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Misadventures in the Blunderland of Anthony Cekada's Work of Human Hands: A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI together with an Extended Critique of the Substandard Most Holy Trinity "Seminary" in Brooksville, Florida, and an On-going Critical Analysis of the Conferral of Priestly Orders with One HandThe Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.comBlogger415125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-70534060877126677032018-04-30T11:17:00.002-04:002018-04-30T11:17:49.331-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><u>NOTICE</u></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Pistrina Liturgica</i> will be on hiatus for two more weeks as staff reorganizes for an additional consultancy apostolate, which only just became available.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Although all details will be under study during our three-week out-of-town retreat, <i>PL</i> will be alternating weeks with our colleague blog <i>The Lay Pulpit </i>to make time for this transformative project. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>We apologize for the late notice, but we were unable to secure an internet connection until today.</b></span></div>
The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-47138084477015936462018-04-21T19:53:00.001-04:002018-04-21T20:27:38.018-04:00A LINE IN THE SAND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "grmn1000"; font-size: 10pt;"><i>Γραμμῆς δὲ πέρατα σημεῖα </i>("t</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">he ends of a line are points").</span> Euclid</span></span><br />
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If you follow <i>PL</i> on a regular basis, you know how often the lineage of Tradistani "bishops" pops up, both in posts and in comments. That's understandable because <b><i>THE</i></b> <i><u><b>central issue</b></u></i> of traditional Catholicism is — and has been for several decades — <i>validity of holy orders</i>. On it hangs <u>everything</u>. Without validity, any claim to offer the true sacraments —no matter how earnest — is empty. Safer to stay home alone than sacrilegiously adore bread or trust your confession to a malformed layman.<br />
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<b><i>HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER</i></b></div>
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Better than most, the Tradistanis have grasped the P.R. value of pretending to have cornered the market on valid "clergy." Throughout their decades-long<b> misinformation campaigns</b>, they've impugned not only the validity of <i>Novus-Ordo</i> clergy but also that of their rivals in tradition. We got a fresh example of the tactic last week in the comments section: A pesthouse timeserver was reported to have alleged the orders of a priest at a competing Florida chapel were "'hugely' doubtful" (see first comment at 4/14, 8:14 <span style="font-size: x-small;">PM</span> <a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/04/rip.html#comment-form"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>).<br />
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Often, when the tables are turned, in defense against a counter charge of invalidity, one of the "clerical" cult apologists will trot out the kingpin's episcopal lineage to silence the skeptical. When that ploy fails, in a move either to get even or get control, sectarian "clergy" front ill-educated lay partisans to stir up "validity trouble" among their competitors (e.g., 2015 in Tampa). The whole point is to cast doubt upon others so as to keep their own cultlings from jumping ship.<br />
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In the good old days, Catholics could rely on the face value of an episcopal lineage. Under the Church's constitution, they could be confident that each successor in an episcopal line (1) had been a validly ordained priest before his elevation and (2) actually met the<i> </i>canonical requirements. Their confidence was further boosted by the assurance that, in almost all cases, there were co-consecrators to warrant conferral of the episcopacy in the then-less-probable event of the principal consecrator's invalidity.<br />
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Unfortunately, the institutional memory passed down from saner times has wrapped today's trads in a <b>false security blanket</b>. They believe a valid bishop at the head of a line alone is enough to underwrite validity throughout. But the misled creatures are very mistaken, for in barren Tradistan the old safety nets are either missing or perilously compromised. Take, for example, the question of being a valid priest before reception of episcopal orders. While consecration <i>per saltum </i>("by a leap") may be, as Pohle-Preuss says, "a point in dispute," we must still bear in mind what J. Tixeront wrote in his 1925 <i>L' Ordre et Les Ordinations ("</i>Holy Orders and Ordination"):<br />
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Theologians and canonists hold <i>ex communi sententia </i>that episcopal consecration is not valid if it has not been preceded by priestly ordination. This is notably the opinion of St. Thomas. <span style="color: #990000;">[Our literal translation.]</span><span style="color: purple;">*</span></blockquote>
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<b><i>WHAT'S MY LINE?</i></b></div>
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That being the case, if a valid "bishop" confers episcopal orders upon a man whose "priesthood" is dubious, the "consecration" is probably <b>null and void</b>. The result is the end of the line with that individual. Hence, all that man's "ordinations" and "consecrations" must be judged <b>null and void</b>. Try as the <i>sede</i>s will, at this time, there's no getting past the old theological maxim, succinctly expressed by Hallier centuries ago: <i>Episcopalis ordinatio nulla est quam non presbyteralis praecesserit </i>(lit. "there is no episcopal ordination which a priestly [ordination] shall not have preceded"). A glance at the two Tradistani <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục</span> sublineages will illustrate.<br />
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<i>Assuming <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục</span> was in possession of all his mental faculties and performed the rite decorously with the intention to do as the Church does</i>, then both Carmona and des Lauriers were valid. We may with due caution then state that Pivvy and McKenna were validly "consecrated" by Carmona and des Lauriers respectively. However,<i> <u>sublineage</u></i> breakdown occurs (1) <i>doubly</i> with Dannie, whom Liénart-tainted Lefebvre ordained with one hand and (2) <i>singly </i>with Big Don, whose priestly orders are <b>hugely doubtful</b> by reason of his Liénart liability. </blockquote>
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Observe that in the <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤</span> </span>Carmona<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "\22 georgia\22 " , serif; text-align: justify;">➤ </span></span>Pivarunas <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤</span> Dávila</b> sub-line in Mexico there is no such break because Dávila was "ordained a priest" by Carmona and "consecrated" by the Pivmeister. Note, too, that Junior's recent "consecration" was saved from invalidity because (1) McKenna had "ordained" him a "priest" and (2) Geert Stuyver, one of his "co-consecrators," had been "ordained a priest" and "consecrated a bishop" by McKenna.</blockquote>
<i>PL </i>cannot emphasize enough that there is no <i>straight line </i>of descent from <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục</span>. To speak of "<u><i>the </i></u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: '"georgia"', serif; text-align: justify;">Thục </span>line," as many trads do, is deceptive. Each man <span style="color: #333333; font-family: '"georgia"', serif; text-align: justify;">Thục </span>directly "consecrated" established a sub-line, e.g., <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤</span> des Lauriers</span></b> or <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤</span> </span>Carmona</b>. Thereafter each succeeding individual also founds a separate sub-line, e.g., <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ➤ </span></span>Carmona<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ➤ </span>Pivarunas <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤</span> <span style="color: red;">Dolan</span> </b>(the <i>end point </i>of the sub-line, resulting in <b>hugely doubtful</b> "priests" and "deacons" ) and <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ➤ </span></span>Carmona<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ➤ </span>Pivarunas<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ➤</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">Dávila</span></b> (<i>continuing</i> sub-line, resulting in <b>putatively valid</b> "priests" and "deacons"). It's therefore easy to conclude that an avouchment of <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục ancestry</span> <u><i>must be carefully evaluated on its own internal merits</i></u> before Catholics may tentatively accept a claimant<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "\22 georgia\22 " , serif; text-align: justify;"> </span>as valid.<br />
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That process can get frighteningly complex as more and more "consecrations" occur down a sub-line, virtually <i>guaranteeing</i> the likelihood of lineage corruption. For instance, let's look at two successors of the <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">d</span>es Lauriers <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span>McKenna</b> lineage. The Jellyfish, who years ago got rid of his Liénart liability, is OK, but Sinburn is not. Thus laypeople piously adhering to the <i>pars tutior</i> rule would be advised to reject as <b>hugely doubtful </b>any "priest" ordained from the deeply suspect <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span>des Lauriers <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span>McKenna <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span><span style="color: red;">Sanborn</span> </b>sub-line.<br />
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Now the <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span></b><b>des Lauriers <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span>McKenna <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span><span style="color: red;">Sanborn</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span><i><span style="color: #783f04;">Selway</span></i></b> sub-line, by contrast, <i>ought</i> to be rejected at face value; <b><i>however, </i></b>since co-consecrator Stuyver is a presumably valid "bishop" (supposing <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục</span>'s sanity, that is), then <i>effectively</i> Junior belongs to an ostensibly valid <b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span>des Lauriers <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span>McKenna <span style="font-size: x-small;">➤ </span><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>Stuyver</i></span></b> sub-line. Fortunately or unfortunately, that fact may never be made known to laity in the future, since the custom is to cite the <u>principal consecrator</u> in a sub-line, not a co-consecrator. (N.B. Most Tradistani "consecrations" have only one consecrator. The Kid lucked out ... <i><u>big</u></i> time. Well, maybe it wasn't sheer happenstance: Papa's in charge down in the swamp. Let's see if Junior leverages his advantage in the future.)<br />
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<b><i>THE FIRING LINE</i></b></div>
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Add to this chaotic mix of crossed lines the <b>horror stories</b> of "bishops" who can't understand Latin, suffer from eyesight or other health problems, don't use an official edition of the Pontificale Romanum, lack able assistants, have no adequate formation, and/or struggle with educational deficits: You've then got the current <b>powder-keg validity crisis </b>upon which TradWorld uneasily sits.<b> </b> It doesn't matter how elaborate a succession tree is, or how nice-'n'-neat it may appear on paper: without punctilious due diligence, you can never really trust a <i>sede </i>line once you go beyond the last bishop who officially belonged to the institutional Catholic Church.<br />
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In our consultancy practice, we've evaluated a number of lineages, many with attached certificates of consecration. Some of the packages look impressive if you only leaf through them, specifically when someone has bought snazzy software to generate his line of succession. But when you drill down deep and discover amateur documentation with bad Latin and/or questionable formation, you begin to doubt whether the parties involved in the "consecration" knew enough to assure validity.<br />
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For instance, take the cases of des Lauriers and Carmona. We may assume with some certainty that the Dominican's' solid knowledge of theology and Latin ensured no serious defects occurred during his consecration. But can we say the same for Carmona? <span style="color: purple;">**</span> And if such a question can surface about Carmona, what do we say about the dozens of others who had no formal training in a Church-approved institution of higher learning?<br />
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The <i>well-informed </i>trad is all too aware that the current state of affairs is an <b><i>unholy mess</i></b>, the author of which is the Prince of this World. Wherever the beleaguered Catholic turns in today's endlessly proliferating alphabet-soup religious wasteland — NO, ICRSS, SSPX, SSPV, FSSP, $GG, MHT (= <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">†</span></span><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: "times";">¢</span><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I</span></span><span style="color: #6b006d; font-family: "times"; font-size: 11pt;">), </span> even CMRI, if we heed <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "\22 \\22 georgia\\22 \22 " , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục</span>'s critics old and new <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "\22 georgia\22 " , serif; text-align: justify;">— </span>the <b>threat of invalidity</b> casts its dark, sinister shadow.<br />
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<b><i>LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE</i></b></div>
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Behind the chaos lie questions that are either political or supernatural in their dimensions: Why doesn't the Masonic Vatican Establishment do more to suppress all organizations not attached directly to the <i>Novus Ordo</i>? Why did they allow their own FSSP to celebrate the old rite of Holy Week this year? Aren't all these groups <i>sheep stealing</i>? Don't those outside the FSSP or ICRSS rob the Establishment of money and numbers? Aren't the insurgents responsible for a lot of the bad press worldwide and the turmoil in Rome?<br />
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An active, aggressive campaign to drive them out, to discredit them all, would seem to be the smart, <i>Realpolitik </i>move. Plenty of ammunition is available; the Vatican insiders have their well-thumbed dossiers like any other high-stakes power players. What's more, they have solid connections in government and the media.<br />
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So, yes, suppression would be the <i>expected</i> move, if it were exclusively a matter of hardball politics. But <i>PL</i> doesn't think it is, at least not at the higher echelons of power. If Rome is truly in the grips of committed Freemasons, and if their goal is the destruction of the Church through the <b>obliteration of the sacraments</b>, as many trads say, then those calling the shots don't care how much cash these splinter groups siphon off or how many souls they attract.<br />
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Look at it this way: If the sacraments administered by the rebels are <b>invalid,</b> then the overarching Masonic aim will still be achieved. Consequently, why waste time and legal fees hounding the dissidents, when they're already cooperating in the fulfillment of international Freemasonry's larger objective? Permitting the <i>sede</i> recusants to agitate with impunity is the equivalent of locating a theater's single fire exit at the edge of a cliff. Besides, apart from the SSPX, the many trad groups outside the Vatican Establishment, like $GG, are small fry not worth bothering about.<br />
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<b><i>LAYING IT ON THE LINE</i></b></div>
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The angelic intellect masterminding this diabolical scheme counts on — and perhaps inflames — the pride and stubbornness of the <i>sede </i>"clergy" so they reject the only way out of the mess — <b>re-ordination </b>and<b> re-consecration</b>. If Lefebvre could ignore <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">Thục's plea </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "\22 \\22 georgia\\22 \22 " , serif; text-align: justify;">(click</span><a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-gift-horse-looked-in-mouth.html" style="font-family: '"\\22 georgia\\22 "', serif; text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "\22 \\22 georgia\\22 \22 " , serif; text-align: justify;">)</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">, why should anyone expect the lesser vessels that sail in his wake to behave differently?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 georgia\22 " , serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The doubts about <i>sede</i> successions have cut a deep, distinct line in the sand of the Tradistani desert. On one side are <b>hugely dubious</b> sacraments. On the other, the bright promise of valid sacraments, provided the "clergy" humble themselves by accepting conditional orders from undoubtedly valid bishops of the Eastern rites or from "bishops" with multiple lineages. (Preferably the latters' lines should be validated by an Eastern-rite bishop).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For those prudent enough to seek conditional orders, they need to act quickly. A strong gust of wind can quickly erase a line in the desert sand.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">*<i>Les théologiens et canonistes tiennent </i>ex communi sententia <i>que la consécration épiscopale n'est pas valide si elle n'a été précédée de l'ordination presbytérale. C'est notamment l'opinion de saint Thomas </i>(p. 233).</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">** From "Two Bishops in Every Garage" by <i>You-Know-Who</i>, we offer the following two exhibits in support of our contention:</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: 12pt;">(1) Father Carmona </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: purple;">writes that </span><span style="color: #990000;">[his "consecration"]</span><span style="color: purple;"> was performed "without witnesses, but two illustrious </span></span></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">doctors." He does not say whether these two "illustrious doctors"</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">know the ins and outs of the fearfully complex Rite of Episcopal
Consecration found in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Roman Pontifical, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and whether they can
attest that Mgr. Ngo did not substantially alter the rite. The question
is a disturbing one — further research would be needed to ascertain
what theologians and canonists consider sufficient evidence for
validity in such a case. Under such rather extraordinary
circumstances, however, it seems that the burden of proof for the
validity of the consecrations must be placed upon those directly
involved (p. 299 in </span></span></span><span style="color: purple;">Kelly's </span><i style="color: purple;">Sacred and the Profane</i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">).</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(2) On April 1, 1982, Father Carmona signed an 85-word Latin
document attesting that he performed the Rite of Episcopal Consecration for Father George Musey. A friend of ours who holds a
doctorate in classical languages claims it contains at least a dozen </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">grammatical errors (p. 301 in </span></span><span style="color: purple;">Kelly's </span><i style="color: purple;">Sacred and the Profane</i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">).</span><span style="color: purple;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,/</i><i>Know when to walk away and know when to run.</i></span><span style="color: #474747;"> Don Schlitz</span></span><br />
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Almost weekly, <i>PL</i> receives a query concerning the whereabouts of Big Don's "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span>." Since its noisy rollout last spring, it seems as though TradWorld has noticed there's been virtual <b>radio silence </b>in Cultilandia. The Readers, you'll recall, opined the ill-fated enterprise was <b>dead on arrival</b>, memorialized solely by a hard-to-find link on the pesthouse's home page. Until the March 2018 MHT newsletter though, we'd had no solid confirmation of our guess. But there we found on p. 2 an <i><u>unmistakable sign</u></i> of the Lowly Worm's quiet resignation to the<b> premature death</b> of his brainchild (our emphasis):<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The position of <b>the clergy of Most Holy Trinity Seminary</b> is that one cannot approach validly ordained Novus Ordo priests for confessions except in danger of death.</span></span></blockquote>
Our question was as immediate as it was obvious: <i><b>Why didn't the Donster attribute the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">position</span>" to his "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span>"? </b></i>Aren't all the resident "clergy" nesting in the squalid bog members of the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Institute</span>"? Of course, if commuter Tony Baloney is considered pesthouse "clergy" then, O.K., the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Institute</span>" should not be referenced because the Cheeseball hasn't joined (and never will as long as he's Dannie's boy).<br />
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But if the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span>" were alive and kicking in Don's mind, conscious or otherwise, wouldn't it have been far more strategic to impute the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">position</span>" to the umbrella group with its three fancy <i>directories — </i>theological, liturgical, and pastoral? Checkie wouldn't have dared to protest: he likes playing "professor" (LOL) too much.<br />
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By the same token, the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">position</span>" would have greater persuasive weight coming from an official-sounding <i>organization</i> rather than from a troupe of clowns with dubious academic and religious qualifications. Additionally, by a public attribution, Don could've reminded his audience that he regards the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span>" as a vital force in Tradistan, notwithstanding the <b>ice-cold shoulder</b> it received from "clergy" outside the torrid swamp.<br />
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Yet our <i>quondam</i> Tradzilla can't even manage to <i><b>pretend </b></i>his "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span>" is viable, <i>not even </i>in an article that parrots one of its principles. See for yourself. On p. 3 of the newsletter, we read:<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">A Novus Ordite...who wants to return to the Catholic faith must first repudiate Vatican II and its reforms before he can receive sacraments from us.</span></blockquote>
Compare that to practical application of principles #8 in the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute's</span>" Pastoral Directory:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Those who are returning from the Novus Ordo to the beliefs and practices
of Roman Catholicism may not receive sacraments until...they manifest their
resolve to utterly repudiate Vatican II and its reforms...</span></span><!--EndFragment--> </blockquote>
Get a load of the symmetry of thought, the similarity of vocabulary! We concede it's not <i>verbatim</i>, but there's more than a faint echo. Plainly the newsletter text has its origin in Donnie's directory. Nevertheless, Big Don didn't <b>see fit to credit the "</b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;">Institute</span><b>" of which he is the "</b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Superior General</b>.</span>"<br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Now, why is that?</span></b></i><br />
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Did the existence of the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Institute</span>" simply slip his mind?<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But how can that be?</b> </span></i><br />
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Indulge us while we remind you of what he wrote in May 2016 about his long-awaited answer to the SSPX (emphases ours):<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Shortly
I will found an organization of traditional Catholic priests. This is something
which has been sorely lacking for decades, and accordingly is <b>something which I
have desired to do for a long time</b>.</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The
constitutions have been written. <b>I have been working on them since 2004</b>. We are
now merely putting the finishing touches upon them. They comprise <b>twenty-eight
pages</b> and over <b>11,000 words</b>.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I have
tried to incorporate every precaution into these constitutions so as to prevent
any deviation from doctrine or morals, any possible internal strife about
theological positions or pastoral practice. <b>My forty-one years of the
priesthood and experience</b> with the traditional movement <b>have taught me quite a
few lessons</b>.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Essentially
<b>this organization will give a “body” to what already exists in spirit</b>, i.e., a
common mind and way of acting among our priests regarding the nature of the
current apostasy from the Catholic Faith, and what to do about it.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Also written is the
Theological Declaration, which is a description of the heresies and errors of
Vatican II, as well as a statement of the theological positions one must take
against them. <b>It is very detailed</b>, in such a way that there is no room for
future disagreement. What has plagued the Society of Saint Pius X is the
vagueness of their theological positions in reaction to Vatican II, which
permitted the constant flip-flopping regarding Vatican II and its changes. </span></span></blockquote>
If we are to take Big Don at his word, the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Institute</span>" was over <b>twelve years in the making</b> plus who-knows-how-many years of knocking around the <b>screwball idea </b>before actual work began! And to hear Don talk, there was a lot of toil and sweat invested: 28 pp. and a +11K word count. Why, he makes it sound like a veritable encyclopedia! The way we see it, the organization, what he misnamed the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span>after finally getting around to announcing it in April 2017, was his <b>life's dream</b>. Therefore, the $64,000 question is:<br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">How could the great ambition of his career as an ecclesiastical entrepreneur slip his mind in <u>less than</u> 12 months?</span></b></i></div>
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Perhaps, some may argue, his recent heart problems impaired (or enhanced) his (selective) memory. But, honestly, does that excuse <i>really</i> hold water?<br />
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How do you ignore the "<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>body</b></span>" of your life's dream —<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"> unless </span></b></i>you know it's <b>deader than a week-old corpse</b>?<br />
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Before March's newsletter, we'd already recorded random signals that the rector was moving on. First, we'd been struck by the newsletter's <b>deafening silence</b> about the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Institute</span>" as well as by the absence of post-nominal initials after the printed names of the members. Second, the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Institute's</span>" blog contains only the three directories, with nothing added since July 2017. Third, in the membership roster, the new Boy "Bishop" remains "Fr.," and the new subdeacon appears as a "seminarian" (click <a href="http://romancatholicinstitute.org/about/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>). It all added up to one thing: the Swampland Swami was reacting to the <b>quietus </b>of the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span>" just as a severely traumatized father might respond to the news of a <b>coffin birth</b>: <i>He was trying to put the <b>ghastly phenomenon</b> permanently out of mind!</i><br />
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We've never made a secret of our contempt for the Donster. Nevertheless, realists that the Readers are, we admit he's not utterly <i style="font-weight: bold;">clueless</i>, that is, he does learn "<span style="color: #0b5394;">quite a few lessons</span>" on occasion. By that we mean, he's got sense enough to<b> stop beating a dead horse</b>. Oh, for sure, he'll irrationally fight manifestly losing battles if he imagines he stands the minutest chance of prevailing, witness the <b>moribund</b> rear-guard action in Arizona or the <b>doomed </b>feints against the lovely — and<i> debt-free</i>, we hear — Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel in Tampa.<br />
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Regardless, after the last, weak flicker of hope has <b>died out</b>, for all his woofing and pawing the ground, Big Don can smell the time to <b>close the casket</b> and deep-six a <b>stinking, rotting mess</b>. He did it with the big $30K plan he proposed in April 2011 (click <a href="http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/SCSF%20April%202011.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>, p. 7), and he's doing it again with the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span>." (Gee, did you notice how schemes Donnie introduces in April fizzle out? Eliot was dead right when he wrote in the "Burial of the Dead" part of <i>The Waste Land</i>, "April is the cruel<span style="color: #990000;">[</span>l<span style="color: #990000;">]</span>est month.")<br />
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According to our reading of the situation, it must've dawned on him by mid-summer 2017, after no new recruits signed on, that the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Institute</span>" was <b>stillborn</b>. Nobody came forward to answer Sinburn's call: Not the mercurial My-Way Carlito, not the standoffish Zappster, not fanboy Lurch, not the tractable Wannabe, not the bag-boy Uneven Steven, not the Forlorn Finn, not the ever-anxious Jellyfish. Nope, not a single name was added to the roster of quavery yes-boys.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Lowly Worm had thrown the proverbial party that no one attended! </i></span></b></div>
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Outside swampy B'ville, it seems, there's no interest in embracing Don's "<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 ";">common mind and way of acting</span>" or in preventing "<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 ";">any possible internal strife about theological positions or pastoral practice</span>," particularly if the Donster's calling all the shots.<br />
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Numbers don't lie. The majority has spoken. Tradistan and its satellites have voted a <b>big, fat thumbs-down</b> on the rector's fevered dream of his own junior SSPX. With the practically admitted <b>demise</b> of the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">,</span>" watch for Big Don to become preoccupied with a new initiative. Make sure you don't waste your money and end up with him in another <b>dead end</b>.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">STARVE THE BEAST!</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="color: #38761d;">Omne actum ab agentis intentione judicandum (</i><span style="color: #38761d;">"every act must be judged by the doer's intention")</span><i style="color: #38761d;">. </i>Latin Legal Adage</span><br />
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It's been a while since we ran a seasonal "mailbag" feature. Lately there's been a lot to cover in Cultilandia, making it impossible to share with our readership the content of our voluminous and, let us say, sometimes <i>spirited</i> correspondence. <i>PL's</i> post of March 24 generated so much e-mail that the team decided to replace the article slated for today with the following communication about the <b>Liénart liability</b>:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">PL,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thuc's opinion about Archbishop Lefebvre's validity and a $ will get you a cup of coffee, nothing else. Father Cekada beautifully disproved the defective intention "canard" with a single perfect quotation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“all </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">theologians, <i>Ed</i>.] </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">agreed that the outward decorous performance of
