Janet Baker

Hi, Michelle. I'm going to try to respond to this post, as my eye is finally better! But only to this post and its thesis, that SSPX is, like your cat coming in and going out, somehow indecisive and neither leaving the modernist Church (as heretical) nor giving up its decades-long struggle and accepting Vatican II's doctrine and new mass and ending the division. I don't want to enter a protracted discussion--I'm not qualified and anyway would bore you! In anticipation, cutting to the chase, I am so glad they stay right up in Rome's face without yielding an inch of traditional doctrine and liturgy. It is true that in pursuit of clarity over the doctrinal points at issue, there was some wobbling. Bishop Fellay in April of 2012 offered to accept Vatican II as long as it could be 'interpreted in light of tradition,' said the new mass was both valid and licit, and said the 1983 Code of Canon Law that expressed points at issue of VII as Church law could be accepted. SSPX clergy and laity protested, and in July of 2012 a General Chapter was called and issued a new document to Rome that said SSPX demanded "freedom to prohibit, correct, and reprove" VII, to exclusively celebrate the old mass, and the erection of internal tribunals to bypass the new Code. That unequivocal position has been maintained by the Superior General replacing Bishop Fellay up to now, Father David Pagliarani. These conditions were presented by SSPX to Rome at that time as firm clarifications of Fellay's offer, and the negotiations collapsed. The July statement and the election of Pagliarani represented the dominance of the SSPX 'hardliners' with a moderate wing seeking a personal prelature with Rome and a loosely organized breakaway group led by the expelled Bishop Williamson, the 'Resistance.' SSPX has grown and its bishops have aged and it is physically impossible for them to continue to confirm laity and consecrate new priests to celebrate mass and administer the sacraments, and this 'state of necessity' has led, after years of discussion, to a scheduled consecration of new bishops, resulting in threats of new punishments by Rome. The names rumor is suggesting will be consecrated are all hardliners with positions of authority within SSPX, and because SSPX endured excommunication for so many years without diminution of its support and a complete erosion of Rome's coherent justification for such a radical punishment of Catholics guilty only of practicing Catholicism as it had been for centuries, there is no dread of that outcome, but only confidence that Rome will eventually come to its senses. I personally pray that SSPX will stay right where it is, as I heard Bishop Fellay express it at one of the Kansas City conferences, 'out on the porch in the rain knocking on Rome's door, and Rome comes, and SSPX asks if they are ready to reject the errors of Vatican II and Rome shouts "No!" and slams the door and SSPX resumes knocking.' If Roman authority are men able to see and hear, eventually the relation of the terrible chaos in the world to the flawed doctrine of Vatican II (as powerfully predicted in Lefebvre's "They Have Uncrowned Him') will become clear. SSPX continues to express that connection at every opportunity, SSPX laity like myself continue to try to show it, and as long as we stay the course there is hope for the precious doctrine and liturgy of the True Church and not that protestantized mess holding the real estate but not the truth.

@CullumSmith @ArchbishopBased This post is so offensive. Brian McCall is one of the brightest and best men in tradition, and kindest. Perhaps it is meant as a joke that everyone will get except me. I sure hope so.

@ArchbishopBased Is Brian McCall in the room with us right now?

SSPX bishops announced: Fr Pascal Schreiber (Swiss) Fr Michael Goldade (American) Fr Michel Poinsinet de Sivry (French) Fr Marc Hanappier (French)

@JaimeMercant @lachejov I don't think it's just to gain likes, I think it's recognition that first impressions last.

@lachejov Sí, y me han cansado mucho. Por esta razón, leeré la encíclica cuando tenga la versión impresa y luego ya comentaré. Estas ansias de ser el primero en comentar una encíclica para ganar likes son absurdas.

Creo que muchos medios se están aventurando a publicar comentarios sobre ella,sin leerla. Incluso la habrán pasado por la IA para que les haga un resumen. Cosa bastante temeraria y cutre. Es mejor hacer las cosas bien, como dice el pater,ya que se están publicando muchas tontadas

@lachejov Allowme to suggest a response I just this second read on X, Mr. Knox', "Only God has infinite dignity."

@StephenKokx Thank you! Best response yet!

Only God has infinite dignity.

@MarquisRhiz Many Mexicans are of the Conquistador blood.

Am I Mexican? *Chuckles* No. I am of the conquistador blood

@urbanistmama @Michaelfiore Oh, good to know. Thanks!

@StDog8 @Michaelfiore Zero drop refers to the height difference between the heel and toe of the shoe regardless of cushion thickness. The shoe pictured actually appears to be zero drop.

Since running shoes with thick foam are trending right now, I’ll tell you what I think of these as a recreational runner. I’ve had them 2 months now, ran about 80 miles in them so far. I wear these ONLY when I run because not only do they look goofy, but they’re also awkward to walk in. The thick foam and rocker design feels unstable when walking. However, everything changes when you actually run in them. The shock absorption is insane and it feels like they propel you forward. Easier on the joints too. I accidentally ran in my old Brooks the other day (Glycerin 22) and the difference was insane. I hated how my old ones felt by comparison even though I had previously ran a few hundred miles in them comfortably. I’m also taller and heavier than most runners, so I think this style of extra foam will be my go-to from now on.

