When Abnormal Becomes Normal
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Okay. So, I don’t really talk too much about the news, specifically. That is to say, I haven’t really focused on particular headlines. Typically, The Weltgeist touches on the macro-view of what’s going on and what to expect in the grand scheme of things. The 30,000-foot view.
Yet so many people think everything is fine, and that times like these are perfectly normal. In fact, they’re a part of a cycle that we should all expect. “It always gets like this from time to time. There is nothing new about the Church!” So many people remain unconvinced of the state of emergency we are in. So I thought that today, we’d revisit some of the horrible news going on in the Roman Catholic Church’s juridical spaces within only the last two weeks.
So, for example, on August 5th, Catholic leaders were calling for the Church to “change its identity.” The Synodal Church’s demands for further doctrinal and institutional change continue apace. Then, that same day, we learned that retired German 87-year old Fr. Winfried Abel of the Diocese of Fulda, publicly criticized “Pride” celebrations during Germany’s Christopher Street Day. In a letter, he described the events as manifestations of a society abandoning Christian morality, and the parades were displays of indecency and moral disorder. For this, he was repudiated by his own diocese, which went on to state that Fr. Abel’s views did not reflect their position.
Just one day later, August 6th, Pope Leo approved another Chinese bishop associated with the Communist Party. Meanwhile, the Diocese of Hong Kong issues a statement saying that Catholics should refrain from attending SSPX Masses and avoid contact with the Society. The SSPX, in turn, was forced to publish a sharply-worded response, attacking Cardinal Fernández’s role in the excommunications and accusing the Vatican of doctrinal and disciplinary inconsistency.
The next day, we heard about the Las Palmas bishop defending a “Pride” demonstration outside the Cathedral of Santa Ana, in which nude participants were painted and arranged to form the colors of the Pride flag. And then, that same day, we learned about a European priest who dared to call for a Reconquista over mass migration. But of course, his liberal archdiocese wasted no time in publicly rebuking him for such an outrage.
All month it’s been like this. Attacks against normalcy are so frequent, it’s expected anymore.
By August 12th, progressives bragged that Prevost was one of theirs (here’s some good commentary from Anthony Stine on that), and Prevost was going to retain the ever-corrupt Cardinal Reinhard Marx in a Vatican financial role. We heard about a Rupnik-style abuse scandal involving women religious. We were treated to blasphemous German artwork depicting a crucified whale to parody the Mass. The Bishop of Providence was slated to celebrate a LGBT mass. And quite insultingly, we learned of the USCCB’s dependence on federal immigration money. Eighty percent of certain bishops’ “migration-related revenue” was coming from the Feds—thus exposing their fealty to the Biden regime in years’ past. Add to that the ravings of a Fr. Ángel García, as he said that the Ceuta Muslim migrants invaders were truly…saints.
Is any of this beginning to add up for you? Does this really look like the ordinary ebb and flow of Church history? A rough patch that’ll correct itself? August 2026 alone produced one outrage after another, each one arriving so quickly on the heels of the last, that Catholics barely have time to register what happened before the next scandal replaces it in the news cycle. The accumulation, itself, is the story.
Mission of Divine Mercy priest, Fr. Foster, got laicized for “schism” and excommunicated for regarding Bergoglio and Prevost as antipopes. (He’s not wrong.) This, even though there are safeguards in Catholic law that protect laity and clergy from this sort of retribution, should they have such doubts. Because “How dare this priest argue that there’s been a satanic infiltration at the highest levels of the Church!”
On another front, Ft. Worth’s Bishop Olson joined in on the attack against any Traditional Catholic sharing such confusion, as he issued a letter warning Catholics that attending the SSPX was “objectively sinful” and that there would be canonical penalties. He then added a veiled threat that public support or financial backing for the SSPX communities would result in excommunication. (Perhaps we now see why flip-flopping Taylor Marshall couldn’t hold his previous SSPX positions.)
