With the death of Bergoglio the joke going around is that we’re all sedevacantists now. Be that as it may, he was not a valid Pope for various reasons, but the most important being that he was a very public heretic, and under Canon Law, a unrepentant public heretic automatically loses any office he holds within the Catholic Church. However, by that measure there are a great number of cardinals who are also invalidly squatting on their offices. You know, the same guys who are about to sit and elect the next public squatter of the chair of Saint Peter.
But this is all old hat for most of you. I want to only focus on one thing about Bergolgio and his time in the top spot.
Covid.
Invalidly or not, Bergoglio was in charge for the period when the great Covid fraud held the earth spellbound. Never in the history of the Church had services ever been withdrawn for any reason. Whether it was war, famine, hunger or plague, the services went on as did man’s devotion to our Lord and Savior through His most Holy Church. Think of some of the momentous times over the last 2,000 years. How about the Black Death as but one example? It progressively devastated Europe over many decades; entire villages in Northern Italy were left with no survivors.
But Holy Mass continued.
Holy Mass is our spiritual nourishment, and in times of difficulty it takes on an aspect of even more importance, both to the pious and often those who previously had not considered matters of faith to be of any importance. Great crises when they strike the earth are an opportunity for Christianity to step into the breach and not only offer comfort but to literally save souls.
Bergoglio closed the Church doors. He closed the doors on hope, he closed the doors on worship, and by doing so he and all of the priests who stood in line to do his bidding showed that they possessed neither courage nor faith in any measure.
This was the greatest opportunity in modern history, and certainly since the disastrous Vatican II, when the Church alone had a unique chance to reclaim its mandate in the eyes of so many who had been betrayed by the vast majority of elected and unelected officials. The Church could have held firm and offered solace and sanctuary. What a spectacle of hope that would have been. How many sinners might have been saved? How many souls inspired to greatness in our age distinguished by an absence of morality?
But it was not to be. Bergoglio by this one act showed to all who cared to watch that The Church was simply just another modern relic. Just another public entity perfectly prepared to go along with the errors of the world. Everything that The Church had stood for in all of its history was thrown aside when the doors were closed to its own. And let us not even talk of the countless sacrileges that were committed when the doors were finally opened again – passing Holy Communion under a perspex bank teller screen anyone?
Covid is the legacy of Bergoglio, and it is a legacy that was a natural progression from Vatican II. The Church demonstrated that it is irrelevant. The logic follows that if the Church can shut its doors for a reason, then it can shut its doors for any reason. It only takes one time for the doors to be closed for what the Church offers to be deemed of no value.
All of those priests who went along with the mandates should be overwhelmed with shame. Such men of little valor. Cowering in fear whether it be of a virus, or their Church authorities, or both. Well, they will all have to answer for it. And better to do penance now and answer here on earth than to wait until the dreaded moment when you must answer before the entire heavenly host. As Bergoglio has no doubt had to do. Yes, I prayed for him. But I also hold onto the certainty that he has faced the most terrible prospect of infinite Divine justice.
Originally published at Pushing Rubber Downhill. You can purchase Adam’s books here.
