It has definitely been a decade of transition, as this editor dubs it - Transition to Tradition, our last opportunity before God really lowers the boom. Looking back, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to see the deterioration in society as the ranks of the good, decent ones striving for holiness grow smaller and the enemy flanks are massing larger and larger, more threatening than ever. With every day we inch closer to the apocalypse foretold in the book of the same name, contrary to Protestant and conciliar concerns that it was always called "Revelation." Would St. John the Evangelist be surprised, and for that matter the holy Doctor of the Church who translated it and several of the holy hierarchs who ratified the Scriptures at various major councils of the Church, most recently at the dogmatic Council of Trent. Many closet conciliarists reading this may not be familiar with that council since the robber barons have sought to eliminate any mention of Trent in the same manner as the U.S. Government is doing everything it can to wipe out any mention of God. For both these offenses there are consequences, grave ones and we are beginning to see now that both anti-Catholic campaigns by the counterfeit church of conciliarism and the United States Congress and its cohorts in the Obama administration both in Washington and Chicago are getting more desperate as each day passes. Those not grounded in grace had best get right with God before it is too late. Call it "gloom and doom" if you want, but that doom can be eternal and that would cause anyone gloom. Can you say fire and brimstone? To remind you, we will be bringing you throughout this year "Diadems of the Decade" featuring an article from each month of each of the past ten years. We're not saying these are the "Best" of the decade for how do you choose which ones are the best? Yet, they are gems that we want to share for we're sure you will treasure them and realize, like fine jewels, they are still as valuable today especially when investing in souls. For this edition, we present a diadem for each May from 2000 through May 2009.

This column ran a decade ago in which Pat Ludwa prompted all to understand the method God sometimes uses to bring man back to Him. He showed how, through sin, a man can be converted from his evil ways just as Saint Paul and Saint Augustine were to name but a few of the countless souls who walked in darkness before seeing the light. Pat illustrated how God allows evil for good. By that is meant God allows man to do of his free will, to be tempted, to pursue activities that are in direct confrontation against the Almighty. He does so that to show man the emptiness, the void that still exists no matter how rich one might be or secure in their profession for without God, there is nothing. That is the gist of Pat's column ten years ago which is even more pertinent today, when it's a golden opportunity to realize Sin Has Value!!!. While the title of Dr. Frank Joseph's article a year after Pat's above would seem to contradict Ludwa's, they're actually in lock step with Catholic truth. There are many pro life advocates who get the press and accolades in the crusade for the Sanctity of Life, few are more dedicated than the retired physician Dr. Frank Joseph. Ever since his retirement well over a decade ago, Frank has committed his life to exposing the insidious culture of death, a moratorium that began with Roe vs. Wade and since has resulted in over 80 million unborn innocents being slaughtered in the womb. Frank wrote this article nine years ago when more supposed 'Catholics' than ever had been elected to Congress. You would think that would have bode well for eventually overturning abortion laws and returning to sanity in pleading for God's mercy for His little ones. As we can see in those nine years since it has not only gotten worse, but one of the senators mentioned went on to become Vice President. Talk about a joke! To this day Frank continues to uncover the horrors and political chicanery of those who would continue to make it open season on killing the innocent babies. In 2001, Catholics controlled the Senate, Frank asked if they would join Bush and the Republicans in honoring God by stopping the Killing of Unborn babies, or would they continue to sell their souls to satan for political gain? Sadly, today in 2010 we know the answer to that all too well. You Cannot Justify Sin! In an early editorial eight years ago the editor of The DailyCatholic hinted that sedevacantism was very possible considering the actions of the men claiming to be 'Popes.' Cain reported from the bunkers where Traditionalists have been hunkered down deflecting needless artillery from Modern Rome who has decided the real enemy is anyone who professes to embrace the Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church, which is Eternal Rome. Meanwhile the scandalous and very damaging 'fruits of Vatican II' continue to run amok in the post-conciliar jungle as it becomes more apparent everyday that the "top banana" Modernists have no intention to rein in the abusers. They claim they see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil yet it is obvious they're slipping all over themselves on the peels of denial and contradiction as evil indeed permeates every fiber of the hierarchy. So much for trust. The modern hierarchy ape sincerity while continuing to monkey around with the sacrosanct. We can see this so clearly today as more and more evidence surfaces over Ratzinger's complicity in covering up the sex scandals and everything is unraveling. Why then is anyone still duped into believing he could ever possibly be a true Pontiff, let alone Catholic? Cain asks in Who's Fooling Who?!? This letter by Bishop Richard Williamson was published on these pages with permission seven years ago. At the time he was responding to the rumors flying around in 2003 about "re-incommunication" with modern Rome. Back then he made it manifestly clear that Conciliar 'Catholicism' is not Authentic Roman Catholicism and Traditional Catholics, indeed every Catholic, has a duty to resist and to engage in all out war against the Conciliarists for only one will be left standing and, for the sake of millions and millions of souls, let us hope and pray that True Catholicism will win out. He said then that both could not stand, especially if the SSPX is compromised by the enemy camp of the New-church Vatican. Fast forward to present time and we have to ask, what happened? Today he is a house prisoner of the turncoat Bishop Fellay. What was that part Bishop Williamson said about only one