the rites </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">[our edition reads <i>rite</i>, <i>Ed.</i>]</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sets up a </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>presumption that the
right intention exists</i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.... The minister of a sacrament is </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>presumed to intend what the rite means</i>... </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
principle is affirmed as certain theological doctrine, taught by the Church, to
deny which would be at least theologically rash.” (B. Leeming, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Principles of Sacramental Theology </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[Westminster
MD: Newman 1956], 476, 482.)</span></span><!--EndFragment-->
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maybe if you knuckleheads would read a real theologian like Father Cekada and stopped calling him nasty names you would not spew forth all of your evil garbage.</span><br />
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For the record, we do read "real," i.e., properly formed, authentically Catholic, theological authors, like Bernard Leeming, S.J. We also read, for laughs, the amateur and suspect scribblings of that sub-educated, wannabe, outsider <b>Erroneous Antonius</b>. In fact, Fr. Leeming's volume (the 1957 second impression with minor corrections) sits on the ready-reference shelf in our editorial offices, alongside Parente, Roberti, "baby" Prümmer, Pohle-Preuss, Bouscaren, Attwater, etc. Furthermore, our correspondent's cite from the Cheeseball's fatuous "Sacramental Intention and Masonic Bishops" has been on our radar for quite some time.<br />
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Insofar as Checkie's quotation surfaced (coincidentally?) in <i>several </i>responses about the Liénart liability, today affords an opportune occasion to demonstrate once again why no Catholic should ever trust <i>anything </i>Tony Baloney says or writes. In all honesty, that citation is one of the most egregiously <i>misleading</i> — we're being charitable here — proof-texts we've ever encountered from the Checkmeister's unreliable pen, almost equal to his <b>perverse mistranslation</b> <b>of infallible papal teaching</b>. We're sure you'll agree by the time we're through. It won't take long.<br />
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If you read the quote as it stands in Phony Tony's monograph, you'd think the principle affirmed as "certain theological doctrine" runs something like this: <i>whenever a competent minister performs a rite correctly, he establishes a presumption that he does so with the proper intention</i>. Now there's nothing wrong with that as<i> </i>it stands: students of Roman law will clearly recognize the ancient maxim <i>acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta.</i> <u><b><i>However</i></b></u>, it is <b>NOT</b> <i>in its entirety</i> the principle Fr. Leeming said would be rash to deny. Here's Leeming's principle as stated <i>verbatim</i> on p. 482 of our edition of <i>Principles of Sacramental Theology</i>:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>T<u>HE MINISTER OF A SACRAMENT IS PRESUMED TO INTEND WHAT THE RITE MEANS: NEVERTHELESS, IF IN FACT HE RESOLVES NOT TO DO WHAT THE CHURCH DOES, HE HAS NOT SUFFICIENT INTENTION AND THE SACRAMENT IS INVALID.</u></b></span></blockquote>
That principle is much more complex than the Cheeseburger's, wouldn't you say? Observe (1) the colon, which here emphasizes the sequence of thought, and (2) the transitional adverb <i>nevertheless</i>, so termed because it effects a logical transition (in this instance, between sentences). Furthermore, grammarians classify that conjunctive adverb as an <u>adversative</u>, because it not only connects the sentences but also<i> contrasts </i>them. Note also there are not two principles: It's <b><i><u>one</u></i></b> principle consisting of <b><i><u>two</u></i></b> interconnected elements. The first element is <b><i>limited by</i></b> the second.<br />
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Consequently, sure, it's true that a minister is presumed to intend what the rite means,<i><b> BUT</b></i>, as the second half of Principle XV tells us, <b>the</b> <b>presumption may be <i>overthrown</i> </b>under a specific condition. You aren't free to accept only the first part of the principle and reject the second without censure. In a similar vein, you can't declare that <i>half </i>the principle constitutes the <i>whole</i> principle.<br />
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Did the Cheeseball only give part of the story because the other part threatened to upset his self-serving objective? A motive for suppressing the whole principle might become apparent when you read Leeming's summary (pp. 483-484, emphases ours):<br />
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Thus, the mind of the Church is clear that <b>it is possible </b>for a minister to have the intention of not doing what the Church does, and that if such is the case, the sacrament is <b>invalid</b>. This teaching is <b>universally accepted by modern theologians</b>, who agree that a sacrament is invalidated <b><i><u>even by a secret intention</u> </i></b>of the minister contrary to the substantial nature of the sacrament. <b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b></blockquote>
As we have argued before (12/23/17), it is not inconceivable that a well-motivated, thoroughly radicalized infiltrator could pronounce the words and conduct the rite of priestly ordination impeccably, yet <i>interiorly </i>have no intention to do what the Church does. Indeed, an indoctrinated, highly intelligent, supremely self-disciplined enemy of the Church who understood what was at stake might almost reflexively commit himself to the unrelenting effort of subverting the sacraments at every turn, especially the sacrament of orders. What better way to destroy the Church than to corrupt holy orders through the passive aggression of a secret resolve?<br />
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If Liénart were a Freemason, he assuredly was aware of the far-reaching damage one rogue bishop could inflict upon the Church; working with brother Masons in the Church, the effectiveness of his destructive efforts would be amplified. The Church had trained him well. In addition to his seminary formation, he studied at the <i>Institut Catholique de Paris</i>, the <i>Sorbonne,</i> and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He therefore knew where to strike in order to wreak the most havoc with the least risk of exposing himself.<br />
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Now, whether he was a Mason, <i>PL </i>can't say for certain, but as far back as 1978 an SSPX priest, writing in defense of Lefebvre's orders, seemed to acknowledge Liénart's Freemasonry as a matter of fact.<span style="color: purple;">**</span> Likewise, whether Liénart resolved at Lefebvre's ordination <b><i>not</i></b> to do as the Church does, we don't know with certitude either, for in Rama Coomaraswamy's words, "we cannot look back into his heart in 1929."<span style="color: purple;">***</span><br />
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<i>PL</i>'s point, however, is that <b><i>if</i> </b>Liénart were an inveterate enemy of the Church, as Archbishop Th<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">c </span>believed him to be and as many others have affirmed, then it is <i>possible</i>, perhaps even <i><b>plausible</b></i>, considering the psychological profile of the fanatical true-believer, that Liénart's intention at Lefebvre's 1929 sacerdotal ordination may well have been contrary to the substantial nature of the sacrament of orders. The horrific result would be <b>Lefebvre's <i><u>invalid</u></i> ordination to the priesthood</b>.<br />
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In his comedy <i>Curculio</i>, Plautus wrote, "<i>flamma fumo est proxuma</i>," which freely translated runs, "Where there's smoke, there's fire!<i>"</i> Lefebvrist "clergy" cannot cavalierly dismiss the Liénart liability without risk of self-immolation. Too much has surfaced, and the days of easy denial are over. Although we may never know Liénart's intention on Lefebvre's ordination day, barring, say, the discovery of a personal journal, we can (1) apply what we know in general about the mindset of the Church's most formidable adversaries, (2) remind ourselves of Leeming's <i><b>entire</b></i> Principle XV, and (3) <b><i><u>choose the safer side</u></i></b>. It's not too late. For some.<br />
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The Readers' advice to Big Don — and to the Checkmeister — is:<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>STOP FUDGING THE FACTS AND GET YOURSELVES FIXED ASAP. ASK JOEY TO DO IT.</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">* For anyone who is interested in learning the <i>facts</i> about the rather involved and convoluted history of the presumption of intention, we recommend studying Leeming's chapter 15, pp. 462-496. This way you may bypass the untrustworthy cult masters completely.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">** The article is found</span> <a href="http://archives.sspx.org/archbishop_lefebvre/validity_of_holy_orders.htm"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;">. The writer may have been referring to the "outing" of Masonic prelates in a 1976 article published in the journal <i>Il Borghese, </i>which set off a series of investigations into moles who had penetrated the Church at high levels.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">*** The quote came from a 1982 article, <i>Cracks in the Masonry</i>, where Coomaraswamy</span><span style="color: purple;"> concluded, "There is </span><span style="color: purple;"><b>no credible evidence</b> which shows that Cardinal Liénart was a Freemason (p. 8)." He </span><span style="color: purple;">seems to have changed his mind dramatically before his death, for in his revised and updated 2006 book, </span><i style="color: purple;">The Destruction of the Christian Tradition —</i><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">click </span><a href="https://portalconservador.com/livros/Rama-Coomaraswamy-The-Destruction-of-the-Christian-Tradition.pdf"><span style="color: red;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;">, see p. 246 if you want to verify — we read, emphasis ours:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "minionpro";"><span style="color: purple;">The Freemasons have long dreamed of infiltrating, and
indeed, of taking over the Church. It was <b>Cardinal Leinart</b> </span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[<i>sic</i>]</span><span style="font-family: "minionpro";"><span style="color: purple;">,<b> another
Freemason</b>, who in 1950 petitioned Pius XII for permission to celebrate
the Easter Vigil at night rather than in the morning—and this for “pastoral
reasons.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Things are seldom what they seem./ Skim milk masquerades as cream. </span></i>Gilbert</span><br />
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The beginning of Paschaltide is a fitting occasion to remind traditional Catholics still hoodwinked by the cult masters of Tradistan that deliverance is possible. All they need do is to break the emotional restraints that enslave them.<br />
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But that's easier said than done. Walking out of a Tradistani cult center over wasteful spending, "clerical" ignorance, managerial incompetence, or ill treatment of children doesn't last in all cases. Too often, outraged trads who ride out of the cult mounted on a moral high horse come back whimpering like whipped mutts, head hung low, more than willing to lick the hand that beat them.<br />
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If asked by astonished relatives and friends why they returned to the sham bishops' clutches, they answer with a not-too-convincing, high-pitched whine, "For the sacraments, the <i>s-a-c-r-a-m-e-n-t-s</i>!" But that doesn't explain their self-abasing behavior. There must be something deeper — and <i>simpler </i>behind it all. Rallying around the sacraments is one of those noble-sounding excuses weaklings offer to explain a repressed conscience. They pass themselves off as making a personal sacrifice for a greater good, as though abetting counterfeit "clergy" can be justified in the name of Catholic piety.<br />
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When we hear a prodigal son or daughter of the cult self-deceivingly protest, "I loathe Sinburn [or "One-Hand Dan"]. I only go only for the Mass," we smile inside, knowing it's an autogenic-training mantra meant to silence the inner voice, numb the <i>sensus catholicus</i>, and crush the superego. It's no different from the therapeutic formulas "my right arm is heavy" or "my solar plexus is warm." Passive concentration on the theme of "offering it up" makes it easy to avoid ditching a cult center for good.<br />
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Truth to tell, it's an<b> addiction,</b> not the sacraments, that brings leavers back to $GG or MHT, for the sacraments are available at many area chapels. (And the chances of their validity are much higher at some of the rival locations.) These ethical cowards are habituated to the Big Show, the dolly-dress-up, the staring blank faces, the slack jaws with bad teeth, and the carb-loaded, hillbilly chow blanketed with microwaved Cheez Whiz.<br />
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To break the dependency forever, cult victims must actively focus on verbal formulas designed to wake them up to the Tradistani imitation prelates' <b>non-clerical state. </b>Only when Catholics confess that these men are masquerading as Roman Catholic bishops will they be able to declare, "I must leave the cult to regain the true faith."<br />
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To get to that stage, however, cult addicts will have to repeat to themselves some precise affirmations, which, once thoroughly internalized, will make the sorry excuse "I only go there for the Mass" sound pitifully hollow. In our therapeutic work with cult-dependent Catholics, we have found four highly effective statements that recovering victims may recite in order to prepare to leave the bogus bishops and never return.<br />
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The trick is to master the statements one-by-one and then say all four in sequence until an overwhelming urge to encounter the real faith overtakes the will. Depending on how ingrained the bad habit of cult attendance is, the process takes anywhere from one to four weeks. However, there is a <i>caveat</i>: the subject must have an intact brain and an adult's sense of right and wrong, which is often<b> not </b>the case with life-long cultlings.<br />
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Fortunately, there are fewer and fewer of these spiritual two-headed calves, which means most folks stand a good chance of escape if they're willing to work at it. The beauty of the therapy is that you don't need much by way of equipment — just access to <i>PL</i> to remind you of the concrete arguments behind each statement.<br />
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Enough, then, with all this theorizing, and let's get the best of Tradistan's victims started on the road to a cult-free life.<br />
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<b>STANDARD FORMULA # 1</b><br />
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As you sit in a squalid "bishop"-led cult center and see one or more of these pretenders decked out in pontificals, relax, close your eyes, breathe deeply, and say to yourself over and over for 30 seconds, "<i><b>These dripping bags of pus have no right to dress like Roman Catholic bishops — they are wolfish laymen in a legitimate pastor's clothing</b></i>." Practice this every time you lay eyes on one of these gussied-up religious impersonators. All the necessary background can be found in our post of Feb. 11, 2017 (<a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/02/wolves-in-shepherds-clothing.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>). After a little practice, soon you'll recoil at the sight of these fakes' sporting episcopal finery.<br />
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<b>STANDARD FORMULA # 2</b><br />
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Now you're ready for the next step whenever you hear one of these puke buckets addressed as "Your Excellency" or see the most "The Most Reverend" prefixed to their infamous names. Again, calm down, breathe in slowly, and with eyes shut say, again and again for 30 seconds, "<i style="font-weight: bold;">These gobs of spit have no right to official ecclesiastical titles of honor — they are malformed lay trash who don't deserve to be called 'Mister.'</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i> Our post of Oct. 1, 2016 (<a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2016/10/putting-on-airs.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>), gives all the reasons behind this formula.<br />
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<b>STANDARD FORMULA # 3</b><br />
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When you hear one of these charlatans preach about your obligation to support the clergy, then, using the same preparatory techniques and methodology above, repeat to yourself, "<i><b>These disenfranchised cretins have no canonical rights — they are grasping lay wannabes dubiously ordained <u>outside</u> the Roman Catholic Church with no claim to clerical privilege</b>." </i>For the detailed reasons supporting this formula, see our post of July 8, 2017 (<a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-nothing-of-name.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>).<br />
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<b>STANDARD FORMULA # 4</b><br />
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The next time you spy the coat of arms of one of the ersatz bishops, follow the usual procedure we've just outlined and recite, "<i style="font-weight: bold;">These scofflaw, illicitly 'consecrated' toilet fish are not entitled to bear ecclesiastical arms of the Roman Catholic Church — they are lay usurpers of others' legislated privilege</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">." </span>Full details are available in our post of March 10, 2018 (<a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>).<br />
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After a short time, you'll be ready to rattle off with ease all four statements in sequence. Do so for 60 seconds every time you set foot in a cult center or catch sight of one of the humbugs. We promise that once you're "woke" you'll be itching to pack up and get out of the world of make-believe Catholicism.<br />
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Some of you, however, may require a little more assurance about the <b>inauthenticity </b>of the mountebanks who've made a wreck of the lives of the faithful. Insofar as these churchly wooden nickels would not accept the judgment of the Vatican establishment, we looked elsewhere for something more neutral. We didn't consider U.S. civil society, because here anybody can self-declare to be a clergyman, buy clerical apparel, and be accepted by the gullible, no questions asked. We then thought of England where, under common law, Roman Catholic clergy who convert to Anglicanism are (or at least were) not obligated to be re-ordained.<br />
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Traditional Catholics may view Anglicans as heretics, but their ecclesiology teaches that they form a branch of the Catholic Church. Accordingly, for our purpose today, Church of England (CofE) practice tells us how a possibly sympathetic, organized religious body recognized by its nation's laws and governed by the monarch, often through Parliament and the Prime Minister, regards these wandering "clergy. " If the Tradistanis had any legitimacy at all, then certainly the "Big Tent" CofE, which boasts female bishops, would have no trouble with <i>these</i> lost boys, not only the "wandering bishops" but also the <i>vagus </i>"priests." <i>Right? </i>So we put the question to a source with deep expertise in these matters. Here's the (slightly edited) reply:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The answer is a big round ‘No’. Old Catholics, in the </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vagantes</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> sense, have never been received in their orders by the CofE. Whilst the CofE, or parts of it to be precise, would say they believe these people have orders, they would argue they cannot exercise them legitimately. In the CofE, licensing – which could broadly translate as faculties – is paramount. However friendly clergy of the CofE will be to </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vagantes,</span></i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they would not let them loose on a congregation without a license. If the American lot ever approached the CofE for regularization, they would be regarded as irregular and subject to ordination. The bottom line is the Thucites would never be considered other than laymen.</span></span></span></blockquote>
Need we say more? The cult masters are not the "real thing" by <i><u>any</u></i> sane person's yardstick.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>START PRACTICING. YOU'RE A MONTH OR LESS AWAY FROM TEARING OFF THEIR MASKS AND GETTING CLEAN.</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">In a man's letters, his soul lies naked.</span></i> Dr. Johnson</span><br />
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<b>A CHICKEN COME HOME TO ROOST</b></div>
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Earlier this month, <i>Radio Cristiandad </i>posted a monograph by Fr. Basilio Méramo, a former member of the SSPX, in which he extensively quoted from "Two Bishops in Every Garage" and thereby revived the question of Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c's "<i>cordura</i>" (= sanity, good sense). Based on that exposition, Fr. Méramo judged the exiled archbishop's consecrations to be "<b>really, objectively, and positively doubtful</b>" (<i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times";">dudosas real, objetiva y positivamente). </span></i>The whole sordid history from Palmar de Troya through des Lauriers and Carmona, he concluded with exasperation, must have been but a great lunacy or a tale told by madmen ("<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman";"><i>Qué es todo esto sino una gran locura, o un cuento de locos</i>")</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><br />
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<i>PL</i> has no intention, today or any day, of weighing in on either side of the issue of Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c's mental competence. In our minds, we put that question to bed back on April 9, 2016, when we argued in favor of the <i>sede</i>s' securing <b><i><u>multiple </u></i>lineages</b> as a way to eliminate doubts about their validity (click <a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2016/04/spring-2016-mail-bag-i.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>). That approach is certainly a far better alternative than waiting for the other shoe to drop should alarming new facts come to light. Therefore, to put it bluntly, for all we care, Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c could've been <b>crazier than an outhouse fly</b>.<span style="color: purple;"><b>*</b></span><br />
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<b>A MEETING OF THE MINDS</b></div>
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With the exception of the SSPV and a few others, most <i>sede</i>s would agree, even if begrudgingly, that the uprooted archbishop was lucid when he performed the "consecrations" that established many of Sedelandia's sublineages. In which case, it would not be out of line for <i>PL</i> to assume these partisans would likewise assert that Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c's wits were <i><b><u>never</u></b></i> impaired.<br />
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For these <i>sede</i>s, it would be an exceedingly dangerous policy to allow that Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c drifted in and out of lucidity over the course of his exile from his native Vietnam. If they did, couldn't an adversary like <i>PL </i>allege the archbishop may have been suffering from one of his loony episodes when he conferred orders on Carmona and Zamora but not when he "consecrated" des Lauriers? Far more convenient is it to explain away — say, by citing "distractions" or "deception"<b><span style="color: purple;">**</span></b> — what "Peregrinus" aptly termed "<b>The Palmar Fiasco</b>.<b>"</b> If you took that escape route, you'd altogether avoid impugning Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c's mental stability, wouldn't you?<br />
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Hence we'll take a risk today and presume the <i>sede</i>s of the SW Ohio/B'ville cult would also uphold (1) Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c's judgments about whom to "consecrate" and (2) his motives for agreeing to perform a "consecration." In other words, we <i>think</i> they'd say the archbishop knew what he was doing. Furthermore, it's not unreasonable to suppose that the cultists might in addition argue his offer of consecration to any individual resulted from prudent deliberation, informed by his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from which he earned <b>three doctorates</b> (philosophy, theology, canon law).<br />
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All this speculation brings us to the problem of Big Don's <b>Liénart liability</b>, over which so many cult freaks wet their beds every time it appears on <i>PL</i>. To be entirely forthcoming, the Readers don't consider the disadvantage of Liénart-conferred orders to be as grave a threat to validity as is Dubious Dan's <b>one-handed sacerdotal "ordination</b>.<b>"</b> Nevertheless, we do believe the Lowly Worm should have gotten himself fixed before Junior's recent<b> Sacrilege in the Swamp</b> —<b> </b>for safety's sake. (The Kid should be forever grateful to Geert Stuyver for saving his bacon.)<br />
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<b>A VOICE FROM THE PAST</b></div>
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For the present, though, we don't propose to revisit our <i>moderate</i> discomfort over the Liénart problem. Instead, we'd like to share <b>Archbishop Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c's</b> view of the matter. His Excellency "speaks" to us in a handwritten letter to Lefebvre, sent after he had heard of the SSPX founder's ill health. (The letter is available on the Today's Catholic World [TCW] blog <a href="http://www.tcwblog.com/182861438/1095650/posting/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>.)<br />
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Although we're not forensic analysts, nevertheless, summoning our paleography skills, we compared the handwriting of the letter to that of the 1981 consecration certificate Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c issued (available <a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/articles/article.php?id=52&catname=13"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>). After a close inspection, we satisfied ourselves that the same person wrote both documents. A note (<a href="http://www.tcwblog.com/182861438/1100082/posting/the-origin-of-the-thuc-to-lefebvre-letter-ttll"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>) posted by the TCW blog affirms its authenticity, so you don't have to take <i>PL</i>'s word for it.<br />
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On the web site, you'll find a not-altogether-satisfactory translation appended to the image of the letter. Consequently, for ease of reference, below we supply an almost <b><i><u>slavishly</u> </i></b>literal version for the portions of the text that interest us today. (We don't want you to think we're loading the dice with too free a rendering.) Since the crabbed handwriting becomes at times difficult to decipher, we'll first provide a transcription of the French original (as <i><u>we</u></i> read it — we'll gladly consider other readings, since we've been contracted to prepare an annotated transcription of the entire letter):<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>❡2 </b></span><i>Vous avez été consacré Evêque </i><i>par le Cardinal Liénard </i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[sic, <i>as we read the written name</i>]</span><i>;</i></span><i> or ce Cardinal n'avait jamais crû </i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[sic]</span> </span><i>à notre Religion, — donc votre consécration par lui a été </i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[<i>our best guess</i>]</span> </span><i>nulle.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>❡3 </b></span><i>Je suis prêt à vous consacré </i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[sic]</span><i> évêque ou bien trouver un évêque qui se charge de vous consacrer secrètement.</i> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">(❡ 2) </span>You were consecrated Bishop by Cardinal Liénart; but this Cardinal had never believed<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[reading <i>cru</i> for <i>crû</i>]</span></span> in our Religion, — therefore your consecration by him was null. </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">(❡ 3)<b> </b></span>I am ready to consecrate <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[reading <i>consacrer</i> for <i>consacré</i>]</span> </span>you bishop or else find a bishop who may take it upon himself <span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[reading a <u>non-assertive</u> relative clause]</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span>to consecrate you secretly.</blockquote>
Two features strike us immediately about<span style="color: #990000;"> ❡2</span>. <i>First</i>, the unmistakable <b>syllogistic frame</b>, to wit, the telltale conjunctions <i>or</i> (but) linking a premise and <i>donc</i> (therefore) introducing a conclusion. <i>Second</i>, the <b>assumptive tone</b> (which continues in <span style="color: #990000;">❡3</span>): Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c doesn't hedge his declaration in the slightest. Taken together, both features conclusively indicate the letter was written with the presumption (1) that Liénart's faithlessness was common knowledge among high-level churchmen and (2) that Lefebvre was as aware of his principal consecrator's <b><i>radical defection</i></b> as was Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c.<br />
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The purpose of Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c's missive, then, was not to inform Lefebvre of his troubled holy orders. Lefebvre already knew of the problem. Instead, Th<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span>c wrote in order to (1) counsel him in Christian candor to accept undoubtedly <i>valid</i> episcopal orders and (2) offer his own services to that end. It may be worth noting that later in the letter he suggests Lefebvre be ready to re-confer the priesthood on the clergy he had but lately ordained or find another bishop to do so<b>.<span style="color: purple;">***</span> </b> (Gee-whiz, sounds <i>almost</i> like what the Readers have been trying for years to get "One-Hand Dan" to do!<b><span style="color: purple;">****</span></b>)<br />
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<b><i style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE</span></i> <i>BOTTOM LINE</i></b></div>
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So, then, what does all this come down to? In our mind, it boils down to <b>two </b><i>mutually exclusive</i> questions:<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">(a) Was </span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Th</span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">ụ</span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">c</span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">a malformed, crazy, old geezer sputtering nonsense (and hence unfit to consecrate anyone </span><i style="color: red;">ever</i><span style="color: red;">)?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>OR</i></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">(b) Did the "saintly" — as Dannie once called him — archbishop think there was something to the <b>Liénart liability</b>, which would move a <i>prudent </i>man to obtain conditional orders?</span></blockquote>
