Anti-Church: The Crushing Force Trying to Destroy Catholicism

“I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou art rich: and thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer.” – St. John’s Apocalypse 2:9-10

There is an evil Anti-Church! Our opponents are among us, visible yet clandestine, shameless yet sanctimonious, cruel, cunning, and, alas, much more coordinated and quicker to the punch than today’s shrinking, confused, and desolate remnant faithful.

Oh, how vital it is for us to witness the fulfillment of Holy Scripture and Catholic prophecy right before our eyes. Yes, we should now recognize that a collection of false prophets, false shepherds, and adjacent secularist enemies have assembled into a massive conspiracy against the Catholic Church, paving the way for the eventual arrival of the Antichrist.

What is this Anti-Church?

The Anti-Church is the most massive conspiracy of those who oppose the One True Church. It includes, but is not limited to, false clergymen, conniving global politicians, Judeo Chabadists, millenarians, Freemasons, cultural Marxists, and beyond. Even when we limit the scope of the problem to the hijacked Church hierarchy, we find a hive of perfidious men who are worse than hirelings.

Today’s false prelates are not only inauthentic but also antagonize us as aggressive opponents to the Catholic religion, whereas at least typical mercenaries behave no worse than lukewarm placeholders; ambivalent to the Church’s mission. While hirelings are tepid, disinterested, and averse to baptizing all nations, today’s faux churchmen are hellbent on reversing and extinguishing every vestige of faith.

Can we say that men in the Church, who obviously hate the Church, are truly its members, let alone its leaders? Of course not, but that doesn’t stop the supermajority of professed Catholics, who are instead devoted zombies and “fence-sitters” on every tough issue, from acquiescing to this absurdity.

This is to say nothing of all the “Catholic thought leaders” plaguing public discussion and worsening the bewilderment and enchantment of the preponderance of baptized Catholics.

St. Paul anathematizes ANYONE who so much as slips into error and refuses to repent, yet the modern, surreptitious Catholic intelligentsia wishes we would accept that men who err and attack the Church can serve as Her lawful clergymen. This should make no sense to anybody free from the mental shackles of Stockholm Syndrome.

Moreover, as Fr. Paul Kramer said recently, paraphrasing the consensus of Sts. Bellarmine and Alphonsus Liguori and other theologians, “when they are openly destroying the Church, one does not have to recognize them.”

Let’s examine a handful of ways the Anti-Church has cajoled so many gullible Catholics into a veritable cognitive asylum. The Anti-Church perpetrates all these foul deeds (and more):

• Hijacks ecumenical councils (Vatican II), repurposing them into extra-ecumenical, Kumbaya, naturalist sunshine affairs, devoid of genuine Christian substance.
• Denies or at least obfuscates the inerrancy of the Bible so that it can ruin the entire religion (and promote alternatives, like evolution).
• Has a total devotion to paganism, manifested by the Pachamama worship of Antipopes Bergoglio and Prevost.
• Causes the sacramental economy and priestly/religious vocations to capsize after constructing novel forms that are either invalid or doubtful.
• Denies the most credible private prophecies (Fatima & La Salette), only to replace them with novelties, like the Divine Faustina Mercy and Divine Picaretta Will.
• Promotes sodomy all over the place, including the Vatican.
• Aligns with secular forces who would impoverish, sterilize, and vaccinate you, all while disrupting your families, forcing you to dress like a prisoner (see: masks), and even barring the consumption of meat.
• Adheres to a universal salvation paradigm, enshrined in Nostra Aetate, at the behest of Jewish belligerents (B’nai Brith in particular).
• Detests the traditional religion, yet grants spiritual asylum and amiability toward the Russian Orthodox, Anglicans, and other declared schismatics.
• Refuses to consecrate Russia to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart through the requested formula.

The Anti-Church masquerades as Catholicism, a fact that forbids Catholics from obeying it (as if anyone genuinely would). Contrary to what you may hear from outfits like TraditionInAction or OnePeterFive, you cannot “recognize and resist.” If these were ordinary times, we would already have mounted an army and executed every false churchman and their secular accomplices.

Then again, just as it was in 1994 Rwanda, executing LOTS of perpetrators, when the innocent are vastly outnumbered, is almost impossible.

