Still Hunkered Down In Mindanao (

Although some believed that the famous case of Hiroo Onoda in 1974 represented the last instance of a Japanese solider holding out in The Philippines as he awaited "official" word from his commanding officer that the Empire of Japan had surrendered to Allied forces to mark the end of World War II, two other soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army, Yoshio Yamakawa and Tuszuki Nakauchi, emerged just three years ago on the Island of Mindanao in The Philippines to seek repatriation to their country:

These celebrated cases of Japanese Imperial Army holdouts in The Philippines are quite pertinent as one considers the efforts, certainly well-intentioned, of "conservative" Catholics yet attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism to "hold out" themselves in various outposts in order to do "battle" for the Faith against this or that "outrage" perpetrated in the name of the Catholic Church by the revolutionaries of the counterfeit church of conciliarism that most people think, very sadly, is the Catholic Church.

The efforts are sometimes aimed at "protesting" the assignment of a conciliar revolutionary "priest" to undo the work of a validly ordained priest who tried to hold back the floodgates of the revolution as best he could with the equipment that had been given to him. At other times, of course, the battles are fought over trying "enforce" the conciliar church's 1983 Code of Canon Law over the issue of allowing pro-abortion Catholics in public life receive what purports, falsely, to be Holy Communion in the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service. And then there is the case that has many people on both "sides" quite agitated concerning a woman, Barbara Johnson, in Maryland who was denied from receiving said false communion at her own late mother's "Mass of Christian Burial" by a presbyter, "Father" Marcel Guarnizo,who was trying to protect what he believed to be the integrity of the Sacred Species--and to keep the woman herself from committing what he believes would have been a sacrilege for her (to receive Holy Communion in a state of Mortal Sin).

Miss Johnson had taken the time and trouble to go to the sacristy before what "Father" Guarnizo does not believe is a sacrilege in its own right, the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service that is sacramentally barren, to introduce him to her "lover," another woman. One who makes such an introduction is indicating, quite of course, that he or she is not repentant of one's perverse sins against Holy Purity. It matters not if Miss Johnson had been to what passes for "reconciliation," another worthless ritual in the conciliar church, beforehand, which no one has thus far asserted is the case.

By presenting "Father" Guarnizo with her "lover" to greet, Barbara Johnson was announcing that she had no compunction at all about continuing in the sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance, indicating also that she was clueless about the simple fact that neither she or "lover" "love" each other authentically as true love wills the good of another, the ultimate expression of which is the salvation of his or her immortal soul. We love no one authentically if he or she does anything that interferes with his or her salvation. It is that simple. Catholics are not sappy sentimentalists. We must love God before all creatures and we must love our fellow men as God loves each of us, that is, with an act of Divine Will. God wants us to save, not lose, our immortal souls, and we can't go to Heaven by committing unrepentant Mortal Sins. It is a manifest duty of Catholics to perform the Spiritual Works of Mercy, one of which is to admonish the sinner.

The press reports do not indicate that "Father" Guarnizo had prior knowledge of Barbara Johnson's behavior, although it is not out of the question that he did. Regardless, however, he was given information before the false liturgical service and he saw himself as duty bound to act upon that information. It is totally unsurprising that the Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia, has issued an apology for his efforts to protect the integrity of what he believes is the Most Blessed Sacrament. The full text of letter of "apology," issued by no less a figure than an "auxiliary bishop," Barry Knestout, in the revolutionary stronghold known as the Archdiocese of Washington, over which one of the chief progenitors of the assault upon the innocence and purity of children by means of explicit classroom instruction in matters pertaining to to the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, Donald "Cardinal" Wuerl, presides can be found by clicking Letter to Barbara Johnson.

Here is an excerpt from a report on this needless controversy as found in The Washington Post:

Here's a news flash for the well-meaning "conservatives" hunkered down on Mindanao in the conciliar structures who are applauding the presbyter's actions and protesting about his treatment by his superiors: It's over. Forget about it. The "war" is over. You are not only on Mindanao, you are in the wrong church, one that is a counterfeit ape of the Catholic Church.