@CBarrett47 @Michaelfiore They also mention bad circulation. I just watched a YT presentation and that's what prompted me to look up the brands of shoes they discussed.

@StDog8 @Michaelfiore No, the proponents say too much cushioning promotes bad form.

@LeeKuanYimby @farzyness And thought about the cost? "Same price as the bus but way more luxurious."

@farzyness You couldn't have thought about the seat layout for 10 seconds before generating the image and posting this?

There's an UNBELIEVABLE use case for regional trips in the US that will decimate air travel and buses. Fully autonomous Tesla Robovans outfitted as long-haul first-class "buses". These would run routes similar to Amtrak or Greyhounds, but with First-Class-like comfort, amenities, and space. The price per seat of these can be the same as a bus, but FAR more comfortable and FAR more luxurious. Can obviously optimize the interior for the best configuration but MAN. This would absolutely KILL.

@TheRegencyCook No, not really. Epicures are so boring.

I’m hoping that my posts about historic food will reach you through all the outrage on Twitter/X. Do you think too that there should be a place for comfort posts about things that unite & don’t divide? Like buns for example?

@allthatferguson Haha

They specified stealth though. That's rather the point.

@MoresJustus @dom_lucre Yeah, me too. Doesn't sound like he learned anything very original.

@dom_lucre I would recommend a traditional St Ignatius retreat instead.

🔥🚨LATEST: This man broke down in tears after taking off his blindfold that he kept on for 3 days during his darkness retweet. This retreat breaks down a person’s hardened persona to bring them to a new understanding and appreciation through the dark.

@subhavsamarth @SiddharthKG7 I think there are channels that show them but main stream media doesn't!

@SiddharthKG7 Unbelievable. I am also curious if 1960s can have real war videos, why we never witness such clear & real videos of wars now.

This is a real video, not from any movie. In Vietnam war, when a bridge was destroyed by US Air Force and Vietnamese soldiers had to escape, women made this temporary bridge to cross and stood in water for hours. No way you can win a people’s war.

@omnia_ad_jesum So you've been told: fight.

@StDog8 A Catholic does not fight the Church. A Catholic does not resist the Pope. Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom; pray for us.

I have more respect for a 'Catholic' that actually submits to his 'Pope' than I do for a 'Trad' that thinks you can seperate that fundamental filial submission from authentic Catholicism. The former has retained the correct and foundational Catholic attitude. Submits to what he in good faith believes is the Church and her Pope. The latter deludes himself into believing he can be like unto God, and stand in judgement of the teachings of the Vicar of Christ. And thinks Tradition can be preserved by rejecting the lone authority that can interpret that Tradition, and define theological matters with certainty. There are two ostensibly Catholic positions today. The Holy See is Occupied Or The Holy See is Vacant Only one can be true Only one is true Only one means the Church has not defected Only one preserves the Faith of all ages, uncorrupted Only one ensures valid sacrements and un polluted Catholic doctrine Only one preserves the means to reconstitute the Church, her vacant Sees and her apostate ridden parishes. Choose carefully

@omnia_ad_jesum To label and overthrow Arianism required that loyal Catholics fight the apparatus of the Church of the time. You'd do well to fight the apparatus of modernism right now! Yes, dear Mother, pray for us!

@omnia_ad_jesum So where do my words there say the pope has openly taught heresy? That the chair of Peter is empty? I said the human beings there are homosexuals and modernists and that we must fight them! And you called me non-Catholic for it!

I notified Mr. Lemieux that the Holy See was presently occupied by homosexuals and modernists, and here is how he took my sincere warning: You cannot believe that and retain the name Catholic. The Holy See is the head of the Spotless Bride of Christ." So.

@ChildOfStThomas @MLJHaynes They cannot be justified using Just War teaching! Pope didn't say offensive wars only! He said Church teaching was outdated/

@MLJHaynes Cardinal Ottaviani argued that offensive wars are different in kind than the wars fought in the past. He argued that the scale and unintended effects has made it such that offensive wars can no longer ever be justified. Pope Leo is completely correct.

Pope Leo XIV writes that the Catholic teaching on Just War Theory “is now outdated” “Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the 'just war' theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated.” Details on @PelicanCatholic

@omnia_ad_jesum Noe did I say that!

@StDog8 You are a fool if you think that lay Catholics being immoral or even clergy if it were to transpire, means that the Pope can teach a new religion or be a public heretic.

@GLandsbergis Europe is borrowing money to provide it. At today's interest rates. Russia is paying cash.

Zelenskyy doesn't need European mediation at the negotiating table, he needs European support on the battlefield.

@Fair_and_Biased He has to say the part about how we lost it, how Jesus through heroic suffering won it back, and how we must renounce sin to become--grand.

“In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life…” I hesitate to say this is heretical, but I’m not comfortable with the phrasing. Jesus Himself is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.