For various reasons, the R&R option is no longer viable, so we must adopt a new strategy: Do not recognize (at least doubt), avoid them, and pursue traditionalism alone. We have received several warnings through private prophecies such as Our Lady of Fatima, from Blessed Anna Maria-Taigi and several other popes and saints, that Holy Mother Church would suffer widespread apostasy.

Ah, and haven’t we seen precisely that: from the top of the hierarchy all the way to the laity? Furthermore, the evil Anti-Church is not MERELY the Novus Ordo establishment either. Every controlled opponent, every false traditionalist, every crypto Jew, every auxiliary enemy (Protestants and Muslims, for instance) comprises this wicked monstrosity.

The Novus Ordo paradigm, which we’ve endured since the late 1960s, having driven every Western culture into depravity, is nothing but an amalgamation of the Church’s enemies. These days, they’re more coordinated than ever, after their ancestors spent untold centuries patiently building their revolution while awaiting a chance to strike, capture, and obliterate Western Civilization.

That’s a bird’s-eye-view of this Anti-Church. Next, however, we should carefully focus on not turning a bird’s eye into a myopic one. Let us not allow ourselves to assume this is only about heresy, bad popes, invalid popes, or any other “piece” of the Anti-Church puzzle, lest we risk the ability to assemble and comprehend the entire perfidious jigsaw. 

Here are some other topics I’d like to explore with you.

Table of Contents

1. Anti-Church: Way More Than “Just Heresy”
2. Origins of the Anti-Church
3. Many Traditional Catholics Retreat to Legalism
4. Avoiding the Legalists: Feeneyists Chief Among Them
5. The Jewish Deception/Question & the Anti-Church
6. St. Pio’s Advice Not to Worry
7. Unite the Clans or Unite the Clowns?
8. Deep State Parallels with the Anti-Church
9. Conclusion: Choose Mary Over Legalism, Laxity, & Other Traps

Anti-Church: Way More Than “Just Heresy”

Much of today’s discussion revolves around whether the various pontiffs, since the 1950s, have formally taught heresy, which would invalidate such pontificates, according to several illustrious Church doctors. Although I don’t make light of such investigations, and take seriously the visibility and validity of the Holy See occupants, I believe many commentators overly focus on this issue while failing to realize the entire scope and magnitude of the Anti-Church scourge.

Many “dogmatic sedevacantists,” for instance, can quote every encyclical from every pope over the last four hundred years, but still fall for other Anti-Church or Deep State elements, such as the Trump/Jewish deceptions. To the contrary, if we are to avoid losing our minds, not to mention our faith, it would be better to focus on the entire scourge, understanding where it originated, and as many of its hideous appendages as possible. We gain far less by fixating on suspicions of heresy at the expense of seeing the bigger picture.

Furthermore, while Pope St. Pius X warned us about modernism, the synthesis of all heresies, he never said it was the sole evil facing the Church. We’re at war for our very minds and livelihoods, not just Church dogma/doctrine (essential as they may be). We stand to waste far too much time endlessly debating the idiosyncrasies of what constitutes a heresy or schism, something most popular commentators scrutinize ad nauseam.

Behold the LONG list of offenses that contribute to this: a war against the Holy Mass, cooperation with the world’s genocidaires and social engineers, a massive growth in homosexualism, ubiquitous Freemasonry, and more. In fact, there are several specific proof points demonstrating the existence of this Anti-Church:

• Jewish hijacking of Vatican II (most pronounced with Nostra Aetate)
• Several popes trapped as prisoners in the Vatican since 1870
• Modernism made the default theology, replacing Scholastic Thomism
• Many shenanigans pertaining to Pope Benedict’s resignation and the unlawful rise of his most obnoxious “successor”
• Evidence of Freemasonic activity rampant throughout higher positions in the Roman Curia (long before Vatican II)
• The new antics of the imposter, Bob Prevost, in just 17 or 18 months (as of the time of this essay)
• . . . and much more.

Let’s not ignore the enormous and intricate gravy trains financing the Anti-Church agenda. The below image shows a great example of how this problem goes WAY further than just a debate over whether the Anti-Church has slipped into heresy: 

As it stands, we are not contending with just any garden-variety dispute over the papacy. That would be difficult enough. This, instead, is an all-encompassing conspiracy, coinciding with unprecedented apostasy, where Catholics find themselves under persecution by their most bitter enemies to date.

These are not just clerics whom we should like to see laicized or demoted. These are men, including Prevost, Tucho, and Bergogolio (if he were alive), who should receive capital punishment if only we could apprehend them.