How can any sane and rational human being believe that men who offend God by personally esteeming the symbols of false religions and participating in joint "prayer" services with non-Catholics that are direct violations of the First and Second Commandments and a complete defiance of Holy Mother Church's immutable condemnation of such activities, the likes of which caused millions upon millions of martyrs to prefer horrible deaths than even to give the appearance of such sacrileges and blasphemies, are going to act to enforce a code of their own worthless "canon law" that permits such things as "inter-communion" when they do not do so themselves? Men who have no regard for the First and Second Commandments or for the fact that their activities have been condemned by Apostles and Fathers and Doctors and Confessors and true popes are not going to have any regard for their own rules and regulations.

Here's another news flash: Many of the conciliar authorities really believe that those involved in perverse relationships must be treated with "respect" for their "beliefs" and "practices" while others among them are fellow-travelers who believe that any criticize of the "gay lifestyle" or "gay rights," including "marriage," is bigoted, mean-spirited, judgmental and just, well, just plain "un-Christian."

It is time for those who are still hunkered down on "Mindanao" to wake up as their false "pontiff," Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who has been a chief offender against the First and Second Commandments, contemplates appointing a fellow revolutionary to succeed his own former student, William "Cardinal" Levada, as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the [Conciliar] Faith. That revolutionary is Gerhard Ludwig Muller of the Diocese of Regensburg, Germany, who hates even the modernized version of the Immemorial Mass used by the Society of Saint Pius X, which he has denounced regularly (see Rumored new doctrinal czar has liberation theology ties.) Yes, Muller is only "under consideration." The fact that he is under consideration at all is just further proof of the state of apostasy in a false church where nothing matters, not even Ratzinger/Benedict's past criticisms, however nuanced, of the same "liberation theology" that Muller has had ties to over the years.

To quote my friend Bob Stern from Great Neck, New York, who would call me on opening day back in the 1990s whenever something would go awry in the first game of a Mets' season, "It's OVER, Tom! It's OVER."

As a now retired--and battle scarred--combatant in these battles, both as an activist and as one engaged in advocacy journalism, I can report that these battles, although stemming from the highest of motives to help Holy Mother Church, are indeed the equivalent of taking pot shots at "enemy targets" from a jungle tree on Mindanao. The "enemy" has won. The war is over. The battles are useless.

Obviously, it should go without saying that it took me a very long time to understand this to be the case. Over three decades, to be quite precise. That's a long time. People pleaded me thirty-two years ago to look at what they called a Judeo-Masonic-Communist conspiracy to infiltrate the Church at the "Second" Vatican Council. I thought that they were crazy. (Please understand that a New Yorker is prone to throw around the term "crazy" rather liberally. The use of the term does not mean that we think a personally is clinically mentally ill. All right, not in all instances, I should add.) Others made an effort to remonstrate with me twenty-two years ago, arguing me in the most strenuous terms in behalf of the sedevacantist argument. I thought that they were crazy. Still others argued with me as recently as ten years ago that the "pope" was not the Pope. The best I could say was, "I'm not there yet."

Thus it was that I waged one pitched battle after another in behalf of what I thought was the cause of the restoration of the Church. I was far from alone, of course. However, I was possessed of the notion that the parishes I now understand to be in the control of a counterfeit church and of rump "priests" still belonged to the Catholic Church and that the "pope" needed "our" help on the ground as we fought for "liturgical reverence" in the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service and against this or that egregious teaching emanating from some diocesan conference or being tolerated, at the very least, by some diocesan"bishop" in one of his schools or colleges or in one of his parishes.

False hope that some "good" was being done in these battles was given by the late Silvio Cardinal Oddi, then the Prefect of the conciliar Congregation for the Clergy in the Vatican, when he intervened in March of 1983 to save the pastorate of a true priest, who will remain unnamed in this particular commentary as I want to focus on general principles and not the specifics of any ongoing controversies, at a time when that priest's conciliar "bishop" was attempting to force him to resign that pastorate. Quite pridefully, I must confess, I considered it nothing less than a miracle that a letter that I had written in behalf of this priest's plight actually got to Cardinal Oddi within fifteen hours of my sending it via an air courier service and that a telegram was sent by His Eminence to the conciliar "bishop" to tell him, the "bishop," to take no action until he came to Rome for his ad limina apostolorum visit a few weeks later. Nearly five hundred other letters were sent to Cardinal Oddi, and the priest in question had his pastorate in the conciliar structures saved, remaining in power for another quarter-century thereafter.