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It's really a no brainer.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">* Those of you who read Spanish might be interested in Fr. Méramo's take (and his takedown of shape-shifting Checkie and Big Don). For his article, click </span><a href="https://radiocristiandad.wordpress.com/2018/03/11/hechos-que-dan-mucho-que-pensar-sobre-la-cordura-de-mons-ngo-dinh-thuc/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">** As we heard the Cheeseball once say in a 2011<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://www.truerestoration.org/the-thuc-bishops/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>interview</b></span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span>(<span style="font-size: x-small;">min. 19:25 and 19:34</span>).</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">*** The TCW blog's English version does not translate the clause to which we refer, so you will have to consult the handwritten letter to verify. To assist you, here's our transcription of the French, the missing text in<b> bold</b>: </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;">❡ 4 </span></span><span style="color: purple;"><i>Quant aux ecclésiastiques </i></span><span style="color: purple;"><i>que vous aviez fait prêtres</i> </span><span style="color: purple;"><i>naguère, <b>vous seriez </b></i></span><i style="color: purple;"><b>prêt à leur conférer la prêtise,</b> ou trouver un Evêque </i><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[uncertainly reading upper-case <i>e</i>]</span></span><i style="color: purple;">, par exemple moi-mêm</i><span style="color: #990000;">[</span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #990000;">e</span></span><span style="color: #990000;">]</span><i style="color: purple;"> à les consacrer.</i><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">****</span><span style="color: purple;"> </span><span style="color: purple;">It may be unfair to judge from such a brief, hastily composed note, but </span><span style="color: purple;">Th</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span><span style="color: purple;">c</span><span style="color: purple;"> was definitely <i>wrong</i> in only recommending Lefebvre's re-consecration as a <u><b><i>bishop</i></b></u>. Lefebvre's 1929 <b><i><u>priestly</u></i> </b>orders, which Liénart also </span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">conferred, constitute the real stumbling block. If Lefebvre had been ordained to the <i>priesthood</i> by someone other than Liénart, the 1947 suspect episcopal orders conferred by principal consecrator Liénart would have been saved by one or both of the co-consecrators,</span><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i> </i></b></span></span><a href="http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bancel.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>Bishop Alfred-Jean-Félix Ancel</i></b></span></a> <span style="color: purple;">and </span><a href="http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfauret.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Bishop Jean-Baptiste Victor Fauret</b></i></span></a><span style="color: purple;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">However, if Lefebvre were <i>not </i>a valid priest at the time of his 1947 consecration, then the co-consecrators, their unchallenged validity notwithstanding, most likely did <b>not</b> confer orders. As Noldin wrote in his </span><i style="color: purple;">Summa Theologiae Moralis</i><span style="color: purple;">, "It is more commonly affirmed, that when the priesthood has not yet been conferred, the episcopate cannot be validly conferred (</span><i style="color: purple;">communius affirmatur episcopatum, nondum collato sacerdotio, valide conferri non posse</i><span style="color: purple;">)."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">To fully cure Lefebvre's Liénart liability, </span><span style="color: purple;">Th</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ụ</span></span><span style="color: purple;">c </span><span style="color: purple;">should have offered </span><span style="color: purple;">to re-confer <i><b>both</b></i> sacerdotal and episcopal orders. But then perhaps the wise, old archbishop was just using a kind of shorthand and intended all along to fix his colleague <i>completely</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span>The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-23568109636837182112018-03-17T19:37:00.000-04:002018-03-17T19:52:06.970-04:00 BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DREAM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">What happens to a dream deferred?/... Does it stink like rotten meat? </span></i>Hughes</span><br />
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From time to time, developmentally delayed, religious deviants protest that $GG's continued survival on life support proves "One-Hand Dan" has weathered <i>PL</i>'s criticisms and exposés. According to these purblind victims of ecclesiastical imposture, the Wee One is as optimistic as ever about the future of his cult.<br />
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We who see the truth recognize that the denial of looming collapse is <b>groundless</b>. If everything were peachy keen in SW Ohio, then Dannie wouldn't be obsessing about money, nor would he be aggressively begging for freebie meals and airport rides. Furthermore, $GG's weekly collection would show a steady increase over time, not the stubborn, below-subsistence flatline we've traced for several years. Volunteerism would be up, so His Impudency wouldn't have to impose upon the same, shrinking core of beleaguered, aging worker bees season after season. Most importantly, the number of bequests would be growing, not shrinking.<br />
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At this watershed moment after Junior's "consecration," an event that definitively marked the end of Dannie's rôle as the bench player of Sedelandia, it might be instructive to consider the phantom of defeat pursuing the Dirtbag throughout his lonely hours of tormented self-reflection. This May, he'll turn 67. Approaching one's 70th year on earth, a man naturally takes stock. For life's winners, the assessment is a joy; for life's losers, it's unrelieved <b>agony</b>. If the glittering dreams of youth and early middle age have turned out to be dross, a fortune's fool confronts a bleak future of <b>zero triumphs</b>, particularly as younger, ambitious, and more able men are scrambling to refine golden memories of their own to gild a happy old age.<br />
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To garner some insight into what must be Dannie's <b>all-year-long winter of discontent</b>, we must look at the controlling dream of his illicit "episcopacy." Wee Dan's April 27, 1983, expulsion from the SSPX dealt the thirty-something, pipe-dreaming idler a cruel reversal, but not for the reasons many might think. Having very early (and quite without justification) imagined himself a bishop someday, his ouster meant there would be no one to crown his overly wishful noggin with a coveted miter.<br />
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When finally, after a self-serving <i>volte-face</i> on th<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">e <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thục line's validity</span></span>, he wrested the longed-for headgear from the hoodwinked Pivster, he was free to set his sights on a <b>jet-setting career</b>: One day, he would become <i><b>the</b></i> "bishop" of all the <i>sede </i>chapels and groups, traveling the world in style like that globetrotting Archbishop Lefebvre, who had unceremoniously — and <i>in-person</i> — shown him the backdoor some ten-and-a-half years earlier.<br />
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As the days, weeks, months, and years following his unlawful "consecration" passed, that dreamed-of day never dawned. Everybody conspired to thwart the realization of his fantasy. Pivareeno, whom he thought he could muscle out of the way both in sunny Mexico and at home, prospered, sweeping up chapels all over the map. (In fact, after the <b>2009 $GG $chool $candal</b>, a well-motivated Pivmeister pitched camp in Li'l Daniel's back yard at the petition of a colony of ex-Gerties.) Within less than a decade of Dan's mitering, Big Don snared a miter for himself, much to Dannie's peevish dismay. In the meantime, nobody of consequence signed up for the Wee One's "little" Salesian boys' club.<br />
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The Jellyfish was the next to elevate its slimy self. It then turned around and consecrated a South American with a large following in Mexico. Sensing a void, a few years later the Ham Sandwich mounted a coup, which almost emptied $GG, leaving only depraved culties. Not too long afterward, the triumphant Sammich — Lower East Tradistan's <b>"</b><a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hsimp=yhs-att_001&hspart=att&p=second-hand+rose+lyrics#id=10&vid=930a532e5da4648157ccfe14690c21ad&action=view"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Second-Hand Rose</b></span></a><b>"</b> — decorated his own swollen bean with a used miter ordered online (🎶 <i>I'm wearing second-hand hats, second-hand clothes </i>🎶). One by one, the serious Mexican and French independent "clergy" cut themselves loose.<br />
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The upshot of it all is that the Mitered Maggot's fevered vision of VIP airport lounges, luxury hotel suites, smiling concierges too impressed to accept a gratuity, chauffeured limos, fawning<i> </i>maître d's at Michelin-starred eateries, comped lunches at Taco Bell, groveling "clergy," celebrity-struck laity, and painstakingly curated guided tours of Old-World venues <i><u style="font-weight: bold;">never</u><b> </b></i><b>became entries in "The Bishop's <span style="font-size: x-small;">(?) </span>Corner."</b> <i>All those hallucinations lay forever out of reach.</i><br />
<b><br /></b><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Why, he never even got close! </span></i></b><br />
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It was Diminished Don who was asked to England, Down Under, and the Continent (and he may yet fly off again soon if he gets medical clearance). But the Lowly Worm's travel victories over Dan are yesterday's news. Nowadays the title of <b>Mr. Worldwide </b>properly belongs to the hyper-ambitious, always scratching, ever conniving Ham Sandwich, who boasts a European apostolate reaching into Germany, Spain, and Italy, where he'll spend about a month and a half this spring. At best, "One-Hand Dan" has only managed to wrangle short-term invites from (1) a shunned group of Argentine malcontents notorious for their pants-wearing womenfolk and (2) some Trento breakaways in Mexico. (But even one of the latter groups soon grew disillusioned.)<br />
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As many a practicing therapist will testify, it's almost impossible to recover from a traumatic psychological setback occasioned by a dream that's toast, particularly if you had your heart set on it. It's worse still if you shared your wild hopes with a lot of people who have long memories. The <i>verismo</i> novelist Federico De Roberto once wrote that only <i>castles in the air</i> "avoid the dissolving hands of time." That's Dreamland Dan's cross to bear. That's what makes hellish the black hours of solitude spent in his room.<br />
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His vividly imagined persona as an American <i>nouveau-Marcel</i> trekking about the continents — an image refreshed and augmented over many nights in the delicious minutes before sleep overtakes — stubbornly <b>persists</b>. It cannot be erased, no matter how hard he tries. It reappears at the worst times to mock him. To remind him of the failure of his life, the defeat of his outrageous fancy. To bedevil him over the crumbling cult center and evaporating enthusiasm for his enterprise. To taunt him with the fine restaurants he can no longer afford. To heap abuse upon his useless, contemptible, self-mitered noodle.<br />
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Bitter is advancing age absent the sweet consolation of a personal chronicle of dreams fulfilled. Add disappointment over disappearing resources while mixing in a growing awareness you never had what it takes to begin with, and you've got the makings of the <b>misery of the damned</b>. Although his self-destructive backing of Tony Baloney and the "Principal" triggered the mass exodus of 2009, thereby hurling his already moribund career into its current <b>death spiral</b>, Dannie actually <i>never </i>stood a chance to become a Lefebvre <i>redivivus.</i><br />
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For one thing, he lacked the physical stature, the air of command. (A perpetual <i>risus sardonicus,</i> or rictus grin, inspires no awe.) For another, he didn't have the right formation or the necessary skills. But the greatest drawback to success was an incapacity to attract to his banner men of genuine ability. He had to settle for the <b>third-rate </b>Erroneous Antonius, whose abrasive personality, misplaced self-esteem, and penchant for windmill tilting only magnified the Wee One's defects in the eyes of both "clergy" and lay folk. Perhaps a gifted sidekick might have been able to mask His Deficiency's shortcomings, but then Li'l Daniel probably never could've attracted the allegiance of someone with unalloyed talent anyway. The ungifted needy seem to find each other, don't they?<br />
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Ambition is by no means wrong; it is often beneficial for organizations and individuals. But to achieve true success, both collective and personal, ambition must be underpinned by native ability and a desire to improve lives other than your own. To motivate competent people to follow, you need to offer them something besides a life of servitude to your person. The<i> talented </i>"bishop" who figures out that he must first become the servant of the "clergy" and laity, not their overlord, could become the "metropolitan" of Sedelandia, with whatever diminished perks it may now offer in its last days. However, since the sub-par <i>sede</i> impostors opt for adulation, not stewardship, nothing will change. They'll remain strutting, turf-warring, undistinguished daydreamers who cannot transmute airy whimsy into concrete reality.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">WAKE 'EM UP: LEAVE THE CULT TODAY!</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>Arma virumque cano </i>("Arms and the man I sing")<i>. </i></span>Virgil</span><br />
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Whenever there's an "episcopal consecration" in Tradistan, we cringe when our British, Continental, and South American friends kid us about the <b>infamous</b> American habit of plundering others' coats of arms. Our acquaintances aim their barbs not only at the <b>lawless </b>assumption of armorial bearings by bamboozlers who are not bishops of the Roman Catholic Church but also against crudely aspirational goofballs' usurping ancient tokens of gentility on the grounds of a shared surname with a grantee of English arms, who in all likelihood was <b><i>never </i></b>a forebear, not even by way of birth on the other side of the blanket.<br />
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The <b>Blast in the Morass </b>occasioned another bout of ribbing, this time far less playful owing to the risibly naïve pretense of the description of Junior's DIY <i>heraldic achievement</i> (ROTFL) on pp. II and III of the event's program. However, before we direct our attention to the <i>hideously</i> rococo salmagundi pictured above and its companion valentine to the Clone's last name, we'll first deal with the <i>unrelievable</i> <b>armorial disability</b> attached to the Tradistani religious buccaneers.<b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b><br />
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<b>UNARMED BUT STILL DANGEROUS</b></div>
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Ecclesiastical heraldic legislation, which emanates from the Holy See, is a special part of the internal positive law of the Church, wherein it enjoys a special place, for such legislation expressly and clearly identifies an individual's position in the hierarchy by marking rank and dignity. Moreover, it is founded on the dogmatic order, being granted exclusively to the ecclesiastical state, which condition derives from (lawful) ordination or consecration and the exercise of an authentic ecclesiastical office.<br />
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Thus, inasmuch as the Tradistanis were <b>illicitly </b>ordained/consecrated <i>outside</i> the Church and accordingly have received <b>no </b>commission from her, they consequently have no jurisdiction or authority. Insofar as they therefore possess no personal or intrinsic right to ecclesiastical insignia (e.g., miter, crozier), their use of emblems of ecclesiastical dignity and office, which they <b><i>do not</i></b> possess, is gravely <b>unlawful</b>,<b> </b>not to say <u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">patently unnecessary</u><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">.</span><br />
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Moreover, as a result of their ecclesial position, the <i>sede</i>s won't submit to the rulings of the Congregation of Divine Worship (the successor to the Sacred Congregation of Rites, which had the competence and duty to repress any abuse [see c. 253.1, 1917 CCL]). From the many examples we've seen of their arms, including the above, they must have never forwarded their designs to the <a href="http://www.collegio-araldico.it/collegio.html" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Collegio Araldico</b></span></a> to determine whether they violated any heraldic rules and/or good taste, as Pope St. Pius X required of new bishops. But in fairness, the counts, nobles, knights, and other swells who compose the college most likely would have consigned, with a very upper-crust sneer, these New-World bumpkins' applications to the round file.<br />
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Notwithstanding the defense for receiving illicit holy orders during the ongoing crisis, traditional Catholics must acknowledge that only the Church, insofar as she is a visible, hierarchical, and juridically perfect society, has the right to institute dignities, establish new offices, and confer upon their holders insignia of honor and marks of dignity. Consequently, the mission-less, Tradistani non-clergy, in the eyes of the Church, must necessarily have <b>no</b> right to assume ecclesiastical arms. If they had an ounce of decency, they would discard their misappropriations at once.<br />
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<b>A FAREWELL TO ARMS</b></div>
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Turning now to the gushing paean offered in homage to Junior's surname, found at the beginning of the "consecration's" booklet-length service paper, <b><span style="color: purple;">** </span></b>let's evaluate its content in the light of heraldic practice.<br />
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As soon as we began to read the program note on Junior's coat of arms, we knew the author, one of the Swampland fake "nuns," was in <i>way</i> over her head. Her very first words assert the Kid's arms are based "<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">on the </span><b style="color: #0b5394;">family crest</b>,"</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span>and again at the conclusion she writes, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"<span style="color: #0b5394;">The motto <i>Fiat Voluntas Dei </i>(May the Will of God be Done)<i>... </i>appears on the <b>family crest</b></span>.</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">..." </span>(Emphases ours.)<br />
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A very inauspicious beginning and end for the fan letter — second only to the <b>howling violation </b>of <i><u>the</u></i> basic rule of composition of arms, the Rule of Tincture, which forbids placement of a color on a color. You can see the howler for yourself above: <b><i><u>Azure</u> </i></b><i>a saltire engrailed</i> <b><i><u>sable</u></i></b>!!! Such arms are called <i>armes fausses</i> ("a false coat of arms") or <i>armes pour enquérir </i> ("a coat of arms to be investigated"). <b><span style="color: purple;">***</span></b><br />
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As Marvin Grosswirth wrote in <i>The Heraldry Book</i>, "It is a clear mark of heraldic ignorance when someone uses the term 'crest' when referring to a coat of arms. Beware of heraldic merchants offering to sell you a 'family crest.'" A crest, according to J.P. Brooke-Little, Clarenceux King of Arms, is "an hereditary device, modeled onto the top of the helm and part of an achievement of arms." It is so called because it <u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">crests</u> the helmet.<br />
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In <i>The Oxford Guide to Heraldry</i>, T. Woodcock, the incumbent Garter Principal King of Arms, and J. Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, bemoan "the indiscriminate use of the word 'crest' to describe armorial bearings when anything but the crest is intended." Bringing home their point with a skewering critique of hopeless souls like our perplexed priory princess, they bitingly add, "The crest is only the part of the design on top of the helmet, but despite the logic of a crest like that of a bird being worn on the head people remain muddled."<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the problems with the program's puff-piece are greater than terminological. The "nun" goes on to reference the coat of arms of a family that shares Junior's surname (and perhaps her own?) <i><b><u>without adducing any proof of the Kid's descent in an unbroken male-line from the ancestor for whom the coat of arms referenced was first recorded</u></b></i>. Worth noting here is the advice found in the Society of Genealogists' Information Leaflet 15:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Armorial bearings do not appertain to all persons of a given surname but belong to and identify members of one particular family. Coats of arms and crests are a form of property and may rightfully be used only by the male-line descendants of the individual to whom they were first granted or allowed....</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unfortunately, over the centuries, many families have simply assumed arms and crests belonging to other families of the same name, usually without authority and without demonstrating any relationship </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">between the families.... The erroneous and widespread practice of adopting the arms of a family of the same surname (extracted in most cases from one of the printed armorials listing the arms of families alphabetically) is much to be deplored. It detracts from the basic purpose of coats of arms and crests, which is to provide hereditary symbols by which particular families may be identified.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Coats of arms, you, see, do not belong to <i>anyone</i> who happens to bear the same surname as that of an armigerous ancestor of <i>another</i> family. Only those individuals, cautions </span><span style="font-family: "\22 times\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif;">Burke's </span><i style="font-family: '"times"', '"times new roman"', serif;">General Armory</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, "who can deduce descent from an ancestor whose armorial bearings have been acknowledged by one of the Visitations </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[by heralds from the College of Arms]</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> are entitled to carry those arms by right of inheritance.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<b><span style="color: purple;">****</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The bottom line here is that an individual must <b><i>substantiate</i></b> he is descended from someone whose right to bear arms has been admitted before we begin to give credence to his personal claim. In this day of easy Internet access to all manner of squirrelly "family crests," absent proof from a claimant, we should be doubly skeptical of all assertions, especially those coming from Americans. <b>No substantiation, no assent</b>. And it's more than a social or civil matter. "Under no circumstances," wrote Henry McCloud near the beginning of the chapter on ecclesiastical heraldry in his </span><i style="font-family: '"times"', '"times new roman"', serif;">Clerical Dress and Insignia</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, "should a prelate make use of a coat of arms which belongs to a family other than his own without proper brisure."</span><br />
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Putting aside the ersatz sister's dearth of proof and raft of heraldically imprecise terminology, a dissection of which would render this post unreadable for both its length and complexity, we conclude by noting the bulk of her cheerleading effort busies itself with the symbolism of the charges and tinctures.<b><span style="color: purple;"> </span></b> "<span style="color: #0b5394;">The gold lion symbolizes courage</span>"; "<span style="color: #0b5394;">The Saint Andrew's cross...is indicative of suffering for the Faith and of perseverance. The black color of the cross signifies constancy</span>"; "<span style="color: #0b5394;">The star is the emblem of our Lady</span>"; "<span style="color: #0b5394;">The gold is the symbol of love</span>"; "<span style="color: #0b5394;">The shield is of blue lapis to honor Our Lady</span>."<br />
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While that twaddle about mystical significations may sound nice and pious to your garden-variety, bug-eyed <i>sede </i>cultling, such "ridiculous fancies," as Joseph Edmondson called them as far back as 1780, are out of keeping with the spirit of the Church in matters armorial. Citing the American ecclesiastical heraldist Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, John Nainfa wrote in his <i>Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church According to Roman Etiquette</i>:<br />
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To avoid mistakes, it is well to start out with the principle that a coat-of-arms is not and needs not be symbolical. A coat-of-arms is only a distinct personal mark or sign. Any or every sort of drawing cannot be used as a heraldic bearing; it must conform to the laws of Heraldry in regard to shape, colors, disposition, etc.; but a "meaning" is not necessary. Asking the meaning of a coat-of-arms is a sure mark of heraldic ignorance....</blockquote>
We would add that overtly assigning to charges and tinctures specific moral or spiritual characteristics or indirectly imputing the symbolized virtues to the bearer underscores that mark of ignorance.<b><span style="color: purple;">*****</span></b><br />
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In this study of Junior's armorial bearings, it is more than clear that what we have is <b>Play-Church</b> and <b>Play-Heraldry</b>. There is nothing of substance in Tradistan. The whole thing is <b>bogus</b>. The cult masters respect <b>no</b> rules. The whole messy, disedifying business amounts to a pre-adolescent parody of the divinely ordered society of the Church. All these self-promoting, glory-seeking, lawlessly mitered, illicit armigers are <i style="font-weight: bold;">useless</i> as well as <b>fake</b>. The pious traditional Catholic can only conclude there is no warrant for this capricious multiplication of unneeded, unwanted, make-believe prelates, who prey upon the laity for prestige, esteem, and financial resources to which they have no right and which they do not deserve.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>GET REAL! SEND THESE IMPOSTORS TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">* The underlying juridical <i>rationale</i> of the ensuing discussion of the cult masters' inherent disqualification to bear ecclesiastical arms is based on the 1978 Italian translation of Abp. Bruno Bernard Heim's <i>Heraldry in the Catholic Church: Its Origin, Customs, and Laws,</i> pp. 43-45. Much of our text is either a close paraphrase or direct translation. Heim (1911-2003), possessor of a doctorate of canon law from the Gregorian University, was a celebrated ecclesiastical armorist of the last century.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">** A scan of the 67-page (!!!) service paper is available </span><a href="https://luke.dashjr.org/tmp/religion/Consecration%20of%20Bishop%20Selway.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;"> for download.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">*** Nainfa writes in <i>Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church According to Roman Etiquette</i>, "A rule too often violated in making a coat-of-arms for a Prelate, is that '<i>color should never be </i></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><i>used upon color...</i>." In<i> A Complete Guide to Heraldry</i>, </span><span style="color: purple;">Fox-Davies admonishe</span><span style="color: purple;">s:</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">One of the earliest rules one learns in the study of armory is that colour cannot be placed upon colour.... Now this is a definite rule which must practically always be rigidly observed.</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">****If the "nun" is referring to </span><a href="https://www.houseofnames.com/selway-family-crest"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>this illustration</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;"> as the Kid's "</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">family crest</span><span style="color: purple;">" (LOL), then in fairness we'll have to admit that the appropriation of the saltire is virtually unnoticeable: the blazon for that shield is simply <i>Sable a satire engrailed or,</i> while Joey's overcrowded arms would demand much more of the blazoner's art and patience. Abp. Heim instructs us:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">Another frequent error among ecclesiastics is that of having overly cluttered arms. The oldest, purest, and most beautiful are always those [that are] the simplest. The over complexity of a shield confers on it a very artificial look; instead of a clear and distinct blazon, one gets a mediocre rebus that represents the personal history of the possessor. </span><span style="color: #990000;">[<i>Ed</i>. Translated literally from the Italian edition.]</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">***** Where do you start with someone who, in describing the shield of arms, writes this?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Saint Andrew's cross, also known as the black saltire, consists of two diagonal lines in the form of an X; it </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;">is indicative of suffering for the Faith and of perseverance. The black color of the cross signifies constancy. The gold lion symbolizes courage, strength, and fearlessness; it also represents Christ who is the "Lion of Judah." To the ... emblems of the cross and the lion has been added, in the upper portion of the shield, a star shining above a storm-tossed ship.</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">The star is the emblem of our Lady</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">who is the Star of the Sea. It is she who guides the soul, symbolized by the ship, in its journey over the waves of tribulation. Saint Thomas explains that </span><span style="color: purple;">etc., etc. for a few more </span></span><span style="color: purple;">paragraphs of heraldic baloney.</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: purple;">How much more tasteful — and </span><i style="color: purple;">impressive</i><span style="color: purple;"> — would it have been to provide a blazon proper for the complete achievement, perhaps followed by a no-nonsense "translation," leaving all the mystical puffery out. But without hoodoo, Tradistan has nothing to offer.</span>The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com109tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-39116191406792960562018-03-03T19:53:00.000-05:002018-03-03T19:53:13.232-05:00BUMMER!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i style="color: #38761d;">We are very disturbed since this consecration</i><span style="color: #990000;"><i style="color: #38761d;"> </i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[Joey's]</span><i style="color: #38761d;"> </i></span><i style="color: #38761d;">perpetuate</i><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">[s] </span></span><i style="color: #38761d;">the cult-like and the sectarian attitude of Most Holy Trinity Seminary and the last-year newly founded priestly institute — Roman Catholic Institute — of Bishop Sanborn.</i></span> Markus "The Ham Sandwich" Ramolla</span><b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b><br />
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<i>The Readers stood at the ready — fully loaded they were for bear.</i><br />
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It occurred early last Wednesday evening. The 4K UHD TV stretched across the west end of the well-appointed, custom-installed home theater. Latter-day amanuenses manned their MacBooks. In her tailored, designer jeans accented by Manolo peep-toe mules, our fragrant, dark-eyed techie was pertly stationed at the console, fetchingly poised to work her digital magic on state-of-the-art video software.<br />
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At her left, jauntily astride a high swivel chair, rockin' the Sennheisers, waited our play-by-play, color-commentary announcer, an occasional consultant who'd emceed two "episcopal consecrations." Close at hand lay a Pontificale Romanum along with a hand-annotated copy of Nabuco's <i>Pontificalis Romani Expositio Iuridico-Practica</i>. Splashed across the monitor to his left were side-by-side scanned images from Moretti and Martinucci.<br />
