@BigModernism Feser is nothing if not consistently wrong. Calling this address “marvelous”...On the death penalty, the speech calls for abolition

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Feser is nothing if not consistently wrong. Calling this address “marvelous” is all the evidence you need to start reading Hiraeth to get the true story without the Trad Inc. spin. Here is an excerpt from my latest. Read the whole thing here: https://open.substack.com/pub/bigmodernism/p/globalism-forever?r=5mfttc&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay The Diplomatic Corps address as a manifesto for the borderless world Leo XIV’s January 9 address deserves to be read as political theology, because that is what it is. It uses Augustine as staging, then pivots into contemporary governance. The speech praises multilateralism, laments nationalism, warns against “false representations of history,” speaks warmly of the UN’s role, urges reforms for efficiency, condemns violations of humanitarian law, critiques shrinking speech freedom, criticizes “Orwellian” language, defends conscientious objection in theory, then moves into the sacred cows: migration, climate, abolition of the death penalty. On migration, the framework is predictable. Every migrant has inalienable rights. State action against trafficking must not become a “pretext” for undermining dignity. Climate change is included among the drivers of displacement. The moral pressure is one-directional: toward accommodation, toward international management, toward the perpetual exception that becomes the rule. A Catholic reads that and recognizes the game immediately. A nation that cannot enforce its border is no nation. A people that cannot say “no” to entry, settlement, and demographic transformation is not practicing charity, it is being managed. Charity begins with order. Order begins with duties. Duties include the state’s obligation to protect its own citizens, its own culture, its own stability. The Church once spoke that language with clarity. The postconciliar apparatus speaks the language of NGOs, then sprinkles it with Scripture. The speech also praises renewable energy projects and “caring for creation” as shared commitments with the Italian state. That phrase has become a passport for global regulatory regimes, wealth transfers, and bureaucratic control. Catholics are instructed to treat contested policy programs as moral inevitabilities. A Catholic can love God’s creation and reject climate managerialism at the same time. The speech does not make room for that distinction. It prefers the ambiance of consensus. Then comes the line that tells you the entire political vision: a “short circuit” of human rights where new rights restrict old ones. That diagnosis can be true, and then the speech turns around and repeats the same human-rights vocabulary that created the short circuit. The postwar rights regime gave us abortion empires, censorship regimes, gender ideology, soft totalitarian speech codes, and borderless managerial states. The Vatican now asks the authors of the problem to fix the problem, with the UN as mediator. On the death penalty, the speech calls for abolition, framing it as destroying hope of renewal. Pre-Vatican II Catholic teaching does not treat the death penalty as intrinsically evil. Legitimate authority has the right to inflict proportionate punishment, including capital punishment, for grave crimes, for the sake of justice and the common good. The modern line treats retribution as barbaric, then wonders why societies unravel into lawlessness. That is sentimentality with body counts. The speech praises Francis repeatedly, calls him a father, folds the Jubilee into a pastoral narrative of comfort, then makes the predictable ecumenical moves, including references to Nostra Aetate and Jewish-Christian dialogue in the official anniversary tone. This is the same postconciliar package every time: soft canonization of the predecessor, hard entrenchment of the council’s vocabulary, a diplomatic posture that treats national sovereignty as the suspect force and international bureaucracy as the mature solution. The Church used to convert nations. Now it congratulates the managers of nations.

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A marvelous address by @Pontifex that condemns the pathologies of both the woke left and the jingoist right. Against the left, he denounces “the so-called ‘right to safe abortion,’” warns of “a subtle form of religious discrimination against Christians” by which they are

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Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and for the restoration of the Church.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

Conclave Notes:

Has the Trad Media fallen into a COVID-like mass formation with Leo XVI? While it's humorous to see the former anti-Francis Trad pundits suddenly acting like teen age girls infatuated with Leo, it could lead to a Trojan Horse effect

It appears that a group of Bishops or Cardinals needs to give Leo XIV Dubia questions on if he still supports "Invalid and Sacrilegious" Confession

"Prevost’s reported support...allowing divorced & civilly 'remarried'...to receive Holy Communion": “Whoever…helps...promulgation of heresy…is suspected of heresy.” - The Catholic Monitor

-- Open letter urges Pope Leo XIV to correct ‘scandalous incoherence’ in Amoris Laetitia...[Wow! Even notorious Popesplainer Fr.] Harrison warns that Pope Francis taught a ‘dangerous self-contradiction’ on Communion for the divorced and ‘remarried,’ petitioning Pope Leo to correct the record. [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/08/open-letter-urges-pope-leo-xiv-to.html]

--  Dr. Seifert, regarded as one of the greatest living Catholic philosophers, founding Rector of the International Academy of Philosopher & friend of John Paul II, to Cardinals: INVESTIGATE FRANCIS' HERESIES, VALIDITY BEFORE THE CONCLAVE.."If Francis is found guilty of heresy or apostasy, then: - His cardinal appointments would be invalid" [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/dr-seifert-philosopher-personal-friend.html] 

-- Are the Cardinals who will participate in the upcoming conclave authentically appointed & morally justified in voting, or will the shadow of Francis's possible illegitimacy cast itself over the next papacy?  [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/are-cardinals-who-will-participate-in.html]

-- 5 Dubia Questions for 1P5's Steve Skojec & All faithful Catholics especially Francis is definitely Pope Cardinals, Bishops & pundits [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/06/5-dubia-questions-for-steve-skojec.html]

Francis Notes:

l– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html 

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the [J6] DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.

Pray an Our Father now for America.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.