Cardinal Oddi said the following to me when I met with him in his office in Rome in October of 1984, "Your bishop came to see me after you wrote your nice letter. He sat where you are sitting. Same chair. We had a little chat. He changed his mind." Cardinal Oddi smiled broadly as he recounted the story, which gave me hope that the battles in the trenches, as futile, humanly speaking, as they appeared to be in most cases, could be won if enough prayers were said and sacrifices made. That hope was false. It was illusory. Although Cardinal Oddi was a friend of the Faith and was concerned about the plight of older priests who were being scourged by the conciliar "bishops," he was not the pope, and the man who claimed to be the "pope," Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II replaced him in short order when he, Oddi, reached the mandatory retirement age of seventy-five a year later. "It couldn't be, I thought to myself at the time, that these 'bishops' are staying in power because the 'pope' wants them there. He is getting bad advice, right?"

Although I listened to those who argued with me about the futility of fighting battles in a false church, I trod along my merry way as I wrote letter after letter to conciliar officials in the Vatican. Advised that working on the "inside" would be helpful, I gave up a pretty secure government position in September of 1988 to work for a conciliar "bishop" as his ghostwriter and communications director, being aghast at how he tolerated liturgical abuses, which included the invocation of the names of Martin Luther King, Jr., Oscar Romero, among others, in the Litany of the Saints during what purported to be the Easter Vigil Mass in 1989. And I could not fathom how this "conservative" bishop, who was very devoted to Our Lady's Fatima Message, was so hostile to the Immemorial Mass of Tradition, which had just been "liberated," I thought at the time, by the Ecclesia Dei motu proprio to extend the earlier "indult" for the offering of the modernized version of the true Mass that had been granted when I was visiting Rome in 1984.

My association with The Wanderer gave me an opportunity to work in a more formal way with prominent "conservative" priests as battles were fought to keep "gender inclusive" translations from making their way into the texts of the Collects in the Novus Ordo service. There was even a little bit of a victory at the annual meeting of the then named National Conference of Catholic "Bishops" in 1993 as some "conservative" 'bishops" stood their ground against a set of translations that was being foisted upon the entire body of "bishops" by the apparatchiks in the International Committee on English in the Liturgy, whose longtime executive secretary, Dr. John Page, had been interviewed by me just a short time before that 'bishops'" meeting.

Alas, it was only a scant five months thereafter that the "conservative" "pope" gave us altar girls in the Novus Ordo world, an action that led me to write an editorial an "open letter" to "Pope" John Paul II to ask him why he was rewarding the dissenters. Although I had written an ill-advised defense of the Wojtyla "papacy" in August of 1993 for which I was rightly and roundly criticized, the altar girl business proved to me that the Novus Ordo was irreformable, that it was the problem. Oh, yes, I still went to the abomination during the week until early-2001 as I wanted to go to "Mass," convincing myself that I would keep Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ company as He was scourged once again, this time by the hands of his own "priests." I did seek refuge in the "indult" more and more in the 1990s, however, and started to think about the simple truth that a true offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass should not make one angry. Such has never been the history of the Catholic Church.

Slowly, and I do mean very slowly, the scales were lifted from my eyes as I did one news story after another for The Wanderer from 1992 to 2000. These news stories involved outright denials of the Faith and/or persecutions of men who, like the priest whose pastorate was saved by Cardinal Oddi in 1983, were deemed to be too "conservative," if not clinically "mentally ill," for adhering to a "preconciliar" conception of the Faith. Although my principal work in my Wanderer years was the writing of commentaries, I did put together about twenty or so "hard news" stories, including the first news story dealing with the unrepentant corruption of the conciliar "bishop" of Springfield, Illinois, Daniel Leo Ryan, in March of 1997. It had became evident to me by then that "Rome" was the problem, that all I was doing was providing a "permanent record," if you will, of the damage done by the revolutionaries, that nothing would be done to address the root causes of the problem.

