there already, is that no one prays for their torment to be shortened.

Number of Seminarians in Spain between 1960 and 1980

So, why did our cradle Catholic (and millions like her), not darken the church door? Why isn't she (and those millions) now in Heaven? Apart from cultural considerations (largely due to the collapse of the Church) they saw no reason to attend the Mass described by Cardinal Ratzinger as "a fabrication, a banal product of the moment", whose adherents are almost all apostates. By neglecting the Sacrament of Penance and consequently abusing the Eucharist by blasphemy, they lose the Faith. 

So who was the clown, the retard - or more likely, servant of Satan - responsible for that repellent post-Vatican II invention, the 'Reconciliation Room'? 

No one's owning up to it. But it was deliberate. It's common knowledge that the chief inventor of the Novus Ordo was Fr Annibale Bugnini, dismissed by +Paul VI because he believed him to be a Freemason. Bugnini infamously remarked, “We must strip from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic liturgy everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren, that is, for the Protestants." By 1974 he felt able to make his celebrated boast that the reform of the liturgy had been "a  major conquest of the Catholic Church."ttps://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/newmass/bugnini.html

Except for the Mass itself, what could be more of a "stumbling block" to Protestants than the confessional box, where repentant Catholics kneel to be forgiven sins which for Proddies don't exist, by a priest who Proddies see as just an ordinary guy? 

So, in their Protestant make-over, the Vatican II revolutionaries turned confessionals into broom cupboards. Then little girls - on their own - and little boys - on their own - were then invited into private rooms and left alone with a priest to chat about their sins. Not to mention teenagers, ditto. It was an open invitation to priests to commit the frightful sin of ephebophilia. What happened next is history: the Bark of Peter was inundated by clerical sexual abuse of horrifying proportions.

Pope Leo XIV at prayer

And consider this: Prayers of the Faithful (POF) issued by New Zealand's Auckland Diocese are devoid of spiritual content and entirely focused on the here and now except for the chorus line, 'Let us Pray' (in Te Reo, in some NZ parishes, for the benefit of only a handful of Maori) until they arrive at 'our dear departed'. 

Qué? Why do they pray for the dead when they're regularly assured by Father that they'll all be going to heaven (and given all those grey heads, probably quite soon)? The NOM bulldozer has flattened the Catholic Church and the Four Last Things (death, judgment, heaven, and hell) to the ground. Novus Ordo-ites are uncatechised and like Protestants are spared such unpleasant thoughts. So their 'dear departed' are deprived of prayer and left to languish in Purgatory, and the Novus Ordo-ites miss out on the intercession the 'dear departed' would make on their behalf. If asked.

Even if anyone has the nous to remember that quaint pre-Vat II notion of sin, are they likely to go to confession? Imagine a teenager who gets the idea that sex with another guy is seriously sinful. Imagine that some Trad Inc. Catholic has suggested the truth, that dying with just one mortal sin on his soul will merit hell. Imagine his adolescent angst. But is he likely to ring for an appointment (that's the biz, in some parishes) and front up for a cosy tête-a-tête face to face with a priest? When sodomy is so rife in the priesthood that the so-called 'Pope Francis' (whom +Leo is bent on emulating) could refer offhandedly to frociaggine (faggotry)? 

St Robert Bellarmine, scourge of sodomists, invented the confessional box in the 16th century, to prevent 'inappropriate' behaviour between priest and penitent and to preserve the latter's anonymity.  How relatively easy it is to join a queue in a pew and make your confession in the dark behind a grille, like traditional Latin Massgoers, and so be able to receive Our Lord in the Eucharist worthily, which He longs for us to do. 

But the conciliar, Novus Ordo, Vatican II counterfeit church has deliberately made it difficult - especially for youth - to confess their sins. Why? Because the Reconciliation Room has diminished the admission of guilt on the part of the penitent and the judgment of guilt on the part of the priest which are essential to the sacrament and encouraged instead an atmosphere of dialogue and discussion more appropriate to the presbytery office than the sacramental chamber.

All in the interests of making the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church not only more acceptable to Protestants, but making it Protestant. Period.

Make us Catholic and penitent again: bring back the box!

Dietrich von Hildebrand

Dietrich von Hildebrand, named by Pope Pius XII as "the twentieth-century Doctor of the Church"^[1] expressed himself in even more forthright terms: "Truly, if one of the devils in C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters had been entrusted with the ruin of the liturgy he could not have done it better."