So, as I mentioned, it would behoove us to know from underneath which rock this monster emerged before imprisoning several decades of pontiffs, humiliating the True Church, and overtly aligning with our worst secular foes. I’ll offer a brief origin story to expose some of the underpinnings of the Anti-Church.

Origins of the Anti-Church

This problem I speak of has been in the works since the Protestant Revolt and French Revolution, but has cascaded out of control since about 1870, when the pope became a prisoner in the Vatican. That occurred after Freemasonic forces conquered the Italian Peninsula, including the Pontiff’s Papal States, with the formation of the Frankenstein country “Italy.”

Although the Church has had great popes since that time (Pius IX and Pius X, most notably), these men could only influence the rest of the Catholic world while locked in a proverbial Vatican closet. By the 1920s, it took no small degree of diplomatic desperation for the Vatican to obtain international recognition as a diminutive enclave state surrounded by hostile Freemasonic Italians (see: Mussolini et al.).

Then, if you recall my review of Vatican, by Malachi Martin, I discussed one of the book’s core themes, involving a survival bargain the Vatican had to make with the Freemasons just to remain in existence. In short, what few traditional Catholics remained in the upper hierarchy had to “play ball” with our enemies while the Church tumbled further and further into a cheap NGO with religious trappings.

Say what you will about the controversial Fr. Martin, but his descriptions of the power shrinkage among the various post-Vatican-I popes fit squarely into this notion of takeover and imprisonment with the Anti-Church serving as cruel, manipulative jailers. Since 1870, the subjugated popes have had to watch helplessly as their apostolic walls enclosed progressively tighter, leading to the earthquake of Vatican II, and ultimately the Bergoglio/Prevost revolution.

I should also say that it is not Fr. Malachi Martin and I alone who make this claim. There are even clever Protestant authors, like David Kertzer, who believed Pope Pius IX was playing secret 4D chess, taking on self-imprisonment in hopes of regaining the Papal States from the Italian conquerors.

I wouldn’t invest too much into the credibility of such claims, but it goes to show that even outsiders have noticed that the popes have been trapped inside a compromised ecclesial structure. That is, one replete with countless Freemasonic churchmen, such as Annibale Bugnini, Agostino Casaroli, Giacamo Antonelli, and hundreds of others.

Next, consider the hyper-abundance of sins that must have contributed to the suffering of the popes. Laypeople of the ‌old days had an enormous role in this, what with all their wretched behaviors: gossip, men working on Sundays, women exposing cleavage, immodest dancing, foul language, blasphemies, etc.

The Blessed Virgin told Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud at La Salette that just the blasphemies and inobservance of the Lord’s Day were enough to usher in a massive chastisement for France and other lukewarm Catholic lands. By that point, the Anti-Church and Freemasonry had already dealt incredible blows.

Does this tragic turn of events mean the Church is now invisible and/or defected, contradicting Our Lord’s Gospel Promise? No, it has not, because Jesus Christ never promised the Church wouldn’t be difficult to see, especially for perverse generations, having had its brilliance obscured thanks to men’s ceaseless iniquity.

Some have likened the Church’s enduring visibility, as it manifests today, to a solar eclipse, where the moon does not blot out the sun entirely. Yet, the moon cannot eliminate or totally obscure the sun any more than sinners can extinguish the everlasting holiness of Jesus’ Catholic Church. Instead, we find ourselves observing the True Church with only the aid of a dim twilight as She undergoes Her Passion in this late hour.

Many Traditional Catholics Retreat to Legalism

As we contend with the crises brought about by this Anti-Church, all its heresies, persecutions, and scandals, it is crucial that we not over-compensate for this by retreating to legalism. Such is a common reaction for those who’ve been almost scandalized out of the Faith after witnessing far too many Eucharistic abuses, sodomite priest scandals, and other horrors.

Many Catholics have reacted to Vatican II and all its laxity by adopting various strands of intellectual rigorism, such as the Feeneyite heresy, which I’ll discuss in the next section in greater detail. I recommend eschewing the Feeneyites just as you would the modernist “lay theologian” types like Scott Hahn or Jimmy Akin. After all, there’s always a better lawyer. As soon as you encounter the super lawyer for whichever “camp” in question, they will cajole you into doubting good beliefs in favor of their technical analysis of the Church Crisis.

