Given Francis’ Heresies
Should We Become Sede-Vacantists?

Dear TIA,

Re: The kissing of an imam's hand

This, which I received and read this morning from TIA in your email news that came to me containing the latest in your Church Revolution in Pictures Series proved to me like many others to be so revolting, as to bring one to the verge of physical nausea.

Today's picture and content shows our Pope Francis (who acts more and more like an Antipope Heretic in my opinion) kissing the hand of an Imam in Indonesia at their meeting to sign another stupid document. Your commentary points out to us astutely – for which I thank TIA – how His UnHoliness was not even allowed to bring his craven presence inside the mosque, but was sequestered in a tent befitting His UnHoliness' status in the eyes of the Indonesian Muslims.

For me, the first thing that flashed through my mind (being 71-years-old and being told this by my Mother as to what was customary in the 'old country') is that the Catholic faithful – in times past – kissed the Consecrated hands of a priest upon meeting them for the first time as a sign of profound respect.

Following this flash a serious question came with reflection.

I bother to bring this to the TIA Mailbag because, not only did a question surface – full strength at the sight of this which for me was too much to bear on top of everything else associated with this one who acts like an evil Antipope Heretic – but with it came a nuance which had not occurred to me before. So, thinking that others too may have been assailed by this question or be pondering this nuance, I do hope you may publish my letter in your Mailbag.

While it will not be the first time you have answered this type of question, please let me lay out my thought process which includes the nuance: an attribute of the Being of God Who Is outside of our human reckoning of Time - a concept which I hitherto had not considered in my ponderings.

And so I ask: "Could the Sedevacantists [those who go way back], could they actually be right? Could they actually be the only clear-eyed, clear-headed ones who recognized and put what they were seeing unfold, 'all together, connecting the dots' called out the oncoming train and its wreckage before anyone else?" I realize the counter argument is that God would not desert us for those many decades. And I, too, when I was in the Novus Ordo, experienced unquestionably God's Presence, sometimes quite powerfully and unmistakably in His Most Holy Eucharist, which makes all the sacrileges and blasphemies experienced at the Novus Ordo celebrations even more odious and frightening to consider.

While I currently travel a distance on the Interstate to be at Sunday Mass and receive the Sacraments from the SSPX, the question keeps surfacing with the insistence of a new puppy dog that tags along behind one's feet.

As for God's promise not to abandon His Church, His True Church, which I wholeheartedly believe and trust, if what has been constructed in these subsequent decades is showing itself to be a false construct, a False Church, bearing bad fruit – which I wholeheartedly believe and trust also to be true – then if, God in His Inscrutable Being has told us that vast stretches of Time are but as an instant or a day in His Sight, to me it is now not looking impossible that these last 60 or 70 years – which seem to our human minds too long a time for God to have withdrawn Himself – might turn out to be actually what has taken place – since it would be only an instant in God's Mind – thereby making the long term Sedevacantists viewpoint reasonable after all?

Hoping the TIA desk may desire to address this aspect as I continue to ponder.

God bless all of you in your counter-revolutionary apostolate and May He do so abundantly through Our Lady who is, after all, Seat of Wisdom!

    E.Z., Ph.D.


TIA responds:

Dear Dr. E.Z.,

Thank you for your consideration in submitting your serious question to us.

The anti-Catholic declarations and gestures of Pope Francis are becoming so constant and radical that more and more Catholics are questioning whether he is actually a Pope. So, your comprehensible reaction to his kissing of the hand of that Indonesian imam last week seems to have been for you “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

You asked us to give our opinion on whether the evidence of Pope Francis’ heresies would not oblige you and us to adopt the sede-vacantist position.

We proceed to answer you.

1. Sede usurpata, not sede vacante

We at TIA believe that the pontificate of Pope Francis, even more than the pontificates of his five conciliar predecessors, justifies this serious question:

Is it not the case that Francis is an enemy, possibly a Freemason, who has infiltrated the Catholic Church and sworn to destroy her?

If we analyze the amount of destruction he has made in his 11 years at the head of the Church, we see that if he were in fact an infiltrated Freemason he could do neither more nor a better work of wreckage. Everything he does is convenient to please Freemasons and displease true Catholics.

Paradigmatic in this regard is his preaching about fraternity, a notion that coincides exactly with what the Masons have always defended. Indeed the Grand Orient of Spain issued a universal call: “All the Masons of the World Unite to Join the Pope's Call for 'Fraternity among Persons of Different Religions’” supporting Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi message of December 25, 2018.

This Masonic doctrine on universal fraternity became yet more official in Francis’ Encyclical Fratelli tutti.

Further, the Masonic Grand Lodges of several countries have poured out eulogies for various aspects of Francis’ pontificate, as we can verify here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Under Francis’ command sympathetic Vatican Prelates have openly approached Freemasons, such as the case of Card. Ravasi, who wrote them a letter with the salutation “Dear Masonic Brothers,” and Card. Coccopalmerio, who in a meeting with Freemasons in Milan proposed that “a permanent table” be established to continue dialogue between Catholics and Masons.

Thus, we have sufficient proof that Pope Francis is acting as an agent of Freemasonry would act if he infiltrated the Church in order to destroy her.

