TJ Mosser

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The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. ~Francis Heller (🎨A Grandmother's Love (1888)by Paul Hermann Wagner)

@CullumSmith What I see in this conflict is the dividing line between those are willing and able to *see* that enemies within sabotaged the Church and that Lefebvre was practically the only bishop who took lasting action to preserve the Church; and those who can't or refuse to see that.

I do wonder if all these cheerleaders for excommunication have ever actually been to an SSPX chapel. Once you've heard these men preach or offered them your confession, the issue seems a lot less black and white. "The sheep follow him, because they know his voice."

@FrDaveNix My own experience shows the more I struggled to detach from various sins, the more I "despaired" over how "unfair" hell was; but then the more I overcame those sins by the grace of the sacraments, the more *just* hell appeared, and the more motivated I became to not go there...

I got an interesting email today from someone who just started reading the saints on the amount of people in heaven and hell. She insisted that if more are lost than saved, "then I can no longer trust in God’s plan and I’m lost." I understand her shock of going from modernist writings to traditional writings (as she had just done) so I'm not mad at her question. But I sent her this quote from CS Lewis, because his answer is brilliant: "What some people say on earth is that the final loss of one soul gives the lie to all the joy of those who are saved. But see what lurks behind [that]... The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven... Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it; or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves."—The Great Divorce p 118.

@Ordo_Militaris @wrathofgnon Or perhaps, *completed* the French Revolutionaries' work...

@wrathofgnon Vatican II did what the French Revolutionaries failed to achieve.

The Carmelite convent that gave us the 16 Martyrs of the French Revolution will close: "The Carmel of the Annunciation, founded in Compiègne in 1641 and following the Rule of St. Teresa of Avila, was the 53rd foundation in France at the time. It had a unique impact, giving the Church 16 holy martyrs. These 16 nuns were expelled from their monastery during the French Revolution and guillotined in Paris on July 17, 1794, out of hatred for the faith." aleteia.org/2026/04/28/sad…

@wrathofgnon Such a New Springtime 🙄

@EMichaelJones1 @TaylorRMarshall That flies directly in the face of the Pope's obligation to save souls in the present moment.

@TaylorRMarshall Pope Leo's ecumenism should be understood in the light of God's plan to allow Protestantism to expire. At a certain point there will be no Anglican church left. Establishing good relations in the interim lets them know they are welcome in the Catholic Church.

When I was an Anglican priest, I would meet Catholic priests who called me “Father” and said things like, “I’m praying for your priestly ministry.” This reinforced for me that I was approved by Catholic clergy and was therefore “valid”. It did terrible damage to my soul and it was very uncharitable of them - although they didn’t intend it. They confirmed me in my error. This is why I am against fake ecumenism. It set me back. The first Catholic priest who ever challenged me, saying I wasn’t a priest and that I should become a Catholic, was Msgr James Conley, who told me so in a friendly but firm way at a cafe in Rome by St Anne’s Gate in 2006. He’s now Bishop Conley of Lincoln Nebraska. Thank you, @bishop_conley My opinion is that Pope Leo (a cradle Catholic) does not fully understand how he is reinforcing Anglican errors by assuming kindness and encouraging their sacerdotal acts. The Anglicans interpret it as “full approval and 99% Full Communion.” Sometimes Protestants just need to be told “Let’s be one. True unity is in truth and communion. Protestantism is lacking and wrong. It’s time to become fully Catholic.” Do you agree?

@ModernBoethius No, what you're advocating is to turn off your intellect and stop noticing how enemies within have sabotaged the Church; and to instead just smile and laugh and go on your merry way...

When you realize that Vatican 2 and the Novus Ordo were a return to Tradition

@Yoda4ever What on earth is that at 0:52 🤯😬🫪😵‍💫???

The bond between kids and their pups..🐕🐾😊

@BigModernism Honestly, EMJ is very good with Church history in terms of Jewish treachery and subversion; yet suddenly he forgets all that when it comes to the Council....

