by Kathy Clubb

Be silent no more! Cry out with one hundred thousand tongues. I see that, because of this silence, the world is in ruins, the Spouse of Christ has grown pale; the color is taken from her face because her blood has been sucked out, that is the blood of Christ, which is given as a free gift and not by right – St. Catherine of Siena

In the 3rd century BC, King Pyrrhus of Greece went to war against the Romans. Initially, his forces were victorious, but the casualties they sustained were so high that Pyrrhus was unable to win a more decisive later battle. From this historical failure is derived the term, Pyrrhic victory, which has come to mean a victory which is hollow: one which loses more than it gains.

Two thousand years later, Italy is again the scene of a Pyrrhic victory; mainstream traditionalist media is claiming a triumph while also sustaining great losses, both of credibility and of personal integrity.

A deal with the devil

The Tridentine Mass of the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage held in St. Peter’s Basilica was hailed by some as the sign that Pope Leo is welcoming tradition into the Vatican. It was a product of the “Zip It” policy which promised to “see no evil” in return for access (for some) to the Latin Mass.

With a huge crowd of faithful Catholics and a number of high-ranking prelates in attendance, the liturgy was accompanied by an exorcism prayer offered by Cardinal Ernest Simoni. Cardinal Simoni, aged 97, had been tortured and imprisoned for 28 years in Albania for refusing to renounce his faith.

Without casting shade on the piety of the Cardinal, it must be asked whether a single exorcism prayer could be sufficient to cleanse St. Peter’s from the multitude of abuses she has endured over the past decade. Surely a solemn reconsecration would be necessary before traditionalists could dare to offer Mass inside St. Peter’s walls?

The Vatican’s liaison was Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who was also in attendance on the day. Zuppi has been assisting at traditional liturgies around Rome for a number of years, one example being the Pontifical Mass he offered for Laetare Sunday with the FSSP in 2014.

Yet, Zuppi is so closely aligned with the promotion of sodomy that his presence at these Masses should be a source of scandal to traditional Catholics.

The pilgrimage of sodomites which entered the Basilica last month, organised with the explicit support of Cardinal Zuppi, was only the latest in a series of his sodomy-related scandals.

He also approved of a pseudo-wedding for two gay men performed by an Italian priest in 2022, and more recently, he addressed an Italian film festival, remarking that “Everyone must be in the Church, regardless of any consonant or vowel and this is very important. We need to understand what queer means…”

Given that Zuppi also has ties to Communism and Freemasonry, it would appear that Trad Inc. made a deal with a literal devil in order to secure its prized Mass.

Under these circumstances, could permission to say the Mass be seen as a victory? Or was it just another act in the Synodal circus?

“No one possesses the whole truth”?

The day after the Summorum Pontificum Mass, the Vatican machine kicked into high gear, as if to underscore its incompatibility with tradition.

At his homily for the Jubilee of Synodal Teams, Pope Leo dropped a doctrinal bombshell, saying the quiet part out loud and attempting to undo two centuries of Catholic teaching. According to the Pope, no more is the Church committed to the salvation of souls and no more is She a bastion of truth:

The supreme rule in the Church is love. No one is called to dominate; all are called to serve. No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together.

Whereas it used to be said that the truth is a person, or rather a Person – the Second Person of the Trinity, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life – now, truth, like love, has been downgraded to a beige sentimentality which can tolerate perversion but cannot abide dogma.

If mainstream traditionalist media hadn’t realised its losses by that point, things were about to get worse.

Assisi 2.0

Only days after the Summorum Pontificum Mass, a scandalous ecumenical event, modelled on the Assisi meetings held by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, took place in the shadow of the Colosseum. On the very site where the blood of martyrs became the seed of the Church, a celebration of institutionalised religious liberalism took place.

The occasion was the annual “Meeting for Peace” of the Community of Sant’Egidio – another project of Cardinal Zuppi’s – and it was presided over by the Pope. Demanding an end to war and recalling the “spirit of Assisi”, Pope Leo addressed Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus in a search for the mythical common ground promoted by his former mentor, Cardinal Bernardin.

