(With apologies for the late appearance of this particular EC)
Early in the New Year there is due to be ordained, on the Emerald Isle another priest for Catholic Tradition, by a bishop who is well-known in that country as a priest but not as a bishop. This is because he was consecrated in private nearly two years ago, in January of 2021, when the false Covid crisis with all its travel restrictions was in full swing. It then seemed that Éire might be completely cut off from England for an indefinite length of time, and then what would have continued to protect in the Land of Saints and Scholars those Catholics who understand the dangers for their Faith both of the Newchurch and of the Newsociety of St Pius X ? These Catholics may not be numerous, but by their rare grasp of the unchanging Catholic Faith they have for the future of the Church a rare importance. The precious consecration might have remained private for longer, were not circumstances seeming to become steadily more hostile to Catholic Tradition. Now as Catholic bishops are, by the power of their sacramental Orders to ordain priests and to consecrate bishops, essential for the survival of the Church, so Traditional bishops have been essential to the survival of Catholic Tradition. When Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated four bishops in 1988 without the clear permission of the Church’s official leaders in Rome, let nobody think that he was simply defying those leaders, because they had in fact given permission in principle for at least one to be consecrated. But when it came to fixing a date for that one consecration, Cardinal Ratzinger so avoided naming a date that the Archbishop saw clearly that he would never in practice be able to use the permission granted to him in principle by Church Authority. That was the decisive moment for the Archbishop to understand that Catholic Truth would never be properly defended by the modernists ruling in “Rome”, and so he went ahead with the consecration of four of his own priests as bishops, to ensure “Operation Survival”, as he called it, the very survival of Catholic Tradition. At the time, many believing Catholics did not understand his action, and roundly condemned it, but today, after Pachamama, and after Traditionis Custodes pretending to abolish the Traditional rite of Mass, and after a host of other heresies coming from the summit of the Newchurch, many of those same Catholics now admit that it is thanks to those consecrations of 1988 that the true Church survived. In the unprecedented crisis of the Church precipitated by its own leaders splitting their Catholic Authority from Catholic Truth at Vatican II (1962-1965), Archbishop Lefebvre never scorned or defied the true Authority of the Church, he merely put the Truth of Tradition in front of that Authority as embodied in neo-modernists, and by his so doing, more and more Catholics still have a Tradition to which they can rally. Honest souls among them acknowledge Mother Church’s immeasurable debt to the Archbishop. Now in the early 2020’s, Almighty God has still not yet seen fit to reunite Catholic Truth and Catholic Authority, so that the neo-modernists are still in control of “Rome”, and the Faith needs still to be sustained despite “Rome”. Therefore what the Archbishop began by putting Truth before Authority must be continued. However, while Catholic Truth must be preferred in the last resort to Catholic Authority if “Authority” opposes that Truth which it was only instituted by Our Lord to defend, nevertheless Truth in a fallen world does need that Authority to protect it, so that without that Authority on high, Truth has real difficulties. For instance the Archbishop’s successors had such problems in ruling the Society after his death that by a policy of deferring to “Rome” much more than he would ever have done, they so changed the Archbishop’s Society that it needs a new name, e.g. the “Newsociety”. And just as the mass of Catholics after Vatican II followed their leaders from the Church into the Newchurch, so the mass of followers of the Archbishop’s Society have followed his successors from his Society into what one can call the “Newsociety”, because it strains after official approval by the neo-modernists of “Rome”. Therefore as in 1988, or even more today, for the survival of Catholic Tradition, the necessity arises for the consecration of bishops without Roman Authority, so to speak, to maintain the Archbishop’s defence of the Faith above all. Hence the consecration in private of Fr Giacomo Ballini, here in England on January 14, 2021. The on-going Covid crisis showed how bravely he looks after the Mass and the Faith of all time.

Kyrie eleison

Today’s “Rome” will not properly care for sheep ?
We must have shepherds who will the true Faith keep !

