Leo’s Document on Mary.

It forbids going forward calling Mary “Co-redemptorix.”   It says it is now “always inappropriate.”  That obviously does not mean “always inadvisable” but rather “always should not be done.”

It is a legal and doctrinal ruling. As St. Thomas taught, law directs people either by commanding to do a positive action, forbidding, or permitting (Treatise on Law).  When Francis added to the new catechism that the death penalty is now “always inadmissible,” likewise the meaning was obvious to everyone, that he declared it universally forbidden.  

A dubia can be presented to Tucho and asked if it’s just advice or a prohibition, until then, in my opinion, it is obviously a strict prohibition to use a title already used by popes.  

If the title is confusing to some, then so are terms like “Mother of God,” the “Blessed Sacrament,” justification by “Faith and good works,” or “Outside the Church there is no salvation.”  The problem is not with these terms, but with Protestants in particular failing to understand and truthfully represent their meaning. 

By “Co-redenptorix mediatrix,” the Church using that term meant that Mary a) participates in a unique way with Christ as Redeemer, b) by presenting all our prayers to Christ on the Cross (and therefore in the Mass), c) by giving her Fiat or yes to God to become the Mother of God, d) that the economy of salvation and grace includes not only Christ but her participating in it, e) and that all graces are distributed to her to the human race.  

In other words, you cannot separate Mary from Christ, or vice versa, and her from the economy of grace Christ instituted.  She alone stood at the foot of the Cross as a co-redeemer, that is linked uniquely to Christ as Redeemer in such a way that no other human being would be linked.  

God could have instituted it differently, but He didn’t.  He chose His Son alone to be the Redeemer and Mary alone to be the Co-redeemer.  This does not mean her suffering and prayers were equal to that of Christ, but greater than any other human being, in such a way that God the Father gave/gives saving grace to the human race by receiving the merits of the holy sacrifice of His Son, but ALSO in some way hearing the prayers of the Mother of God, and dispensing His grace not only through Christ, but from Him downward and universally  through Mary, the Mother of God.  It is God’s power that makes that possible, and placed Mary into that role. 

And there is only one title that represented fully this truth, and that was Our Lady Co-redemptorix Mediatrix of all graces.  It does not take more than a moment to explain it to a person of good will. Translate the Latin, explain simply what it doesn’t mean, and the truths it represents.  

I would say it this way: “the title in Latin means Our Lady co-redeemer and channel of all graces.  Christ alone is the Redeemer.  But His Mother had the secondary role at the foot of the Cross as a co-participant or co-redeemer in redemption.  She did that by becoming the Mother of God, suffering more than any other human being besides her Son, offering all our prayers to Christ on the Cross, and dispensing all graces merited by Christ to the whole human race.  It doesn’t mean she was a god or equal to Christ.  It is her role we believe Christ instituted when he instituted the Church.”

Yet the problem this document now poses is that whenever not only the issue of the title comes up in a discussion or debate, but its doctrinal meaning, then the Protestant or anyone else can point to this new document to deny the traditional Catholic teaching. 

If Tucho or Leo are forbidding me to use that title, my conscience orders me to doubt that is a valid law.  I am at the very least bound to believe what the title means, and in some circumstances explain that teaching to the non-believer. 

If this document means a rejection of traditional Marian teaching represented by the title, then we may now have entered that phase of the Leo pontificate similar to the one entered into after Francis allowed communion for the unrepentant divorced and remarried without an annulment.  Theologians will have to ask if there is anything that approaches doctrinal error in this document.  

At any rate, my obligatory mode since the election of “give the new pope for now the benefit of the doubt” is wearing very thin.  Leo must have known the shock waves and confusion this document would have sent across the world of orthodox Catholics who understand the title, and believe in what that title represents.  

Yet he signed it. 

This document literally says no person can universally dispense Christ’s grace, therefore effectively that Mary cannot do that.  

“No human person — not even the Apostles or the Blessed Virgin — can act as a universal dispenser of grace.”

If God is all powerful and all wise, He certainly can (and does) distribute all His graces of the Cross  through Mary, who offers all our prayers to Christ.  He could have (and did) set up the economy of grace to include Our Lady acting as a co-redeemer and dispenser of grace, properly understood.  

To deny any of this is, for me, a grave insult to our heavenly mother, and it rightfully angers me enough to write this in defense of her.  

