Pints With Aquinas Amid The Ashes Of Rome

Babbling In the Seat Of The Antichrist

Back in the waning days of June, before Trump Assassination Theatre touched off the Long Hot Summer of Political Circuses, two of this Wolf's favorite shills, Matt Fraud and Cardinal Covid Burke, had a summit in Rome to discuss "The Divided Church". (Guess who is dividing the Church?  You got it.  Not Pope Frantic and his College of Satanic Pederasts, but Yours Truly who dares to keep tossing Cold Pricklies among the Warm Fuzzies of the Conciliar Revolution.)  Let's just take a quick look at this Dog's Breakfast Amid a Dumpster Fire to see how the Conciliar Church just keeps rolling placidly along right through the Gates of Hell.

Cardinal Burke will start with a discussion concerning his Nine Month "novena" to Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Not that this Wolf has anything against Our Lady of Guadalupe- in fact he hopes to make a Pilgrimage to Tepeyac Hill.  But OUR LADY OF FATIMA WHO????, Cardinal Burke?  Do you think Our Lady of Fatima might be more pertinent to the current "crisis in the church"?  Do you think maybe Our Lady would be more pleased if, during the course of those nine months, you stressed making the Nine First Fridays and the Five First Saturdays?   Yes, it is wonderful that Our Lady of Guadalupe converted millions of pagan Aztecs in the ensuing years, and that Mexico is devoted to her even to this day.  But did not Our Lady of Fatima request devotion to Her Immaculate Heart as a remedy for what ills us today?  So why no mention of her?

Of course, we can depend on Matt Fraud not to ask anything even approaching a hard question to Cardinal Burke.  No, we are going to get another game of Slow Pitch Women's Softball.  And so Matt begins: "I'm so grateful to you for having rather than calling us to what this or that person said you're calling us to the Blessed Mother."
In reply Cardinal Burke bleats: "All of us recognize that there are serious problems in the church but dwelling on them ruminating on them is not helping anything.  We're in the hands of God.  We have to turn to God and place this before him and have conversion in our own lives first and foremost and then to pray for the for the conversion of our culture..."
Mr Fraud will then confess a mortal sin to the Cardinal.  "I just had to drive through Rome- which I will never do again- and a few 'choice words' slipped out of my mouth- I shouldn't even call them that.   And I had to apologize to my children."
If one was expecting the Cardinal to be somewhat taken aback and perhaps gently admonish Mr Fraud that as a grown man one really needs to learn patience and not act like a juvenile when getting a little frustrated.  What is the hurry?  Just take in the sights and enjoy the ride.  And to use coarse language or display anger with children in the car?  What a bad example as a parent!  But of course this is Clown Cardinal in Clown Church with My Clueless.  That revelation will just roll off the Cardinal like water off the duck's back and he will eventually get around to saying: "...all of us have a part to play.  It's important for the faithful to be aware of difficulties in the church and to express their concern about them.  But there's only so much we can do.  Even myself as a cardinal... I can be aware of all kinds of things and and I can do my part but there comes a certain point where I have to turn it over to to our Lord..."
And what, Cardinal Burke?  Just allow Pope Frantic and his Merry Band of Satanic Pederasts to continue to wreak havoc on what is left of the Faithful?  Just continue to tolerate the status quo?  Not admonish people to leave these venues of blasphemy and infidelity?  Not question that perhaps something was really wrong with the council and the "reforms".  Oh no, instead we get the tired line that the "Council was Hijacked" by those Evil "Reformers" but Oh Thank God Pope Benedict successfully sorted things out and gave us all these wonderful reforms.  And since then, according to Cardinal Burke, we have had a few problems- needless to say, he does not name any names- but all is in the hands of God and He permits all this with His permissive will and who are we to probe the Mysteries of God?  And meanwhile, of course, we must respect the Office of the Papacy and his Legates.
And so, after that brief, vapid foray into "the crisis in the Church" Cardinal Burke will then treat us to his acquaintance with the last five popes, and then will be asked about his favorite restaurant in Rome.
Yes, this is Clown Church where the only virtue is resignation.  Now, this Wolf was resigned years ago.  He realized that heartfelt letters to the bishop were worthless; they would be quickly consigned to the Round File.  A long time ago, while preparing to lead the Rosary at his Novus Ordo Parish, this Wolf got truly exasperated.  He entered the Church after the last "Mass" which had featured a "First Communion."  The church was absolute bedlam.  People were clustered in groups around the "altar", chattering away.  This continued for minute after minute as people for the next Mass were arriving and taking their places.  Finally, the time to start the Rosary arrived.  This Wolf imagined that the moment he knelt down at the Prie Dieux and made the Sign of the Cross, conversation would cease and quiet would return.  Instead, to his surprise, even as he practically shouted at the top of his voice, "In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost", the noise continued.  Some even looked at him with indignation.  Not until the middle of the Second Decade did all talking finally cease.  And this Wolf was so angry that after the Rosary, as some of those people were still there, he gave a short lecture to the effect that Silence should be preserved in church, there is a whole parking lot outside to carry on a conversation- the weather was very nice that day- and if people had no respect for the Presence of God in the Most Blessed Sacrament at least they might have some consideration for people that were actually trying to pray.  And of course the pastor was not mad at the cackling infidels.  No, how dare this Wolf usurp his authority and remonstrate with his flock- that was his job.
Of course, today this Wolf realizes that at that time he was not in a Catholic Parish.  No, he was amid the Ruins of the Abomination of Desolation.  Our Lord had probably been banished from that Tabernacle years ago.  (Providence does work in mysterious ways. The Novus Ordo clergy and their underlings long ago developed a revulsion for Tabernacle veils.  They are indeed telling the World about their activities.)  And Cardinal Burke and Matt Fraud can congratulate themselves on being a party to the ongoing sacrileges while promoting confusion.  Not this Wolf.  May he be able to say with the Psalmist: "I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:  That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy wondrous works.  I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of Thy house; and the place where Thy glory dwelleth.  Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:  In whose hands are iniquities..."

Believe it or not, once upon a time Churchmen really did admonish us to keep to the Straight and Narrow, and solemnly warned sinners they were on the path to Eternal Perdition.  That was before Vatican II made the blizzard of Warm Fuzzies obligatory.