A few highlights/excerpts from an article by Ed Condon at Pillar Catholic noted by gloria.tv, full Condon article to follow:

Pope Benedict’s most important legacy is Francis
It may seem counterintuitive, but the defining legacy of Pope Benedict XVI is that he gave the Church Pope Francis.



Pope Francis greets Benedict XVI, September, 2014. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo.

Warning: These links come from a, shall we say, impassioned sedevacantist website. The posting of these links is in no way a promotion of sedevacantism. But the sedevacantists are among the few that keep track of many of the errors against the faith of Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI. Please disregard the sedevacantist references. This is offered here merely as reminder that everything Conciliar is tainted and suspect, particularly coming from one of the architects of the errors of Vatican II.

There are many who choose to only see the conservative side of Joseph Ratzinger. But quietly and without much fanfare, he too has wrecked much havoc upon the Church. May God have mercy on his soul.

The Catacombs does not advocate nor promote public judgements of heresy. We follow in the footsteps of Archbishop Lefebvre and leave such judgements to the Church, when She rises again from Her Passion. But certainly, Joseph Ratzinger gave us many reasons to think the Church may one day condemn him as a heretic.

• The Real Joseph Ratzinger: Proud of His Blasphemy and His Blaspheming Mentor
  
  
• Ratzinger was branded “Suspect of Heresy” under Pope Pius XII
  
  
• Ratzinger’s 1993 Program for an Ecumenical Church
  
  
• Q & A about Fr. Ratzinger
  
  
• “One and the Same Rite”?: How Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum destroys the Traditional Mass
  
  
• Flashback 1956: Ratzinger’s Second Doctoral Thesis rejected by Prof. Michael Schmaus as “Dangerously Modernist”
  
  
• Flashback 1963: Ratzinger: Demolish the Holy Office!
  
  
• Flashback 1967: Ratzinger: The Tridentine Mass is a Dead Liturgy
  
  
• Flashback 1968: Ratzinger’s Book Banned in Warsaw Diocese by Cardinal Wyszynski for being too Liberal
  
  
• Flashback 1969: Ratzinger: “Criticism of papal pronouncements will be possible and even necessary, to the extent that they lack support in Scripture and the Creed, that is, in the faith of the whole Church”
  
  
• Flashback 1982: Ratzinger: “Raze the Catholic Bastions!”
  
  
• Flashback 1982: Ratzinger Denies Dogma of Resurrection of Jesus Christ
  
  
• Flashback 1990: Ratzinger: Anti-Modernist Condemnations of St. Pius X “became obsolete after having fulfiled their pastoral mission at their proper time”
  
  
• Flashback 2000: Ratzinger Denies Dogma of Infant Baptism
  
  
• Flashback 2002: Ratzinger Says Jews’ Wait for Messiah Not In Vain
  
  
• Flashback 2004: Ratzinger Personally Consecrates Neo-Modernist “Bishop” Bruno Forte
  
  
• Flashback 2005: Benedict XVI “canonizes” Lutheran minister, says “this faithful servant” has “attained eternal joy”!
  
  
• Benedict XVI in 2012: Repudiates Nothing of his Work at Vatican II
  
  
• The Laundry List: Dr. Tom Droleskey Reviews the false “Pontificate” of Benedict XVI
  
  
• The Masonic Handshakes of Benedict XVI
  
  
• Benedict XVI and the “Prophetic Mission of Fatima”: The Rest of the Story
  
  
• Novus Ordo Bishop: “Not even Martin Luther could have imagined a better Pope than Benedict XVI”
  
  
• Oops: 1972 Ratzinger Essay argues for Allowing Divorced/Remarried to Receive Sacraments
  
  
• Flashback 1964: Ratzinger says because of World Wars, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima, we can no longer speak of the time since Christ’s Birth as a “time of salvation”
  
