“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.”
–James 5:15
Let us never ignore the enormous utility of genuine prayer. Prayer is essential for salvation; those who neglect it will suffer eternal damnation.
However, I cannot be alone with my detestation of this kind of virtue-signaling:
“Pray for the pope, pray for him, pray for him. I need to show everyone my commitment to prayer. Prayer, prayer, prayer. Prayer, damnit, prayer!”
Does that sound familiar?
That’s about what crosses my mind every time I notice one of the pseudo-trads, undoubtedly trying to bolster their self-righteous public image, call for prayers, feigning empathy for their opponents. True to their thought(less)-leadership Internet personas, they do so with as much pretentiousness as possible.
Your Trad “Leaders” Need You to Know They Like Prayer
Below is a solid example of this, from Anthony Stine, who never misses the opportunity to pummel casual followers with subtle gaslighting, insinuating that most of us are prayer-less rumor mongers:
This isn’t just a random or infrequent occurrence, either. He speaks like this ALL THE TIME. Few observers call him out for it, though.
For context, this is the same Anthony Stine who belabors his listeners with complaints that the YouTube censorship police are in hot pursuit of him for speaking on controversial topics. None of those are ever rumors, though.
He’s realllllly edgy, after all, which is why he mentions his safety precautions against cancellation . . . in just about EVERY single episode (“the Jimmy Martin issue”).
Are Anthony’s censorship fears warranted, though? Of course, not.
In fact, you’ll never hear someone, like Stine and other establishment Trads, discuss the Jews, the Trump deception, or the real causes of Freemasonry. Stine almost never mentions anything more controversial than the basic, boring, boiler-plate conservo-traditionalism.
Oh, and don’t forget, he’s one of those who is GUARANTEED to deliver content every day, regardless of whether he has anything worthwhile to say. Whether it stinks or not, you WILL get some Return to Tradition. On a slow day, he’ll slap *BREAKING NEWS* onto the headline, just to ensure the Click Piggies are clicking, thus accumulating more of those precious views for him. It works every time!
- Note: I counted at least 65 times where Stine’s videos have included the “BREAKING” click-bait in the title. He’s quite the reporter to break that much crucial Catholic news for us.
All of that said, I’m sorry to break it to you, Anthony, but your censorship fears may be a tad exaggerated. You oppose neither the deep state, nor the Antichurch sufficiently well enough to incur their condemnation. YouTube isn’t going to censor you because you’re far too useful to them as controlled opposition.
Why would they eliminate your channel and risk losing someone who tricks gullible Catholics with semi-traditional content, while conveniently dodging important (real) news and analysis?
Nonetheless, I suppose it is good that you and the other attention-starved Trads© have reminded everyone of the basic bits of praying for the ill Argentinian. We need the best role models possible (whatever we can get) to demonstrate for us the crucial logistics of redemptive suffering and authentic asceticism.
Then, the calls for “Francis” prayers get even worse, courtesy of Eric Sammons.
This comes from the same tough guy who thought it was mean for traditional churches to post dress requirements, disallowing women wearing pants or other immodest clothes. Here, however, he reminds us all that our entire Catholicity hinges upon praying for Bergoglio, and leaps to the implication that most of us do not.
I suppose this is just the trash one must endure when using a mindless social-media program, like X, or Tweetie, or Tweezers, or whatever’s it’s called. Of course, the Sammons’s of the world couldn’t detach themselves from that electronic cesspool if their lives depended on it. They also do little to improve the quality of its sound-bite-oriented dialogue system.
Sammons is another one of those guys who simultaneously possess no desire to fight the evil Antichurch, while periodically finger-wagging at traditionalists with the tiresome “that’s not charitable” haranguing. You’ve no doubt heard it several times from these pseudo-traditional, good-guy, hall-monitor types: “That’s not charitable! That’s not charitable!” It’s their version of the Left’s “you’re a racist” gaslighting.
They would have us believe, for no reason whatsoever, that they’re the primary arbiters of what constitutes charity.
At the end of the day, if you’ve followed Sammons long enough, you should already know he’s the Undisputed Gaslighting Champion of the World.
There are countless examples to prove this, but for brevity’s sake, one will suffice. The Crisis Magazine editor, himself experiencing some type of crisis, considers Catholics who are suspicious of Trump/Musk as “atheistic.” In other words, you’re an atheist, with no faith, if you don’t have faith in the adventures of Donald Trump and company.
Such a ridiculous accusation flies in the face of Scripture and Tradition, whereas the Church has always warned against misplacing our trust, and to test everything we encounter.
Avoid Sammons, along with his fellow Traditional® board members (Stine, Marshall, Hall, etc.), and find better things to read/watch (the Looney Tunes, for instance).
Now, I wish to be crystal on something. I have nothing against praying for Bergoglio (in fact, it’s essential to pray for our enemies often), but this comes across as phony and contrived as everything else from these folks.
Most Trad Influencers: Controlled by the Deep Vatican & Freemasonry
Could all the Trad© influencers be functionally identical (controlled opposition)? Does some other powerful force pull their strings? Are they funded by the dreaded USAID as well?
It would not surprise me. There must be a reason why they never broach certain topics with anything more than a cursory glance.
- Bergoglio’s phony pontificate
- Benedict’s forced/erroneous resignation
- Jewish influence on the false 2nd Vatican Council
- . . . and so forth.
Then, there’s one other thing I noticed about all the pray-for-Francis exhortations.