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In the deluxe Barcaloungers deployed before the gargantuan 65" screen sat the Reader-in-Chief flanked by top <i>PL </i>execs, notebooks in hand. Lining the paneled back wall were empty chairs for the next day's guests. Within the fridge cuddled bottles of bubbly for Sanguigno-blood-orange mimosas laced with Grand Marnier to wash down the Panera's brioche breakfast sandwiches and sweet rolls on order. <b><span style="color: purple;">**</span></b> Stored in the humidor next to the Breville cappuccino machine beckoned a fresh box of robustos (El Rey del Mundo Choix Supreme, to be specific); atop the immaculate white box awaited a half dozen<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #080808;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Romeo y Julieta Julietas</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for the team's distaff side</span>.<br />
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The mood was buoyant as staff braced for the test. Before returning to their homes on Friday, the Readers knew they'd barely have 12-15 hours after the <b>Sacrilege in the Swamp</b> to draft copy for a special Saturday-morning post. There'd be no time for troubleshooting come Thursday <span style="font-size: x-small;">A.M.</span>!<br />
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At the press of the power button, the television chimed to life. Then the Internet connection was established. Laptops flickered as a dainty French-manicured <i>manita</i> clicked on the link to the YouTube channel promising to livestream the <b>Bash in the Bog</b>. But within microseconds, the distinguished assembly groaned in worldly-wise dismay as on the screen flashed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLWBKrCgec"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>this dark message</b></span></a>.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Curses! Foiled again! The cult took down its own channel!</span></i></b><br />
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Making lemonade out of the disappointing lemon handed us, staff set to work. But first our host fixed mimosas as the Reader-in-Chief passed around the Cuban treasures. (It's never too late for mimosas.) After alerting contacts in the swamp and elsewhere, we hatched a plan for gathering all the intelligence available the next day.<br />
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By 1:00 <span style="font-size: x-small;">P.M.</span> on Thursday, the pix, scans, and hot tips started flooding in (including a droll social-media shot of the new "Bishop" as <b><i>Sarong Boy</i>)</b>. It wasn't all we'd hoped for, but then again the cult prohibited snaps inside the Big Tent. The first visuals came from <a href="https://twitter.com/FrDesposito/status/966491461855399936?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E1"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Scutty's candid shots</b></span></a> of the Wednesday practice session, from which we learned Dubious Dan had been admitted as a co-consecrator. (Later stills from outside the pesthouse confirmed the foolish decision.)<br />
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Although on several occasions we had hedged our bet about Dannie's exclusion from the ceremony, we were still mildly surprised. Based on what we know about the Swamplanders' contempt for the Wee One, we surmised the Long-Island Jellyfish must have bailed out, thus forcing the élite to call up the over-eager but validity-challenged pinch hitter from the bench. Seeing it was necessary for the Kid to have the most over-the-top, three-"bishop" <b>extravaganza</b> Tradistan's ever seen, we concluded theatrical considerations had trumped prudence. (The <i><b>Show</b></i> is what Tradistan's all about anyway.)<br />
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Informants in Michigan earlier passed the word that another "priest" had filled in for Jelly on Sunday, February 18 (reportedly a Mexican national). Although other sources, which got their scoop directly, insisted that no Highlander had planned to attend the <b>Display near the Bay</b>, we still thought the Jellyfish would've surfaced in the peanut gallery for what was in reality a <b>command to dance attendance on Junior</b>. We honestly couldn't imagine Jelly the Nervous Nelly <i><b>not</b> </i>jumping whenever Big Don nasally bellows, "Frog!" But apparently Its Gelatinacy was a no-show. Perhaps it couldn't abide its fellow scum buckets, so Its Invertebracy pulsed back to home waters to recover. (There have been recent sightings on Long Island.)<br />
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When you think about the Big Show dispassionately, apart from the grating presence of His Humpty-Dumptyship on stage before rancor-wracked Swampland culties who despise him, no harm was done to the Kid's validity. The participation of Geert Stuyver, whose priestly and episcopal "orders" come from the<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thục-des Lauriers line directly through McKenna, surely </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">counteracted the major threat from Dubious Dan and the far lesser, but still real, hazard of Big Don's <b>Liénart liability</b>. Junior and Jelly now constitute the only <i>relatively</i> certain "episcopal" lineages in Tradistan U.S.A. (Of course, outside that wasteland, there are dozens of valid "bishops" with multiple valid lineages.)</span><br />
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But moving to something more significant, the Readers are most puzzled by all the <i>secrecy</i>. Big Don promised to update us in January but didn't. We could never find the "special schedule" for the "consecration," which was supposed to follow the regular February schedule. Uncharacteristically, Dannie never once blabbed he was to be a co-consecrator, not even to taunt <i>PL</i>. During the <b>three-ring circus</b> itself, photos (you'll recall) were proscribed. And, as we noted above, at almost the last minute, the webcast was <b>suppressed</b>.<br />
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All this hush-hush hardly squares with the raucous fanfare that originally advertised the <b>Blast in the Morass</b>. First there was the big announcement-cum-sheepish-justification in the November 2017 pesthouse newsletter, followed by a comically elaborate e-invitation on the website. Then, with the exception of Gabby Dannie's "Corner," we heard zilch until the February 2018 newsletter, which only gave us a snooty, looking-down-one's-nose <b>clerical fashion review</b>.<br />
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What happened? Why the <b>blackout </b>until Scutty's tweet about the practice?<br />
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Discretion, they must have reasoned, was better than worldwide <b>praxis-shaming</b>. Not without foundation would there be a fear that Europe, North America, and Latin America were watching closely for <b>foul ups</b>. Better to put out a heavily edited video later. Furthermore, had Dannie and Checkie's participation been made known too early, Big Don may have faced <b>savage internal opposition </b>from his cult benefactors with a <b>mighty big bone to pick</b> with the Cincy Gruesome Twosome.</div>
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The blackout, withal, wasn't disastrous. In the days and weeks to come, there'll be more reports and photos to help us piece together who attended and who didn't. (We may even get a good audience headcount: early dispatches assure us that far fewer than the anticipated 300 showed up.) Since social-media chatter leads us to believe the Swampland will produce a commemorative video, our experts may be able to tease out the liturgical snafus, despite the cult's best endeavors to erase them. Our expectation is based on the supposition that if the Skipper — the "clerical" clown completer who once <b>omitted the consecration at Mass</b> — acted as the <b>Assistant Priest</b>, it's not unreasonable to infer that <b>gross missteps</b> occurred.<br />
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Let's all wait 'n' see.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">* Transcribed from his allocution on the episcopal "consecration" of the new Boy "Bishop," the audio of which was made public on the Sammich's website. Click </span><a href="http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/a/d/c/adcfdb9384bfb56e/Announcement_regarding_the_Episcopal_Consecration_of_Fr._Selway.mp3?c_id=19309702&expiration=1519664506&hwt=d9b536a65637d8f7c040f6b65a76509d"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;"> to listen, but do it fast, for we don't think it will remain there for very long.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">**To the extent that the work of Thursday was expected</span><span style="color: purple;"> to extend into the wee hours of Friday morning, the younger Readers would've needed their sustenance early. They don't associate with any lawless "bishop," Tradistani or otherwise, who would dispense them from the Lenten fast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.</span></i> Hazlitt</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Editor's Note: </b> Before we get started today, we want to take this opportunity to live up to our word. You may remember we promised to <b>retract our formerly good opinion </b>of the B'ville élite's business acumen if "One Hand Dan" were allowed to be one of the "co-consecrators" on February 22. Most of you know by now that His Deficiency played that part on Thursday; consequently, we hereby acknowledge that <b>we gave the élite Bosses of the Bog too much credit</b>. Maybe Wee Dan had to pinch hit if the Jellyfish bailed out at the last minute, excusing itself with, say, some convenient "necessity" on Long Island. (We'll discuss such possibilities next week in our post-mortem of the <b>Sacrilege in the Swamp</b>.) Whatever the cause, putting Dannie in the ceremony (along with the Skipper and Tony Baloney) was as <u>dumb as dumb can be</u>.</span></i><br />
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The <b>Blast in the Morass</b> imposed without necessity yet another<b> uncanonical</b> <i>episcopus vagans</i> upon a<b> "bishop"-weary </b>Sedelandia. Disgusted traditional Catholics would do well to ponder the following "<b>meditation</b>," with which years ago our favorite <b>Pinheaded Pilgrim</b> concluded a monograph now <i><b>infamous</b></i> for his <b>hypocritical about-face </b>(bold-face emphasis ours; quotation marks the author's):<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3887" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3886" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3885" style="font-weight: normal;">Can we really take all this seriously and suppose that the “bishops” involved in such goings-on are the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>f</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>uture </b>of the Church</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">? </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Impossible</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">. Even to refer to them as “traditional Catholic bishops” lends too much respectability to the whole business, which is, in this writer’s opinion, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>very disrespectable</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> indeed.</span></i></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3887" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3886" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3885" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></i></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3905" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3904" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3903" style="font-weight: normal;">One theme which dominates the affair from beginning to end is a gross and </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>dangerous lack of prudence</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> regarding the transmission of Apostolic Succession – a matter in which the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>slightest lack of prudence is inadmissible</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">. St. Paul reminds us: “Lay not hands lightly on any man” – he does not say: “Lay hands quickly on anyone.”</span></i></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3905" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3904" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3903" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></i></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3891" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3890" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3889" style="font-weight: normal;">What is far more serious, however, is that these men claim that they are the “only legitimate authority” of the Catholic Church and that Catholics are “bound” to obey them. Further, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>hey pretend to exclude from the Catholic Church those traditional priests and laymen who refuse to recognize their “authority” </b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">– something no traditional organization we know of presumes to do. By making such claims, these “bishops” have </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>set up their own religion</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, with its own “magisterium,” its own “episcopal hierarchy,” and </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>its own beliefs</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">. It is </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>a new religion</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, in spite of its trappings – and all</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">its <b>“episcopal consecrations,” self-important proclamations and inflated claims of “canonical authority” cannot make it into the Catholic religion.</b></span></i></span> </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3891" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3890" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3889" style="font-weight: normal;">It is at the very least in the process of creating what will surely become a schismatic sect.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3891" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3890" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3889" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></i></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3930" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3929" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3928" style="font-weight: normal;">The story will not end here – it is probable that “</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>i</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>nstant bishops</b>" </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">will continue to </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>multiply exponentially,</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> as among the “Old Catholics.” Our missionary friend in Mexico offers us his opinion on this rather gloomy prospect:</span></i></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3939" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3938" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3937" style="font-weight: normal;">We should have within a few years hundreds or thousands of bishops... without true vocations, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>the one more ignorant than the other</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, and an unavoidable cause of more division among traditionalists.</span></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3895" style="font-family: "\22 helvetica neue\22 " , "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3894" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3893" style="font-weight: normal;">It is not impossible that one day these men will decide that their “authority” allows them to elect a “pope” from among their number.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "\22 helvetica neue\22 " , "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;"> </span><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3894" style="font-weight: 700;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3893" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Perhaps we will see them trudge along the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><b>path already taken by Palmar de Troya,</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> following some man who wears a tiara that looks like a lampshade and who cranks out “encyclicals” by the dozen.</span></i> </blockquote>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3894" style="font-weight: 700;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1518968669809_3893" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">If such a day comes, we will then see the ultimate consequences of the movement which, for the moment, seems to promise “a prelate in every pot, and </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><b>two bishops in every garage</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">.” </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><b>*</b></span></span></blockquote>
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My, my! How <b>self-interest </b>and the passage of time can dramatically reverse a <i>supposedly</i> rock-solid conviction. The author may have ingloriously betrayed his stated principles, but his prediction came true: The always-aspirational swamp finally can boast of its very own pair of wandering "bishops."<br />
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Will "One-Hand Dan" let $GG fall behind the Swampland Joneses by not "consecrating" for the SW Ohio cult a second "bishop <span style="font-size: x-small;">(?)</span>"? Or could it be his "apostolate" is so <b>tiny </b>and his workload so <b>light and airy</b> that he can get by all on his little lonesome?<br />
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Or is it because there's no <b>Mr. Moneybags</b> ordering him around?<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">* If you'd like to read the whole article, click</span> <a href="http://tradcath.proboards.com/thread/774/bishops-garage-cekada?page=1&scrollTo=6807"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A useless life is an earlier death</i></span></span><i><span style="color: #38761d;">. </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Goethe</span><br />
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In last week's "Corner," Wee Dan stepped up to the plate after Big Don <b>broke his promise </b>for January to give us more information about next week's "consecration" in the Swampland:<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">We had our first practice for Fr. Selway’s consecration last week. Fr. Cekada, reprising his role of twenty</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">-</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">five years ago, has been working very hard preparing the rubrics from our end. One of the fine seminarians will be serving as MC, and organizing the entire affair, a complicated and challenging ceremony to be sure, but truly one for the ages. Many of our faithful will be attending.</span></blockquote>
There's more to "One Hand's" message than meets the eye. As we'll show, it's a last-ditch effort to <i>appear </i>relevant, to argue he has a purpose for existing and pocketing the laity's money once the Kid asserts his dominance from the top of the Tradistani pecking order.<br />
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After next Thursday's <b>Bash in the Bog</b>, all other "bishops" of the SW Ohio/B'ville cult — "One Hand," the Long-Island Jellyfish, the ailing Donster —will be <b>utterly useless</b> beyond their emptying chapels. "The Lowly Worm," the b.s. artist formerly known as Tradzilla, will have passed his sell-by date the moment the Kid wishes him (with fingers crossed behind his back?), "<i>Ad multos annos</i>!"<b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b> Big Don's being stoically closed-mouth about his approaching insignificance, but the Mitered Magpie of West Chester, true to his chattering nature, can't maintain a prudent silence. Pathetically, he's driven to put his <b>thinly disguised anxieties</b> right out on Front Street for TradWorld to ridicule.<br />
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In the futile struggle to keep the Gerties from writing him off, His Irrelevancy intimated he and Tony Baloney might have some material part to play on February 22, with Checkie busily "<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">preparing the rubrics from our end</span>." What a laugh! What "<span style="color: blue;">end</span>"? <i>The short end of the stick?</i><br />
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The Kid <i>already</i> has the ceremonial details from Big Don's "consecration" back in 2002. (They were probably based on copies of the Checkmeister's outline to begin with.) And why would the Cheeseball continue to prepare instructions so close to the date of the Big Show? All Dannie's doing here is trying (unsuccessfully) to make people believe he's somehow a major player in the <b>sacrilegious pantomime </b>destined to change the cult cabal forever.<br />
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From the vagueness of the "Corner's" first sentence, we infer that "One Hand" must not have been asked to be a co-consecrator. If he had been, we think he would've shot off his mouth about the supporting rôle in order to reassure the skeptical cultlings he still counts. Instead we get a murky reference to "<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">our first practice</span>."<b><span style="color: purple;">**</span></b><br />
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Who was practicing? Certainly Checkie wasn't practicing for MC, because Dannie tells us a so-called seminarian has been assigned the job of Master of Ceremonies. Furthermore, the "seminarian" is "<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">organizing the entire affair</span>," so it looks as though Bonehead Tone's been shut out completely. Maybe Lurch, one of Junior's fanboys, was tossed a "mercy" part to play in order to maintain his loyalty to the soon-to-be <b>Numero Uno</b> <b>of Tradistan</b>.<br />
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Amid all this angst and transparent face-saving, His Obsolescency couldn't help a little unintentional humor when he reported, "<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">Many of our faithful will be attending</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;"> [Joey's 'consecration']</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">.</span>" That's a hoot! For the past year, the Wee One's been trying everything — including <b>frivolous, illicit dispensations from the Friday abstinence </b>— to herd balking Gerties into the pest-infested cult center for his sideshows. Yet for the Kid's extravaganza, the cult cattle are eager to hoof it about a thousand miles down to Florida to attend the <b>Blast in the Morass</b>.<br />
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Think of all that travel and lodging money Dispensin' Dan will never see in the collection basket, not to mention the cash tribute his dirty Gerties'll render to the newly crowned <b>Grand High Panjandrum of Sedelandia</b>. $GG's collection for February 4 was an <b>anemic</b> $3,764, the second collection totaled a <b>miserly</b> $530, and the week before netted a <b>close-fisted</b> $3,836. Have the <b>skinflint cultlings</b> been hoarding their dollars at Dannie's expense? His Indigency must have turned 50 shades of green with envy, but there's nothing he can do except put on a happy face and pretend he approves. After all, he can't afford to alienate the youthful and moneyed <i>capo di tutti capi.</i><br />
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Faking benign approval won't help, either with the Boy "Bishop" or with the cultlings. No crumbs will come Dirtbag Dan's way when the Kid completely takes over pesthouse "ordinations." Likewise, we don't expect Wee Dan will be running My-Way Carlito's "priests'" retreats in the Evergreen State. Aware of "One Hand's" loss of relevancy, Gerties will look to Junior as the champion of their weird sectarian aspirations,<b><span style="color: purple;">**</span><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b> leaving the Bantam "Bishop <span style="font-size: x-small;">(?)</span>," now reduced to a grinning id bereft of resources and voice, with nothing to do other than once a year "consecrating" doubtful oils that no one but his own dubious "clergy" need or will use.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">* That is, <i><b><u>IF</u></b> </i>the over-the-top <b><i>Display near the Bay</i></b> takes place.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">** But the jury's still out on that question. As we've written, whether or not "One-Hand Dan" co-consecrates will depend upon how eager the élite are to protect the integrity of the Clone's "episcopate." True, Dannie could co-consecrate along with the Jellyfish, who would offset the stain of dubiety, but do the real chiefs of B'ville want to associate the Kid with the embattled troublemaker who exposed them to so much grief as a result of the catastrophic <b>2009 $GG $CHOOL $CANDAL</b>?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">*** They'll be disappointed, for we predict the Florida cult will soon retreat into itself. The Boy "Bishop" prudently won't write a thing. The only "missions" he'll undertake are those that generate surplus cash for the boggy cult HQ. From now on, a low profile is necessary to divert Trad Nation's alarmed interest in all that's been going on in the fetid swamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #2d6516; font-family: "times new roman";">Love matches, as they are called, have illusion for their father
and need for their mother.</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> Nietzsche</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">As Valentine's Day beckons with hearts and flowers, we find it <i>singularly appropriate</i> to put the <b>February 22 Big Show</b> on the back burner for a week so as to direct our scrutiny to Dannie's <b>2018 YAG in Cincy</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">As you may have observed, $GG is already promoting the event in its weekly bulletin and online. A program of "adult" activities promising to be
as <b>lame </b>as last year's hasn't been posted yet on the website. However, we did find the meddling "clergy" have added demands to aggravate the already disordered scruples of the psychasthenic losers tormented enough
to register this year. If the site's home-page "art work" is any indication (click <a href="https://yagincincy.wordpress.com/"><b><span style="color: #850002;">here</span></b></a>),
you'll have a good idea of the mentality of the target audience "One
Hand" and Checkie have in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">To
save you (and us) the time of reading through all that twaddle, <i>PL</i> had a third
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The
<b>creepiest difference</b> between the 2018 and 2017<b> dating meat-markets</b> is there is now "<span style="color: blue;">no hard and fast cutoff</span>" for the
upper age limit! In other words, "<span style="color: blue;">the YAG is now
open to singles age 18 and up</span>." An e-mail promo to previous
attendees asks recipients to "</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">please pass this info on to your
friends who might have been a smidge "too old" last year; tell 'em to
c'mon in!</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"><i>Whaaaaat</i>? Did they really say, "</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">c'mon in</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">"? Is
it going to be a weekend-long <b><i>pool </i></b>party with beach-blanket bingo and all? We knew the registrants would get soaked, but we didn't expect the cult masters meant it <i>literally</i>. And if their running-buddies were </span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">a smidge 'too old'</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">" last year, aren't they <b><i><u>more</u></i></b> than </span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">a smidge 'too old'</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">" in 2018?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"> Concerned parents and safety-conscious twenty-somethings
have cause to fear what "</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">a smidge 'too old'</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #141414;">" entails. In 2017, the upper limit was a </span><span style="color: #141414;"><i>nightmarishly</i> high</span> <i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">35
years old</span><span style="color: red;">.</span></i><span style="color: #141414;"> We bristle when we imagine a drooling, heavy-breathing,
bloated, goggle-eyed, middle-aged "<b>Mr. Lonelyheart Trad</b>" aggressively stalking an unwary "<b>Miss </b></span><i style="color: #141414;"><b>Sede</b></i><span style="color: #141414;"><b> Distinct Possibility</b>" splashing all alone in the deep end.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Other rule changes are equally disturbing. To
further discourage <i>well-adjusted</i> young adults from attending, t</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">he YAG dress
code's been beefed up to make it much stricter this year — <b><i><u>but</u></i></b><i>
<u style="font-weight: bold;">only with respect to the ladies</u>.</i> <i>Naturally! This is Tradistan.</i> For 2018, the more intrusive, illustrated regulations obsess in <i>voyeuristic detail </i>about how modest women's attire must be. For instance, a dress</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">must...generously
COVER, not merely skim or come halfway over, the knees BOTH while standing AND
sitting down. No slits.... If a skirt needs leggings underneath to make it decent, it's
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<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">More ominously, </span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">c</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">leavage</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">" is forbidden together with the titillatingly <i>mysterious</i> "</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">suggestion of cleavage</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">What the latter means is anybody's guess, for it's not
spelled out how the "clergy" will determine if what's visible is
an authentic </span><b><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times new roman";">sulcus intermammarius</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></i><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">or just a <b>pert shadow</b>. Catching and shaming violators, the favorite "clerical" exercise at a <i>sede</i> cult apostolate, might be impossible should all the
gals wear turtlenecks. But even absent turtlenecks in June, it'll be tough to police the new interdiction. As our very own Readerette informed the editorial staff, U.S.
federal courts have ruled that <i>the intermammary cleft</i> is so vague
that no guidance is available to define it </span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">(</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times new roman";">West's federal supplement [First Series], p. 994, West Publishing Co, 1990).</span><b><span style="color: #6b006d; font-family: "times new roman";">*</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">PL </span></i><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">wonders what happened last year to provoke this <b>radical revision</b> of the dress standards. Did one or more of these "good Catholic girls" cross the
line of Christian modesty, say, by <i><b>free-buffing</b></i>, thus resulting in manly outrage— plus a longer-than-usual line at the confessional? </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">Just as the rules are <i>tougher</i> for the womenfolk, so the boys' club members get
their customary <b>patriarchal pass</b>. Guys are perfunctorily advised that "</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">slacks or nice
jeans</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times new roman";">[?!] </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">are </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">preferred</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">" and that shirts and pants may not be "</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">tight</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #141414;">." (Perhaps a subtle hint for some of those empty-carb-craving <i>sede</i> chow hounds to go on a pre-YAG diet in order to depress the quantity of food consumed?)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #141414;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #141414;">Shorts are not allowed on cult premises, but inasmuch as there's no explicit off-property prohibition, we conclude that males may wear loose-fitting shorts
at events not held at dilapidated $GG. (Otherwise Dannie and Cheesy wouldn't have limited the ban to the vermin-infested cult campus. We mean, they'd've boldly written "</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">No shorts</span></span><span style="color: #141414;">" <b><u>period</u></b>! <i>Right?</i>)</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"> Oh, the pastoral nonfeasance of the <i>sede</i> "<b>Brotopia</b>"!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">What if the women in attendance are scandalized — or become ensnared in an unavoidable proximate occasion of sin — through the indecent exposure of <b>virile
</b>knees (or even the "</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "times new roman";"><b>suggestion of knees</b></span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">") by men immodest enough to
wear baggy shorts in the presence of nubile trad-bachelorettes?