  
• Benedict XVI endorses heretical Neocatechumenal Way
  
  
• Ratzinger writes to Hans Küng, notes “Great Agreement of Views” with Francis
  
  
• After 8 Years of Benedict XVI: Conservatives vent Disappointment over Benedict’s “Papacy”
  
  
• Revealed: Ratzinger told Lutheran Worker in Vatican NOT to become a Catholic
  
  
• Benedict XVI’s Miter – Is It Satanic? Look at the Evidence (PDF)
  
  
• Oliver Putz: “I Did Not Change; They Did!” Joseph Ratzinger, Karl Rahner and the Second Vatican Council
  
  
• No Friend of Fatima: Unspinning Christopher Ferrara’s Defense of Benedict XVI
  
  
• Benedict XVI admits: Goal of Dialogue is NOT Conversion (2012)
  
  
• Faith Imperiled by Ratzinger: Benedict XVI’s Hermeneutics
  
  
• Apostasy in Action: Benedict XVI, Judaism, and the Church
  
  
• New Historical Evidence Uncovered: Karl Rahner Testimony reveals Ratzinger called “heretic who denies hell”
  
  
• Meet the “Ratzingerian Marxists” (No Joke!)
  
  
• May 3, 2013: Ratzinger the Reformer Returns to his Roots
  
  
• Video Lecture: Who is Benedict XVI?
  
  
• Teilhard de Chardin’s “Great Vision” of a “Cosmic Liturgy” — endorsed by Benedict XVI
  
  
• An Inconvenient Truth: The Religious Orientation of Joseph Ratzinger
  
  
• The Heart of Betrayal
  
  
• The Ratzinger Agenda
  
  
• The Fideism of “Cardinal” Ratzinger
  
  
• “Cardinal” Ratzinger publicly denies Dogma of Papal Primacy
  
  
• Some grave Errors in Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity
  
  
• Ratzinger denies Catholic Teaching on Original Sin
  
  
• At Vatican II, Fr. Ratzinger complained Gaudium et Spes relied too much on Teilhard de Chardin, not enough on Martin Luther!
  
• “Cardinal” Ratzinger rejects Scholastic Theology
  Reality Check: The idea that “the method and principles by which the old scholastic doctors cultivated theology are no longer suitable to the demands of our times and to the progress of the sciences” was formally condemned by Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, 1864
  
• “Cardinal” Ratzinger gave Communion to Known Protestant Roger Schutz
  
• “God is entirely Relationship” — St. Thomas not Ratzinger’s Master
  
• In 1968 Book, Ratzinger defends “Anonymous Christianity” of Karl Rahner
  
• Fr. Ratzinger on the Papacy (1965)
  
• Ratzinger Denies Fundamental Dogma of the Church
  
• The True Colors of Benedict XVI
  
• Ratzinger in Favor of Decentralizing the Papacy
  
• More Collegiality with Benedict XVI?
  
• Ratzinger’s Dream for the Future Church
  
• Ratzinger on Feminism
  
• Interview with Fr. Fessio reveals more of Benedict XVI’s Theological Background
  
• “Cardinal” Ratzinger gave Holy Communion to Known Protestants!
  Reality Check: It is forbidden that the Sacraments of the Church be ministered to heretics and schismatics, even if they ask for them and are in good faith, unless beforehand, rejecting their errors, they are reconciled with the Church.” (1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 731.2)
  What you may not know: the Novus Ordo Church does already permit Protestants to receive Communion sometimes: “While it is never legitimate to concelebrate [the Holy Mass] in the absence of full communion, the same is not true with respect to the administration of the Eucharist under special circumstances, to individual persons belonging to Churches or Ecclesial Communities not in full communion with the Catholic Church” (John Paul II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, n. 45, 2003) — The same is legislated in the Novus Ordo Code of Canon Law of 1983
  
• Protestant Theologian Admits Ratzinger was known as “Radical Progressivist”
  