Since every camp has a legalist, and a talented one well versed in his preferred legalese, the choice of camps might appear rather daunting. How do you resolve this? You can do so in one of two ways, which are not mutually exclusive: 1) ditch the legalism, or 2) escape from the camps. I would just assume most folks espouse an independent mindset while we await Our Lady’s Triumph, when all of this madness will abate.

We must disavow legalism; fixating on papal documents or Canon Law. The fruits of this Antichurch are abundantly obvious without slicing every atom of Church law and theology. The illegitimacy of the recent “papal” regime(s) does not have one “defining moment” where everything changed.

Moreover, because our struggle is not a matter of legalism, I’ve had to correct folks, like Fr. Zulhsdorf, who insist that we “zip it” unless we know fluent Latin. To the contrary, this battle is also not about Latin or the liturgy, for the decline or censorship of those two are only symptoms of a greater problem.

Our enemies in the Anti-Church seek to abolish not only the traditional liturgy, but the entire Catholic religion. If we cling to false obedience, then we confine ourselves into a corner, dwelling exclusively on symptoms we believe we have a better chance of comprehending.

I contend that part of carrying our cross, a cross of confusion nowadays, requires us to emancipate ourselves from Plato’s cave and fight the entire war rather than select battles. Nothing could be worse than leaving the main atrium of the cave only to get side-tracked into some endless tunnel deeper into chaos.

Nevertheless, there are several who succumb to that precise pitfall, namely those who cling to the rigorism of Fr. Leonard Feeney of dubious memory.

Avoiding the Legalists: Feeneyists Chief Among Them

There are several fringe sedevacantists who espouse the Feeneyist point of view, which I contend reflects the aforementioned legalist mindset. 

What is Feeneyism and why is it erroneous?

It is a novel and extremist perspective to the dogma that outside of the Church there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus; abbreviated EENS). It originates with Fr. Leopard Feeney, a Jesuit and former editor with America magazine. 

Feeney, despite receiving numerous censures (even before Vatican II), took an extreme approach to the EENS dogma, claiming it impossible for anyone to reach salvation without baptismal waters. This view, of course, eliminates and denounces two noteworthy exceptions to conventional baptism: 1) Baptism of Desire (BOD), and 2) Baptism of Blood (BOB)

Feeney held this view unwaveringly, taking the most rigid interpretation of EENS: that no saint has ever entered heaven through BOD or BOB despite countless examples canonized by the Church Herself. Saints such as St. Emeritiana, the Good Thief (St. Dismas), St. Genesius of Rome, the Holy Innocents, and many others disprove the thesis and have received canonization.

In order to justify this bizarre position, the Feeneyists must dismiss the Church’s Canon of Saints, offer alternative explanations for why certain saints received canonization, and gloss over the teachings of multiple Church Doctors. They must also explain how God would snuff out anyone with the holy desire to enter his Church right before having the opportunity to receive baptism.

I suppose, deep down, Feeneyists harbor not only an intellectually rigid interpretation of EENS but also some latent inclination to believe God possessed a malevolent theodicy. It’s also interesting to note that at least one of the Feeneyists pictured above, Charles Coulombe, has been accused by multiple sources of having an affinity for hermeticism and the occult.

At any rate, tread carefully with these folks, and when in doubt, consult the REAL experts. St. Thomas Aquinas, deemed almost infallible by ‌several popes, had this to say about BOD/BOB.

“ . . . the sacrament of baptism may be wanting to anyone in reality but not in desire; for instance, when a man wishes to be baptized but by some ill chance he is forestalled by death before receiving baptism. And such a man can obtain salvation without being actually baptized, on account of his desire for baptism, which desire is the outcome of faith that works by charity, whereby God, whose power is not tied to the visible sacraments, sanctifies man inwardly.”

If you encounter a Feeneyist online (and there are several of them, alas), prepare yourself to hear every measure of mental gymnastics and sophistry as they attempt to explain away the reasoning of St. Thomas and other eminent theologians. I recommend, for your sanity, to avoid these folks as you would ALL other legalists from every non-Catholic tradition.

Granted, you may also wonder why this Feeneyist position, serious as its adherents are about it, has only existed for just a few short decades, derived from a mid-20th-century priest. To make a long story short, Fr. Feeney, through his cult of personality in Boston, erected himself as far and away the loudest voice on EENS, whereas other contemporary theology on the topic has either been non-existent or less publicized.