Have the cult masters no concern over the effect of bare, hairy, male lower limbs on
all these impressionable daughters of Eve? Suppose the bros are not as mindful as the chicks are when they sit: Who of us hasn't heard about, or witnessed, the "</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "times new roman";"><b><u>manspreading</u></b></span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";">" blight? And why, if shorts are allowed at some activities, wasn't there an <i>express </i>prohibition against <i><b>going commando</b></i>?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In
their effort to polemicize the weekend for their <b>morbid sectarian purposes</b>, the cult
masters have raised the bar</span><span style="color: #141414; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> for attendance by adding oddly
specific religious tests. Registrants, who must be </span><i style="font-family: 'times new roman';">sede</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">s, this year have to agree they condemn certain
SSPV practices; they must also affirm they believe in
baptism of desire/ baptism of blood, as if <u><i>that</i></u> could be a deal-breaker for youthful lovebirds, LOL. ("<i>Sweet cheeks</i></span><i style="font-family: 'times new roman';">, you know I love you, truly I do, but unless you affirm baptism of blood/desire here and now before our very first kiss, Checkie will <u>never</u> let us go steady</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">" the tradette demurely cooed, rapidly blinking her rheumy eyes. "</span><i style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Oh, </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i>honey bunch," </i>trad-boy groaned in reply, "<i>you </i><u style="font-style: italic;">knooooowwwww</u><span style="font-style: italic;"> that I</span><i> dooooo! *</i>XOXO*</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">") </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Cult central is sure to publish updates about YAG 2018 in the coming
months, which we'll be eager to cover on these pages. But for <i>mature</i> young adults in Traddielandia, we'd suggest the information shared
today should be enough for them to<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b006d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #6b006d;">* The gender bias of the dress code is intolerable. For men,
polo shirts are among the "</span><span style="color: blue;">preferred</span><span style="color: #6b006d;">" choices, yet, scandalously there's no requirement that guys wear <b>long-tailed </b>polo jerseys so as to prevent shriek-inducing<b> exposure of the</b> <b><i>crena clunium</i>, </b>a common, unsightly <b>wardrobe malfunction</b>, which the workman's-chic clothier, the Duluth Trading Company, labels "an egregious display of </span><a href="https://www.duluthtrading.com/store/product/mens-longtail-t-short-sleeve-polo-with-pocket-76701.aspx" style="color: #6b006d;"><b><span style="color: #850002;">Plumber's Butt</span></b></a><span style="color: #6b006d;">," more archly termed in French "</span></span><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">le sourire du plombier."</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #6b006d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #6b006d;">Alas! At $GG, </span></span><span style="color: #6b006d; font-family: "\22 times new roman\22 ";">when it comes to modesty or simple good taste, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXMap-Vyo2w" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>it's still a man's world</b></span></a><span style="color: #6b006d; font-family: "times new roman";">.</span></div>
The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com103tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-2000707463299569662018-02-03T19:16:00.000-05:002018-02-03T19:25:53.391-05:00THROWING CAUTION TO THE WINDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="color: #38761d;">When we want money we want all.</i> Draxe's </span><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Bibliotheca scholastica instructissima</span> </span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>At long last! The decades of masquerading have ended.<br />
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It seems Dannie's given up pretending to be a traditional, <b>pre-Bugnini</b> Catholic "pastor." Faking it must no longer be a viable business model. In the sere autumn of his failed career as a religious entrepreneur, he's decided — ecclesiastical law be damned! —to do whatever it takes to herd the straying Gerties into the shabby cult center: Every "gun" shearer knows you can't fleece sheep if they aren't in the catching pen first.<br />
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Do you remember a few weeks back when the cult resorted to the verbal subterfuge of inviting post-burial diners to "<span style="color: blue;">consider themselves dispensed from the Friday abstinence</span>"? (Click <a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/01/of-all-weeks-unluckiest-day.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>.) Well, the cult kingpin is now outright <i><b>declaring</b></i> a dispensation on his own, <i>as if he were a bona-fide<b> Ordinary</b></i>.<br />
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Don't believe us?<br />
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Then read the <b>alarming proclamation</b> in the $GG bulletin <a href="http://www.sgg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180128.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>flyer</b></span></a> (p. 4), aimed at promoting attendance at the Candlemas "Winter Soup Supper" on <b>Friday</b>, February 2:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<b><i><span style="color: blue;">Abstinence is dispensed for those who attend the Mass.</span></i></b>"</span></blockquote>
Not only is the decree an <b>audaciously lawless</b> move, it's also a <i><b>revolutionary manifesto</b></i> in miniature. No more weasel wording. From now on, it'll be <b>bald declarations</b> from "One-Hand Dan" himself! A cultling won't have to wrestle with her or his conscience by <i>considering </i>anything. Like a reeking, triple-decker cheeseburger tossed into a flyblown dumpster, the illicit "dispensation" is there for the grabbing, if you're reckless enough to take it. <i>The only catch is you'll have to turn out for a Big Show to be dispensed.</i><br />
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<i>PL</i> reckons the handful of Gerties in attendance last night left their thin gruel and watery soups in the fridge, schlepping instead greasily viscous buckets of stew clogged with ragged chunks of squirrel, pig's trotters, raccoon, downer cow, or unidentifiable road kill. So epoch-making is this new discipline that we Readers<i> </i>created a brand-new <b>signature slogan</b> for the SW Ohio cult:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>$GG: A meat-eater's Friday-night delight, where "One-Hand" dispenses if you foot the expenses.</i></span></b></blockquote>
Why, you might ask, did the cult masters adopt so <b>rash</b> a policy, one guaranteed to alienate many dyed-in-the-wool traditional Catholics? To hear some orthodox trads talk, Dannie might have to surrender his "<i>sede</i> card." But we think we've got the answer for all this <b>risky business</b>: The Gerties' <b>financially ruinous boycott</b> of $GG activities.<br />
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Throughout 2017, Dannie often rued the low participation in and flagging enthusiasm for cult social life. In last week's "Corner," he continued his <b>private pity party</b> with a string of soul-bearing ruminations. After nostalgically recalling the "<span style="color: blue;">palmy years of the 80s</span>,"— where "<span style="color: blue;">the darkened church was well filled!</span>" — he suddenly whimpered, "<span style="color: blue;">Anybody remember?</span>" (Was that a sniffle we detected?)<br />
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Then, perhaps after swallowing a "reality-pill," the Pastor of Disaster unexpectedly manned up: "<span style="color: blue;">Well, those days are done.</span>" (You betcha they are: Gertie gummers are dying off, while the rams and ewes are wandering away, either physically or emotionally.) The self-feeding, flock-scattering shepherd who formerly ruled with a high hand tried to console himself with the observation that on "<span style="color: blue;">some Sundays the Mass is well filled.</span>" But we'd say he's tormented by the subconscious knowledge that one day in the near future <i>on no Sunday will the Mass be </i>"<span style="color: blue;">well filled</span>."<br />
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By his own admission, the Gerties didn't even bother to reply to his survey about "<span style="color: blue;">a good daily Mass time</span>" (for Lent, we presume). His Despondency "<span style="color: blue;">only heard from one or two souls.</span>" Hilariously, a certain sassy spirit who made the effort to suggest a time <b>impertinently </b>informed Dannie "<span style="color: blue;">he wouldn't be attending</span>." Talk about indifference! And with <b>cheeky apathy</b> like that comes reduced giving — of time, of moral support, and of <i>money</i>.<br />
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In spite of the brave face he put on, His Anxiety's gotten the message, loud and clear. That's why he had to try something — <i>anything — </i>to increase traffic in the forsaken cult center, notwithstanding the danger of alienating pious Catholics. When he learned "<span style="color: blue;">300 guests</span>" have already signed up for Junior's "consecration," he must have been <i>crushed.</i> Compensatory narcissist that he is, Dan's aware the center of Tradistan is relentlessly shifting toward the Kid. As soon as it dawns on him that <b>illicit dispensations</b> from the Friday abstinence won't fill the pews with "sheeple," it's frightening to imagine what he'll do thereafter to keep basking in the self-enhancement only cash confers.<b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b><br />
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Speaking of the Boy-"Bishop"-Elect, this may be the best place to follow up on Big Don's <a href="http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/Dec_2017_Newsletter.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>December 2017 promise </b></span></a>to "<span style="color: #351c75;">give further information about</span> <span style="color: #990000;">[the Kid's "consecration"]</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">in the January newsletter</span>." As you probably know, the January newsletter has been <a href="http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/Newsletter_Jan_2018.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>out</b></span></a>, yet it contained no further information about the February 22 three-ring circus. All we saw was a notice about a subdiaconal ordination scheduled for two days after the extravaganza. (Joey's maiden conferral of orders?)<br />
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Why the silence? What's to hide? The Donster had the space to write <i>something</i> in the newsletter. Did <i>PL</i>'s interest in the occasion and its players spook him? Are undoubtedly valid co-consecrators <b>backing out</b> because of pressure from their flocks or their bosses? Did "One Hand" ask him to hold off on any announcement in order to save face? (The Wee One hasn't said a thing about a February Mexican adventure yet: Could be he's buying time.) Come to think about it, there may have been internal arguments with the élite about the arrangements and participants. Maybe Don's been told to keep his piehole shut until everything's settled.<br />
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We'll never know the reason for all the coyness. Of this we can be sure, however: "The Lowly Worm" didn't live up to his word — or maybe he simply couldn't remember.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">* It amazes </span><i style="color: purple;">PL</i><span style="color: purple;"> that the </span><i style="color: purple;">sede</i><span style="color: purple;">s have missed the transactional opportunity to invent their own procedures for issuing </span><b style="color: purple;">decrees of nullity of marriage</b><span style="color: purple;">. That ploy would be a real moneymaker as well as a crowd pleaser — sure to pack 'em in every day of the week. There could even be a tie-in with the cult's </span><a href="https://yagincincy.wordpress.com/" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Young Adult Get-Together</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;">. Dannie might even want to rebrand it as the "</span><span style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: purple;"><u>Y</u></b><span style="color: purple;">earning for </span><b style="color: purple;"><u>A</u></b><span style="color: purple;">nnulment </span><b style="color: purple;"><u>G</u></b><span style="color: purple;">ang.</span></span><span style="color: purple;">" Honestly, we don't see how His Necessity can afford to pass up the chance for </span><b style="color: purple;">profitable commodification</b><span style="color: purple;"> on $GGResources by hawking T-shirts (long-sleeved, of course) and polycarbonate beer mugs tempting traddies to</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>NEXT SPOUSE</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: purple;">@ WEE DAN'S</span><span style="color: purple;"> YAG.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="color: #38761d;">The members of the Institute </i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="color: #38761d;">of the Roman Catholic Institute </i><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #990000;">[</span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #990000;">sic]</span></span><i style="color: #38761d;"> </i><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>shall adhere to the Roman Missal of Saint Pius V, the Roman Breviary of Saint Pius V, together with the additions and reforms made up to and including the year 1948, exclusive.</i> </span>Big Don Sanborn's "<span style="color: #351c75;">Liturgical Directory of the Roman </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Catholic Institute</span>" (p. 7, #1)</span></span><br />
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Look closely at this week's graphic (above), a detail from the <b>January 2018 MHT monthly schedule</b>.<br />
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First, observe that, for Saturday, January 27, it advertises <b><i>anticipated </i>Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span> </b>as the Mass of the day. Next recall how Big Don boasted that the "g<span style="color: #351c75;">eneral liturgical principle</span>" of his apparently dormant — and perhaps <b>dead —</b> "<span style="color: #351c75;">Roman Catholic Institute"</span> was to "<span style="color: #351c75;">preserve the traditional Roman liturgy</span>" (see <a href="http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/Roman_Cath_Inst_Supplement.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>, p. 6). Now bear in mind that if a pesthouse completer today celebrated the "<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (anticipated)</span></b>," he <i>betrayed </i>Don's noble-sounding but (patently) impossible-to-meet objective.</div>
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Call us old fashioned or geezers or worm-bait if you will, but we still believe fidelity to the "<span style="color: #351c75;">traditional Roman liturgy</span>" means <b>conforming </b>to the Church's rubrics. Catholics who genuinely love the traditional liturgy will second our affirmation. If you count yourself as one of them, you'll want to stick with us as we investigate the <b>lawlessness</b> of the MHT schedule entry.<br />
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The Roman Missal itself is the best place to start the inquiry. Within our easy reach is a Benziger altar Missal sporting a 1947 approbation from Francis Cardinal Spellman. (Many American "clergy" own old Benzigers.) Immediately beneath our edition's heading for the second Sunday after Epiphany, we find the following <b>rule</b> (our emphasis):<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Si hæc Dominica II, vel alia post Epiphaniam, a superveniente Septuagesima impediatur, <i><u>nec sit ei locus post Pentecosten</u></i>,<b> juxta Rubricas</b>, anticipatur Sabbato... </span></blockquote>
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(Lit. "If this second Sunday or another after Epiphany be impeded by the supervenient Septuagesima [Sunday], <i><u>and there be not a place for it after Pentecost</u></i>, <b>according to the Rubrics</b>, it is anticipated on Saturday...")</blockquote>
The directive may be more easily understood by reference to §549 in Wuest's <i>Collectio Rerum Liturgicarum </i>(1921), based on S.R.C. 28 Oct. 1913 I, 3:<br />
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Si Dominica aliqua ante Dom. Septuag. supersit neque locus sit ante ultimam Dominicam post Pentecosten, talis Dominica anticipanda est in Sabbato ante Dom. Septuag.</blockquote>
In his 1925 <i>Matters Liturgical</i>, the revised edition in English of Fr. Wuest's work, Fr. Mullaney rendered the Latin thus (emphasis ours):<br />
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If a Sunday remain over before Septuagesima <b>and there is no place for it</b> <b>before the Last Sunday after Pentecost</b>, this Sunday must be anticipated on the Saturday before Septuagesima. <span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">[N.B. Fr. Mullaney retained the same translation in his 1944 sixth edition.]</span></blockquote>
Inasmuch as <b>Septuagesima Sunday 2018</b> falls <i>tomorrow,</i> January 28, thus impeding the observance of Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span>, let's see <i>whether there </i><b style="font-style: italic;">is</b><i> a place for the Mass of Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span></i> <i><u><b>before</b></u> the Last Sunday after Pentecost</i>. <b>N.B. </b>Only if there <b style="text-decoration: underline;">isn't</b> a place before the Last Sunday after Pentecost in 2018 may the Mass of Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span> be lawfully anticipated today, Saturday, January 27.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">REMARK</span>.</b> It shouldn't be necessary, but in the event it is, we remind everyone that the Missal contains Mass texts for 24 Sundays after Pentecost. If a given year's calendar contains <i>more than</i> 24 Sundays after Pentecost, the Missal supplies the Mass texts for the additional Sundays after Pentecost from the "left-over" Sundays after Epiphany.</span></blockquote>
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<i>Great!</i><br />
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Drum roll, if you please, Maestro!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Yeeessss, there IS a spot in 2018! </i></span></b></div>
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This ain't rocket science or magic, folks, provided you can read the Paschal Table in the front matter of the <i>Missale Romanum</i>,<i> </i>as pictured in part below. Here's how to use it:<br />
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Determine (a) the year's Sunday Letter (<i>littera Dominicalis</i>) and (b) its epact.<b><span style="color: purple;">* (</span></b>To save time, we'll simply tell you that the Sunday Letter for <span style="font-size: x-small;">A.D.</span> 2018, a common year starting on a Monday, is <b>g</b>, and the epact is <b>xiii</b>.) To find the number of Sundays after Pentecost in 2018, you first go to the cell containing the letter <b>G</b> in column 1; moving to the right to the adjacent cell, locate the number <b>13 </b>in column 2 (row 2, last number), against which (in the next cell) you'll see 2018's date of Septuagesima Sunday, viz., <b>January 28</b>. Then scan horizontally in a straight line across the row to column 9 <b>(Sundays after Pentecost)</b>, where you'll read <b>27</b>. <i>With a wee bit of easy mental arithmetic, you conclude there's a place for Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span> before the last Sunday after Pentecost.</i></blockquote>
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(It's so simple. Like reading a bus schedule and counting. <i>Sheesh! </i>Lay people can do it.)<br />
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So, then, what else have we learned, besides (a) the number of 2018 Sundays after Pentecost and (b) that there's room for Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span>? Well, since we at once knew there were also places for Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">V</span> and <span style="font-size: x-small;">VI</span>, we can affirm that, in 2018, the Masses of the 4<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span>, 5<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span>, and 6<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span> Sundays after Epiphany are transferred to the 24<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span>, 25<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span>, and 26<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span> Sundays after Pentecost, respectively. The Mass text for the 27<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span> Sunday is, of course, the Missal's <i>Dominica Vigesima Quarta et ultima post Pentecosten, </i>"Twenty-fourth and Last Sunday after Pentecost." (Real liturgists marvel at the economy of the Roman Missal. Ain't it a cryin' shame cult "clergy" can't appreciate it?)<br />
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It's as clear as crystal, therefore, that the Mass for <b><i>today</i>, </b>Saturday, January 27, 2018, should've been that of St. John Chrysostom, <b><i><u>NOT</u></i></b> anticipated Epiphany Sunday <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span>. The malformed preparer of the Swampland's monthly schedule for January <b>flagrantly disobeyed</b> liturgical law, and nobody caught the culprit until now.<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Why couldn't Big Don's cult obey lawful rubrics? </i>When we checked last week's bulletins on the Ham Sandwich's and Deficit Dan's websites, both showed the lawful Mass of the day, as you can see <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oSISBKvy8gNZYCyzUux786oD6PMFW5iX/view"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a> (p. 4) and <a href="http://www.sgg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180121.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a> (p. 4). The pesthouse monthly schedule seems to have been drafted by a liturgical delinquent, unless the entry was mindlessly transferred from someone else's<b> outlaw</b> <i>ordo</i> or calendar.<br />
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<i>Looks like the Boy-"Bishop"-Elect's gonna have a lotta housecleaning when he gets back from London.</i><br />
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When you come right down to it, the <b>non-compliant</b> cult rapscallions are more <i>deplorable</i> than <b>Bugnini and his cronies</b>. At least the deservedly maligned reformers<br />
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(a) preserved the rule for the resumption of a Sunday or Sundays impeded by Septuagesima on Sundays occurring between the 23<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">rd</span></span> and the Last Sunday after Pentecost,</blockquote>
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(b) acted in accordance with proper legal procedure by formally <i>abrogating </i>anticipation on the Saturday before Septuagesima Sunday.<b><span style="color: purple;">**</span></b></blockquote>
Hamstrung by their malformation, the Swampland gang, ostensibly unwilling to remain obedient to the traditional rule, anticipated Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span> in <b>utter violation</b> of liturgical ordinance.<br />
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We remember reading somewhere, maybe in $GG's statement of beliefs, that Catholics "<span style="color: blue;">have a right to pure worship</span>." The B'ville bunch seems to echo that sentiment in principle 13 of the Donster's "<a href="http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/Roman_Cath_Inst_Supplement.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Liturgical Directory</b></span></a>" (p. 7):<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516564863341_7551" style="color: #351c75;">T</span><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: "ltckennerley";"><span style="color: #351c75;">he members of the Institute shall conform all liturgical rites and ceremonies to the instructions found the </span><span style="color: #990000;">[<i>sic.</i> Read "in"]</span><span style="color: #351c75;"> the </span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516564863341_7552" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "ltckennerley"; font-style: italic;">Rubricæ Generales </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516564863341_7553" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "ltckennerley";">of the Roman Missal and Breviary...</span></span></blockquote>
According to our upbringing, "<span style="color: blue;">pure worship</span>" entails liturgical <i>orthopraxis, </i>not robotic ritualism. We must worship in the way the Church would have us worship, about which she instructs us through her rubrics. Exact and faithful execution of a rite must be mirrored by a persnickety conformance to the entire body of liturgical law, just as Don's principle 13 rightly demands.<br />
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But if Big Don, now "the Lowly Worm," really and truly meant what he wrote, then why did he permit flouting both the Missal's clear instruction (reproduced above) and the Breviary's <i>Rubricæ Generales </i><span style="color: purple;"><b>***</b></span>? Are they hypocrites or idiots down in the fetid swamp, or simply liturgical lawbreakers?<br />
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We assert you've got to <i>talk the talk</i> and w<i>alk the walk,</i> but, then again, as we intimated above, we're old fashioned — and Catholics.<br />
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If a Swampland "celebrant"<b> illicitly</b> anticipated Epiphany <span style="font-size: x-small;">IV</span> today, then any Catholics mired in the bog could not exercise their right to worship purely. Those responsible for the transgression must answer for their <b>outlawry</b>. If the <b>disobedience</b> resulted from consulting a flawed, cult-produced <i>ordo</i>, there's no excuse, for the pesthouse knows there's a very suitable <i>Ordo Recitandi</i> available from the <a href="http://www.ordorecitandi.org.uk/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Saint Lawrence Press</b></span></a>.<br />
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<i>PL </i>thinks America has suffered enough. First fake news, now fake Use of Rome. Scary.<br />
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Last year, Jordan Peele directed a <b>brain-swapping-themed </b>horror flick, which turned out to be a box-office smash hit, garnering several Oscar nominations this year. To secular cinemagoers, it satirized liberal arrogance and hypocrisy. Viewed through traditional Catholic eyes, the movie is a <b>terrifying morality play</b> about <b>soul-snatching </b>Tradistani cults. After reading today's post, any genuine Catholic still attached to the SW Ohio/Brooksville cabal ought to take to heart the film's title: <br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>GET OUT</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: purple;">* The Sunday, or Dominical, Letter and the epact of a given year appear in <b><i>competently</i> edited</b> </span><i style="color: purple;">ordines</i><span style="color: purple;">, like the one published annually by the </span><a href="http://www.ordorecitandi.org.uk/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Saint Lawrence Press</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;"> in England. You may also use the tables</span><span style="color: purple;"> for the appropriate centuries printed in the Missal under </span><i style="color: purple;">De Anno et Ejus Partibus</i><span style="color: purple;">,</span><i style="color: purple;"> </i><span style="color: purple;">or </span><span style="color: purple;">you may directly calculate the Sunday Letter and the epact. Another resource would be a <i>Tabella Temporaria Festorum Mobilium </i>available online, such as that prepared by the SSPX under its excellent <i>La Porte Latine</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">**<i>Matters Liturgical</i> (1956): </span><span style="color: purple;">§481 a (resumption), </span><span style="color: purple;">§</span><span style="color: purple;">532</span><span style="color: purple;"> d-h (description of order to be followed), and </span><span style="color: purple;">§</span><span style="color: purple;">481 b (abrogation date and cites).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">The dispensing of injustice is always in the right hands.</span></i> Lec</span><br />
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For almost a decade, you've confronted on these pages numerous arguments for <b>withholding financial, moral, </b>and<b> material assistance </b>from the SW Ohio cult, all of which have been substantiated by the cult masters' very words or deeds. Many out there have listened and acted, but a few continue to resist our repeated invitation to <b><i><span style="color: red;">STARVE THE BEAST</span></i></b>.<br />
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Maybe what's needed is one thin, solitary straw to break the back of their reluctance. You know— not something big, like <b>abetting the violation of the Church's law of abstinence</b>, but something that <i>appears</i> minor, yet isn't: Some little incident to prove the Gerties are wasting their money, time, sweat, and good faith, while they get the <b>short end of the stick</b>.<br />
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Wee Dannie's January 7 "Corner," we'd say, loaded on that last straw (emphasis ours):<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: blue;">I would like to
ask you to join our <b>CAT club</b> at St. Gertrude the Great. No, nothing to do with
Caravaggio or Puccini, cat food or vet trips. CAT stands for some-thing like
“Cars and Transportation,” actually “<b>Clergy Airport Transportation,</b>” I guess.