Instead of teaching the meaning of the title, Tucho and Leo are effectively banishing not only the title, but the proper meaning of it.   The ecumenical new religion of conciliar modernism, to achieve its goals, must downplay the role of Our Lady.   

She must be placed off in the margins just as the tabernacle, cross, and propitiatory sacrificial nature of the Mass was put off to the side.  

We are no longer kneeling looking up at the traditional sanctuary and high altar, with the cross and tabernacle at the center, with Mary standing intimately at her Son’s feet, with the priest offering a propitiatory sacrifice, with the proper understanding and devotion.   

Now we have a Protestant meal table, happy clappy music, and a version of Mary that has effectively stripped her of her crown as the majestic Queen of heaven and Earth.  As the once titled Co-redemptorix Mediatrix of all graces.  It doesn’t conform to the new religion. 

What is next?????

May the holy wrath of God correct this injustice, even if faithful Catholics have to suffer to “restore all things to Christ.”  Our Lady, who is the co-redeemer and channel of all graces, pray for us. 

Update: Blog Troll Arrested Today

I mentioned recently that a local man who identifies as a Catholic, protesting my traditionalist views as “hatred,” sent me many harassing emails including one that was a threat to my life.  For speaking the truth about the current state of the Church, and insisting he stop all contact, having already made that demand in the past.  

Multiple police reports, a warrant for his arrest, and my own perseverance, resulted today in the police arresting him, booking him into jail.  I plan on being there for every hearing going forward, if possible, and will give updates.  

I pray for this man’s conversion, not just to Christian morality, but also traditional Catholicism, and that the judicial system will be a means to that end.  

Traditionalism Transcends the Political Spectrum in the Church

 The takeover of modernism at and after the Council split the Church into a political divide.  Liberal, moderate, conservative, and traditionalist.  Yet Catholicism IS NOT a political spectrum. 

The beauty and veracity of traditionalism is that it reconnects you with that which holds the Church together, that is Catholic Tradition, while opposing that which created this pagan, City of man political spectrum.  Adhering to Tradition, while it is akin in many ways to conservatism, means transcending the spectrum.  

On certain points it is to the “far right,” but intrinsically it is not.  It transcends those concepts.  Returning to Tradition is like floating down a deep,  clear, old river that brings forth life and ultimately brings you to your final destination.  

Whereas treating that return to Tradition as an ecclesial political reaction on the far right, which is Americanist is like running around a forest chasing a forest fire in a state of frenzy as if that is traditional Catholicism.  The political spectrum was created by the modernists as a chaotic forest fire, giving the false illusion of life, but for the ultimate purpose of destruction of the Faith.  

In conclusion, traditionalism does not define itself as being a part of that forest fire, but rather as living on and being deeply rooted in life giving waters.  Still waters run deep. Happy Fall weather. 

All the Proof You Need. The Charlie Kirk Assassination

Share this video.  There is a 1/1,000,000,000 (that’s one in a billion) chance this sequence is not what it obviously is. Which is an organized conspiracy to assassinate Kirk making the young man the patsty. Two men waiting in suspense. One pushes something on his arm. Immediately there is the sound of a shot with Kirk going down.  Video at that moment shows what looks like an explosion from the area on his shirt with the microphone.  The two men immediately leap across the table. One reaches down to Kirk apparently taking something off him (the microphone) and then quickly handing it to the other guy.  This was an organized effort by professionals with the professional background to pull this off, get away, and scapegoat the kid brainwashed by leftism.

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THEY Assassinated Charlie Kirk. What Trump/MAGA Must Do.

Video analysis is conclusive.  The young guy is a Patsy. THEY assassinated Kirk.  And by THEY it is the Israeli Mossad colluding with the leftist wing of the FBI and CIA. Puppets for the Democrat elites, and globalist elites like Soros. We are in a hot war globally which THEY started.  The goal is World War III and global socialism. AKA Communism. Opposed chiefly by the Trump/MAGA movement (which is international), with heroic voices like Kirk.  Let the MAGA bloggers and YouTubers unite. The Daily Wire, Turning Point USA, Tucker Carlson, and the like.  As well as trad bloggers and YouTubers.  For example, check out the SSPX podcast.  We are on the side of MAGA to defeat the globalist conspiracy and Communism in the name of Christ’s kingdom on Earth. 