The above quotations, from Stine, Sammons, and many others, surfaced almost in perfect succession. The website, Canon212.com, has chronicled them, if you’d like to verify. This means the Tradsters© either think precisely alike, or someone programs these guys to talk the way they do, and coordinates when they’ll speak, often in cohesion.
Marvelously, we’re to believe these high-earning Trads© (Marshall, Stine, et al.) decided to make the same announcement, at the same time, of their own volition, without a ringleader prompting them.
Indeed . . .
Either They’re Controlled or Hypocritical
Finally, we shouldn’t ignore these men’s moral hypocrisy, given how they use their platforms to address the monstrous “post-conciliar church.” They routinely bash this Bergoglio fellow even as they consider him to be Christ’s vicar, and refuse to believe otherwise, regardless of how much evidence they receive, proving the contrary.
- Note: Sammons might be the exception to this. He has gone out of his way to prove he will not oppose the Oily Father, going so far as to issue his now-famous simpering lamentation on the matter.
Remember, it’s one thing to criticize an opponent, it’s quite another to do so against someone you consider the Holy Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. If Bergoglio is your true pope, and you’ll never entertain anything contrary, why do you speak so brazenly against him? For, as St. Catherine of Siena has written (bold, my emphasis) . . .
Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope. I know very well that many defend themselves by boasting: “They are so corrupt, and work all manner of evil!” But God has commanded that, even if the priests, the pastors, and Christ-on-earth were incarnate devils, we be obedient and subject to them, not for their sakes, but for the sake of God, and out of obedience to Him.
None of that presents a problem for those of us who know Bergoglio IS NOT the pope, or even a Catholic. You men, venerable Trad© Thought Leaders, have to deal with this since you still consider Bergoglio a true Catholic clergyman, and in charge of the Church on earth.
I’m elated not to have this conundrum.
Next, briefly, I’d like to cover what would happen if Bergoglio were to give up the ghost and enter into eternity.
Who Would Succeed Bergoglio (Better Yet, Who Cares?)
Since his death may be imminent, many Catholics have again worked themselves into a melancholic frenzy over which of the Vatican fake cardinals would supplant him. We all know, if we’re honest, that Bergoglio’s “successor” would be at least a raging modernist, and more than likely another Satan worshipper. It could well be that fellow who carries on about kisses and orgasms all the time.
Yet, if we understand things properly, we should respond to the next potential “conclave” very simply: who cares?
Who cares who would succeed Bergoglio as antipope of an Antichurch, as the Real One remains semi-hidden and obfuscated? Anti-offices and anti-religions, if we should entertain such things at all, are superfluous and of no concern for authentic Catholics.
Catholic prophecy, particularly the apparitions of Our Lady of Salette, make it clear that we’re smack dab in the middle of an age of incredible apostasy at all levels. Outside the arrival of the Great Tribulation, followed by the coming Great Pope/Monarch, nothing good will come from the odious Apostate Rome.
Perish any thought that these vicious opponents of Catholicism will miraculously elect a true pope. It’s about as ridiculous as believing a notorious sex pervert will resurrect the burning rubble of Western Civilization (as many now contend).
Yes, if Bergoglio dies, there will be another antipope, be it Tucho, Dracula (Parolin), Blazing Cupich, or a non-cardinal, Mother James Martin. Regardless, let us ignore everything this apostate regime commands, teaches, or promulgates, and retreat to the Traditional Catholic religion, and await further signs on what to do next.
“You must mean there’s NOTHING WE CAN DO! That’s defeatism!!! Gahh!!!”
No, on the contrary, as I’ve stated elsewhere, there are a great many things we can do, as individual Catholics, to oppose Bergoglio, and whichever anti-successors follow him. Do as many of those as possible and patiently wait for God’s Divine Providence on the matter. Whatever you do, don’t join the silly pseudo-trads, who gleefully accept Vatican II and almost every facet of modernism, while feigning otherwise.
Conclusion – Genuine Prayer for an Enemy of the Catholic Church
Yes, you OBVIOUSLY should pray, not for “Pope Francis,” but for Antipope Jorge Bergoglio. If you waited all the way for this Oily Father to reach his deathbed, then you’ve already done him a massive disservice. Very few conversions happen that late for anyone, let alone a genocidaire of souls, like Bergoglio.
Nevertheless, there are some things you can (and ought) to do to help Bergoglio, irrespective of whether he survives this latest illness.
Here’s the prayer formula I recommend, and have used for at least a couple of years now:
“ . . . for Jorge Mario Bergoglio, for his well-being, for his conversion, for the end of his antipapacy, for a new pope, and for the consecration of Russia to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.”
You can say it aloud or mentally before a Rosary decade, for a quick Hail Mary, or any other intercessory prayer.
Ann Barnhardt uses something similar (but with more fasting requirements, if you prefer) in her Matthew 17 Initiative:
Either way, yes, you should pray for Bergoglio, but at least do so genuinely, not with the aim of announcing it to the rest of the world, hoping to appear righteous. I think we’ve had about enough of the sultans of sanctimony from Tradistan.
Finally, as always, the easiest way to garner graces for Antipope Jorge Bergoglio would be to include consistent prayer intentions with your daily Rosary. Perhaps if you pray all 15 decades (as you should), you could spare one or two decades for Old Bergo.
Bonus
Don’t forget that Thursday is Feb. 20th, which brings a new opportunity to do the Consecration to Jesus through Mary. This 33-day prayer sequence culminates on Our Lady’s glorious Feast of the Annunciation, March 25th. I hope you’ll consider it because we most certainly need every advantage that comes from enslaving ourselves to the Blessed Virgin, while worldlings enslave themselves to our ancient foe.
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