Trolls, Shills, Disinformation, And "Tradrecovery.com"

Down The Rabbit Hole with Mrs Vander Von

The "crisis in the church" has become a linguistic maelstrom, helped not a little by the Satanic Pederasts in the SSPX, the FSSP, the CMRI, and the Vatican.  The evidence is now clear, at least to this Wolf, that they are all working in tandem.  The mission: to discredit Catholic Tradition, True Christian Modesty, and Dogmatic Theology while spreading maximum fear, uncertainty, and doubt.  This Wolf is, as an Apostle of Our Lady of Fatima, desperately trying to inject sanity, objectivity, and charity into the discussion, although with each passing day this endeavor seems less likely to succeed then two firemen trying to extinguish a five alarm fire with a garden hose and a bucket brigade.
Recently, Tradrecovery.com announced it was sponsoring a conference "fully approved by the Diocese of Helena, Montana.  Guest Speakers include such luminaries as "Paleocrat" Jeremiah Bannister, and Dom Domaso.  (This Wolf is familiar with Jeremiah.  He used to interact with him on "Meaning of Catholic" or a similar JooToob channel.  Cannot clearly recall all the details.)  When the news hit the "Tradservative Community", Anthony Abbate posted a mocking "commercial" as a JooToob short.  Kennedy Hall posted a video entitled: "These People are Sick.  They Think Traditional Catholicism is a Disease", and Taylor Marshall posted an account about how "Jimmy" wooed him from Traditional Catholicism into a life of perversion.  This Wolf can thank these three shills for outing themselves, showing their callous lack of charity and serious reflection, and totally simplifying these profound times to a battle of the Black Hats in the Vatican versus the White Hats attending the Traditional Latin Mass.  (They seem to have completely forgotten about Our Lord's parable of the Wheat and Tares, to which, unlike their Conciliar Church mates, they are treated once a year in the liturgical cycle.)
All that being said, this Wolf would like to address some of the points Mrs Laura Vander Vos makes, in some detail, in her defense of the Apostolate:
#1 "There is a driving force behind the Trad movement that is profoundly negative and destructive of good relations between Catholics: a dislike or disdain for the Second Vatican Council and its reforms, especially the New Order of Mass (Novus Ordo Missae), upon which Trad media pours out a steady stream of vitriolic media, journalism, and literature."
The Novus Ordo is, obviously, extremely problematic.  We are talking about the Novus Ordo, in Latin, as it was "promulgated" in 1970.  Father Wathen goes into great detail in his very readable tome, "The Great Sacrilege".  While many "Catholics'' do not understand the nuances of the dogmatic theology, that is largely because they have been getting hit with a barrage of propaganda since the Pontificate of Pius X, first of the Great Reformers. Suffice to say that Michael Davies, very early on, saw the Novus Ordo for what it is- Cramner's Godly Order.  (This Wolf has other posts in this blog where he tackles the "Bogus Ordo", in depth.)  As for Vatican II, two quotes should suffice.  Fr Joseph Ratzinger called the Council a "Counter-Syllabus", and Cardinal Suenens called the Council "The French Revolution in the Church".  For the Informed Catholic, need this Wolf say more?  Now, I am sure Mrs Vander Vos can certainly cite literature that is vitriolic.  But many reasoned criticisms of the Novus Ordo and Vatican II also exist by pioneers in the movement, such as Fr Gomer De Pau.
#2 "There are Trad scholars who have fully dedicated themselves to undermining the authority of the Pope, teaching Latin clergy how to justify their disobedience to him so they can have the liturgical rite they want, all in the name of 'true' obedience."
Needless to say, even many Traditional Catholics have an unclear idea regarding the authority of the pope, the limits of that authority, and the jurisdiction of that authority.  For that matter, the vast majority of people today, versed as they are in liberal democracy and legal positivism, have absolutely no idea of what authority consists, let alone that all authority ultimately comes from God, the Supreme Lawgiver.  For the last 150 years or so, Catholics have been given the impression that Our Lord Jesus Christ has made His Church the personal diktat of the popes, and that the bishops are just so many extensions of his authority, like the Regional Governors of the Galactic Empire.  Yes, the Pope does have supreme and immediate jurisdiction over matters of discipline and practice.  He could, for example, impose a universal fast upon the church, or bind under penalty of sin attendance at Mass on First Saturdays.  He can declare a dogma that must be adhered to under pain of excommunication, and of course make additions- not changes, the distinction is important- to the Sacred Liturgy.  But the Pope cannot abrogate, obrogate, or derogate from Sacred Apostolic Tradition.  He cannot concoct rites out of whole cloth, as Paul VI attempted to do.