If, however, you’d like to review some better theology on the matter, written by a traditionalist bishop, then consider Anti-Feenyite Catechism by Bishop Donald Sanborn.

Finally, why does this topic matter to us as we attempt to counter the Anti-Church and its poisonous doctrines, contrary to Catholicism? It is because failing to understand the purpose of the EENS dogma can lead us either to despair or tepidity, depending on whether we take a misguided legalist interpretation or a lackadaisical modernist reading of it.

Feeneyists claim that disavowing BOD and BOB is an essential element to understanding EENS. However, I see this as a way of compounding our inclinations toward despair, given the darkness of our times, not to mention the sorrow of knowing so few achieve salvation even without this exaggerated scrutiny.

As it is, we see so few Catholics in the world who would appear remotely eligible for salvation, given their miserable behavior. The rigorists salt our wounded psyches even further by leading us to think certain saints had to have been condemned, given the austerity of their view on EENS regarding extraordinary baptisms.

Let us reject all intellectual and theological rigorism for this reason.

The Jewish Deception & the Anti-Church

The Jewish Deception has garnered plenty of recent attention, and I’ve discussed it in other essays, so I’ll abbreviate this section to some extent. If we’re honest about what we see before us, everything ranging from Chabad and Zionism to the Rothschilds, Freemasons, and Mossad are all different strands of the same Jewish hegemony. Distinguish them if you wish, but it’s much more useful to know what unites and ignites them, namely the Synagogue of Satan.

Some call it “Globalhomo.” Others might refer to it as the “grand conspiracy,” behind the Anti-Church, Deep State, and whatever else afflicts us with all the genocides, psy-ops, economic instability, cultural deterioration, and, ultimately the attempted takedown of Catholicism. 

The Jews, as St. Kolbe reminds us, were (and are) indeed behind so many of the calamities I’ve mentioned, including that dreaded Freemasonry. Moreover, it was those same Freemasons who cultivated the Vatican II revolution, after ruining every Catholic monarchy in the world just a few decades prior. Scores of books and essays outline the immensity and diversity of everything the Jews now dominate.

• Global Banking
• Academia
• Music (especially rap and R&B)
• The loathsome United Nations and most other significant NGOs/IGOs
• The industry formerly known as “show business”
• News media (television, Google, print, etc.)
• Diamonds
• Pornography
• The fashion industry
• . . . and more.

If that weren’t enough, the Jews slither their way into an array of other elements of high and low culture in Western countries, most notably the United States.

We can neither watch movies without their Jewish directors peppering them with blasphemies nor should any of us listen to modern Jewish-invented “Christmas songs,” devoid of any mention of Jesus Christ (Winter Wonderland, White Christmas, etc.). By the way, if you think “Baby It’s Cold Outside” skirts too closely to sexual harassment or rape, then you can thank Jewish writer Frank Loesser for composing it.

I could saturate readers with almost limitless other examples of the 20th-century Jewish invasion into everything.

Then, whenever one broaches this topic, someone inevitably wonders where the Muslims fit into the mix. After all, the mainstream narratives often attempt to convince us that ‌Jews and Muslims are the greatest of adversaries (aside from their rivalries with Catholics throughout the ages).

Yes, the Muslims are a significant aggravation for Catholics, but they pale in comparison to the Russian/Judeo-Chabadist trouble we face. I’ve likened ‌Muslims to a modern adaptation of King Nebuchadnezzar. He was the antagonist of the Hebrews in the Old Testament. Now, whenever Christians become wayward, God punishes them by commissioning the Muzzies against them, just as He did the Babylonians in the Old Testament.

Aside from that, I view the Muslims as more of a distraction, perhaps part of yet another dialectic or mind circus, designed to irritate right-wingers. Lately, there has hardly been a better way to torment them into an anxious stupor than to activate the Muslims into new terrorist activities or have them quietly conquer more sections of Europe. I’m not, by the way, the only one who would suggest the Jews are behind this dynamic as well. 

Alas, there are many who comprehend every angle of the Jewish Deception, enough to slice it into a million atom fragments, yet they cannot or will not sew it together with the intricate evil networks of the Anti-Church. I hasten to remind folks that the Jews have no shortage of willing accomplices (WASPY, business-minded Protestants, for example), and that were it not for lukewarm Catholics, for several centuries, none of the Chabad-Judeo-Freemasonic filth would have gotten much traction.