In a word, it assembles our drivers who would be willing to give an airport
ride or pickup for the good Fathers going about their mission rounds. <b>We’re low
at the moment</b>, and nobody picked up Fr. Lehtoranta returning from his Milwaukee
Christmas. <b>I was mortified.</b> It seemed a little unfriendly. Cold. And at
Christmas. <b>He took a cab</b>. He and I are holdouts, <b>dummies </b>I guess, without Smart
Phones. <b>So, no Uber either.</b></span></span></blockquote>
Whoa, Nelly! If <i>that</i> doesn't get the few remaining conscious Gerties to pack their bags (as soon as they stop laughing their heads off), who knows what will? Dannie's appeal so richly bears out everything we've heretofore posted that an analysis for souls who aren't quick on the uptake seems to be the order of the day.<br />
<br />
Suppose we start with the confession "<span style="color: blue;">We're low at the moment.</span>" Of course, the cult's low on drivers. The Gerties are wising up, refusing to subsidize the expenses of far-away "missions," from which they receive <b>no benefit</b>. These excursions are moneymakers and mini escapes for the "clergy." Why should $GG culties sacrifice their precious free time, waste their gasoline, and suffer wear-and-tear to their vehicles by hauling those freeloaders around to serve <b>outsiders</b>? Charity begins at home, so the proverb goes.<br />
<br />
Where's the equity in Gerties' abandoning their families — "<span style="color: blue;">at Christmas</span>" — to venture out into the "[<span style="color: blue;">c</span>]<span style="color: blue;">old</span>" to keep expenditures down for <b>strangers</b>? To us, <i><u>that's</u></i> "<span style="color: blue;">unfriendly</span>," not to mention grossly <b>unfair</b>.<b style="font-style: italic;"> </b> If "missions" hire out one of Dannie's "priests," then the cost of airport transfer should be built into the fee <i><u>they</u></i> pay: that's how consultants/contractors in the business world do it. By cadging free rides, "One Hand" <b>unjustly</b> saddles some Gerties with an extra collection from which they derive <b>zero advantage</b>, spiritual or otherwise.<br />
<br />
In addition to confirming the Gerties' unwillingness to support the SW Ohio sectarian scheme, the Wee One's appeal betrays the cult-masters' <b>managerial ineptitude</b>. If he and the "<span style="color: blue;">good Fathers</span>" can't get their act together to design and monitor a rudimentary motor pool, then they most likely haven't the competence to husband the culties' weekly donations. Can't the "clergy" build a master schedule for "missions," at least on a semi-annual basis?<br />
<br />
With a schedule in place, no one could be taken by surprise, unless a volunteer, for some reason, couldn't complete his assignment. And in that case, more than likely, the individual would call to advise the cult masters to find a replacement, say, one of the <b>bone-idle "clergy"</b> lounging around decrepit $GG. If our Pedestrian Prelate had been able to learn to drive, like normal folks, he could contribute his <b>fair share </b>of the work.<span style="color: purple;">* </span><br />
<br />
Therefore, from a <i>managerial </i>point of view, we see no reason for him to be "<span style="color: blue;">mortified</span>." If you refuse to — or <i>cannot</i> — plan, then snafus are bound to be your lot. And we hardly need to add that the Forlorn Finn is no princeling or distinguished guest deserving of chauffeur service. (He may not even be a "priest.") That said, however, we <i>do</i> think Dan's <b>mortification</b> was authentic.<br />
<br />
The Readers consulted the search engine RideGuru and found that a one-way taxicab ride from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport to <b>rodent-infested $GG </b>would cost around $71.54, without tip. A standard gratuity would bring the fare to <b>$82.27</b>.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">No wonder His Indigency was "<span style="color: blue;">mortified</span>"! </span></i></b></div>
<br />
That's the check for hors d'œuvres, an entrée, dessert, and maybe a glass or two of house wine at <a href="http://www.lapetitefrance.biz/menu.htm"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>La Petite France Restaurant and Bistro</b></span></a>, a onetime favorite hangout before money grew tight after the calamitous <b>2009 $GG $chool $candal</b>. (With a <a href="http://www.lapetitefrance.biz/events.htm"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>coupon</b></span></a>, he could then afford to leave a proper tip.<b><span style="color: purple;">**</span></b>) That cab fare must've hurt, seeing that it resulted in the <i>ad-hoc</i> creation of another <b>resource-gobbler</b> <i>à la </i>"<span style="color: blue;">Cucina Clerical</span>."<br />
<br />
Now if the SW Ohio cult had any business sense, the kingpins would've purchased a smartphone group plan for the "clerical" crown crew. With the "<span style="color: blue;">Uber</span>" or Lyft app at his fingertips, the Forlorn Finn could've hailed a ride setting Dannie back a mere $37.87. Adding in a 15% tip, the trip would've amounted to just a tad more than <b>half the cost of a cab</b>, plenty of dough for two adults to take advantage of the Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday dinner buffet at <a href="https://www.theplacetohaveaparty.com/buffet.htm"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>The Farm</b></span></a>. As much as we don't want to give "One Hand" credit for anything, we'll agree with him on one point: it's plain <b><span style="color: #073763;">dumb</span> </b>not to own a smartphone today when you travel frequently.<br />
<br />
The time has come to close down the little that remains of Panhandlin' Dan's failed venture. Business basics are a challenge for him anyway. From everything we've seen, the cult masters couldn't get lab rats on hormones to breed during mating season. Furthermore, it's manifestly <b>unjust</b> for the Gerties to subsidize the cult's "<span style="color: blue;">mission rounds</span><span style="color: blue;">,</span>" the purpose of which is to suggest Dannie still has influence, provide jobs to sorry completers the pesthouse doesn't want, and bring in a little extra cash.<br />
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The fair thing for Dannie and his malformed "clergy" to do is to join the <b>CAT Club</b> for "<span style="color: blue;">dummies</span>" without smartphones:<br />
<b><br /></b>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>The <b><u>C</u></b>all <b><u>A</u></b> <b><u>T</u></b>axi Club.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">* One explanation for the "clergy's" apparent aversion to sharing "</span><span style="color: blue;">CAT</span><span style="color: purple;">" responsibilities equally with the Gerties may be the time involved: round-trip from the airport to the ramshackle industrial-park cult center takes about an hour and 20 minutes, longer during the rush. If the "clerical" pickup doesn't want to wait for his ride, then the driver has to do the waiting, so add another 10 to 20 minutes. If the pickup expects to be greeted in the terminal and escorted to the car, then add another half hour to 45 minutes, plus the usual exorbitant airport short-term-parking charge. <i>And if the flight is delayed</i> ... well, you get the picture: better to inconvenience harried Gerties than the loafing "clergy."</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">**If he thinks he's above coupon clipping, there's always 10% off for presenting his AAA membership card. But on second thought, since Dannie can't drive, he's probably not a member.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">But in the way of a bargain, mark ye me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.</span></i> Shakespeare</span><br />
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While scrounging for hints about the identity of the cast members of the February 22 <b>Big Show</b> starring the Boy-"Bishop"-Elect, we came across the following entry at January 21 in the Swampland's <b>monthly schedule</b>:<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "constantia"; font-size: 8.000000pt;">C </span><span style="font-family: "constantia"; font-size: 8.000000pt;">Bishop Dolan<br />
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<span style="font-family: "constantia"; font-size: 8.000000pt;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "constantia"; font-size: 8.000000pt;">C2 </span><span style="font-family: "constantia"; font-size: 8.000000pt;">Rev. Mr.
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Apart from <i>yet another</i> celebration of the <b>notorious</b> <b>Vatican II-innovation </b>of "<b>pontifical sung Mass</b>" within the bowels of the Mother Cult-Center of the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">Roman Catholic Institute</span>" — the "<span style="color: #0b5394;">general liturgical principle</span>" of which is "<span style="color: #0b5394;">to preserve the traditional Roman liturgy</span>" (see <i>PL</i>'s exposé of cult hypocrisy <a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/05/virtues-loudly-vaunted-not-practiced.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span></a>) — what most occupied the Readers' attention was figuring out a motive for Wee Dan's presence in B'ville <i>almost a month to the day</i> before the <b>gala harlequinade.</b><br />
<br />
As you might imagine, a <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="color: #222222;">smörgåsbord</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span></span>of tantalizing theories appeared before our hungry minds. We couldn't decide what to choose until we saw this item in the January 7 "Corner":<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "\22 times\22 " , "\22 times new roman\22 " , serif;"><span style="color: blue;">On Thursday the McFathers joined me in schedule planning through Easter….This season we had to schedule around the Retreat, and the Consecration in Florida, as well as Holy Week.</span></span></blockquote>
Ah, that's right! For quite a few years, Travelin'-Man Dan's been jetting to the subtropical slough around the latter part of January for an annual "seminary" (LOL) retreat. Thus, his attendance at this year's roundup in a warmer climate during the <b>dead of Ohio winter</b> was pretty much predictable.<br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">But is that the <b>only</b> reason he'll be heading off to the bog?</span></i><br />
<br />
Could Dannie possibly be lobbying for a <b>major rôle</b> at Junior's "consecration"?<br />
<br />
Lately he's been making a rather noisy effort to signal "approval" of the illicit conferral of "episcopal orders" on the Clone (a favor he <b>definitely</b> didn't extend to the Donster or the Long-Island Jellyfish). Without reading too much into it, <i>PL</i> guesses the Wee One might've assessed the <b>disastrous fiscal consequences</b> should Gertie stalwarts infer his absence from the quagmire's sanctuary means he's no longer a player in Sedelandia. (In personality cults, as in football, paying fans demand winners.)<br />
<br />
By all means, if we were pressured to bet, we'd have to wager <b>Dannie wasn't consulted </b>at all about the decision to "consecrate" the Kid. Quite honestly, there <i>may</i> have been<i> <b style="text-decoration: underline;">no</b> </i>deliberations with any <i>sede </i>kingpins whatsoever, once the élite heard the Donster "<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="color: #0b5394;">had two very blocked arteries, including a 98%
blockage in the main artery coming from the heart....</span><span style="color: #990000;">[and]</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> was days or weeks from a
massive and fatal heart attack.</span>" More than likely, an abrupt directive from on high thundered down to settle the matter. In any event, it was Junior's time.</span><br />
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Nevertheless, exposure as <b>completely out of the loop </b>would weaken Dannie on the home front. At an alarming rate, he's losing culties to attrition, alienation, and the Angel of Death. The smart move is to accept something you can't change and, as long as you're nimble, give the (false) impression you somehow remain influential. (He's made similar gambits in the past: Does anyone recall Giardina's and Dávila's "Big Days"?)<br />
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After the Donster's "elevation to the episcopacy," some <b>mean-spirited talebearer </b>may have passed along to "One Hand" the <b>cruelly cutting </b>and dismissive observation, "<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Poor Daniel! He won't have anything to do now</span><span style="color: #351c75;">.</span></span>" <b><i>Ouch!</i></b> As that snide observation inches toward fulfillment in 2018, His Marginality can't afford to be <b>locked out</b> of future "ordinations," lest the disillusioned Gerties write him off. (For the record, allow us to register our opinion that after the Kid is firmly large and in charge in the morass, we don't see much hope for His Superfluity's exercising any longer his dubious "orders" on pesthouse completers: every candidate up for the "diaconate" or "priesthood" will want as his ordaining "bishop" the youthful, well-heeled, and more-likely-than-not <i>valid </i>prelataster.)<br />
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We must, then, ask ourselves, <i><b>For what part in the extravaganza might Dannie be auditioning</b></i>? The rôle of <b><i>sole</i> co-consecrator</b>, we still maintain, has to be <b>out of the question</b>. According to our pragmatic way of thinking, the élite cannot be so careless as to allow the <b>specter of doubtful orders</b> to return to torment the Kid throughout the arc of his "prelatical" career, like some theological Banquo's ghost.<b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b> In addition, those in real control must to this day resent all the scrutiny Dannie's self-inflicted 2<b>009 $GG School Scandal</b> has visited upon B'ville.<br />
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It could be, then, that Footloose Dan may be journeying south, undercover as a retreat master, to negotiate a spot on the <b>co-consecrator tag team</b>, offering to partner with Stuyver or more probably with the Jellyfish. Either one of those two guys would assure validity, so why not let Dannie come on stage?. That option, however, may be off the table if there's an objection to publicly associating with "One Hand" — Stuyver's boss, Francesco "The <i>Don</i>" Ricossa, might frown upon it.<br />
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If, therefore, tag-teaming is impossible, he could try to cut a deal to allow him to continue to "ordain" in exchange for a promise to visit his dying "apostolate" in sunny Mexico throughout the week of the "consecration." Having Li'l Daniel out of the country would prove the surest way to keep the Wee One from <b>photo-bombing</b> the event.<br />
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In exchange for his absence, the élite <i>might</i> toss him a bone and allow him to "ordain" inferior Gertie spawn, knowing, as the élite do, that the odds of a Gertie-child's making it through the low-expectations "seminary" are almost zero. That way, Dannie could keep his rabble in the dark, and the élite wouldn't have to worry about Photoshopping "One Hand's" mug out of the Big Day's pix.<br />
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If we're on the right track, there'll be a whirl of camel-swapping taking place. As of now, we cannot say which side will drive the harder bargain. The stakes are high: Dannie's image at crumbling $GG vs. the Kid's future peace of mind. All we can do at this point is wait and hope the Donster keeps his promise to tell us more in this month's pesthouse newsletter.<br />
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Don't touch that dial!<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">*But as we vowed on Dec. 28, 3:51 PM,<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">I</span><span style="text-align: justify;">F "One-Hand Dan" is the <i>SOLE</i> co-consecrator on Feb. 22, then we'll admit we <i>over</i>estimated the puppet masters' prudence and <i>under</i>estimated their appetite for cult-annihilating risk.</span></span></b><br />
<br />The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-16654489646635548262018-01-06T18:21:00.000-05:002018-01-06T18:21:07.296-05:00"OF ALL THE WEEK'S THE UNLUCKIEST DAY"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>Non decipitur qui scit se decipi. </i>("He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived")</span>. Latin Legal Maxim</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>In the days after Christmas, there went out an invitation from the $GG cult masters that all might attend a <b>Friday, December 29,</b> Requiem High "Mass," burial, and post-interment <b><i><u>luncheon</u></i></b>. Immediately below the address of the lunch venue, <b><a href="https://www.theplacetohaveaparty.com/"><span style="color: #990000;">The Farm</span></a></b><i>, "Cincinnati's Place to Have a Party,"</i> this <b>shocking</b> advice appeared:<br />
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<em class="yiv2011648659" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1514505745762_3256" style="font-family: 'pt serif', georgia, serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Those who attend the luncheon may consider</b></span></em> </blockquote>
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<em class="yiv2011648659" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1514505745762_3256" style="font-family: 'pt serif', georgia, serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>themselves dispensed from the Friday abstinence.</b></span></em></blockquote>
This <b>horror</b> may have landed in your inbox. You may even have waddled on over to scarf up some meaty fare. <i>PL</i> can understand why you went. From reading the announcement "<span style="color: blue;">All are invited</span>," we're inclined to believe a <b>free lunch </b>was on offer.<br />
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Yet for us, that brief sentence substantiates every criticism we've ever leveled against the SW Ohio cult, justifying why we shame the <b>degenerate laity</b> who keep $GG on life support. Those <b>13</b> unholy words represent everything despicable about the ecclesiastical entrepreneurs who run the renegade operation.<br />
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Before we continue, we'll give a little credit to "One-Hand Dan": He's fully aware he can<b><i><u>not</u></i></b><i>,</i> in accordance with c. 1245, dispense <i>anyone</i> from the observance of fasts and abstinence — <b>not</b> individual cases, <b>not</b> a family, and <b><i>certainly not</i></b> a great concourse of people: Dannie's<b> neither </b>an <i>ordinary</i> <b>nor</b> a <i>pastor </i>and therefore has no subjects to dispense. In a similar vein, he's wary enough to realize that <i>PL, </i>other sites, and rival independent "clergy" would pillory him if <i><u>he</u></i> "dispensed." Nevertheless, he wanted the feed. So what did His Ambivalency do?<br />
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He <b>innovated </b>by playing fast and loose with language, that's what he did. None need parse too closely the words of the "dispensation" to conclude it's the <b><i>attendees</i></b> <b>who dispense <u><i>themselves</i></u></b>, <i>not </i>Dannie:<br />
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"<span style="color: #0b5394;">If <b><i>YOU</i></b> are arrogant and lawless, then <b><i><u>YOU</u></i></b> may dispense <i>yourself</i> from the Catholic law of abstinence, provided you do your<b> pigging out on flesh-meat</b> at the party house on Friday.</span>"</blockquote>
Looks like the Wee One's off the hook, although the ill-starred <i>Gerties</i> may not be.<br />
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A genuinely observant traditional Catholic attending the luncheon would <b>not </b>have given credence to the bogus "self-dispensation" from cult central. No attendee can claim to have broken Church law as a result of ignorance, for cultlings know "[t]he law of abstinence must be observed on all Fridays throughout the year, except those which are holy days of obligation outside Lent (c. 1252, <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">§ </span></span>4)."<b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b><br />
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And if they can't recall the rule, they may consult their traditional Catholic calendar for its specific application.<b><span style="color: purple;">**</span></b> Moreover, even the most debased Gertie knows Dannie is <b>not</b> the ordinary of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Any <i>pious</i>, traditional Catholic bellying up to the buffet line was <b style="font-style: italic;">obligated </b>to choose a <i>lawful dish</i> and reject the <i>impious</i> "self-dispensation." (Those with an informed conscience ought to have denounced it publicly and demanded its rescission.)<br />
<br />
No Catholic possessed of prudent judgment can say the law of abstinence, owing to grave obstacles or impossibility, did <b><i>not </i></b>bind the <b>meat-frenzied SW Ohio partygoers </b>on Friday, December 29, 2017. In this day and age, most eateries bend over backwards to accommodate vegetarians; nonetheless, even if <b>The Farm</b> were a manic-meat-eaters-only zone, no soul in the SW Ohio cult would've suffered for declining to<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span>chow down at lunchtime on marinated fried chicken, tender and meaty baby-back ribs in barbecue sauce, or sliced roast beef in gravy. Sides like buttered corn niblets, dinner rolls, home-style gourmet coleslaw, and perhaps, if prepared without meat products, au-gratin green beans ("a cheesy treat") would've sustained them until the dinner bell clanged at home.<br />
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Whether the woebegone Gerties <b><i>sinned</i></b> is a question we'll leave for others to debate. For us, we lament the <b>unfortunate lost opportunity </b>for the laity to teach the malformed "clergy" a lesson in fidelity to ecclesiastical legislation. Imagine the edifying witness to tradition the assembled cultlings could have rendered had they obeyed Church law and refused to partake of flesh-meat at that Friday luncheon. Only the "clergy, " Novus Ordites, or any Protestants in attendance would've been left with their plates groaning with <b>forbidden foodstuffs</b>.<br />
<br />
From all appearances, at $GG <i>witness</i> means surrendering to the seductive innovations of the cult kingpins: hang the law!<br />
<br />
Out of curiosity, the Readers wonder how many Gerties attending the luncheon <i>did</i> have a pang of conscience, <i>did</i> feel what they were doing was wrong, <i>did</i> recognize the strangely worded "self-dispensation" was a <b>crock</b>. At least several, we'd say: there still do remain, you know, a <i>few</i> good souls who have reservations about everything happening down there.<br />
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Did they feel the secret guilt of rowdy schoolboys whose hearts tell them the headmaster should've enforced the rules? <i>Almost a certainty.</i> Did they feel the same schoolboys' contempt for weak-willed authority figures? <i>We'd say so.</i> Did they quietly scorn the malformed "clergy" who wolfed down meat on that unseasonable Friday at <b>The Farm</b>? <i>Yes, they did.</i><br />
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But they <b>didn't </b>speak up, did they?<br />
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Well, what can you expect? How can you nurture a Catholic conscience in the jinxed cult? Acknowledging wrongdoing is a good start, though. Similarly, all of you in cyberspace reading this post —friend or foe of <i>PL —</i> <i>must</i> concur with the Readers there was no licit "self-dispensation" for the <b>funeral feast</b> at "the party barn." Nothing can <i>excuse</i> the transgressive notice in the $GG invitation. However, its content may be <i>explained</i> in two words:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">FAKE CATHOLICISM </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">* Prümmer, <i>Handbook of Moral Theology</i>, 497. 2.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: purple;">** We don't have a copy of $GG's 2017 calendar, but we do have a copy of the 2006 edition, when December 29 also fell on a Friday. On that date, we find the <b>whole-fish</b> icon (= "complete abstinence"). The Readers presume the 2017 $GG effort was similarly marked. Perhaps somebody can confirm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="color: #38761d;">The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose, new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. </i>Chesterton</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Editor's Note: </b>For this our final— and purposely brief — post of the 2017, we thought we'd pose a few questions rather than send up the customary end-of-year prognostications. We've already made enough predictions to last the whole of 2018. Today it's time to sit back, relax, and ponder satisfying, new possibilities.</i></span><br />
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In his December <a href="http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/Dec_2017_Newsletter.pdf"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>newsletter</b></span></a>, "The Lowly Worm," the b.s. artist formerly known as Tradzilla, announced the date of the Kid's "consecration," with a promise of more information in the January issue. We can hardly wait to read what he has to tell us.<br />
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For instance, will we learn the names of the all-star cast? More importantly, will there be a <b>co-consecrator </b>or two? And, if yes, who will he or they be? Whom will we find among the gawking spectators? Does Tony Baloney dare show up? Will we spy <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1160060/posts"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Dennis the Menace </b></span></a> in the pews? The reply to that last question will tell us much about cult policy under the new Boy "Bishop."<br />
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Earlier in the newsletter, the recovering Donster declared he expects to get clearance to fly <b>internationally</b> in <u>late March</u>. (The cult masters <i>do</i> love their foreign junkets, don't they?) That's <i>really </i>interesting news! With the Kid as the headline act for the Holy-Week show, <i>where in the world might "The Lowly Worm" be planning to go</i>?<br />
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<b>Merrie Olde England </b>comes to mind. (Doesn't he owe some clueless Londoners a visit?) Maybe he'll arrive in <b>the Big Smoke</b> for Easter Sunday. April 1, you know, is <b>All Fools' Day</b>. <span style="text-align: center;">However, dear old <b>Blighty</b> isn't necessarily the <i>only</i> imaginable landing place for a mobile miter.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;"><b><i>La Belle France</i> </b>is a strong competitor for his benefactors' travel dollars, particularly when you consider we haven't heard a peep about the "</span><span style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">Roman Catholic Institute</span><span style="text-align: center;">" for an awfully long spell. Why, it's been <i>radio silence </i>since the</span><a href="http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/Roman_Cath_Inst_Supplement.pdf" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #990000;"><b>big roll-out </b></span></a><span style="text-align: center;">last spring.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Is the "</span><span style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">Institute</span><span style="text-align: center;">" </span><b style="text-align: center;">dead in the stagnant swamp water</b><span style="text-align: center;">, </span><span style="text-align: center;">or will Don try to resuscitate it on the Continent? We've noticed his yammering about an "ordination" on French soil next summer, and he's shared with his readership that pipe dream to found a "seminary" (LOL) there. Could, therefore, "The Lowly Worm" be ready to move on to Europe, seeing that he's been made redundant in the <b>Home of the Brave</b>?</span><br />
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If he targets <i><b>l'Hexagone</b></i>, can we expect the <b>B'ville retrenchment</b> to begin before summer? And then can we hope to see the pesthouse shut down, the distressed building being put to other purposes, such as a school or convent? That would spare a lot of the élite's capital.<br />
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But enough of the Donster and the Swampland! Let's switch focus. <i>PL</i> doesn't want you to think we're ignoring the <b>SW Ohio cult</b>.<br />
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The nagging question we have here is whether "One-Hand Dan" might be penciling-in a tour to lusciously sunny <i><b>México lindo</b></i> around the middle of frigid February. The winter escape would occasion the perfect excuse to account for his absence from the B'ville sanctuary. Think about it: How <b>humiliating </b>would it be to squat in the teeming peanut gallery while other, younger prelatasters, adorned with sound holy orders, <b>pranced around in bespoke pontificals</b> as Assistant Bishops!<br />
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But beyond the matter of his attendance, a much larger question looms: With Big Don effectively benched, how long, we ask, can $GG stay afloat in 2018? Last week's bulletin again reported a collection of under $4K (specifically, $3,351), not enough at any time of the year, but positively <b>calamitous</b> during the continuing arctic temperatures.<br />
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Insightfully, "One Hand" has been grousing about "<span style="color: blue;">part time Catholics</span>" as well as the Gerties' cutting out before Benediction. (What pious Catholic wants to risk adoring <i>bread</i>?) Furthermore, not a week passes without <b>sob stories</b> of ailing, dying, or croaked cultlings: To hear the Wee One tell it, they're dropping like <b>dung flies </b>in a noxious cloud of industrial pesticide. On one thing you can bet the farm: the dump can't continue as-is in the face of <b>disappearing income</b> coupled with the <b>Grim Reaper's aggressive harvest</b>.<br />
