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The Vatican just released a document that has Catholics raging.

It’s basically trying to introduce a mechanism to reinterpret Vatican 1 to make previous primacy statements amenable to ecumenism.

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I believe that's what Bishop Eleganti was referring to when he said such moves wouldn't make any difference to Protestants or anyone else. I believe he's right.

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Very interesting post Mark.

Consider that: Context matters.

Vatican II, was a “effect” of the psycho-techno environment created by TELEVISION throughout the West (and drugs played a role). Ecumenical is this context is akin to the UN, World government and Globalism. TELEVISION, was thought to create the Global Village. Make everyone have the same global sensibilities. Television as a technology is described as continuous.

The young adhering to Latin Mass is an “effect” of the psycho-techno environment created by everyone everywhere going DIGITAL. DIGITAL has destroyed all that came before it, what we called Modern and Post Modern. The Latin Mass is the closest we have to what came before the Modern, the Medieval or SCRIBAL.

DIGITAL, as a psycho environment, is retrieving the Medieval sensibilities and attitudes, thus the talk about the end of “democracy,” which was a product of the TELEVISION environment, and talk about “authoritarianism,” and the return of Kings/Monarchy in the pre-modern sense.

Watergate: Nixon was assassinated! But rather than going the Kennedy kinetic route, before TELEVISION was the total environment in the US, he was taken out the “cold war” way: psychological attack on Americans through TELEVISION, at a time when an alternative “story” had no outlet: See Geoff Shepard’s books on Nixon and Watergate. Trump came at a time when TELEVISION had ceased to be the effective medium anymore, as in no one on any side in politics takes it seriously. It no longer shapes humans.

We are now in a paradigm “shift” from the old to the new. Robots that make decisions/replace humans, versus human souls. Get ready for the new “culture war,” as the West rebuilds/retrieves “morality.” This will require new “elites” throughout the West.

The next four Trump years will start to be more obvious of where things are going and new battle lines.

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Jul 6·edited Jul 6

On a related note, the Vatican announced today that Archbishop Viganò has been excommunicated.

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I don’t know too much about Watergate except what I have read and listened to by one of the contributors to Power Line Blog. It was a couple of years ago. Fascinating. Put the prevailing “narrative” that I grew up with in perspective. Nixon must’ve felt grateful he was allowed to get out alive as opposed to the other president that the deep state removed earlier.

As for the Vatican II stuff. My dad would rail against it while I was growing up. Again, I didn’t fully understand or grasp what was going on really. Then I fell away from the faith for many years and only in the last ten have come back. But I read and listen to a guy that runs the Remnant out of Minnesota, Michael Matt I believe is his name. He just did produced a documentary on the scandal of Vatican Ii, and he is a staunch defender of the Latin Mass.

Satan hates Latin. I often wonder if that has anything to do with the powers that be trying to shun the traditional Latin Mass. I don’t know.

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