First, someone must sit down with Kirk’s wife to launch themselves a private investigation who conspired to kill Kirk including whoever was behind putting the exploding microphone on his shirt that day Second, Trump and Tulsi must form a special task force of trusted FBI and CIA agents to investigate their own organizations and Mossad for the individuals who planned this, Eliot Ness-style.  Especially focus on Soros and Netanyahu. MAGA must harness all its powers asap to root out and punish all those behind this assassination.  Time is of the essence. 

My Thoughts on the First Pope Leo Interview

This interview in my opinion places a check mark in the negative column of how good of a pope we can expect Pope Leo to be.  I’m still in “wait and see mode,” observing also the check marks in the positive column.  Yet he speaks as if doctrine on homosexuality and women’s ordination could in theory change.  

Best interpretation is it is an ambiguous philosophical statement to correct liberals to change their attitudes before discussing doctrine.  Very hard to think he could believe in the possibility of the Church changing those teachings, but many will read him as being open to it.   

Also, in my opinion his comments on the TLM were vague and not helpful for TLM attendees.  He said he wants to end polarization over the issue by submitting the issue to “synodality.”  Red flag.  

The conciliar reform of the Mass and modernism has created the polarization, not traditionalists objecting to this liturgical reform based on their fidelity to Catholic doctrine.   Were we to be petrified into silence, we would still be partly blamed for the polarization for adhering to Tradition. 

And unless one disregards their rights and succumbs to narcissistic bullying by those in authority, traditionalists responding with polemical critiques, with the exception of a tiny handful of crazed bloggers and YouTubers who turn it into a LARPING video game to gain points and $$$, traditionalists are not CAUSING the polarization.  We are responding to it proportionally, Holy Father.  

True, especially in the US, some can politicize their defense of the TLM more as an Americanist alt right  culture war against liberalism in Church and society, than a stance of faith.  But overall that is not the root of the polar divide around the world.  

It is a divide between the ancient and venerable Roman rite and everything that comes with it, and a rite that diverges from the teachings of the Council of Trent on the nature of the Mass.  The interview shows the pope’s diplomacy to both sides and centrist priority of ending polarization and disunity, but being silent on the truth of the TLM and the persecution of faithful Catholics. 

Yet we, knowing the basis of unity in charity is unity in the truth, in the doctrine of the Faith, hope that at least one step the kind , diplomatic Pope Leo will take in restoring unity in doctrine, and therefore true unity in the Church founded on the Faith itself, is to end the persecution of Latin Mass Catholics and undo the draconian, traumatizing Traditionis Custodes as soon as possible.  

Liturgical leftists are not currently in a state of grave pain and suffering over this issue.  Families and individuals devoted to the Latin Mass, now with no or very limited access to the Mass of the Saints are because of TC (70% of traditionalists attended a diocesan TLM, most without access to the FSSP, Institute, or SSPX).  They are the ones right now greatly suffering.  

As an aside, it would mean major check marks in the positive column if it can be verified that Pope Leo was offering the TLM, and if he will explicitly uphold Pope Benedict’s liturgical teaching in Summorum Pontificum that the TLM remains a vital part of the Church’s praxis.  Christine Niles and Patrick Madrid, for what their reporting is worth, themselves verified through sources in Rome the pope did say before the TLM in private.  Also, it is said he was very much in support of Pope Benedict’s theological analysis.  So time will tell. 

Trump Can Do This after the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Launch a Tulsi Gabbard led inquisition investigating who are ultimately at the top instigating the Charlie Kirk assassination. Go after every lower level accomplice and threaten them with prison time doing hard labor, offer them witness protection, and leverage them to testify against the higher ups.

Pass the Charlie Kirk federal law making it a mandatory death by public hanging on the White House lawn for every legally sane assassin or mass shooter murdering with political motivation, and those who helped plan it. Once the lever is pulled, fireworks go off above the White House with a military band playing “The Star Spangled Banner.”

Time to Bring Back 

Public Hangings 

It should be a bipartisan event for everyone who is tired of irrational leftists and the Antifa public violence.  

If the person planning this Antifa assassination is George Soros or Netanyahu, or a similar international figure, then apply the new Charlie Kirk law to them and seek extradition and full enforcement of the law. 

Gabbard’s task force investigates every left wing university for woke professors and administrators. They must be fired and replaced with non woke indoctrinators, or Trump pulls all federal funding to their institution. 