By now, some of what I’ve discussed may engender tremendous distress for you. Thankfully, there are ways to address this, provided we learn to “stop worrying” the right way rather than retreating to some trite “Hakuna Matata” strategy.

St. Pio’s Advice Not to Worry

St. Pio was perhaps the last Catholic hero we might think of as a “slam-dunk saint.” Few others who have died since have matched his degree of observable sanctity. This terrific priest offered invaluable counsel for penitents, consecrated religious, and Catholics at-large. One of his most consoling pearls of wisdom was his exhortation to “Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.“

On the one hand, I cannot agree more with this advice, especially for folks with melancholic dispositions, those who would ruminate over the foreboding future to excess. On the other hand, I’ve noticed some utilize this quotation to justify tranquilizing their brains; refusing to reflect on troublesome matters, including the dark times of the Church.

I recommend we take a sober approach to this message, maintain trust in authentic Divine Mercy, and, whenever necessary, brainstorm a few rational ways to address some of the thornier issues that torment us as 21st-century Catholics. With that in mind, below are some topics that are inevitable sources of despair for many (along with possible solutions).

Things That Cause People to Worry

These are some of the many legitimate concerns facing Traditional Catholics who care about their eternal souls, unlike zombie worldlings. 

• The availability of the sacraments
• Finding a traditional-minded spouse
• “We’ll never have another pope again! Ahhhh!!!”
• “I can’t keep track of so many traditionalist camps, yet alone decide which one I must join.”

Perhaps you recognize some of these items as sources of anxiety, scruples, or frustration.

First, the sacraments will continue to be scarce, but still available limitedly for at least somewhat longer. If, however, sacramental scarcity worsens, we could see the fulfillment of Marie-Julie Jahenny’s prophecy that the faithful would survive on different bread.

Our Lady told her that struggling souls during our impure times should take refuge in Her Immaculate Heart. Mary told Jahenny, referring to those who would overcome modern decadence, that “the nourishment of these poor little souls should be for them the bread of love of their Immaculate Queen, the Queen of Heaven.”

In other words, holy bondage to Mary will be our last refuge if the Church’s sacramental economy becomes restrictive, pending a severe chastisement, as well as during the reign of Antichrist.

Regarding marriage prospects, those who are legitimately qualified should urge their families, or at least friends, to assist with matchmaking. Ideally, this would involve multiple Catholic families working to procure what I call “semi-arranged marriages,” a strategy I contend has been the normative way to wed young people throughout the history of Catholic societies. 

“Online dating” or expecting to happen upon a husband/wife serendipitously have proven to be low-conversion strategies for a while now. Also, as I and others have explained elsewhere, it would be better to place a moratorium on one’s spouse-hunting ambitions, as we await Our Lady’s Triumph for a more fruitful environment for building new families.

Will we ever see a valid pope?

Yes, we will unless Jesus Christ comes again in glory amidst this lengthy interregnum period. Some prophecies speak of a Great Pope and a Great Monarch who will emerge. Perhaps some young, intrepid layman will fulfill the former role. Maybe one of the few good prelates, currently hiding for dear life from the wicked Anti-Church, will ascend to the papacy after the Church suffers Her Passion, just as St. Peter assumed the office after cowering during Our Lord’s.

As for that last quandary, choosing from among the flawed traditionalist camps, I recommend minimizing one’s proclivity to any of them, be they the SSPXers, R&Rers, sedevacantists, sedeprivationists, Thuccites, Pfeifferites, home-aloners, Klingons, Ewoks, and so forth. You need neither to memorize the tenets of every traditionalist camp nor confine yourself to any particular one.

Do you imagine that God willed for us to dredge through so many factions as the optimal way to follow Him with our crosses? I think not.

Do not, however, take the quietist approach of ignoring everything around you for fear of despairing over this Church crisis. Jesus Christ makes it clear just how impermissible this is: “What I say to you, I say to all: Watch.” Those were His words after forbidding his followers from falling asleep at the switch, and hence unprepared for His Second Coming.

Finally, if you haven’t noticed before, then please see the subtitle for my website: “Discouragement is from the devil.” That’s a quotation from St. Ignatius of Loyola, offering yet another expression of St. Pio’s “don’t worry” message. Other saints profess the same maxim, encouraging us never to let personal or Church crises overwhelm us into apostasy or suicidal ideation.