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Will the coming year see a major re-organization or some <i>serious</i> downsizing?<br />
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<i>Be still our hearts!</i><br />
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Well, that should be grist to the comment-section's mill until next week. If the answers to our questions turn out as we hope, 2018 will prove to be a <b>very happy year</b>, for the gold-digging SW Ohio-B'ville cult will <b>fall flat </b>on its misshapen face. Meanwhile, guided by your renewed spirit, open your eyes, hear not the sect's cant, sniff the cultic stink, then bravely stand up straight on your new feet and make your resolution to<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">If you do not repair your gutter, you will have your whole house to repair.</span></i> Spanish Proverb</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">PL</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> has boldly conjectured no expense
will be spared, no ceremonial detail ignored, in staging </span></span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 13pt;">Junior's 2018
"consecration</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">,</span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 13pt;">" </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">which has been slated for <a href="https://www.greenvelope.com/viewer/?ActivityCode=.public:c08882ee784b4a368881fa7900d920a331303032393435"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>February 22</b></span></a>. We always suspected it would be earlier in the year rather than later, but this date is much sooner than imagined: apparently no one's taking any chances with the Donster's ticker.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The transgressive occasion simply </span></span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 13pt;">must</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> be the most fabulous spectacle cult-addled cretins and lame-brained "clergy" have ever set their distended eyes upon! The power brokers have invited so many <i>sede</i> scum that we're tempted to call the event <b>Tradnado</b>. That's understandable: the Kid's got to make a lasting impression if
he's to preserve the furiously</span></span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 13pt;"> contracting hermit kingdom</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> following Kim Jong-Don's rushed </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">departure from one-man rule.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">The prospect of the approaching <b>gala transition </b>got us thinking deeply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">The
Swampland party planners — the <i>real bosses</i> of fetid B'ville —must
be as aware as the Readers are of the trumpeting <b>elephant</b> in the claustrophobic <i>sede </i>room:</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Big
Don's <i>Liénart-spoiled</i> priestly orders.</b> </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The standard argument that wearing pontificals, using the Church's
liturgical books, and performing the rite competently establish the </span></span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 13pt;">presumption</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> of an ordaining bishop's sufficient sacramental intention to confect holy orders <b><i>may not</i> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><i>entirely</i> </b>put at ease the vested interests bankrolling the subtropical fenland.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">It is by no means inconceivable that a <i>particular,</i> highly motivated, unusually intelligent, and supremely self-disciplined <b>enemy of the Church</b> might do
everything in his power to destroy her from within. And what better way is there than to
compromise the validity of the sacrament of orders by making <b>an act of the will <i><u>not</u></i> to ordain</b>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>N.B. </b>This case is far different from presuming <i><b><u>every</u></b></i> Masonic bishop <i>always</i> withholds proper intention, a proposition that's patently uninformed. Our supposition derives from a <b>prudent fear</b>, based on cognitive psychology and life experience, that <i><b><u>one</u></b></i> radicalized, rogue bishop, aggressively committed to furthering the ends of satanic Freemasonry, <b><i>might</i> </b>have made it a point to will <i><u>not</u> </i>to do what the Church does each time he conferred orders.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Whether Liénart in fact harbored such diabolical resolve is impossible to determine with certainty based on the information currently available to us. But from what's been reported about the man, that frame of mind remains strongly <b>plausible</b>. The Liénart-line's threat to validity, then, while probably small <i>at present</i>, is <i>not</i> negligible. And who knows what complacency-shattering disclosures may be forthcoming? It seems, therefore, the <b>safest path </b>for the Boy-"Bishop's" protectors would be — on the off-chance that anything of substance regarding Liénart's fanaticism</span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>¶</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> should come to light in the decades ahead — to extract every sliver of doubt, no matter how slight it may seem at the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">To our way of thinking, it is <b>unimaginable </b>to believe the
Kid's minders haven't given some consideration to assuring his "episcopal" orders are as </span></span><i style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 13pt;">bulletproof</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> as they can be.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>†<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Right now, Junior's among the very few in Tradistan U.S.A. who have a <b>reliable line for their priestly orders</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>‡</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">: </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Pierre
Martin Ngô Đình Thục ➤ Michel-Louis Guérard des
Lauriers (ordained priest 1931 by </span><a href="http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brasn.html" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Rasneur</b></span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">) ➤ Robert Fidelis McKenna (</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">ordained</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> priest 1958 by</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> <a href="http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcico.html"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Cicognani</b></span></a></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">).</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; vertical-align: super;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>§</b></span></span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Between McKenna and the Kid,
there's no Liénart-tinged interloper to impugn his orders' validity. If you affirm </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">Thục's consecration of des Lauriers was valid, then it's
fairly certain the former professor at Le Saulchoir and the Lateran
University didn't make any mistakes in conferring a valid "episcopacy" upon his brother Dominican.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13.0pt;">As it stands today, if the Kid gets his orders <i>only </i>from Big Don, then doubts <i>could</i> arise in many influential quarters about
his standing as a "bishop." Those of you who've studied our "<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/267553276/The-Dubiety-of-Ordination"><b><span style="color: #850002;">Dubiety of Ordination Conferred with One Hand</span></b></a>,"
know the more common opinion holds that <b>when the priesthood has not been conferred,
the episcopate cannot be validly conferred</b> (p. 25). Thus <u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">if</u><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span>Achille Liénart
purposefully intended not to ordain when he conferred orders, then Marcel Lefebvre was never a priest or a bishop
and therefore never conferred the priesthood <i>or</i> episcopacy on <u>anybody</u>.</span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13.0pt;">The Readers can't be the only ones
who recognize there's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the Tampa-St. Pete area to send the Liénart <b>elephant
of invalidity</b> to a boggy graveyard ... to give the Clone a clean start in his "episcopal career" (LOL). It's <i>soooo </i>easy, too: <b>Just get a co-consecrator whose "priestly" and "episcopal" orders come from the Thục-des
Lauriers-McKenna succession</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13.0pt;">And where, pray tell, do you find such an animal? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13.0pt;">Well, if you want to search abroad, there's <b>Geert Jan Stuyver</b>, the
"bishop" working with Francesco Ricossa at the <i>Instituto Mater Boni Consilii
</i>in Italy.<i> </i>McKenna "ordained" him a "priest" in 1996 and
conferred on him the "episcopate" in 2002. Moreover, Junior assisted
at Stuyver's </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">"consecration." (Click </span><a href="http://www.sodalitium.biz/consacrazione-episcopale-mons-geert-stuyver/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here </b></span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">for a pic.) If Stuyver were
invited as a co-consecrator for the Big Show next year, he might deign to fix the Donster a
couple days beforehand: that way, at the finale of the Big Show, there'd be <i>four</i> valid "bishops" on stage, not three (as long as "One Hand" didn't co-consecrate, that is). We're positive the rector wouldn't want to be the <b>odd-man-out</b>. How could he endure the snickers from all his enemies or from the Clone?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13.0pt;">To be sure, the downside of this arrangement would be the public announcement of the <b>Donster's reception of
conditional ordination and consecration</b>: in order to silence the whispers forever, the repair job is no good unless TradWorld knows about it. Then there'd be the matter of a public ceremony, for surely the head honchos would want more than matter and form done hastily in some moldy back room. Further, it would mean that all the bums Don's "ordained" in the past would have to be <b>re-ordained </b><i>sub
conditione</i>. And then there are all the confirmations to be
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 13.0pt;"><i>But, hey, what's a little hassle when the prize is a lock on validity for the
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">To be candid, we were reluctant to post our speculations. If the élite hadn't considered the possible challenge to Junior's validity, we didn't want to tell them how to make the Kid's<b> illicit orders </b>unimpeachable. After a few years, he might want to come roaring back on the trad scene, appealing to a sound lineage as an enticement to join his cult. However, we quickly dismissed our fears, for we honestly believe that once the Swampland enterprise closes in on itself, it will <i><b>never </b></i>venture out again onto the national or international <i>sede</i> stage as a headliner. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Empire building was the </span></span><b style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 13pt;">fever dream </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">of grasping Lefebvre-wannabes like "One Hand" and the "Lowly Worm." Throughout his long, reticent apprenticeship — </span><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">est et fideli tuta </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">silentio</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> merces — </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">the Boy-"Bishop"-Elect has taken to heart the following lesson from the aging cult kingpins' <b>grotesque failures</b>:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>A Sedelandia robust enough to vie with the SSPX or the FSSP is a hallucination to be put out of mind.</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">What a folly it is to pretend <i>sede</i> cur runts can give the big dogs of Traddielandia a run for their money. Junior will</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"> stay small in order to survive, well away from the spotlight. In his prudently self-imposed limitation, the Boy "Bishop" will cultivate the safe and secure virtues of <b>settlement</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;">It's too risky out in the open.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><sup><span style="font-family: "times";">§</span></sup><!--EndFragment--> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">Sources for ordination data:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><i>http://www.cattolicesimo.com/2015/03/02/vita-di-mons-guerard-des-lauriers-di-don-giuseppe-murro/</i> and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13pt;"><i>http://www.dailycatholic.org/mckenttt.htm.</i></span></span><br />
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The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com83tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-33470042174422199942017-12-16T19:32:00.001-05:002017-12-16T19:32:52.138-05:00GETTING READY FOR HIS CLOSEUP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;">I</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">t takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.</span></i> Fontenelle</span><br />
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Maybe it's the approaching year's end, we're not sure, yet <i>PL</i>'s <i>still</i> on a <b>predicting jag</b>. Over the past weeks, we've foretold the oncoming <b>ruination</b> of the TradWorld order and its replacement by a different class of "bishops" who value freedom of conscience and aren't in it for the money.<br />
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Our earlier forecasts were big-picture visions, so today we'll shorten the range of our hypothesizing to focus on the event that will mark the <b>end of Tradistan </b>and signal the beginning of a new age for American trads: the 2018 "consecration" of the Boy-"Bishop"-Elect.<br />
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Don't take <i>our</i> word for the significance of this milestone: Look at what "One-Hand Dan" wrote in last week's "Corner":<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Fr.
Cekada had a good week at the Seminary. He was MC at my consecration, and has
copious notes and diagrams to help the seminarians organize Fr. Selway’s.</span></span> </blockquote>
If we're to believe what Dan's note implies, the whole of the Swampland must be involved in making that "pontifical" pageant the biggest, grandest, <b>most over-the-top extravaganza</b> rheumy-eyed cult zombies have ever stared at. Even Dannie and the Cheeseball seem to be trying to insert themselves into the narrative (where they're probably unwelcome — in all likelihood, Junior doesn't want the Wee One's blessing and may look with horror on any suggestion that it's been given).<br />
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The Gruesome Twosome is well aware that the Kid was the one in charge of the Donster's "consecration," so he <i>already </i>has Checkie's script and storyboard. In addition, Junior's got a video recording of Big Don's 2002 shindig for visual reference.<br />
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Obviously, then, Checkie's as useless as a grave robber in a crematorium. (Maybe further attempts to meddle won't be tolerated: the swampies are nursing loads of bitter memories about the pesthouse construction.) Nevertheless, it's a token of the great significance of the <b>upcoming sideshow</b> that in order to get ready for Junior's episcopal <i>début </i>they're <b>wasting precious hours </b>that ought to be devoted to sacred learning and study<i>.</i> That fact alone inspires the Readers to guess!<br />
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Indulge us, therefore, as we engage in a little preliminary speculation.<br />
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As we've said, it will be a day like no other in customarily mirthless Tradistan. The Kid may not be a theological or intellectual powerhouse, but that's of no consequence. What's important is that the event be the <b>most spectacular cult production</b> ever mounted. We think it may be <i>live streamed</i> so Sedelandia U.S.A. can participate in what's hoped to be <i>The Greatest Show on Earth</i> (by cultie standards).<i> </i> And if it's not streamed, then it will surely play on YouTube, with an overpriced DVD made available for purchase.<br />
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Media exposure means high production values, Trad Nation's version of a DeMille project: authentic costuming from a Roman clerical tailor (we'd guess <a href="http://gammarelli.co.uk/"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Ditta Annibale Gammarelli</b></span></a>), expensive pontifical props, state-of-the-art video software, a mega-budget, and "<b>a cast of thousands</b>." (Well, maybe not "thousands," but at least <i>dozens</i>.) The star will naturally be Junior, who's been preparing for this rôle all his life; Big Don as Consecrating "Bishop" will be the only supporting actor. The bit players on the call sheet, however, are just as interesting and warrant some tentative guesses.<br />
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<i>Who will be the MCs?</i> How 'bout Scutty and Squirmin' Herman? <i>Which completer will act as the Assistant Priest?</i> Dare they risk the Skipper? <i>Who'll appear as the Secretary to the Elect? </i>Our money's on My-Way Carlito, but might there be a mercy invitation to Lurch? <i>Which sycophant will be introduced as the Deacon? </i>Could it be the Toady, or maybe Wannabe? <i>And what about the Subdeacon?</i> Perhaps the Gallic Melancholic, don't ya think? And most pressingly, <i>which prelatasters will have cameos as </i><i>Assistant "Bishops"? </i><br />
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Certainly we can count on the Jellyfish as one of the co-consecrators, can't we? For the other, could "One Hand" conceal his umbrage and accept the part — <b style="font-style: italic;">if </b>he's invited, that is. There's a lot of Swampland anger about all the trouble the <b>2009 $GG $chool $candal</b> has caused, and there's always the<b> fatal specter of the one-handed 1976 Écône "ordination"</b>: Why darken the Clone's glory day when a more probably valid and well-educated European "bishop" can be flown over? Li'l Dan would buy his own ticket, but who needs all the baggage that comes with his diminutive presence?<span style="color: purple;"><b>*</b></span><br />
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Almost as important as the sanctuary players will be the "clerical" audience. Any <i>sede</i> brownnoser who gets invited had better show up. The Swampland cult masters will want their venue to look like a rookery as a sign of universal <i>sede</i> approbation of the new Boy Bishop. There may even be an attempt to mend a fences just so they can brag about the army of "clergy" marshaled for the <i>fête</i>. Inasmuch as there'll be lots of free grub and bubbly — and the fact that this'll be a <b>farewell feed</b> —we expect a record turnout.<br />
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No doubt about it: All eyes, minds, and pocketbooks are directed to next year's "enthronement." <i>PL </i>will be overjoyed when the day arrives because it represents <b>the twilight of the SW Ohio-B'ville cult as an influence on U.S. traditional Catholicism</b>. The new Boy "Bishop" will edge out "The Lowly Worm" to withdraw his small, self-sustaining cult inward and out of the limelight. Without Big Don's painstakingly crafted image to hold Tradistan together, Dannie's ruined enterprise will follow suit.<br />
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At this <b>great retrenchment</b>, Trad Nation will be safe for the practice of the traditional Catholic faith. All that's left for the Readers is to confirm the identity of the co-consecrators. It'll help us figure out whether the 2018 "consecration" may try to resolve the <b>abiding problem of American TradWorld </b>and, if it does, whether there's a danger that some day the cult may bounce back. We'll discuss our theory on December 23.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">*We're wagering <b>Geert Jan Stuyver</b> will be the other co-consecrator. According to the </span><a href="http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Geert_Jan_Stuyver"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Religion Wiki,</b></span></a><span style="color: purple;"> the Kid materially participated in Stuyver's January 16, 2002, "consecration." In our next post, you'll see more substantive reasons to support our strong belief he'll be an Assistant "Bishop," provided the Kid's handlers want to make his orders <i>bulletproof.</i></span><br />
<br />The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-91101538362305475652017-12-09T16:01:00.000-05:002017-12-09T16:01:27.127-05:00LOOK, MA: NO DEPRAVITIES!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Man's rational life consists in those moments in which reflection not only occurs but proves efficacious. </span></i>Santayana</span><br />
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Last week's post generated a <i>mountain </i>of discussion — pro and con — mostly via e-mail. Many correspondents asked us to explain the basis for our daring hypothesis. Were the Readers just guessing? Do we have an inside track? What evidence is there for the predicted unraveling of Tradistan? Did some sociological construct or theological proposition nudge us to our conclusion? Were we smoking something other than a splendid H. Upmann Magnum 50?<br />
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With so many e-mailers curious about the reasoning behind the post, <i>PL</i> decided to devote this week's edition to an explanation of our rationale. Right up front, we'll tell you there's nothing arcane or mysterious. No logic-chopping theories. No crystal balls. No fifth column inside the élite sect compound. No flies on grimy cult walls. We did nothing more than contemplate <b>basic consumer behavior</b>.<br />
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Maybe a concrete example will make it clear.<br />
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Suppose that, for some unknown reason, the best-selling toothpaste in the U.S. suddenly became unavailable. Let's also postulate that, owing to relentless marketing over several generations, this brand far outsold any other, so much so, in fact, that <i>it alone</i> was associated in consumers' minds with dentist-delighting oral hygiene and dazzling pearly whites.<br />
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What would happen?<br />
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Would the next-best-selling competitor then occupy the number-one slot?<br />
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<i>Market mavens say <b>no</b>.</i><br />
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Oh, for sure, there might be an initial uptick in sales, but #2 wouldn't immediately take over the old marque's dominance in shoppers' psyches. Consumers would still consider the no-longer-available product as the gold standard. In their minds, #2 wouldn't be much better than a <b>consolation prize</b>, so naturally they wouldn't automatically transfer their brand loyalty to a commodity their shopping habits voted <b>second rate</b>.<br />
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At the same time, the competition, capitalizing on the opportunity open to them, would redouble marketing efforts to capture American housewives' allegiance and toothpaste dollars. But before one of the other manufacturers could secure the top spot, years, perhaps <b>decades</b>, would have to pass, and <b>many millions</b> in advertising dollars would have to be spent.<br />
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According to our analysis, this is the condition of Trad Nation U.S.A. today, as the about-to-be extinct <i>Tradisaurus Rex Quondam</i> (now "The Lowly Worm") slithers out of the Boy "Bishop's" way. The Donster used to be the biggest brand name in the woefully unregulated world of traditional Catholicism. (True, if he were a dentifrice, he'd've been pulled off the shelves years ago, but, then, Sedelandia is no rational marketplace.) It took years of self-promotion and fawning hype, but the Flushing Rat, little-by-little, managed to make a lot of cult zombies mistake a <i>pisher</i> for a <i>mensch</i>.<br />
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As "The Man," Sin-burn was also Sedelandia's one and only <i>public intellectual</i>, a title he'd earned by (a) writing self-promotional newsletters, (b) ranting and raving to anyone who'd sit still long enough to hear him out, (c) noisily debating straw opponents, and (d) snagging ego-centric interviews. His prose was annoyingly lumbering, his podium <i>persona</i> nasally bristling, but amid all the sophomoric posturing, he managed to be, on a <i>few </i>occasions, <i>almost</i> thought-provoking (until you unpacked what he wrote, that is).<br />
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No contender for the vacant see of Tradistan can make that claim, in particular his "<span style="color: blue;">eventual successor,</span>" as Dannie calls the Boy "Bishop"-Elect. Where is Junior's <i>œuvre</i>? Who outside the Swampland élite thinks of the Kid as Trad Nation's chief theoretician? In a similar vein, who regards "One Hand" or Pivvy or the skittish Long-Island Jellyfish as a "scholar bishop" or learned advocate of the <b><i>sede</i> hunch</b>?<br />
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Besides lacking the mental chops to assume Don's rôle, none of the <i>sede</i> hopefuls has the time or the cash to project onto folks' minds the image of a Tradzilla <i>redux</i>. Each already has his identity fixed in the lay imagination, and, believe you us, it is <b><i>not</i></b> the image of a profound thinker or theological prodigy. Pussbucket, sacrament-denying "priests" who can't understand Latin neither whisper their names in awe nor play tinny recordings of their<i> </i>babbling in lieu of a Sunday sermon. To arrive at that standing, the wannabes would need decades in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a targeted marketing campaign. How could "One Hand," for instance, who last week again reported a picayune collection of less than $4K — $3,422 to be exact — afford it?<br />
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He couldn't. And neither could the others. (A good thing, too, because nowadays none but the utterly <b>brain-dead degenerate </b>would fall for it.)<br />
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All this explains why <i>PL</i> insists there'll be no single central figure in Trad Nation for generations to come, if ever. The yawning void, however, will permit a fresh class of "bishops" to step up to the plate to provide access to the sacraments without all the soul-killing infighting. With real degrees, multiple valid lineages, and an insider's knowledge of "The System," each one will offer a haven to moral Catholics anxious to escape the <b>depraved lay trash</b> who support — in Carl Hiaason's strikingly apropos phrase — "submaggots unfit to suck the sludge off a septic tank."<br />
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As the depleted ranks of cultlings turn inward on themselves at Big Don's exit, it's time to<i> brusha, brusha, brush away </i>the "clerical" plaque of the past.<br />
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The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-16732058549287941582017-12-02T20:07:00.000-05:002017-12-02T20:09:22.401-05:00PARADIGM FOUND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.</span> </i>Ortega y Gasset</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #990000;">Picking up from where we left off last week...</span></i><br />
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Now that the <i>sede</i> politburo has bid<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> До свидания! </span>to its very own "Meester Beeg,"<b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b> the liver dumpling who labored unsuccessfully to pass as Grade-A <i>foie gras</i>, TradWorld will undergo a <b>radical transformation</b>. In fact, the sea change has already begun. None of the "episcopal" proletarians scrambling for high-profile exposure can replace the "Lowly Worm" (formerly called Tradzilla) as commissar of the traddie Gulag. Therefore, no longer have we any reason to pretend Traddielandia is unified by a common set of principles dependent on a "clerical" chairman for interpretation.<br />
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It's time to accept the ascendancy of the <b>tribalism</b> that's been Sedelandia's true organizing principle from the very beginning.<br />
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Thoroughgoing destabilization has put an end to the grubby influences, the frayed allegiances, and the fragile myths surrounding "The Man of Tradistan." In the unfolding <b>New TradWorld Order</b>, no center still holds, not even a fictitious one: it collapsed on itself in 2009 when Big Don suicidally defended "One Hand" at the height of the <b>$GG $chool $candal</b>. It just took the 2017 intervention of Nature for traddies to see the gaping void. Hence forward, it's every <i>sede </i>cult for its own miserable self.<br />
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Case in point is the Swampland. Once the Boy "Bishop" accedes to his birthright in early 2018, B'ville will repudiate Dannie's ebbing SW Ohio sect. Painfully aware of the newly minted "bishop's" limitations as a brand, — grim portrait poses can't substitute for <i>gravitas </i>— Swampies'll <b>go to ground</b>, letting no one else in. CMRI will likewise cease its unsustainable overextension and contract in an attempt to preserve a dwindling funding base.<br />