Investigate like McCarthy every social media platform and entertainment industry business (film and music) suspected of disseminating Marxist wokism and instigating violence by Antifa. Guilty parties must be fired or said company will be banned from the U.S.  Put that into The Charlie Kirk Law. 

Investigate every person who uses the internet who abuses their freedom of speech illegally to support murder, specifically political murder, specifically the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The Charlie Kirk law mandates a minimum of one year for each offense. The college punk posting on X gets say one year hard labor.  But if it’s a prominent figure like an MSNBC journalist on TV, then say five years on the chain gang. 

Roman Rite Priests Must Bow Their Heads at the Name of Jesus During All Sacred Rites Including Mass. TLM and Novus Ordo

Mass is by divine institution not a mere fellowship like a casual banquet in your home, or the drunken agape gatherings in the early Church.  It is the sacred divine worship of Almighty God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in the consecrated House of God, the church.  This is in part why the priest sins giving scandal every time he breaks a rubric.  

Few people know the priest must bow his head every time at the name of Jesus during every Mass or other sacred rite.  To omit this is an objective sin that causes scandal, like any other liturgical abuse or irreverence.  

St. Thomas Aquinas’ teaching has already been embraced and permitted to by followed by past Popes.  He taught reasons that excuse attending Sunday Mass includes scandal at Mass.  

Therefore, it necessarily follows, using basic syllogistic logic, apart from the debate whether or not the Novus Ordo doctrinally obscures the true nature of the Mass (the propitiatory sacrifice), that if the priest habitually omits bowing his head at the name of Our Savior (how would he not be aware of the rubric learning and using the missal?), among countless other potential liturgical abuses, since those give scandal, the Society of St. Pius X points out  (the FSSP etc. de facto refuses to do this to preserve their TLM apostolate) this fact on its own creates a barrier to attending the Novus Ordo that releases the obligation.  For those who dispute this IS the rubric, which the breaking of indeed gives scandal, that liturgical scandal is reason not to attend a Mass without sinning, I encourage you to email the SSPX and ask to chat on the phone about this with a priest.  Happy Fall weather from Oklahoma. 

Charlie Kirk is a Martyr. In Related News, I Myself Received a Death Threat

Charlie Kirk and his wife knew the risks especially after Trump was almost assassinated over just a year ago in almost the same scenario.  I’m sure it crossed his mind at every event. Both scenarios were from a roof top at an assembly by a crazed young man throwing his life away, hating what Trump stands for. What you the reader likely believe in, as I do.  But he and his wife supporting him kept putting himself on the line going to college campuses etc. to speak the truth.  Including to defend Christian faith and morals. 

He knew very well it could happen to him. But he did not step down.  That makes him a kind of martyr for Christian faith and morality, against the atheistic, Marxist left still having a stronghold on many of our country’s institutions.  Institutions like most universities, the entertainment and music industry, or the big social media companies like Facebook or TikToc, brainwashing the youth to do senseless acts like this. 

May Charlie rest in peace.  Rumor is he recently became a Catholic. We know at least he was preparing to enter the Church.  The man might literally be a saint now. Shrines should be built in his honor.  Federal buildings, schools, and navy ships given his name to symbolize the defense of God’s moral laws and the right and responsibility to publicly defend those divine laws through freedom of speech.  Let Trump use the momentum of this tragedy to help defeat this nation’s enemies, both foreign and domestic, who would keep funding Antifa and radical political leftism.  

Use the force of the law to defeat this evil.  That is what it is for.  

The Okie Traditionalist Blog and a Death Threat:

This story got me thinking.  I put myself at risk writing this blog which by the way is in part why I use a pen name. I do not avoid controversial subjects, but would prefer not to get shot, denied a position, wrongfully terminated, or otherwise injured due to what I write. There are unlimited ways crazed readers could retaliate for free speech speaking the truth.  Just this summer I received several harassing emails from local Catholics about my blog posts about the Sts. Peter and Paul Latin Mass controversy.  Despite other emails giving support.  

Either you keep your faith and viewpoint confined to whispers in the back corner of the church parking lot, your private diary, or around the coffee machine at work with a trusted colleague, OR you publicly proclaim the truth at times either online or in the flesh, which puts you at risk for all sorts of retaliation.   

From the Film 1984

Including getting shot in the head.  Or if the shooter misses, in Charlie’s case, the throat. 

