Wednesday 31 October 2012

Return of the Fanon

When celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ,on the 21st of October 2012, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI wore a Papal Vestment called a Fanon. This garment had fallen into disuse, but, along with many others, it appears Pope Benedict may be bringing it back. 

Another sign of Pope Benedict's (not so) closeted Traditionalism. To show my respect for His Holiness' traditionalist choices of apparel, below are images of Popes wearing the Fanon to show how Pope Benedict XVI is in keeping with sound tradition in regards to his Vestments.

Pope Leo XIII (Reigned 1878 - 1903)
Pope St. Pius X (Reigned 1903 - 1914)

Pope Benedict XVI (Reigned 1914 - 1922)

Pope Pius XI (Reigned 1922 - 1939)

Venerable Pope Pius XII (Reigned 1939 - 1958)

Blessed Pope John XIII (Reigned 1958 - 1963)

Servant of God Pope Paul VI (Reigned 1963 - 1978)

Blessed Pope John Paul II (Reigned 1978 - 2005)

Pope Benedict XVI (Reigned 2005 - )



Friday 12 October 2012

And so; the heresy begins!


The Year of Faith has begun. And the tone has already been decisively set. The photo to the left shows the Holy Father embracing the Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury. Any Catholic, especially in England, who understands their history can only be repulsed by this image.

The Church will argue this is simply echoing the fact that there were non-Catholic observers at the Council and Dr Williams' presence is simply continuing this tradition. This next picture (below) however is the smoking gun which shows how the Church is sliding into further Heresy. Here is the same Dr Williams addressing the Synod of Bishops. This is not observation, this is participation. Those notable Catholic martyrs against Protestantism, Saints Thomas Moore and John Fisher, would be spinning in their graves; had they had not been humiliated and deprived them by their Protestant executioners.

 Now, by allowing Dr Williams to address the Synod, the Church is giving the rubber stamp to the Protestant Anglican Community. This is, so-called, 'Ecumenism', at its worst. As Archbishop Lefebvre wrote in 1987, "it is clear that we cannot combine contradictory principles. We cannot unite truth and error so as to form one thing, except by adopting the error and rejecting all or part of the truth". Dr Williams is a man who's church Ordains women, ordains practising homosexuals and would permit them into the Episcopate, approves of foetal murder and he personally has voiced the opinion that Sharia Law could operate on British soil. The Catholic Church now stands shoulder to shoulder with him; the Pope embraces him as a brother.

This is Error. Error truly in the tradition of Vatican II. Welcome to the Year of Faith; shame it’s not the Catholic Faith.