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Ask a Traditionalist / Re: Gospel of Matthew and the ...

Last post by Gardener - Today at 02:09:23 PM

I had no clue Brother Nathaniel was Jewish by birth

Dude looks like he'd risk running in traffic to grab a penny from the road. Lol

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General Catholic Discussion / Re: Fr Shannon Collins suspend...

Last post by Gardener - Today at 02:03:24 PM

Father Kopczynski is the guy who railed against LOTR and said Catholics shouldn't be reading it.

On that basis alone, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the Bishop.

There were so many straw-men and other logical fallacies in that sermon. It was really embarrassing to listen to, frankly.

Would be like me giving a talk on the history of Quebec.

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The Coffee Pot / Re: Paypal dispute

Last post by Gardener - Today at 01:59:41 PM

This seller first tried to say that there was no damage, despite me having sent pictures of the damage. Then, when I sent even MORE pictures of the damage, she said: "If there is a small hole there, mend it." The "small hole" extended all the way across the back of the doll. She knew it was there. Now I'm worried that she'll say the doll was damaged during shipping (I packed it extremely well), or wasn't received in the same condition it was sent. I wouldn't put anything past her. It's a real shame, as I've been talking with this woman off and on for 4 months. I thought I could trust her. She wanted me to pay friends and family, but that wasn't an option as it was sent to her business paypal address. Thank goodness, because I totally would have done it, and been left without any options.

Yeah, never ever pay for goods with PayPal FF, only GS. If they complain about the fees, there are online calculators so you can cover it (usually not much in the grand scheme of things).

For example, using this calculator (https://www.salecalc.com/paypal?p=200&l=us&r=0&e=0&f=0&m=2&c=0), we see that in order for a seller to receive $200 after fees they need to receive $207.74.

I'd rather throw away $7.74 than $200.

If I had a seller ask for FF and I offer to pay their fees and they balk, I'd consider that a giant red flag.

Fwiw, PayPal usually sides with the buyer and especially if you have evidence of the issues and attempt to resolve with the seller.

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General Catholic Discussion / Re: Favorite OT Bible Stories?

Last post by crossingtherubicon - Today at 01:49:49 PM

Anne Catherine Emmerich said the giants could carry huge boulders up mountains.  Think of all the time and wonder by scientists spent contemplating how the pyramids were built, and if its that simple of an explanation.  She also said it was an incredibly wicked time.

"I saw Cain's descendants becoming more and more godless and sensual. They settled further and further up that mountain ridge where were the fallen spirits. Those spirits took possession of many of the women, ruled them completely, and taught them all sorts of seductive arts. Their children were very large.

They possessed a quickness, an aptitude for everything, and they gave themselves up entirely to the wicked spirits as their instruments. And so arose on this mountain and spread far around, a wicked race which by violence and seduction sought to entangle Seth's posterity likewise in their own corrupt ways. Then God declared to Noe His intention to send the Deluge. During the building of the ark, Noe had to suffer terribly from those people.

I have seen many things connected with the race of giants. They could with ease carry enormous stones high up the mountain, they could accomplish the most stupendous feats. They could walk straight up trees and walls just as I have seen others possessed by the devil doing. They could effect the most wonderful things, they could do whatever they wished; but all was pure jugglery and delusion due to the agency of the demon. It is for that reason that I have such horror of every species of jugglery and fortunetelling. These people could form all kinds of images out of stone and metal; but of the knowledge of God they had no longer a trace. They sought their gods in the creatures around them. I have seen them scratch up a stone, form it into an extravagant image, and then adore it. They worshipped also a frightful animal and all kinds of ignoble things. They knew all things, they could see all things, they were skilled in the preparing of poisons, they practiced sorcery and every species of wickedness. The women invented music. I saw them going around among the better tribes trying to seduce them to their own abominations. They had no dwelling houses, no cities, but they raised massive round towers of shining stone. Under those towers were little structures leading into great caverns wherein they carried on their horrible wickedness. From the roofs of these structures, the surrounding country could be seen, and by mounting up into the towers and looking through tubes, one could see far into the distance. But it was not like looking through tubes made to bring distant objects into view. The power of the tubes to which I here allude, was effected by satanic agency. They that looked through them could see where the other tribes were settled. Then they marched against them, overcame them, and lawlessly carried all before them. That same spirit of lawlessness they exercised everywhere. I saw them sacrificing children by burying them alive in the earth. God overthrew that mountain at the time of the Deluge.