#3 "Trads have begun to align themselves with the SSPX, a priestly fraternity with a worldwide following of laity that have refused submission to the popes for half a century, rejecting the Second Vatican Council and the New Order of Mass as 'harmful to the Faith.'”
First off, being a "Pastoral Council", any Catholic is free to criticize its directives, which, to the informed, are obviously so much Freemasonic balderdash, highly subjective and opinionated writings sometimes, to paraphrase St Paul, having the sound of orthodoxy, but not the essence thereof.  To put Vatican II on the same level as the Council of Trent is just plain silly.  As for the SSPX, a bevy of quotes from cardinals can be offered to show these prelates do not consider the SSPX to be schismatic.  And this Wolf knows for a fact that the Diocese of Houston used to refer Catholics who wanted the Latin Mass to the SSPX chapel in Dickinson.  "Why are you petitioning us to have a Latin Mass?  Just drive down Highway 3..."  As for the New Mass being harmful, that should be self-evident.
#4 "There are now Trad bishops who are ordaining priests in secret. These priests then unlawfully minister to the laity apart from or even in opposition to local bishops’ authority."
Yes, this is indeed a huge problem.  While the case can be made that the original "independent priests" and the SSPX have an Apostolic Mandate under a "supplied jurisdiction" envisioned under Canon Law- and obviously the Mind of the Church Herself, because "The Arm of the Lord is not Shortened that He Cannot Save"- the same cannot be said for any priest who takes it upon himself to be consecrated bishop, or any man who takes it upon himself to be ordained a priest.  The word vocation comes from the Latin "vocare", which means "to call".  St Paul clearly stipulates that every cleric is called by God, and this call is discerned by the Authority of the Church.  To resist Ecclesiastical Authority or the order established by God is not a trite matter, as Core and his followers found to their dismay when, after a solemn warning from Moses, they were swallowed by the earth and thrust body and soul into Hell.  Today we are witnessing a veritable explosion of "Trad Bishops" which threatens to overtake in numbers the Bishops of the Conciliar Church.  And all are in opposition to each other, a cacophony amid the rising chorus of Babylon.
#5  "Trads are criticizing and shaming Catholics for practicing approved devotions (such as Divine Mercy and the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary) and revering certain saints, whose canonizations they consider doubtful (i.e., St. John Paul II, St. Paul VI, St. Teresa of Calcutta, St. Faustina, etc.)."
While this Wolf is not going to "shame" anybody for saying the "Luminous Mysteries" or the "Divine Mercy", he does find these devotions quite problematic.  Elsewhere, this Wolf has written that the Rosary is the property of Our Lady, and Our Lady's Psalter.  Pope John Paul II does not have jurisdiction over the Most Holy Rosary any more than this Wolf has jurisdiction- or even durable power of attorney- over the local Catholic Church.  And needless to say, adding "mysteries" to the Rosary is like adding another leg or tail to a wolf- one cannot improve something that is ontologically perfect.  As for the "Divine Mercy Chaplet", Our Lady of Fatima requested recitation of the Most Holy Rosary.  The Divine Mercy, being somewhat shorter, is, given human nature, going to be preferred.  Meanwhile, it is not clear this chaplet has a Divine Mandate.  Let the reader discern, and beware.
As for the "canonizations" of recent "saints" being problematic, that goes without saying.  The first "canonization" this Wolf had trouble with was Fr Juan Escriva.  Since then, "canonizations" have become even more doubtful.  And needless to say, the very real concerns of Pope Frantic being an anti-pope are not going to go away.  And anybody ignoring these facts is being disingenuous, to say the least.
#6 "Trads are rejecting the Catechism of the Catholic Church, arguing it contains serious errors and writing their own alternative catechisms (Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Credo)."

This is a very gratuitous assertion, and unfounded.  In the SSPX, the Baltimore Catechism and The Catechism of St Pius X are the most widely used, and this Wolf suspects the same is the case in wider Traditional circles.  The penultimate catechism is the Roman Catechism, or the Catechism of the Council of Trent.  The Catechism of the Catholic Church is saturated with the thinking of Vatican II and Pope JP2, and contains outright errors, which others have done excellent work in explaining.

As for Bishop Athanasius Schneider- he is not really traditional.  And his writing a credo is not a promulgation by Holy Mother Church, nor is anyone pretending it to be.  (Of course, this Wolf considers Bishops Schneider to be a Deep Church Shill, but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.

Is "Tradrecovery.com" just another collection of shills, or is it run by what Lenin would describe as "useful idiots"?  Stay tuned.

In the Meantime, do stay in the Cenacle of Our Lady, and devoutly pray your rosary as though your life depends upon it, because it does.