MUST WATCH – Video on Franciscans of Immaculate situation

Please watch the video below from The Remnant.  Michael Matt interviews Christopher Ferrara on the ongoing persecution of the FFIs, and what it means for the Church.

There is much insightful analysis below, as well as recognition of a huge amount of scandal and hypocrisy, a good bit of which I myself missed.  I’ll add some brief summations below the video:

If after watching this video and perhaps meditating on all the coverage from last week on the absolutely savage persecution of the FFIs, you still do not think this Pope has an inveterate, ideological hostility towards the entire cause that is known as “Tradition” within the Church, I’d like to enter into a long-term contract involving extensive real estate investments with you.

I saw some commentary from an Opus Dei priest still trying to pretend this matter has to do with “dissension” within the order.  So, dissension by FIVE whole friars (out of 100 times that many, or 1%) is sufficient cause to completely all but obliterate a growing, vibrant, holy religious order, THEN EVERY SINGLE OTHER RELIGIOUS ORDER IN THE WORLD SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE THEY ALL HAVE TRIVIAL AMOUNTS OF SUCH “DISSENT.”  Dealing with dissent from such a tiny percentage is the typical job of an order’s leadership, and certainly hasn’t required such a huge and destructive intervention from the Vatican over the past 50 years.

As Matt and Ferrara note repeatedly, to anyone capable of cogent thought, whether inside or outside the Church, this persecution looks absolutely terrible.  We have been told for decades that strict enforcement of discipline was “impossible” in today’s Church due to nebulous changes brought about by the Council.  Thus, religious orders totally gone over to the most extreme, hateful heresies, seminaries so full of sexual perversion and even rampant boy-rape as to boggle the mind, and the most open, flagrant graft and outright thievery at the Vatican Bank have gone almost totally unpunished.

There has not been a religious order dealt with so severely in DECADES.  You might have to go back before WWII to find a similar such violent suppression.  And for what?  The FFIs are NOT EVEN TRADITIONALIST!  THEY STILL OFFER THE NOVUS ORDO ALL THE TIME!  Oh, but they had a drift, a drift towards Tradition!  CRUSH THEM!

As Matt observes, don’t think the secular media don’t notice this massive, hypocritical disparity.  The next time some bishop is exposed as a boy rapist, the Vatican won’t be able to say “oh, we can’t do much, we’re so sorry,” the media will quickly bring up the FFI episode.  Apparently, there IS a wherewithal to engage in harsh, even radically uncharitable and savage discipline in the Vatican, but it is reserved for faithful Catholics. The heretics get a pass.

It is inconceivable that such massive moral, doctrinal, and financial corruption can exist in the Church for so long, with constant statements from the highest levels that sadly, nothing can be done, and now we are confronted with THIS. As the old saying goes, where there’s a will, there’s a way.  There is not a will to stamp out the hideous, festering scandal of a huge homosexual cabal in the priesthood and even Vatican, there is no will to enforce doctrinal orthodoxy, but there certainly IS a will to insist that all genuflect at all times before the nebulous “spirit of Vatican II,” whatever that means.

So, it appears the only Dogma left in the Church today is that of swearing fealty to the modernist revolution rapidly destroying the Church.  Do you know, the Arians did the same thing, requiring those who had fought them to take oaths now claiming adherence to the Arian heresy and rejecting Jesus Christ as the 2nd Person of the Trinity?   Well, modernists make you reject a good deal more than that.  And thus, the FFIs, such good, holy men, are now being made to sign what amounts to a modernist oath, swearing allegiance to Vatican II, or whatever that means.

I agree very much with Matt and Ferrara’s assessment of the Pope’s enormous worldly popularity, including man of the year and all that.  It is a tremendous danger for a prelate or pope to be loved and adored by the world.

If one wants to speak of a “war,” or a repression, the biggest war Matt/Ferrara see right now is Pope Francis’ war against the previous two pontificates. He appears to be trying to undo as much as he possibly can from the past 35 years, as quickly as he can.

One last thing, Michael Matt points out that Bishop Fellay now looks very wise to have rejected the Vatican’s “peace offer” in 2012.  I find it difficult to argue with that assessment.