Henoch, Noe's ancestor, opposed that wicked race by his teachings. He wrote much. Henoch was a very good man and one very grateful to God. In many parts of the open fields, he raised altars of stone and there the fruits of the earth flourished. He gave thanks to God and offered sacrifice to Him. Chiefly in his family was religion preserved and handed down to Noe. Henoch was taken up to Paradise. There he waits at the entrance gate, whence with another (Elias) he will come again before the last day."

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The Coffee Pot / Re: Started Book 3

Last post by ChairmanJoeAintMyPrez - Today at 12:31:25 PM

Lemme guess; Cope LC, black coffee, and IPA.

Close.  Substitute Bellhaven Black Scottish Stout.

Dammit lol.

I like an IPA every now and then, but I have no problem admitting it:

When I hear "IPA", I don't think "man's man."  I think "man bun."

#6

General News and Discussion / Re: SSPX Press Release on Fr. ...

Last post by Melkor - Today at 11:37:34 AM

That's a very valid point.

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General News and Discussion / Re: SSPX Press Release on Fr. ...

Last post by Bonaventure - Today at 10:46:55 AM

Yeah my bad Bonny I didn't see the other thread. What a sickening mess. I truly hope he wasn't enabled as that is far worse than just a random pedo operating in secret. Makes them culpable almost moreso than him.

Makes me question a lot about the SSPX, while I will still support them (as they have done nothing but good in my own and my families' lives) it does leave some serious questions and doubt.

No worries.

I just want to add that I entirely disagree with this point:

making it a huge public thing will only draw souls away from the sspx and the TLM. I dunno, just my 2 cents.

It's this type of mindset that allowed and allows abuse to happen.

I've worked in education and Law Enforcement. There are precautions, protocol, and background checks that everyone needs to undergo, especially when it involves minors.

Just because a man has had hands laid upon him and says a Mass in Latin, should not give him a different standard.

Especially when we are talking about Trad priests who are operating on the principle of Epikeia and supplied jurisdiction. We should be even more vigilant.

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General News and Discussion / Re: SSPX Press Release on Fr. ...

Last post by Melkor - Today at 10:40:15 AM

Yeah my bad Bonny I didn't see the other thread. What a sickening mess. I truly hope he wasn't enabled as that is far worse than just a random pedo operating in secret. Makes them culpable almost moreso than him.

Makes me question a lot about the SSPX, while I will still support them (as they have done nothing but good in my own and my families' lives) it does leave some serious questions and doubt.

[even intellectually.]

#9

The Sedevacantist Thesis / Re: Sedevacantists and Akita

Last post by Bataar - Today at 10:00:18 AM

Whatever theory ends up being correct, ultimately, only God will be able fix and solve this crisis. He will do so in such a clear fashion, that no men will be able to take even a morsel of credit.

That's why my days of being a keyboard warrior are mostly behind me. Bergoglio will continue to spew heresy. I will still have to fulfill my duties of state.

Convincing others that my position is the correct one, and stating that FSSPers, SSPXers, and even the Archbishop himself, are taking a position that is aligned with enemies of the Church - where does that get anyone? That savors of Dogmatic Sedevacantism, and goes contrary to the policy and rules of this forum - which is officially opionist.

If everyone on this forum, every single member, embraced Sede Vacante tomorrow, would that change anything?

Let's say that tomorrow, the Superiors General of the SSPX, FSSP, ICRSS, and all "regularized" trads embraced SV. Let's then say that all SV clergy - SGG, CMRI, even SSPV, all met up, conditionally consecrated and ordained everyone so that there were 0 doubts as to validity, did the same to all of the "Ecclesia Dei" or "motu" clergy, and we have all trad clergy officially Sedevacantist.

Would that solve the crisis? No - only God would. The NO apparatus would still continue on, and will continue on, until God decides to end this.
 