Included in the event was a bizarre video featuring strange rituals performed by sensual-looking young women and an evil eye symbol which appeared to be a reference to the Illuminati (see here from 3:24-4:24 min). No doubt intended to showcase the “common ground” shared by adherents of the world’s religions, it was vaguely unsettling and without a shred of Christian messaging or symbolism.

Pope Leo’s address was also disturbing. In contrast to centuries of militant resistance by Catholics against pagans and infidels, the Pope insisted that “War is never holy; only peace is holy, because it is willed by God.”

That philosophy fails to understand that the peace willed by God is “not as the world giveth.” (John 14:27) Christian peace is not necessarily an absence of war but is rather is a fruit of faith in the true God. The anti-Christ religions on display at the Colosseum can never be a source of true peace; the misplaced ecumenism of the ‘spirit of Assisi’ can only ever result in the false peace of compromise.

An ecumenical event of this kind, held with the Colosseum as a backdrop, indicates a new message for the Church: instead of giving our lives for the Faith, we must give up our Faith for the sake of life. That is, not for the sake of eternal life, but instead for that merely human goal: a natural life without conflict, a life of concession resulting from the Church abandoning Her mission to share the Gospel.

Nostra Aetate

The previous event coincided with the 60th anniversary of the document, Nostra Aetate. A Vatican-made video, below, shows the anti-Christic chaos of the celebrations in all its glory.

If you can stomach it, another video, also produced by the Vatican shows ‘highlights’ of the Nostra Aetate festivities. To the strains of little children singing “We are the World”, the Pope is seen greeting leaders of world religions and watching various performances, an outward display of the ‘tolerance’ and ‘walking together’ of the Synodal church.

Nostra Aetate remains a controversial attempt by the conciliar Church to find common ground with non-believers by ceding Her rights as the One, True Church. Its fundamental nature was even recognised by non-Catholics like the Chief Rabbi of London, Jonathan Sacks, who said the document “brought about one of the greatest revolutions in religious history.”

The theme of “unity among diversity” leaves one wondering exactly what the source of that unity could be. The human element of the Church has never been less unified yet Catholics are being encouraged to seek unity with non-believers?

If simply attending or offering the traditional mass was enough to make a great saint, then there would be no crisis in the Church as ALL the Council Fathers responsible for seeding Her with Modernism and setting Her on a course of destruction were born and raised with the Latin Mass. Catholicism is more than the Mass, despite it being so essential to our Faith.

The high cost of gratitude

Trad Inc. has now put itself in a dangerous situation: a position wherein its members are forced to be grateful to the very men who are destroying the Church. Yes, in exchange for permission to offer the Mass of the Ages, a Mass which has never abrogated and for which no permission should ever be necessary, traditionalists must now show gratitude to those who suppress that same Mass in many jurisdictions; who accomodate Moslems in the Vatican library; who protect evil predators like Marco Rupnik; who plunder the assets of the Vatican with their profligate spending; who honour unbelievers like the arch-heretic and hereditary leader of British Freemasonry, King Charles.

This latest in a series of trade-offs continues to undermine the integrity of the mainstream traditionalist movement; its commitment to “seeing no evil, speaking no evil, hearing no evil” is empowering the Revolutionaries in their quest to remake the Church in the image of man.

The Solution

Professor Plinio believed the only way to defeat the Revolution was to promote the opposite of its disordered principles, and he pinpointed three specific themes of any successful Counter-Revolution:

• to promote the rights of the Church, specifically opposing secularism, ecumenism, atheism and pantheism;
• to promote hierarchy wherever the Revolution insists on egalitarianism
• to be diligent in exposing evil in its “veiled or embryonic forms.”

Using these criteria as a benchmark against which to judge the wisdom of the Trad Inc. strategy, it becomes obvious that its leaders have not learned from history and are following in the misguided footsteps of King Pyrrhus.

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Kathy Clubb is an Australian mother, grandmother and writer who home-educated her children for the best part of 30 years. She has written on Catholic and pro-life issues at The Remnant Newspaper, Family Life International, LifeSiteNews, and Fidelity magazine. She is the author of Latina Rosarii, the Latin Primer for the Reluctant and her next book, An Unjust Law, based on her constitutional challenge to Australia’s abortion bubble-zones, is due for release in December 2025.

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1. Plinio de Corrêa Oliviera, Revolution and Counter-Revolution. ↩︎