Prevost’s fifteen new consultors to the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life are chock full of “liturgically creative” liberals, eager to expand more roles for women in Church governance. They’re eager to institute women priests as well, and even find more ways to spread the word of LGBT “inclusion.” And as this is happening, Prevost is giving Fr. Arturo Sosa—the Jesuit superior general, and a publicly manifest heretic—a private audience.
And today’s big one? Another “Pachamama” ritual. In anticipation for Prevost’s visit to Cusco, the church there opened with an Andean “payment to the earth” ritual under the watchful protection of Auxiliary Bishop Estrada and Vatican official Msgr. Bertomeu—the latter actively participating in the “mother earth” worship. Just like Prevost did back in 1995.
Oh, and I don’t want to leave out the one where Prevost promoted a Freemason to a Vatican committee, or the most recent election of Jewish Amy-Jill Levine to president by the Catholic Biblical Association of America, a woman who doesn’t accept the New Testament as Scripture or even worship Jesus as Savior. Oh, and I can’t forget to mention the well-fed Archbishop of Florida, Thomas Wenski, who will refuse religious exemptions to vaccination for children in Florida Catholic schools.
It just goes on and on. Every day. Like an endless Rapper’s Delight song. A continuous march of liberal evil. As though demons have taken over the Catholic Church. And if you want more, just tune in to Return to Tradition or Hiraeth in Exile, two guys who keep up with all of this on an exhaustive basis. Or even just scope out Canon212.
But what is the most, shall we say disheartening, is the continuous failure of Catholics to exert any form of pattern recognition. The inability to understand that “personnel is policy.” All of this horrible news from this month—these news stories are all data points. But people can’t map out what is going on. I feel like it’s sort of as if I’m living through the COVID era again, and everyone is panicking and ignoring how ridiculous they are behaving.
Pattern blindness. Normalcy bias. Desensitization. People are addicted to their pleasures. The West has been lulled into the warm waters of self-indulgence. And nothing dulls the senses and the intellect like vice and comfort.
I gather together all of these news stories from August, I travel back in time to 1900, and priests would be shocked. Either they’d faint from the shock of these news stories, or they’d scoff and laugh at a grand fiction. There is a real need for some St. Catherine of Sienna-types right now. Regular laity—or, dare I hope, some clergy—to call out these devils for who they are. A new religion is taking over. How can the normies not see this?
Back in the 1980s and up until about 2015, it was thought that all the Right Wing had to do in order to talk Leftists off of the ledge of socialist insanity was to have conversation. To explain. To point out A, B, and C, and the Leftists would be able to rationalize the same way the Right does, figure out basic principles, and everyone would have sense talked back into them. Back in the Rush Limbaugh days, it was believed that good, old-fashioned debate, conversation, and published books could get the point across to anyone.
By 2015, I think people figured out that discourse would never work, in the end. And I think Charlie Kirk’s death last year blatantly showed that.
“Before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct.
-Aristotle, Rhetoric
I think that the value in pointing out these horrors is to let each other know that they are not going crazy. It is important to say: “I see it, too—and a lot of us are seeing this.” Plus, keeping track of these kinds of events have a forensic value that we may find useful. One day, we will not be simply struggling to keep the pilot light on. The Catholic Church of Jesus Christ will not only survive, but it will thrive, and records of these days’ corruption will be useful for the righteous authorities, that they may recognize creeping evil. On that day, they will see these snakes slither here and there, seeking to converge our organizations—as they have done for nigh a century—and these subverters will be crushed.
For now, our purpose is preservation. Keep the pilot light burning. Keep the embers alive, hidden when necessary. Preserve what our fathers passed down to us, so that when the present madness has exhausted itself, there is still something Catholic left with which to rebuild.
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Permalink Reply by Joseph
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For now, our purpose is preservation. Keep the pilot light burning. Keep the embers alive, hidden when necessary. Preserve what our fathers passed down to us, so that when the present madness has exhausted itself, there is still something Catholic left with which to rebuild.