house can stand? He still has his chance to speak out before the entire SSPX are swallowed up by the VulgArians. Read carefully his words from seven years ago when he wrote Two Rumors and More to Come? Six years ago Gabriel Garnica tried to burrow through the wall that continues even to today to be unmistakenly erected by the twisters of truth. That wall is the wall of Separation between Church and State, something that has totally been misrepresented and misunderstood. The logic of those saying there must be a wall is more twisted than a pretzel, but that doesn't seem to faze warped minds that neglect the importance and necessity of the documents of truth - the Holy Scriptures and why the U.S. Constitution, Declarion of Independance, and Bill of Rights were founded upon the principles and tenets of the Holy Bible. That is a problem with the New Order who are so malleable to accepting the New Manifesto of Modernism, while twisting the Living Documents to justify killing. "Thou shalt not kill" means nothing to these cannibals of cantankerousness. Gabriel explained in When Living Documents Are Twisted To Justify Death! Five years ago, we brought you a short essay by Father Kevin Vaillancourt, editor of the Traditional publication The Catholic Voice who had given us personal permission to reprint his article from many years ago on the very subject of the questioning of the validity of the Sacrament of Ordination which Paul VI changed. Father reinforced that what Pius XII decreed in Sacramentum Ordinis has been omitted in the new rite of ordination and thus throwing so much into mass confusion with the conciliar church. Father Kevin provided the correct words of the long established traditional rite of Ordination. He clarified why those ordained in the new rite after 1968 are presbyters and not really worthy of the revered title "Father." What is worse, is that they can't confect the Sacrament either. That creates a major problem for those who think they can. "Father" or Not "Father"? Five years ago, Timothy Duff, who has taught Traditional Catholicism for decades and is also a consummate expert on Venerable Mary Agreda's masterful work Mystical City of God, provided a primer on how to help our friends trapped in the Novus Ordo establishment to see the truths of the True Mass, the True Faith and to better understand why the New Order 'Mass' is not from Christ nor from the Church He established! It is not Catholic! The title of this article seems obvious enough, does it not? What Catholic could be found who would not agree that the Church is not above Christ? Yet the belief that the Catholic Church has more authority than Jesus Christ Himself is actually the very core of the error of those who attend the Novus Ordo Missae or "New Order Mass" (NOM). It is a sacred duty of charity for those whom the Sacred Heart of Jesus has mercifully called to attend exclusively the Traditional Latin Mass to desire the same grace for others. That is why Tim shares this "how to explain why" to help our friends trapped in the counterfeit church of conciliarism to truly understand Catholic truth as he explained so clearly in his magnificent essay The Church is Not Above Christ Though Father James Francis Wathen has passed on to his eternal reward, he has left us not only his words of wisdom in Making Sense of sensus Catholicus and his magnificent and irrefutable opus The Great Sacrilege, but has also given us several radio reflections. We are grateful to be able to bring you these pearls of wisdom, especially this one in which Fr. Wathen peeled away the layers of complication that the world covers everything with in order to deny the simplest, most basic point of life: Why God made us. Father resorted to the first question of the Baltimore Catechism to refute all the great minds that steer us away from the ineffable truth that we are His creations to do as He wills and if we are not willing to cooperate, then we deserve the fate that awaits us. He called upon the brilliant Father Frederick Faber to bring home this everlasting truth and the audacity of those who think they can go it alone...for they are in for a shock when all is said and done and they pass back into dust. Father Wathen explained in God intends us to have Meaning and Purpose to our life God intends us to have Meaning and Purpose to our life With the last day of May being the feast of the Queenship of Mary, we bring you John Gregory's inspiration on the Fifth Glorious Mystery with the exemplary words of Pope Pius XII's encyclical Munificentissimus Deus pertaining to her Coronation. For the first part of his encyclical on the Dogma of the Assumption on November 1, 1950, the last time anything infallible has been pronounced from the See of Peter, see first part of encyclical. As His Holiness put it so poignantly for what greater glory can there be for a lifetime of devotion and uncompromising fiat to the divine will than to be recognized for all time what the Blessed Mother accomplished in being crowned by her divine Son and heavenly Father with the assistance of the Holy Ghost, her divine Spouse. It is a lesson for us that indeed there is a light at the end of this worldly tunnel, a light from the Beatific Vision attainable only by adhering willingly and lovingly to the will of Almighty God for she is the Woman of the Apocalypse, with a crown of twelve stars. John provides the inspiration for Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Last year Griff Ruby presented a column in which he asked: Is Bishop Fellay the answer to the end of the Crisis in the Church? Does he have the answers? Many within his own Society don't think so. They feel they are being betrayed. The question remains: Is he being beamed into the Vatican for the good of Catholics or at their expense? What assurance does he have that the Modernists can ever be sincere and honest? From what has been seen thus far one would be wise to suspect 'there's something rotten in Denmark' as well as Rome. A year has passed and we can see Fellay is very much of the problem, especially by his purging those who object to his sell-out. The SSPX is in a great state of flux and for those still associated with the Society, the proof is in the pudding by Fellay's total silence in the face of ever more egregious offenses, heresies and outright deceit of all by the usurper in Rome and his thugs in purple and red. Griff's warning holds truer than ever to those who would place their hopes in Modern Rome: Don't! Griff lays out the parameters in his column To Go Where No Saint Has Gone Before

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