How absolutely clueless do you have to be about the SSPX over the last 40 years, on top of being absolutely clueless about Catholic theology, to make the ridiculous statement that SSPX clergy are not part of the Catholic Church? Why anyone listens to this man I will never understand.

@colum_mccurdy @BigModernism That's an argument EMJ likes to make, but it's a red herring. Luther actually changed teachings and praxis, but the SSPX is only continuing to be Catholic as had been done for centuries -- it's the N.O. establishment that has changed things.

@BigModernism gotta love your Protestant logic. 1. The institutional Church has failed us 2. We have legitimate spiritual needs it refuses to meet 3. Therefore we are justified in establishing our own structures 4. This is not rebellion — it is fidelity to the true Gospel Luther said essentially the same thing in 1517. The aesthetics are different. The ecclesiological logic is identical.

@jjbauer15 @CullumSmith True; and I meant a bishop *within* the governance of the Church, would seem justified in simply continuing to be Catholic as always. If the "current governing hierarchy" thinks this is somehow "unfaithful", then the "current governing hierarchy" is breaking the unity of faith.

@jjbauer15 @CullumSmith Well, implications of "defection" aside, isn't it objectively true that the current governing hierarchy has sown destructive confusion and contradicted consistent tradition? Wouldn't a bishop be justified in continuing Catholic practice as had always been done for centuries?

Dr. Kwasniewski is correct. At some point, the SSPX (and similar groups) must be re-integrated into the normal structures of the Church, and this seems increasingly hopeless as time goes on. However... The first mark of the Church — her Oneness — is threefold: manifested in her Unity of Faith, Sacraments, and Governance. The SSPX contends that Vatican 2 introduced errors contrary to the faith, and sacraments that, while valid, do not fully express the Catholic religion. This confusion, they claim, is not the result of a misguided "spirit" of Vatican 2, but of magisterial orientations that have been "received, developed, and applied for sixty years by successive popes" through documents like Amoris Laetitia and Traditionis Custodes. For Rome's part, they have not done much to dispel this claim in recent years. In short, the Lefebrvrists are holding out for the Unity of Faith before they worry about the details of Governance. In contrast, we have the Ecclesia Dei groups. Now, the Ecclesia Dei Commission does not actually exist anymore, but the name seems to have stuck. These are the diocesan TLMs, the FSSP, the ICKSP — the "full communion" clergy and faithful whom I affectionately call the dio-trads. Virtually none of these folks give real assent to developments like Traditionis Custodes, Amoris Laetitia, or Mater Populi Fidelis. They typically avoid the Novus Ordo at all costs, but do so under the guise of sincere liturgical attachments or a desire for greater reverence. Unfortunately, the price of Full Communion™ is their silence (at least in the public forum) on the obvious cause of all the doctrinal confusion which has rocked the Church since the 1960s. Don't get me wrong — I know many holy priests who do heroic work within the diocesan structures — but there are certain topics they simply cannot touch from the pulpit if they want to continue shepherding their flocks. In order to secure the ability to operate "behind enemy lines," we might say the dio-trads have instead prioritized Unity of Governance over Unity of Faith. Finally, there is on last manifestation of the Church's Oneness which I have not touched on: the Unity of Sacraments. It seems to me that BOTH camps have reduced this mark to a paltry "Well, the Novus Ordo sacraments are valid." Whether you come right out and say the New Mass is harmful (as the SSPX does) or just silently rearrange your entire sacramental life to avoid it (like the dio-trads), your actions pretty much tell the same story. In conclusion, it's just not obvious to me that the dio-trad strategy is any superior to that of the Lefebvrists. Post-TC, the tradeoffs of each are now painfully obvious, and the stage is set. We can now only watch and pray: "And now, therefore, I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought; But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God."

@jjbauer15 @CullumSmith How does one maintain "unity of governance" with a hierarchy that has consistently attacked the unity of faith?