This is what the Russian orthodox did during communism. as soon as communisn died they came out of hiding.
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Permalink Reply by Michael
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‘I address a pressing appeal to the earth: I call upon the true disciples of God living and reigning in the heavens; I call upon the true imitators of Christ made man, the only and true savior of men; I call upon my children, my true devotees, those who have given themselves to me so that I may guide them to my divine Son, those whom I carry so to speak in my arms, those who have lived by my spirit; finally I call upon the Apostles of the last times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in a contempt for the world and for themselves, in poverty and in humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time that they go out and come to enlighten the earth. Go, and show yourselves as my dear children; I am with you and in you, provided that your faith be the light which enlightens you in these days of woe. May your zeal render you like the starving for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you the small number who can see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends.’ ~ Our Lady of La Salette
"Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don't look at your weaknesses, realise instead that in Christ Crucified you can do everything. He will provide the way and the means such as you never could have imagined. Leave it all to him. Let go of yourself. Lose yourself on the cross and you will find yourself entirely." ~ St Catherine of Siena
"We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of Faith have to be reconstructed; firstly the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then our chapels, monasteries, our large families, our enterprises faithful to the social politics of the Church, our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ - this is a whole fiber of Christian social life, Christian customs, Christian reflexes, which we have to restore."
~ Archbishop Lefebvre
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Nailed it Michael.
Michael said:‘I address a pressing appeal to the earth: I call upon the true disciples of God living and reigning in the heavens; I call upon the true imitators of Christ made man, the only and true savior of men; I call upon my children, my true devotees, those who have given themselves to me so that I may guide them to my divine Son, those whom I carry so to speak in my arms, those who have lived by my spirit; finally I call upon the Apostles of the last times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in a contempt for the world and for themselves, in poverty and in humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time that they go out and come to enlighten the earth. Go, and show yourselves as my dear children; I am with you and in you, provided that your faith be the light which enlightens you in these days of woe. May your zeal render you like the starving for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you the small number who can see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends.’ ~ Our Lady of La Salette
"Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don't look at your weaknesses, realise instead that in Christ Crucified you can do everything. He will provide the way and the means such as you never could have imagined. Leave it all to him. Let go of yourself. Lose yourself on the cross and you will find yourself entirely." ~ St Catherine of Siena
"We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of Faith have to be reconstructed; firstly the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then our chapels, monasteries, our large families, our enterprises faithful to the social politics of the Church, our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ - this is a whole fiber of Christian social life, Christian customs, Christian reflexes, which we have to restore."
~ Archbishop Lefebvre
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Permalink Reply by Dawn Marie
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Yep perfect post
Michael said:‘I address a pressing appeal to the earth: I call upon the true disciples of God living and reigning in the heavens; I call upon the true imitators of Christ made man, the only and true savior of men; I call upon my children, my true devotees, those who have given themselves to me so that I may guide them to my divine Son, those whom I carry so to speak in my arms, those who have lived by my spirit; finally I call upon the Apostles of the last times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in a contempt for the world and for themselves, in poverty and in humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time that they go out and come to enlighten the earth. Go, and show yourselves as my dear children; I am with you and in you, provided that your faith be the light which enlightens you in these days of woe. May your zeal render you like the starving for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you the small number who can see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends.’ ~ Our Lady of La Salette
"Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don't look at your weaknesses, realise instead that in Christ Crucified you can do everything. He will provide the way and the means such as you never could have imagined. Leave it all to him. Let go of yourself. Lose yourself on the cross and you will find yourself entirely." ~ St Catherine of Siena
"We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of Faith have to be reconstructed; firstly the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then our chapels, monasteries, our large families, our enterprises faithful to the social politics of the Church, our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ - this is a whole fiber of Christian social life, Christian customs, Christian reflexes, which we have to restore."
~ Archbishop Lefebvre
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