Next, I have just a little more I’d like to say about those aforementioned clans, including the prospects of somehow uniting them.

Unite the Clans or Unite the Clowns?

Shall we seek to unite all the disparate clans scattered throughout contemporary Catholic Land?

No, the very existence of these clans is emblematic of the problem. We see such a volume of traditionalist factions because we either haven’t had valid popes for a while, or, whatever genuine popes have reigned have suffered imprisonment by our enemies, thereby rendered ineffective or compromised. Without a sturdy and reliable occupant on the Throne of Peter, we should dispense with all naïve aspirations for unity.

No strong pontiff = No strong, united Church

A refusal to participate in “uniting the clans” isn’t just a rhetorical point, either. The clans are full of erroneous men, many of them willfully so, meaning they cannot suffice as allies in any meaningful sense. We cannot entertain unity, guided by an array of suspicious “Traditional Catholic influencers,” when our movement, meager as it is, suffers such a saturation of false/controlled opposition.

Do not commune with heretics, warns St. Paul. What does this entail? How do you know if the folks at Mass are heretics? What about the priest? What about the Neo-SSPX? Do they send their own validly ordained priests to your location, or must you take chances with non-conditionally ordained expat clergy from the Novus Ordo?

That’s at least five questions every traditionalist should ponder for a while. I’ll address them generally, but it would be impossible to micro-manage everyone’s specific spiritual logistics. I’m neither your spiritual director nor do I have insights into what you encounter locally.

1. First, heretics are those who commit errors of any sort pertaining to religion Everyone falls in and out of heresy from time to time along their journey, but the heretics who ought to be shunned are those who are obstinate in their errors and refuse fraternal correction. Alas, this applies to many Traditional Catholics, who frankly ought to know better about assenting to the “Leo Pontificate” or the Vatican II nonsense by this point.
2. You may notice in that verse right before St. Paul’s warning against heretics (see the last hyperlink) that he also admonishes us to repudiate foolish questions, contentions, and strivings about the law. That’s another way of saying “avoid the damn legalists.”
3. Next, if your Sunday Mass priest is a notorious and repetitive heretic, then you have one of two options: 1) Confront him about it, or 2) Attend the Holy Sacrifice elsewhere. The first option is worth a try, but has an abysmal success rate nowadays (perhaps always). So, if you encounter a priest who adheres to any facet of Vatican II (or other errors), then expect to have to retreat. This is a sticky issue as it pertains to the “Neo-SSPX,” those who insist, with Bishop Bernard Fellay, that we should interpret the faux council “in light of tradition,” an absurd suggestion for numerous reasons. Fortunately, not all SSPX priests affirm Vatican II, but don’t expect them to be entirely straightforward regarding their stance. Grant the benefit of the doubt whenever possible, but abandon ship if you hear any positive affirmation of Vatican II, universalism, or other elements of modernism.
4. Only attend Masses when you possess certainty that the offering priest has either been ordained by the SSPX (or Sedevacantist prelates) or has received conditional re-ordination upon entering the Society. Otherwise, if the Novus Ordo ordinations are invalid (either in some places or universally), you risk worshipping a piece of bread devoid of transubstantiation. Thus is the sad state of affairs in a Church with so many doubtful sacraments, because of multiple obstacles, flawed rites, and defected intentions.
5. Friendly Reminder About “Novus Ordo” Sacraments: For those who doubt my concerns, or find them to be inspired by paranoia, I remind everyone just how clumsy and/or malicious some clergy have gotten about preparing to confect the Holy Eucharist. It was just a few years ago that the Kansas City Archdiocese (an allegedly “conservative” one) discovered some of its parishes using the “wrong wine” for Mass. As I understand it, almost all the wines you would find at a grocery store would qualify, yet these wonderful “clerics” somehow purchased the wrong kind (Cheerwine, perhaps?), invalidating the consecration. Because of this and numerous other antics, you and I must exercise caution by staying away from Novus Ordo parishes at all costs.

I hope this provides helpful insight on how to address practical matters pertaining to interacting with fellow lay faithful and professed traditional clergy. Of course, it should not surprise us that precautions are essential for both Church and secular affairs. The next section will explain how the wicked Anti-Church has a reflexive relationship with what many of us call the Deep State.