• In 2001, Ratzinger’s Congregation Declared Pope Leo XIII’s Condemnation of 40 Rosmini Errors as Time-Conditioned and Falsely Interpreting Rosmini’s Thought
  [b]Reality Check:[/b] The Church can authoritatively define the objective meaning of a book: “If the Church could not define the orthodox or unorthodox sense of books, . . . she could not fulfil her task as practical teacher of humanity, not protect her children from actual concrete dangers to their faith and morals.” —Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. “Dogmatic Fact”
  Related: Catholic Encyclopedia on Rosmini
  Related: Rosmini’s Rehabilitation and the Ratzinger Agenda
  
• The Progressivist Orientation of Joseph Ratzinger
  
• In 1982 book, “Cardinal” Ratzinger writes that Catholics don’t want dissolution of Protestantism but hope Protestants will be strengthened in their Confessions (Citation Info: Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology, Ignatius Press, 1987, p. 202; German original: Theologische Prinzipienlehre, 1982)
  
• “Cardinal” Ratzinger: A Prefect for the Destruction of the Faith
  
• Ratzinger accused of obstructing Justice in Sex Abuse Scandals
  
• NYT Reports Ratzinger a Long-Time Admirer of Martin Luther
  
• Ratzinger Approved “Mass” without Consecration! “…the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith on January 17th, 2001 concluded that this Anaphora can be considered valid.”
  
• Ratzinger – “99% Protestant”
  
• Memories of a Destructive Mind — Ratzinger’s Milestones (Part 1)
  
• More Destructive Milestones (Part 2)
  
• Critique: Biblical Commission’s Book on Jews, Scripture, Messiah
  Raw Data: The entire Document, with Ratzinger’s Preface
  
• Ratzinger Called Vatican II Document Gaudium Et Spes “Counter-Syllabus” to Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, Said Vatican II Presents Attempt at Reconciliation with French Revolution
  Raw Data: Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Liberal Errors
  Also: Pope St. Pius X’s condemnation of principles of French Revolution
  
• Ratzinger vs. Fatima
  
• Ratzinger vs. the Immaculate Heart of the Bl. Virgin Mary
  
• Ratzinger Reportedly Said Jews’ Rejection of Jesus Christ not a Rejection of God but a Reminder that Peace & Salvation Not Yet Come
  
• Ratzinger’s “Dominus Iesus” Document – a Critical Analysis
  
• Ratzinger Credited with Saving Lutheran Agreement
  
• Ecumenism according to Ratzinger: Pluriform Unity
  
• Ratzinger, Hegel, and Summorum Pontificum
  
• Benedict XVI: Church is “On Verge of Capsizing”
  
• Benedict XVI and the Jews: Ratzinger Essay on Judaism causes Controversy
  
• Ratzinger’s Roman Apostasy Symbolism
  
• Benedict XVI: No Mission to the Jews, just Dialogue
  
• Benedict XVI’s Letter on Sex Abuse Crisis: Highlights & Reaction Roundup
  
• New Biography of Benedict XVI confirms: Ratzinger recognized as ‘Dangerous Modernist’ early on
  
• “In Bread and Wine He Gives Himself Entirely”: Old Ratzinger Sermon denies Transubstantiation
  
• New biography describes great influence of Joseph Ratzinger in the revolutionary upheaval of Vatican II
  
• Benedict XVI near Death, Francis asks for Prayers
  

May God have mercy on his soul. He was very influential as a peritus at Vatican II, through which 'the smoke of Satan entered the Church.'

WEF To Accelerate Push For 'Metaverse' Surveillance Network At Davos 2023

Quote:“This press conference will announce the first, and long-awaited, outputs of the Defining and Building the Metaverse Initiative: highly anticipated briefing papers on Interoperability in the Metaverse from the governance track of the project, and Demystifying the Consumer Metaverse from the value creation track. These two briefing papers, the first in each workstream’s series, will serve as the foremost publications involving this amount of research, this number of stakeholders from diverse industries (120+ partners are involved in this initiative), into these topics.”