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Category Archives: Francis / Bergoglio

If I Were Not a Sedevacantist…

I’M happy to pass along an excellent little video by Fr. Nicolas Desposito, a colleague and theology professor at Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida. The point: If you insist Bergoglio’s a real pope, you’ve got to treat him like one! Give him something to worry about! Support our internet apostolate!

A Bergoglio Promo for Apostasy Lite

WELL, just when I thought I could give the pope question a rest for a few days, Bergoglio comes out with a sleek, feel-good video promo for “apostasy lite.” https://youtu.be/Nq7us5Lf5IU After clip of a Buddhist expressing confidence in Buddha, a Jew professing belief in Yahweh, a cleric in Jesus Christ and a Moslem in “God-Allah,” Bergoglio says […]

The Tribal Myth-Keepers: Salza and Siscoe on Sedevacantism

IN THE FIRST four days of 2016, my video Why Do Traditionalists Fear Sedevacantism? managed to rack up a respectable number of views. It also provoked a testy post by John Salza and Robert Siscoe, authors of True or False Pope? a book urging traditionalists to — wait for it! — fear sedevacantism. They have now […]

Why Do Traditionalists Fear Sedevacantism?

A LENGTHY book by R&R (“recognize and resist”) controversialists John Salza and Robert Siscoe, soon to be published by the Society of St. Pius X, prompts this question. In this video, Father Cekada provides the answer, based on the early history of the traditionalist movement, theological principles and his own observations on the practical considerations that […]

Stuck in a Rut: Anti-Sedevacantism in the Age of Bergoglio

THE ELECTION of Jorge Mario Bergoglio by the March 2013 conclave was a turning point in the ongoing dispute among Catholic traditionalists over the question of the pope: Do we “recognize” the post-Vatican II popes as true popes, but “resist” them? (The “R&R” position held by the Society of St. Pius X, Bp. Williamson, The Remnant, Catholic […]

Dr. de Mattei Prescribes an Anti-Sede Tranquilizer

by Rev. Anthony Cekada A 14th century pope was a “heretic” and remained pope, so Bergoglio must remain pope, too, right? Right?  JORGE BERGOGLIO’s antics are unnerving more and more people in the conservative/traditionalist wing of the post-Vatican II establishment, and it is becoming harder and harder for them to insist that Francis is really […]

Three Rules to Discern a Heretic

A dynamite two-minute video explains how. by Rev. Anthony Cekada HOW CAN you tell a heretic from a real Catholic? The answer to the question has always been of supreme importance to faithful Catholics confronted with the errors of the post-Vatican II age. And of late, the answer has become even more pressing in the era of Francis, the […]

Bergoglio’s Got Nothing to Lose…

… so the sedevacantist argument must change. by Rev. Anthony Cekada SINCE JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO’S election in March 2013, I’ve heard from more and more traditional Catholics who are starting to wonder whether sedevacantism might now be the only coherent way to explain the state of affairs in the post-Vatican II church. As I noted in a post […]

Bergoglio’s New “Marriage Mess”

A papal phone call and sacraments for the invalidly married. by Rev. Anthony Cekada “I want a mess,” said Jorge Bergoglio during World Youth Day in Rio last year — and boy, is he making one. I’m not referring to the John XXIII/John Paul II canonization but to another potentially more momentous incident that’s been […]

Should I Assist at a Mass that Names “Pope Francis” in the Canon?

Sedevacantists should be consistent, especially since the advent of Bergoglio. by Rev. Anthony Cekada ONE HOT TOPIC endlessly discussed on traditionalist forums over the past few years is whether traditional Catholics should assist at a traditional Latin Mass in which the priest would mention the name of a false pope (like John Paul II, Benedict […]