Greetings, parish orphans, and retrogrades. Happy Wednesday.

Francis is back at it again.

Let's collectively sigh before I begin, because this is not fun to have to do once a week.

He's saying, slurring, calling traditionalism infidelity to the Catholic Church and to Vatican 2.

I'm citing from a LifeSight News article that came out actually last week and it didn't get tons of

coverage.

Francis, I repeat, is outright slurring traditionalism, all of it.

The whole kit and caboodle, not radical traditionalism, not certain elements in radical traditionalism, all of it, the whole kit and caboodle, not radical traditionalism, not certain

elements in radical traditionalism, but all of it as backward-looking infidelity to Holy Roman

Church. Let me just open by saying, I'm sick of this. I'm so sick of covering the Pope. Now, there are other Catholic,

right-wing, traditional-leaning YouTube channels that, like mine, get accused of loving to do shows on Francis, of being obsessed with Francis's

faults, which are many. They're many. I'm not pretending they're not. I, you could ask Steph,

when Francis does something like this, sigh, Will it be higher views than the average?

Yeah, people tune in for these.

But I will submit this to you, parish orphans, retrogrades.

We have a tortured relationship with this Pope,

and we have a tortured, as faithful sons and daughters of the church,

we have a tortured relationship with the tortured relationship with the Pope. What I mean is

people will say to me, they'll say to all the other right-wing Catholic streamers and

podcasters out there, you should seek out something positive. Don't just complain

about Vatican II, about the Pope and about the evisceration of the Latin Mass. Well, it so happens

that I actually agree with this critique in kind. Now, I don't agree with all of it.

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