One local person who claims to be a Catholic actually refused to stop sending me insulting emails for exercising free speech with civility and tenacity, to defend the TLM, to the point they literally sent me an email with an image which clearly was a threat to my life.  

Along with past harassing emails sent through the blog, it was included in my police report.  Let’s just say I have concrete verifiable facts to assure me that soon enough a group of police officers will be knocking on this person’s door at say 6 am to haul them off to jail.  

Heads up person, if you’re reading this. Mark my words.  You’re snoozing cozy in bed at 6 am when suddenly you hear “Bang bang bang.  Open up. We have a warrant for your arrest.”  The police must follow a knock and wait protocol.  If you refuse to answer the door, that’s resisting arrest which in Oklahoma could result in one year of incarceration.  

And if you don’t answer the door, yes they legally can and will enter and then it’s your hands handcuffed behind your back until you end up in a 5’ x 8’ holding cell until you are brought into the jail proper and assigned your cell and meet your cell mate.  Before being sat down with your court appointed attorney and shown the hard, Indisputable evidence, and had the law explained to you. 

I look forward to attending all hearings to advocate that if this person refuses contrition or respect for the law and court, that  they receive a strict sentence which could be, worse case scenario, up to 14 years in prison.  One year for the first harassing email.  Three years for the second since that would be a felony.  And ten years for stalking, which a series of such emails over time is.  It’s in the Oklahoma statute.  Not to mention another potential year if they resist arrest by refusing to answer the door.  

The crime was already committed. It is now in the hands of the court.  It is not a matter of IF, but now just a matter of WHEN.

Leftists:

It is diabolically ironic how much the left will cry you are committing criminal hate speech (when in fact you are not), while literally hypocritically breaking the law to silence you, to the point of threats and assassinations.  This dynamic is playing out everywhere.  

The atheistic, post-modernist, liberal leftists (who are far more sinister than a “liberal”) have been brainwashed and their brains turned into mush. This young man assassin literally ended his own life (as he knew it).  On Tuesday the guy had all the opportunities in the world in front of him. The world was his oyster.  The next day he effectively destroyed his life because of his LGBTQ ideology.  He will either go to prison for life or get the death penalty.  Let’s put it this way, that young man would not want me on the jury.   Not smart to assassinate Kirk in a conservative state like Utah with their Mormon views on the death penalty.  

Here’s an idea.  Pass a federal law requiring death by public hanging on the White House lawn for every legally sane politically motivated assassin or mass shooter.  Televised across Fox News and CNN.  Call it the “Charlie Kirk law.” Whether it’s a nut on the right or the left, send a message that this nation will have absolutely zero tolerance for silencing legitimate speech, especially that which defends truth, morality, and the rights of God, by turning the public square into a terrorist zone. 

The Pubic Hanging

Of Four Public Conspirators

In the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

I’m talking about every assassination or mass shooting of one or many people in the name of political views.  The next time a crazed transsexual motivated by political hatred shoots up a crowd, school, church, or college assembly resulting in death of innocent life, once found guilty and sentenced per this new law, they eventually get taken to the White House lawn, with President Trump pulling the lever.  Followed by a firework show and a military band playing The Star Spangled Banner. The divine justice of that just and godly (and truly Catholic!) legal punishment would teach the youth (and everyone else) that civil discourse or debate, even when it is bold, outspoken, frank, and God forbid politically incorrect IS the answer, not actions like harassment, stalking, threats, petty insults, Ad Hominem arguments, or murder.  

We should imitate Charlie Kirk and put fear, cowardice, and an inordinate need for social approval aside, and publicly speak the truth. 

Whether that is at the church coffee and doughnuts, town hall, or holding a pro-TLM rosary rally across from the chancery.  Or on a little blog like his. 

God is truth.  Which means we must proclaim the truth which is God from the rooftops. Not cower down in the shadows, ruled by maximizing hedonistic pleasure and minimizing pain rather than by righteousness and thirst for justice.  

Or being rational, intelligent, and logical. 

Charlie Kirk, if you are a true martyr in heaven, which the more I learn seems to be probable, pray for us.  Pray for President Trump, the MAGA conservative movement, and the restoration of Christian culture to this nation.  For an end to all these political shootings.  For peace one day again in the public sphere.  And pray for the conversion of the enemies of Christ, His Church, and the Christian faithful.