And not only will such a scenario not (by itself) solve the crisis in Rome, it will have no effect on our personal salvations. A few of us have said the latter repeatedly.  It will do no good at my Personal Judgment to claim that any sins of mine are excused by a rotting papacy ("because" I had no decent Pope to follow, and supposedly I was deserving of a better one). I have the exact same moral culpability  that I would have if Pope St. Pius X or some other reliable pope were in office during my lifetime.

(1) Lay people have zero responsibility to solve the crisis in Rome even intellectually.
(2) Lay people have no responsibility to resolve the crisis on a personal level, either.  If it is God's judgment, at my death, that I should have "made a decision" about PF or whoever, He will surprise me with that news at that time, and until then, no one is authorized to tell any other Catholic about a manufactured moral responsibility to "figure it all out."

We are responsible to comply with divine positive law and the precepts of the Church whether or not PF is doing so and whether or not he imagines (wrongly) that he is at liberty to change divine law, such as the Sixth Commandment -- and whether or not we make a public statement about what he is doing and the state of his office and his soul.

The people who may very well be held responsible are the clerical personnel involved in a refusal to lead and a refusal to clarify -- a refusal to complete the duties of their own ecclesiastical state in life, which are not a lay person's state in life. We don't have to internalize other people's responsibilities to act on heresy, let alone take the blame for the sins of confused hierarchy or outright heretics. We have plenty of our own sins, and we will be responsible only for those.

Completely agree with Bonaventure that only God can solve this, and even most N.O. priests at this time, not to mention all trad priests I'm acquainted with, are convinced that both the Church and the world are too far gone at this point for either to repair itself without divine intervention.

Lay people do have an obligation to know the truth so they can act on it accordingly. Let's say that sedevacantists are right for this argument. Bishops consecrated in the rite of Paul VI are not valid and therefore, none of the priests they've ordained are valid. Therefore, none of the priests in question are actual priests and none of their sacraments are valid. Lay people have an obligation to receive valid sacraments. If they are going to these lay priests, they are not receiving valid sacraments and are therefore, in unknowing disobedience to God. If the above scenario is true, would you agree that lay people do have an obligation to make a change to ensure they receive valid sacraments?

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General News and Discussion / Re: SSPX Press Release on Fr. ...

Last post by Bonaventure - Today at 09:37:35 AM

It is interesting that Fr. Rostand's name is not mentioned in the SSPX USA article and that it is said that the superiors did not cover up the situation.

Even if they did not cover it up, Menzingen/Fellay enabledit, according to Rostand himself.

It is even more interesting that this claim has not been denied or repudiated.

I'm sure, if Rostand indeed wrote these letters to his superiors admitting that he had a problem with underage homosexual vice, on at least four different occasions, and then, was made US District Superior, this will all come out during discovery. If that is indeed the case, the SSPX is no better than the Novus Ordo/Conciliar Church/New Church/Bergoglian/Ratzingerian/Garrulous Carolous's/Montinian Sect. In fact, they are worse, if this is true.

How did they enable it?

I highly doubt he was made superior with them knowing it. That wouldn't make any sense. This thread kinda seems like sspx bashing. While the abuse is sickening and sad, it seems going out on a limb to accuse the sspx of enabling it.

Side note I actually met Fr Rostand when I was a youth, served Mass for him I think, and he came over for supper as well during his tenure as superior. Needless to say nothing happened to me, nor have I ever heard of a thing concerning him in Canada/US. It seems the abuse was relegated to France; hopefully. Still a terrible and sickening thing, both because it may draw people away from the society and because I knew him slightly on a personal letter.

But let's exercise prudence here; he's not associated with the sspx after his abuse became known, and making it a huge public thing will only draw souls away from the sspx and the TLM. I dunno, just my 2 cents.

As the other thread I created states:

In his court testimony, the 58-year-old priest admitted to his crimes and apologized to victims, saying he has "always struggled against this attraction" to adolescents.

Significantly, Rostand made his SSPX superiors aware of his struggles as early as 1998, writing a letter to his superiors admitting his attraction to children. He repeated his concerns to superiors in 2000, 2006 and 2016.

https://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=31634.0

Again, if that is true, Fellay and Menzingen enabled it.