The SSPX Gets a Spot In the Big Tent.

[Dawn Marie]

SSPX in the Big Tent

And then there’s the curious case of the SSPX being listed in the Vatican’s Jubilee calendar. Some will cheer it as a sign of reconciliation. But note the company: the same “Big Tent” also includes La Tenda di Gionata, an Italian LGBT group openly promoting homosexual relationships.

This is not a victory for Tradition, but an invitation to join the circus. In exchange for silence on Leo’s doctrinal betrayals, the SSPX gets a spot in the program; alongside the very movements it once condemned as incompatible with the Catholic faith. Inclusion is the price of admission; compromise is the cost of staying.

Nine in Ten Cradle Catholics Gone

Meanwhile, an academic study has confirmed what anyone attending a typical suburban parish could tell you: the Church in America is losing nine out of ten cradle Catholics. Weekly Mass attendance among those raised Catholic has collapsed to 11%.

The proposed “solution”? Stronger parish community life, more youth groups, more fellowship. As if the problem were merely a lack of social glue. What the researchers ignore is the obvious: people aren’t leaving because there’s too little coffee-hour camaraderie. They’re leaving because what’s offered is not the Catholic faith at all, but a pale imitation: a horizontal religion of platitudes, guitar Masses, and moral surrender.

The postconciliar project has systematically dismantled every visible sign of the supernatural: communion in the hand like a snack, ugly ’70s architecture, women in pantsuits distributing the Eucharist, annulments on demand, and blessings for adultery and sodomy. Why would anyone stay for that? The “values gap” is not an accident, it’s the result of the hierarchy’s deliberate alignment with the world.

Francis’s Green Gospel for the Children

Even in death, Francis’s legacy lives on in the form of “The Children’s Encyclical,” a pastel-colored eco-manifesto calling for a “symbolic handover” from adults to children to lead the fight against climate change. In Francis’s telling, environmental stewardship now rivals the Gospel in urgency, with children as the Church’s prophets.

This is catechesis replaced by activism, salvation replaced by sustainability. It’s the same substitution at the heart of Laudato si’ and Laudate Deum: swap supernatural hope for temporal utopia, and make the Church an NGO for the planet. Meanwhile, the moral and sacramental life of the faithful collapses, yet we are told our greatest sin is a carbon footprint.

Conclusion: The Double Game Is the Point

The thread running through all these stories is selective outrage. Burke can host a conference condemning the specter of trans ordinations while his own past record contains the same scandal in miniature. Leo can bless dissenters with ceremonial honor while affirming doctrine on paper. The SSPX can accept a Jubilee listing while Rome lists LGBT activists in the same breath.

This is how the post-Vatican II Church sustains itself: speak like Athanasius when the crowd demands it, govern like a functionary when the cameras are off. The faithful deserve better than men who condemn in theory what they condone in practice. Until the double game ends, the mask stays on, and the exodus will continue.

At Cardinal Raymond Burke’s annual Speculum iustitiae canon law conference, a Vatican official sounded the alarm that some transsexuals may have been ordained, their surgeries only discovered after ordination. His tone was one of horror: the sort of ecclesial scandal a faithful shepherd should surely have fought to prevent.

Yet the irony is breathtaking: in the 1990s, Burke himself approved and elevated a women’s religious congregation co-founded by “Sister Julie” Green, born Joel Green, a man who had undergone sex-change surgery. When concerns were raised, Burke defended the founder, insisting “she” did not promote the morality of the surgery, and warning critics against “rash judgments.” Rome only acted after the matter went public.

Now, the same Burke presides over a conference where the very scenario he once enabled is treated as a symptom of the Church’s collapse. It’s the perfect emblem of post-Vatican II “traditionalism”: speak thunderously against sin from the lectern, but turn pastoral discretion into doctrinal surrender when the decision is yours to make.

Burke’s Trans Nun Legacy

In 1997, then-Bishop Burke elevated the Franciscan Servants of Jesus, a women’s order co-founded by “Sister Julie” Green, who had undergone sex-change surgery years earlier. The facts were not hidden, complaints were made, letters were sent to the papal nuncio, and Vatican consultations were acknowledged.

Burke’s written defense admitted the co-founder’s biological sex and the moral disorder of the surgery, yet still justified allowing “her” to found and participate in the order. Canon law expertise didn’t prevent the bishop from treating the case as a pastoral oddity rather than a clear impossibility.

Fast forward to 2025: his own conference warns about priests who turn out to be female-to-male transsexuals. The hypocrisy is a straight line from Burke’s permissiveness to the “horrors” now decried under his banner.

[Dawn Marie]

Praying the SSPX comes to it's senses+

[Joseph]

What a tragedy.

[Veronica Mowery]

So many willing to compromise themselves. It's the reason being lukewarm is the worst of all.

[Michael]

Amen.

Dawn Marie said:

Praying the SSPX comes to it's senses+

[Dawn Marie]

I've been told by a friend who lives in St. Mary's that faithful SSPX'rs (including my friend) who have lived there for 20 to 30 years are leaving.  The spiritual grounding ABL left the priests with is gone at this point.  The problem with compromise is it has a domino effect.  It's never one domino that falls, when the first domino goes all the rest go down to.  When we compromise it never ends with one compromise, it's always followed by many which leads to the soul losing who they were to begin with and whatever virtues they had...and poof, satan gains control.

Veronica Mowery said:

So many willing to compromise themselves. It's the reason being lukewarm is the worst of all.

[Margie]

We need to pray that God sends us more Fathers David Hewko and Francois Chazal of the Resistance, true Catholic Priests in the mode of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.  We are hanging-on-by-a-thread with the SSPX waiting to see what direction they will take.  However, it's rather telling that Bishop Bernard Fellay has not consecrated one Bishop since he removed Bishop Richard Williamson and now the death of Bishop Tissier de Mallarais.  The SSPX needs lots of devout prayers that it returns to the teaching of Archbishop Lefebvre.  If only that "great" Pope Francis could come back and tell us what the life-of-his-soul is now like.

[Michael]

Absolute truth.  There is only the truth on one side and error on the other.  You cannot make peace or compromise with falsehood and error.  Vatican II was an attempted compromise with the protestants and Jews to be more inclusive and accepting.  It has led to the destruction of the Church.  The SSPX wrings their hands over the growth of the CMRI among others that will not compromise and fail to see that the liberalism of Rome and their compromise is what is the cause behind this growth.

Dawn Marie said:

I've been told by a friend who lives in St. Mary's that faithful SSPX'rs (including my friend) who have lived there for 20 to 30 years are leaving.  The spiritual grounding ABL left the priests with is gone at this point.  The problem with compromise is it has a domino effect.  It's never one domino that falls, when the first domino goes all the rest go down to.  When we compromise it never ends with one compromise, it's always followed by many which leads to the soul losing who they were to begin with and whatever virtues they had...and poof, satan gains control.

Veronica Mowery said:

So many willing to compromise themselves. It's the reason being lukewarm is the worst of all.

[Dawn Marie]

[Michael]

The great Archbishop was correct then and he is correct now.  Modernism seeks compromise.  The Truth has no compromise.

Dawn Marie said: