The Rise of Bergoglianism
Written by Christopher A. Ferrara
A caution to the reader: What follows is a very harsh assessment of the current pontificate. I felt compelled to write it, but no one is compelled to read it. I am nothing and nobody in the great scheme of things, although I am privileged to contribute to the record of a venerable traditional Catholic journal that will surely have its place in the history of these times. I have no illusions that my little lamentations will have any effect on the Pope, for whom I pray each day, or on events in the Church. But at least I, at least The Remnant, at least traditionalists in general will be able say one day, concerning what was done to the Bride of Christ, “Not us. Not us.”
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Here is an inescapable truth that ought to trouble every Catholic: Francis is the first Pope in the history of the Church to be universally lauded by “the rulers of the world of this darkness… the spirits of wickedness in the high places.” (Eph. 6:12) Even Barack Obama, a veritable forerunner of the Antichrist, is “hugely impressed” by Francis. There is no need to demonstrate yet again the copious outpouring of the world’s unprecedented praise for a Roman Pontiff. The world’s love affair with Francis has woven itself into the very Zeitgeist, as any Internet search for the terms “Pope Francis” and “revolution” will reveal. “Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets.”
One can only laugh at the neo-Catholics’ frantic attempts to attribute this apocalyptic development to a massive misunderstanding of a really very tradition-minded Pope. In his The Devastated Vineyard (1973), the late great Dietrich von Hildebrand warned that “[t]he poison of our epoch is slowly seeping into the Church herself, and many have failed to recognize the apocalyptic decline of our time.” Concerning von Hildebrand, the future Pope Benedict XVI wrote: “I am personally convinced that, when, at some time in the future, the intellectual history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is written, the name Dietrich von Hildebrand will be most prominent among the figures of our time.” (Soul of a Lion, p. 12). Compare von Hildebrand’s intellectual honesty with the propaganda of today’s neo-Catholic commentators: confronted with what is by now a vast perfusion of the poison of our epoch in the Church, they resolutely administer the anodyne of false optimism to their gullible public; and when even their own public begins to awaken to the reality of our situation, they block the comment boxes of their virtual realm in the blogosphere, lest reality intrude and make a shambles of their kingdom of illusion.
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