Certainly, as is well known, I resisted the conclusion that the conciliar "pontiffs" were deprived of their office as a result of their defections from the Faith. In truth, however, I was a closet sedevacantist in that I almost never referred to those "encyclical" letters issued by the conciliar "pontiffs" that contradicted the teachings of the preconciliar popes. A man in Saint Louis, Missouri, wrote to me at the end of 1996, I believe, to ask me why I quoted from Pope Pius XI's scathing condemnation of the League of Nations in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio, December 23, 1922, but never tried to defend Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII's Pacem in Terris, April 11, 1963. I never wrote back to the gentleman as I had no answer other than I did not believe that the men whose "pontificates" I accepted as legitimate were in possession of the totality of the Catholic Faith, especially, as I viewed it at the time, concerning the Social Reign of Christ the King.

In other words, I had not sought to consider these words of Pope Leo XIII, contained in Satis Cognitum, June 29, 1896:

I always hated false ecumenism. And as I began to be stripped of my own immersion in the Americanist heresy, I began to see much more clearly how the ethos of the Potomac (the religious "liberty" and religious indifferentism of the American Constitution) had flowed directly into the Tiber. Still, to say that the "pope" is not the pope? That was too much for me in the late-1990s. And the best that I could do until the middle of 2005, at which time I began to investigate the claims of the sedevacantists, was to say, very privately, you understand, the following: "The sedevacantists may very well be correct. However, it is going to take some future council to declare this." I had a bit more work to do, shall we say, and what assisted me in this regard was the following admission by the now late Mario Francesco "Cardinal" Pompedda in February of 2005 when Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II was in the final throes of Stage Three Parkinson's disease:

Others who are still hunkered down on Mindanao would do well to take the time to read Gregorius's definitive The Chair is Still Empty.

Mind you, each person must examine these matters for himself to see where the truth rests. This is not a matter of "opinion." This is matter of truth. Can the Catholic Church give us a liturgy that is defective in its expression of the Catholic Faith, that incorporates pagan "rituals" into its putative "offerings," that incorporates elements from Protestantism and "table prayers" from the blasphemous Talmud, that leaves many believing Catholics in tears, if not in real anger, day after day and week after week in many conciliar venues? Can anathematized propositions concerning the nature of dogmatic truth be defied and contradiction without the Faith being lost? Do the Catholic Church's condemnations of Modernism and the New Theology still stand? Were the true popes of the Catholic Church wrong to have insisted upon the unconditional return of non-Catholics to the true Faith? Can a putative "pontiff" esteem personally the symbols of false religions with his own priestly hands and remain a member of the Catholic Church without incurring the canonical penalties summarized by Bishop George Hay in The Laws of God Forbidding All Communication in Religion With Those of a False Religion.

Most Catholics do not want to ask these questions. Many of those who care deeply about the Faith and who are aghast at what they see at the "retail" level in their parishes are as reluctant now as I was thirty and twenty and even ten years ago to admit that the problems and "abuses" at the "retail" level in local parishes are the direct, inevitable results of the falsehoods propagated by the "Second" Vatican Council and the ethos engendered thereby and defended with enthusiasm by the conciliar "pontiffs" themselves. To do battle with a "revolutionary" pastor who seeks to undo the work of a "conservative" predecessor is to tilt needlessly at imaginary windmills. The "revolutionary" pastor is only doing what the revolutionary "bishop" wants done. And the revolutionary "bishop" is only doing what the revolutionary "pontiffs" have mandated and continue to celebrate, that is, the ethos of the "Second" Vatican Council and the "renewal" represented by the Protestant and Masonic Novus Ordo service.

These prophetic words of the Venerable Anne Katherine Emmerich have come true right before our very eyes:

All one needs to do is to open his eyes and see that that church is the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

Every Rosary we pray--and we should pray as many each day as our states-in-life permit--helps to make reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world. We must have confidence in Our Lady's intercessory power to help others as she has helped us, sinners who are no better than anyone else at all (!), to find a way out of the false church of conciliarism once and for all.

Today is Ember Friday in Lent and the First Friday of the month of March, reminding us to keep close to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary as keep the First Friday requests made by Our Lord to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque and the First Saturday requests made in all of their specificity to Sister Lucia dos Santos in 1925.

Still Hunkered Down On Mindanao (And In The Wrong Church)

by Thomas A. Droleskey


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