@CullumSmith If the Church's oneness is in both faith and governance, how could one prong be diminished while the other disproportionately magnified relative to the other? "the Lefebrvrists are holding out for the Unity of Faith before they worry about the details of Governance."

@ChivalryGuild "Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication." How exquisitely beautiful. Take that and add genuine intellectual rigor, and you will have Christendom again🙏💪

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication."

@BGatesIsaPyscho Muslim horde is far more dangerous than unvaccinated cattle-- madness....

🚨🇫🇷 Meanwhile in France French police are now using drones equipped with thermal imaging, to locate cattle hidden in the country, whose owners (Farmers) refused to vaccinate. Once located, huge teams of police & vaccine administers turn up to inject all their livestock ‼️ This farm got his last week.

@FrDaveNix @theTexasTrad *ba-dum-tss...* Nailed it😎

Is he saying it takes a miracle to get the Jews to share?

@EMichaelJones1 Actually he's precisely correct that nostra aetate is dangerously ambiguous and flawed. You so powerfully see Jewish treachery all through history, Dr Jones, yet when it comes to Vatican II and the new Mass, suddenly the Jews drop out of the picture. That's not reality.

Nick Fuentes is out of his depth. x.com/FuentesUpdates… Nostra Aetate is part of the magisterium of the Catholic Church. It does not say that all world religions are salvific, or have a part in salvation. He is undermining the Catholic faith among a group whose understanding of Church teaching is already weak and is causing scandal by pretending to speak with an authority he does not have.

@Tanyaelisabeth This certainly seems the more natural way to go about it. But it requires coming from families that have the means and space to accommodate you as you "make your own way", which is tragically less common now ...

It used to be that marriage was the starting point. Two people came together with almost nothing but each other, and they built everything side by side: careers, homes, families, dreams. The process of building wasn’t just something practical, it was bonding. It forged loyalty. It required sacrifice. It taught interdependence. Today, we’re told to have it all before we marry. A stable career. A house. A good savings account. independence. But by the time two people finally come together, they’ve spent years learning how to do life alone, how to protect themselves, prioritize themselves, rely only on themselves, and somehow we wonder why it’s so hard to build a life with someone? Marriage is no longer a beginning. It’s an accessory to an already-built life, but two self-contained, self-sufficient lives do not easily merge. There is no “ours”, now there is only “yours” and “mine.” Individualism didn’t just redefine marriage. Individualism is its death.

@Electroversenet Another theory is that due to periodic fluctuations in the magnetic field the crust actually decouples from the mantle and shifts roughly a quarter turn, putting the pole roughly around the equator. See "ECDO theory" and @EthicalSkeptic

A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago. The species is Swiss stone pine. Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold. 6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2. Earth's climate is cyclical. Mother Nature self-regulates. Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.

@andre_villenve @MattGaspers St Vincent Ferrer and St John Capistran converted many thousands, just to name two 🤷

@MattGaspers But of course! How did I not think of that? Every time someone calls me "Satan" or "perfidious", I immediately want to convert to their way of life. With such a winsome approach you must have converted scores of Jews. How many exactly?

What is truly unfortunate, @andre_villenve, is your spellbound devotion (cf. Gal. 3:1) to “them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9). You ignore the truth that “all are not Israelites that are of Israel” (Rom. 9:6), since “it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God” (Rom. 2:28-29). This is how Our Lord describes those who claim to be children of Abraham and yet reject Him: “You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do” (John 8:44). Do you accept the truth of His words or not? I accept His words, which is why I pray “for the perfidious Jews [pérfidis Iudæis],” as the Church has prayed for centuries, “that our God and Lord would remove the veil from their hearts [cf. 2 Cor. 3:15-16]: that they also may acknowledge our Lord Jesus Christ” (Good Friday Prayer for the Jews). This is not “hateful” or “antisemitic.” It is an expression of true charity, which “rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth” (1 Cor. 13:6).