Deep State Parallels with the Anti-Church

I have every reason to believe the evil Anti-Church and the ominous Deep State are in cahoots in many complex ways.

In Caesar Vacantism, I developed a thesis suggesting that modern states no longer possess legitimacy. What we find with the Anti-Church parallels this problem substantially. Although I still had an incomplete comprehension of the problems with both the state and the Church when I wrote that book, I have since not recanted on its basic premise: that modern nation-states are illegitimate, deserving of no obedience.

The same is true for the Anti-Church.

Many of my other writings (The Bergoglio Dossier, for instance) demonstrate my same suspicion of illegitimacy with a focus on modern churchmen (who should scarcely be called such). In fact, I don’t think it’s altogether difficult to connect someone like Jorge Bergoglio with the Deep State (and certainly the Anti-Church), via his long life of dirty politics and dirty wars, going all the way back to his time as a false shepherd in Argentina.

It’s also not difficult to piece together his faux papal ascension, following the Benedict resignation debacle, almost certainly orchestrated by foes, such as the Clintons, Obamas, and the Globalhomo behemoth. We may lack the smoking gun that “proves” Pope Benedict was coerced from active ministry and replaced with the imposter Bergoglio, but there’s plenty of other deep-stated handwriting all over several walls.

What, however, is the Deep State? Does it overlap with the Anti-Church?

The Deep State, or “the powers that shouldn’t be,” is the collection of godless men who have usurped nearly every sovereign nation, converting them into exploitative corporations. One need not espouse Marxist sympathies in order to understand and revile the idea of ruining governing bodies, grinding their denizens into wage slavery, and pillaging economies for every last drop of capital.

Oh, if only it were that, though. The Deep State cooperates with the Anti-Church and the Russian Chabadist Jews, and other ancillary villains to do everything possible to disintegrate human civilization and erect a new order. That’s already well underway, but if what many forecasters have conjectured comes true, it could also pave the way for the arrival of the Antichrist.

The Deep State, Anti-Church, and Jewish Chabbadists, difficult to distinguish as they are, almost all have a penchant for Kabbalah chaos magic, eliminating all but 500,000,000 people from the world, and the pursuit of other apocalyptic aspirations.

We can thank these wicked subjugators for all the following:

• Donald Trump, MAGA, the Gaza genocide, and the Iran War
• All the other endless or near-endless wars: Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, (mostly, but not always, driven through the American apparatus of the Deep State)
• Social engineering, cultural Marxism, trans-humanism, AI, and eugenics
• The culture of death (abortion, euthanasia, contraception, immodesty, and sexual perversion of every stripe)
• A ruthless global pharmaceutical racket, poisoning millions (most prominent in the U.S.)
• All the dialectics and psy-ops that confuse people and divert attention from the root causes of our troubles (namely, themselves)

I could continue with a myriad of other examples, angles, elements, and themes, but much has been said on this topic elsewhere. Both the Deep State and Anti-Church find their roots in the chaos wrought by the Protestant Revolt, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. As the Church suffers, so does the rest of the world, leaving us to wonder, with a secular sphere so miserable, how much the Catholic Church has suffered and lost, lo these past several hundred years.

Conclusion: Choose Mary Over Legalism, Laxity, & Other Traps

Take solace because if you are a Traditional Catholic, then you already know the best measures for avoiding these manifold mind traps, legalist camps, and all the human respect associated with them.

The primary antidote to all these problems is to have recourse to the Blessed Virgin Mary, take up her devotions, and imitate, as best you can, all of Her tremendous virtues. These include humility, detestation of self, and above all else, love of Her Divine Son. What better way to accelerate one’s growth in these areas than by practicing obedience to Our Mother and praying Her Holy Rosary.

If, for instance, laxity is your predominant shortcoming, then praying at least the Sorrowful Mysteries should help counter that, since no one can continue in laziness or tepidity for long while meditating on carrying one’s cross. Next, aim to pray all 15 decades to assist with hope (the Second Glorious Mystery), patience and perseverance (the Fourth Sorrowful Mystery), and so forth.

God does not pre-destine any of us to succumb to the Anti-Church, Antichrist, Og & Magog, the Leviathan, Satan, Lucifer, the Four Horsemen, or any other prophesied adversaries. Arm yourself with the Armor of God, most especially Our Lady’s Mantle. Then, there is nothing to fear.