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But the historical fact remains that whenever there's a social vacuum, something else must take its place. The restless herds of refugees from Francis will be seeking shelter to practice the Catholic faith. However, there won't be one, single <i>sede </i>opinion leader to whom they'll stampede. People have grown too wise in the post-<i>sede</i> era, thanks to the Internet. Additionally, the only men around capable of inspired leadership don't want a job that demands they wear a mask of scornful arrogance.<br />
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Stepping in for the tired gang of discredited, cult-obsessed<i> episcopi vagantes</i> will be a different sort of traditional "bishop," one who acknowledges he's but a sacrament machine, one who refuses to promote the <b>blasphemous falsehood </b>that he belongs in any way to the hierarchy established by Christ. Almost all these men are former <i>Novus Ordite</i> presbyters who've returned to tradition. Armed with advanced degrees from recognized ecclesiastical institutions of higher learning and schooled in "the Roman System," they recoil at the <b>impious folly</b> of representing themselves as the Church in exile.<br />
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Since they have experienced first hand the filth of Modernist Rome, with its own <b>toxic cult of celebrity</b>, their selfless motivation lies in satisfying the laity's demand for life-giving sacraments. By private conviction, they may be sedevacantists, but they have no interest in cramming a threadbare hypothesis, and a minority one at that, down the throats of their Catholic brethren. Divine faith is more important than some iffy conjecture. Furthermore, as former insiders, they're aware that <i>sede</i> cult leaders never posed a credible threat to the Vatican Establishment, which dismissed them as ineffectual crackpots who never belonged to "the System" in the first place.<br />
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For that reason, the new breed will never attempt to assert control over others. Instead they will act as conscientious middlemen for the faithful who want (1) the sacraments, not soul-killing polemics, and (2) sensible, well-vetted men of good will willing to confect those sacraments for the cure of souls. Under this new, decentralized paradigm, newcomers as well as long-time traditional Catholics who've lost confidence in the "bishop"-led "Church of Sedeology," will find a congenial—and peaceful—spiritual home. With no money-pit foreign "apostolates" to pay for, the revolutionary new arrangement will relieve the beleaguered pocketbooks of the faithful.<br />
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Say goodbye, then, to Sedelandia's <b>big-frog-in-a-small-pond</b> era. Say hello to<b> a thousand puddles, each with its own tadpole.</b> Conscientious laity, both those with and those without holy orders, will welcome a dawning age of decency, where traditional Catholics won't see a Big Bossman for many generations to come, not until the Restoration.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">* Take, for instance, Comrade Dansky's barely disguised kiss off. The Wee One must be wallowing in the karma the rector generated with his November 2009 speculation about Dannie <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">as a greeter in Wal-Mart in order to support himself</span><i style="color: purple;">" (</i><span style="color: purple;">click </span><a href="http://sggscandal.com/bpsanborn/parishioneronleaving.htm"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>here</b></span><span style="color: purple;">)</span></a><span style="color: purple;">. From His Revengency's comment in the November 19, 2017, "Corner," it looks as though "One Hand" has written off the stricken Donster ".</span><span style="color: blue;">..as he deals with a serious heart condition ... We offer our congratulations to Fr. Selway .... as </span><span style="color: #990000;">[Big Don's] </span><span style="color: blue;">eventual successor.</span><span style="color: purple;">" Hmmmmmm. "</span><span style="color: blue;"><i>Serious</i></span><span style="color: purple;">" sounds permanent, doesn't it, and "</span><span style="color: blue;"><i>eventual</i></span><span style="color: purple;">" doesn't sound too far off, does it?</span></span></span></div>
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The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-72122234859682959642017-11-25T19:33:00.003-05:002017-12-21T07:13:49.964-05:00FATHERS AND SONS<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "palatino linotype";"><i><span style="color: green;">παῦροι</span></i></span><i><span style="color: green; font-family: "palatino linotype";"> <span style="color: green;">γάρ</span> <span style="color: green;">τοι</span> <span style="color: green;">παῖδες</span> <span style="color: green;">ὁμοῖοι</span> <span style="color: green;">πατρὶ</span> <span style="color: green;">πέλονται</span>, <span style="color: green;">οἱ</span> <span style="color: green;">πλέονες</span> <span style="color: green;">κακίους</span>, <span style="color: green;">παῦροι</span> <span style="color: green;">δέ</span> <span style="color: green;">τε</span> <span style="color: green;">πατρὸς</span> <span style="color: green;">ἀρείους</span> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: 'New Athena Unicode', Gentium, 'Palatino Linotype', 'Lucida Grande', Galilee, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">("few sons are wont to be like [their] father; /more [are] worse; fe</span></i><i style="font-family: 'New Athena Unicode', Gentium, 'Palatino Linotype', 'Lucida Grande', Galilee, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">w [are] superior to [their] father).</span></i><span style="font-family: "new athena unicode" , "gentium" , "palatino linotype" , "lucida grande" , "galilee" , "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Homer</span></span></div>
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If you read last week's post, or hang out in traditional-Catholic chat rooms, you're aware that Tradistan has reached its <b>tipping point</b>. Whatever the Big Kahuna's <i>real</i> condition is, he's on his way out ... <i>pronto</i>. The Kid's élite backers at the cult compound aren't going to let their boy-"bishop" play "auxiliary" to Big Don any more than necessary — just long enough to get his "episcopal" act together. That won't take too much time: <i>sede </i>"bishops" can acquire on the fly the little bit of ceremonial they need, provided they've got a decent MC.<br />
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Forget all that hogwash in the MHT newsletter about <i>resuming a normal life</i> or<i> God's still having more use for the Donster </i>or <i>no intention of slowing down</i>. <b>Soap-opera platitudes</b>, that's all that is. Even as you're skimming this post, Trad Nation's writing off the freshly sidelined Tradzilla. (Richard Scarry's <b>"Lowly Worm"</b> is the more apropos sobriquet. It's sure to stick.)<br />
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The sharp-elbowed skirmish to assert <i>de facto</i> <b>bossman-status </b>over Sedelandia has already broken out. It's instructive that Junior isn't a front runner<b><span style="color: purple;">*</span></b> notwithstanding Don's blather that "[<span style="color: #351c75;">m</span>]<span style="color: #351c75;">any priests already look to him for leadership.</span>" (Sounds like a line dictated by the cult's <i>paterfamilias</i>.) Family money may command deference or envy, but it cannot garner respect and loyalty. "Clergy" and "seminarians" in the swamp are probably nervously scouting for a safe way out.<br />
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The Donster could live to be a centenarian, but this brush with mortality combined with next year's "consecration" of his replacement has landed him to the <b>ash can </b>of Sedelandia. As a consequence of the rector's marginalization, a<b> paradigm shift</b> has begun.<br />
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Although <i>PL</i> has never had much regard for the Kahuna as a scholar, a churchman, or an original thinker, we'll admit many in terminally naïve TradWorld once held him in high regard. Whether or not traddies endorsed his off-the-wall rules or<b> unsavory</b> hellfire-and-brimstone Sunday harangues, some (quite mistakenly) gave him at least grudging respect as an authority on theology, Church history, and Catholic culture.<br />
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That's because, once upon a time, the "Lowly Worm" used to be the closest thing to a <i><b>celebrity guru</b></i> that Tradistan could trot out as a proxy for legitimacy. Oh, sure, his rival Wee Dan tried to hoodwink people into believing <i>he</i>, not Sin-burn, was <i>The One</i>, but His Deficiency couldn't carry it off. "One Hand" doesn't have the pulpit/altar presence, the blunt force of aggressive personality, the vague appearance of <i>savoir-faire,</i> the rudimentary formation, the physical stature, or the undoubted holy orders that Discipline Don possesses.<br />
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Let's admit it: as long as you weren't too picky about standards, ignored the nasal drone, and had never made the acquaintance of pre-Vatican II clergy, the rector made you think he was the genuine article. No one else in Tradistan can do that, not the Jellyfish, not the Pivmeister, not the Wee One, not the Boy-"Bishop"-Elect, and most definitely <i>not</i> the overstuffed Ham Sandwich.<br />
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And that's the crisis Tradistan faces. In <i>absolute </i>terms, the Donster may be a <b>shallow mediocrity</b>,<b> </b>but, compared with his would-be replacements, he's a prodigy of learning. Now that he's shuffling off the <i>sede</i> scene, there will be no undisputed <b>Mr. Big </b>to whom sect zombies can look for misguidance delivered with a sneer.<br />
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At the center of the crisis isn't Kim Jong-Don's health. It's the fact that he never adopted <i>a <u>true</u> spiritual son</i>, one who could lead blind Tradistan as its sole luminary. Perhaps he lacked the necessary generosity of soul, or perhaps he had no choice other than a Hobson's choice. Maybe he couldn't bear the notion that, in the Republic of the Mind, an enlightened master grooms an apprentice not only to be his successor but also to surpass him in every respect. In all likelihood, he never understood (or read) the affirmation of the Good Gray Poet: <i>I am the teacher of athletes,/ He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,/ He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. </i><br />
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To become such a mentor, a revered framer of estimable men capable of realizing an independent life of their own, you must first make a brutally honest assessment of your own deficiencies. Then you've got to map out a plan to guarantee your protégé will exceed your limitations. But before that, however, you have to recruit the right talent, don't you?<br />
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The way we see it, some 30-40 years ago, Donnie should have found an intellectually gifted young man and secured the formation required to become the undisputed Number One of Tradistan. The designee naturally wouldn't have attended the sorry excuses for schools that <i>sede</i>s operate, <i>especially</i> Big Don's. He would've been sent to the most reputable grammar and secondary schools in the nation, institutions with high standards, credentialed teachers, and selective admissions.<span style="color: purple;"><b>** </b></span> Upon receiving his high-school diploma, the well-prepared young man would've matriculated to an accredited and well-regarded college or university for a privileged liberal-arts education (with a major in Latin and Greek).<br />
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During his university years, this spiritual son's formation would have been enriched by private tutoring in ecclesiastical subjects, taught by men who had received degrees from Catholic institutions of higher learning before V2. Only after he graduated would he have set foot in a <i>sede</i> "seminary" (LOL). To supplement the substandard training on offer from such an unaccredited "clerical trade school," he would attend specialized seminars at an area college (say, in advanced English composition to prevent his imitating Don's turgid prose style).<br />
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At length, after "ordination," our young "bishop"-elect would have gone on to earn a prestigious postgraduate degree or two in humane languages and learning or — dare we hope?— Biblical studies.<span style="color: purple;"><b> </b></span>Thereafter, he'd profit from regular sojourns in Europe or South America, studying privately with disciplinary masters. Think delightful Roman summers at the feet of the redoubtable Reggie <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<i style="color: #222222;">il benzinaio"</i></span> Foster; bright spring days in Salamanca at the university library; or mild <i>porteño</i> winters under the tutelage of an aged professor emeritus of theology, aching to pass on his matchless expertise before he—and it—disappeared.<br />
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<i><b>But there aren't many bright, gifted American boys in the Tradistani archipelago of imposture, are there?</b></i><br />
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Among the few <i>sede </i>families with a gene pool capable of producing youth of promise, mammas don't let their babies grow up to be clergy. The "Lowly Worm" must've taken what he <i>had</i> to take, and gladly, too, for then there'd be no chance of being <b>outclassed</b> by an understudy. With the Donster's exit from center stage, the tedious <i>sede </i>melodrama will close; all the untalented players will drift away to perform their impious pantomime before brainless suckers or self-interested wheeler-dealers.<br />
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The time has come to dispatch Lefebvre's ghost from Sedelandia. The "Great Man" meme is as <b>dead as disco</b>. It was never true in the first place, seeing that American <i>sede</i>s have been led by <b>nematodes</b> all along. No aspirant to the bandit See of Tradistan will prevail inasmuch as the known candidates are <b>intellectual amoebae</b>. The sooner <i>sede</i>s recognize they never had a swami of Lefebvre's caliber, the sooner we'll see a very <b>untraditional </b>organizational model in place.<br />
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Instead of looking to publicity-crazed <b>pus-blisters</b> for leadership they're incapable of providing, Catholics will go their separate ways, all the while looking inward. Aided by a new class of traditional "bishop," whose aim is to make available the sacraments, not build mini-empires or gain notoriety or pretend to represent the Church, upright folk will at last have what they've always prayed for: sanctification without insufferable sanctimony.<br />
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As more and more unaffiliated "priests" are sent out to serve the laity, the usual "bishop"-led cults, with their manic emphasis on money and control, will find themselves without flocks to shepherd. Simple economics will force them to contract, retreating to safe havens populated by primitive, jiggling cult freaks.<br />
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But whoa! We're getting ahead of ourselves here. We'll have more to say about this brave, new <b>post-Big-Don</b> world of Sedeology next week. For the present, make room for Daddy as the door hits him on his way out.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">* Nor is anyone from the Slupski-</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thục</span></span><span style="color: purple;"> line. Europeans—the Germans in particular — view it as entirely vitiated, as do many thoughtful Americans who've witnessed some of the ceremonies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">** Save your energy and don't send us a comment about the necessity of protecting a young mind from secular and N.O. influences. We know plenty of adolescent trads attending such schools, and their faith is completely intact. (But then, </span><span style="color: purple;">they have professional moms and dads who graduated from college.) These young people fare </span><span style="color: purple;">better than forlorn homeschoolers or the luckless offspring interned in <i>sede</i> fake "schools": <i>Those</i> are the poor devils most at risk of losing their faith and any future as a productive citizen and breadwinner.</span>The Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09191910319072202603noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426244098779533128.post-255929825514862282017-11-18T10:38:00.000-05:002017-11-18T14:43:37.799-05:00REVISED FORECAST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;">Haud semper errat fama <i>("rumor is not always mistaken").</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Tacitus</span><br />
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Last December 31, two of the Readers (#1 and #5, to be specific) predicted that Tradistan's "bishop"-elect in the fetid Swampland would receive his birthright miter by mid-2017. An anonymous commenter then guessed the long-anticipated event would take place in December of this year, so as to coincide with the Kid's ordination anniversary. At the time, we embraced our correspondent's opinion.<br />
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Lately we've learned that Tradzilla is finally disposed, <i>like it or not</i>, to impose hands, maybe in spring 2018. And indeed the horse's mouth informs us<i> </i><b>the decision has already been made</b>.<br />
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We don't want to be coy, but at this writing we can't share the exact content of those reports because we haven't been able to confirm them to our satisfaction. Last week, we had expected to see something on the $GG website, but it was curiously—and uncharacteristically— silent (no crowing from the Bantam "Bishop," no requests to storm heaven with prayers). Now something has surfaced on the MHT site.<br />
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If you were familiar with the content of the reports, you'd understand why cult kingpins would want to keep the lid on for as long as possible. What's for certain is that a 2017 "consecration" is absolutely out of the question, <i>unless</i> the situation deteriorates. (N.B. The situation would have to be <i>very </i>serious, though, because scheduling a December "consecration" at this late hour would require scaling back the schmaltzy theatrics.)<br />
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Precisely <i>when</i> the big show will occur — winter/spring 2018? — depends upon which of the reports best represents what 's happened. In circumstances like these, the earliest stories are often contradictory or confusing or misleading in small details. The reports we received, we can tell you, range from <b>alarming</b> to merely serious, from <b>outright denial </b>to gravely alarming again and then to <b>guardedly optimistic</b>. The upshot of it all is that <i>PL</i> will have to wait for published confirmation from another <i>sede </i>cult source before posting what we know. (We don't entirely buy everything in the <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/Nov_2017_Newsletter.pdf"><b>MHT newsletter</b></a></span><span style="color: #990000;">,</span><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>except for the promise of a gaudy, schmaltzy spectacle).<br />
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What's crucial at this stage is to pin down all these rumors. In spite of the newsletter account, the situation is still fluid. Once we know more, we'll post. If anyone out there learns something, don't hesitate to share it with us.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Anyone for a nice cup of tea?</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">...nostri farrago libelli... ("the hodgepodge of our little book")</span></i> Juvenal</span><br />
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As a rule, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> likes to post about <i>one</i> cult topic at a time. That way, we may fully demonstrate to our readership the <b>barking madness</b> of Sedelandia. Dirtbag Dan, perchance in a lupine mood induced by the meager collections of recent months, yelped so wildly in both last week's "Corner" and the $GG newsletter that we had to share his medley of grief.</div>
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Notwithstanding his baying fans' bestial protests against our forecasts of nearing doom, “One Hand” continues to gainsay his very supporters, thus giving weight to <i>PL'</i>s prescience. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With your indulgence, then, today let’s set aside the niceties of unity, structure, and coherence in favor of some
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Dannie was still in the air, SW-Ohio-bound from his
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<span style="font-family: "agaramond"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">I fly United to Houston. They are not so
charming as the Chileans, but plenty of room for a good
sleep. I follow the flight path on the screen after I finish
my prayers, and I see Lagos in the corner of the map. Not
so far! Before I nod off, I think: “I must visit Father
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This was no empty reverie. He'd hatched a definite plan, for Panhandlin' Dan began the newsletter by shamelessly alms-baiting for travel dollars:<br />
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When so much "<span style="color: blue;">work needs done</span>" at the crumbling cult center, you have to ask why he's going to the almost-dried-up well of financial support to cadge more trips abroad. You'd think all his money-grubbing energies would be focused on warming up the Gerties' "<span style="color: blue;">coldhearted cheapness</span>" to help Erroneous Antonius pay the "<span style="color: blue;">bills </span><span style="color: #990000;">[that]</span> <span style="color: blue;">will be coming in</span>."<o:p></o:p></div>
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But, then, that would be too <i>businesslike</i>, wouldn't it? Besides, behaving like a real Catholic priest from the good ol' days would mean he'd have to stick around the moribund cult. Overseas junkets get His Anxiety's mind off all his money problems, allowing him to imagine, if only for a week to ten days, that he's still the globe-trotting "Bishop" of TradWorld, a title that several others have successfully taken over.</div>
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Before the next costly getaway, the remaining Gerties who keep the West Chester eyesore going should demand an accounting of the sources for the "Bishop's Fund."</div>
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<b><i>ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART POUND FASTER</i><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Hardly a week goes by without a bitterly nostalgic reminder from Dannie that attendance at the cult's big shows has tanked. Last week's "Corner" began with the following lament:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fr. McKenna says he’s always edified by the numbers who come back, freely, one day after the day of obligation, to pray for the Poor Souls to be freed from their fiery prison. And it is true, but the Bishop remembers many years ago that one could have an evening High Mass for All Souls, and draw a good crowd to pray for poor souls, “whom no man could number.” </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those who once attended are dead, and it is for us the living now to remember them too in prayer, at Mass and with indulgences. It is a wonderful thing that we can offer many Masses on November 2 (each priest is privileged to offer three) and that the living still come, albeit in little clusters rather than crowds, to pray for our dear dead.</span></span></blockquote>
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(<i>Don't you love the way he writes about himself in the third person, and with a capital letter to boot? He must not have gotten the memo explaining that nobody anywhere in TradWorld is </i><b><i><u>the</u></i> "</b><i>bishop." Those bozos aren't even </i>bishops<i>.</i>)<br />
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Gerties are either dying off or have left in disgust. There's no one to replace them. The "<span style="color: blue;">little clusters rather than crowds</span>" mean there are not only far fewer All Souls' stipends to divvy up among the "clergy" but also much lower weekly collections. Last week's bulletin recorded a puny haul of only $3,394 from the previous Sunday. No wonder his sermon for Pentecost XXII was titled "It's All about the Money," where at the beginning he growled, "<span style="color: blue;">There always are some freeloaders, I suppose</span>."<br />
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The Wee One's heart must be thumping like that of a baby mouse caught in Caravaggio's jaws.</div>
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<b><i>TRUTH IN ADVERTISING, PLEASE!</i></b></div>
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While we're on the theme of the poor souls, it looks as though "One Hand" is hell-bent to get the Gerties into the cult center any way he can:</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, this was part of the Autumn Holy Week. It ends today. Go to the sacraments and then go in and out and gain some indulgences if you haven’t yet done so. By saying your “six,” (Pater, Ave, Gloria) a soul could be released from prison, purified and ready for God.</span></span></blockquote>
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Let <i>PL </i>remind Catholics that the <i>toties quoties </i>plenary indulgence, in all probability, <b>cannot </b>be gained <i><u>at $GG</u></i> for the poor souls.<br />
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<i>Why not?</i><br />
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Because the <i>Raccolta</i> stipulates the faithful must visit a "<b>church or public oratory, or even a semi-public oratory</b>." That means they must visit buildings <b><i>belonging to</i></b> the Roman Catholic Church. As we all know, the $GG "mass center" is <b><i>not</i> </b>a temporal property of the Church, and it certainly is <b>not</b> a parish incorporated by the Church. (The cult masters themselves would bristle, we suspect, if anyone claimed the decaying cult complex was subject to the archbishop of Cincinnati or to the supreme authority of the Apostolic See.) Therefore, the gaining of the indulgence is almost assuredly<b> <i><u>not</u></i></b><i><u> </u></i>attached to $GG (or to any other <i>sede</i> pseudo-chapel, for that matter).<br />
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We find the lack of candor offensive, to say the least. The SW Ohio cult masters should know better than to pretend their shabby structure qualifies under the rules. Back in 2015, we put an end to all that <b>fiction </b>about "privileged altars" (click <a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2015/11/altar-ego.html"><b><span style="color: #990000;">here</span></b></a>). Owing to Readers' attending an out-of-state conference last week, this year we weren't able to get the word out about the <i>toties quoties</i> scam. But better late than never, right? </div>
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<b><i>THEY'LL </i><u>STILL</u><i> PUT ON THEIR PANTS ON ONE LEG AT A TIME</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Dannie must've taken some flak from Gertie gals about the pants-wearin' Argentinian women of Mendoza (click <a href="https://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2015/10/for-gertie-women-only-mostly.html"><b><span style="color: #990000;">here</span></b></a> for our post from two years ago). In the November newsletter he mused, without much hope, we must add:</div>
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Traditional Catholic ladies here all wear pants. Difficult
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<i>Now, we gotta see that!</i><br />
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As wasteful as we find Dannie's foreign adventures, we're actually hoping some stupid suckers give him the bucks for another trip to Argentina — if only to see how <i>sensible</i> women react to Dresser Dan's proposed fashion makeover. <i>PL</i>'s staff boasts a number of Latin Americans, both men and women. On many an occasion, they've assured their American colleagues that Latinas are not like the weak-willed, brow-beaten U.S. cultie chicks who flinchingly endure the zany rules fabricated by malformed "clerical" control freaks.<br />
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These proud, poised ladies have a mind of their own; they won't be intimated by some sawed-off <i>gringo</i> who wants to meddle in their personal lives. Latin women are confident in their own well-developed sense of Catholic modesty: They don't need instruction from some <i>norteamericano </i>fake-"bishop" on how to dress.<br />
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See for yourselves! Take a look at some of these ladies again:<br />
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Do <i>they</i> appear as though they're going to change their style merely to satisfy Dannie's whims or help him save face among the caterwauling she-wolves of <i>sede</i> Gringolandia? Does that "priest" look as though he wants to start trouble? We'd bet he knows better than to mess with rock-solid, <b>ineradicable</b> local custom, unless he wants the pious <i>mendocinas</i> to take their kids and hubbies elsewhere.<br />
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The poor guy really shouldn't worry that Travelin' Man Dan will stop visiting if the womenfolk refuse to lose their pants. Dannie needs <i>him </i>as much as <i>he</i> needs the dollars that accompany his visits.</div>
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