The first conclusion is, therefore, that directly or indirectly Freemasonry has taken over the Papacy, at least during the Francis Pontificate.

So, the reality in which we live is not that the See of Peter is vacant; it is that it was usurped by the worst enemies of the Catholic Church.

2. Different approaches before this reality

When a country is invaded by an enemy and its government is taken over by the enemy troops, the correct approach for the citizens of that country is:

1. To join forces to resist the bad orders of the enemy forces;
   
   
2. To sabotage as much as possible the enemy’s stability in its government;
   
   
3. To enlighten the population about the destruction of the country’s values that are being attacked;
   
   
4. To fight to recover each inch of territory usurped by the enemy.

What if, however, there should be some who, instead of resisting, were to open a juridical dispute against the validity of the takeover. Arguing that the new government violates the articles of the country’s constitution, they thus conclude that the new government is invalid and declare themselves separate from the enemy’s government. Further, they go on to live in peace far from the reach of the new government, and in their small corner they affirm that only they authentically represent the country.

To us this position is either a sign that such persons are out-of-reality regarding the military character of the invasion, or that they are accomplices of the enemy trying to divert the efforts of those who want to fight and lead them to a position of inertia.

An example can help you to see the mistake of the latter position: When Hitler took over France and installed his army in Paris, what the French patriots should have done, as they did, was to resist the Nazi government in France.

If a group of French citizens would have appealed to the constitution of France to prove that the German government was invalid and therefore vacant, and then fled the country, these persons would be absolutely out-of-reality. They would be applying to the situation laws that only rule in times of peace, not in a time of military invasion. Their obligation was to stay in France and fight using all legitimate means to expel the enemy.

Further, by preventing the real patriots from resisting the usurper, those “sede-vacantists” actually would be collaborating with the enemy, helping to keep it in place.

The same conclusion applies to the situation inside the Catholic Church and to those who pretend that the papacy is not usurped, but vacant. By affirming that the See of Peter is vacant, they induce the better Catholics to run away from the Church under the pretext of saving their souls, instead of staying inside the Church and fighting to restore her.

We at TIA believe that this juridical dispute should be made by historians in the future. To enter this topic now, besides being out-of-place, is to enter a dead end road since there is no authority on earth that has the right to decide whether the See of Peter is vacant or not. The only practical consequence of this dispute is to divert warriors from the real battle.

Our Lady of La Salette, whose Feast Day is today, did not predict that the See of Peter would be vacant; she predicted that Rome would become the See of the Antichrist, the usurper par excellence, and that the Church would enter into eclipse. (Read here, entries 22 and 31)

3. How to react to the heresies of the Conciliar Popes?

Francis continues to add one heresy after another to his collection. It is not the case to list them here. It is enough to recall his official approval of multiple homosexual aberrations, which are sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. It is enough to think of his constant doctrinal and practical denials of the dogma that the Catholic Church is the only ark of eternal salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus).

Francis’ heresies – as well as those of Benedict XVI, John Paul II, John Paul I, Paul VI and John XXIII – should not be taken lightly. We should analyze them, as TIA has done over these last 22 years, we should expose them, and we should make reparation for them. They should increase our sorrow for the Church who is being crucified. They should increase our élan to expel the enemy from the Church. They should convince us more and more that we are under the government of Antichrists.

Is it not predicted that the Antichrist and his precursors would vomit blasphemies and heresies? (Apoc. 13:5, 6)

Let us rise to the heights of the situation in which God placed us and defend His Church. Let us not run to the woods like cowards to save our skin and leave the Church alone in her Passion.

4. Practical conclusions

Progressivism, this Neo-Modernism that has dominated the Church since Vatican II, wants to completely destroy the Catholic Church. In practice it has the same goals of Freemasonry.

The six Conciliar Popes who succeeded Pius XII were declared progressivists, and have replaced most of the members of the Hierarchy by partisans of their ideas.

Therefore, the takeover of the Church by her enemies is almost complete.

These enemies will not cease their work until they will reach the entire destruction of Holy Mother Church.

In face of this situation, what we must do is the following:

1. To be convinced that we are living in a time when the enemy has dominated or usurped the Papacy and the Hierarchy;
   
   
2. To intelligently denounce this takeover as much as we can;
   
   
3. To stay inside the Church in order to recover every inch of terrain;
   
   
4. To not give any pretext for the enemies to use their usurped authority to condemn us. In other words, to keep the resistance in the realm of the papal power of teaching, avoiding attacks on the terrains of its power of jurisdiction and power of orders.
   
   
5. To denounce the adulterous character of the Conciliar Church by showing the contradictions of its doctrine with the perennial Catholic Magisterium;
   
   
6. To be prepared for all types of persecutions and defamations.
   
   
7. To not vacillate in the certainty that Our Lady will smash the head of the Devil and this general apostasy will end.

In our view, this is what we can do to end the usurpation, defeat the enemy and prepare the field for the intervention of Our Lord and Our Lady.

We hope, dear Dr. E.Z., that these considerations will provide a satisfactory answer to your quite comprehensible perplexities.

     Cordially,

     TIA correspondence desk