Peter Kwasniewski

And so I wanted to mention one of those speeches in particular.

Father, there were several articles that were going out around this, about this one speech in particular by this Dr. Peter Kwasniewski.

I listened to the video, Father, his speech.

I think it was 48 minutes long.

Although the church herself has left that question open.

If a Pope loses the faith, would he lose the papacy also? That question is a perfectly Catholic question that the church has acknowledged is a legitimate question to ask.

Kwasniewski says no, as though he's some kind of super pope who can veto the church.

What the church has not answered, he's going to give us the answers, okay? And quasi-infallibly, because Dr.

You can read my book, City of God versus City of Man.

But I also want to recommend the Iron Scepter of the Son of God, Romanitas, as a note of the church by Alan Femister, published by my friend Peter Kwasniewski over at Osseous Depress, and to delve deeper into this.

But what I want to just say today, before we get into our normal content for the church triumphant this week, is, so first of all, the Byzantine Rite, the term Byzantine is... not the way that the Greeks described themselves.

So the Greeks described themselves as Romans, and as they should, because the city of Constantinople, the actual name of that city is New Rome, founded by the Roman emperor, Constantine the Great, and they called themselves Romans.

So, uh, b- before we get into what's going on with Una Voce and the pilgrimage to Rome, what's new with you? What are you working on? I, I, w- I wanted to promote...

This is, this is, uh, your great book written by... or written by you, but published by our, our other friend and contributing editor Peter Kwasniewski, and this text has, I think, in my opinion, one of the best essays on active participation.

It's so important to read this essay from Dr. Shaw.

So what's new with you? What are you working on?

You claim someone is pope, but then don't submit to him, but rather submit his teachings to your own judgment, or to the judgment of someone else whom you have chosen to rely on more than on the pope.

such as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Padre Pio, Father Chad Ripperger, Father Gregory Hess, Michael Davies, Peter Kwasniewski, or Taylor Marshall, for example.

But no matter what the competencies of these men may or may not be, they are massively inferior to, and in fact entirely dependent on, the teaching authority of the Supreme Pontiff— Notice I said authority, not infallibility.

On May 10, 1909, Pope St. Pius X pointed out that to be a Catholic it is not necessary to have great learning, great intelligence, or great resources.

Male.

XY chromosomes, for those who don't know what male means.

Therefore, if a woman were to manage to keep her true sex a secret, and appear like a man, and deceive everyone, and if she were to be elected Pope, so to speak, and sit on the chair of St. Peter, she would not in fact be the Pope.

And you would not have to wait for a council of bishops to make a declaration first before you could arrive at that conclusion, that this particular woman is not the Pope.

But also, what do you mean by the social kingship of Christ? Because there's a piece of reading I do recommend for people, and it can be found on Dr.

Peter Kwasniewski's Tradition and Sanity website.

his blog or substack.

And it's called Two Dates, Two Different Feasts, October versus November, Christ the Kings.

Now imagine that power times a thousand if you were the vicar of Christ on earth.

And something I talked about a couple of weeks ago when I was refuting Westhoff's fallacious arguments about the primacy of Peter and all of this, you know, we quoted from Isaiah and we looked at the fact that the prototypes in the Old Testament were in fact supposed to be fathers to the inhabitants, fathers to the people of the kingdom.

That is part of their role.

Part of their job is to be a father.

make the bed, we lie in it.

We do, and it causes a lot of other problems because when you go back to the very Ultramontane Council of Vatican I, right, you find that one of the teachings out of that council was the fact that the church proclaimed that the papacy will endure to the end of time, which I'm like, yeah, clearly that doesn't work, but plain reading, if there's this 60, 70-year gap.

And two, it also, at the same time, claims... that the—and this is another area where I've wrestled with—that the teaching of Peter, right, in reference to the Pope, will never fail.

And if you go back and read theologians, again, they're talking about this kind of indefectibility about stuff.

I mean, it's like we want tradition to be great again.

You know, I like Dr. Kwasniewski's book, The Once and Future Roman Rite.

You know, I hope, I pray, I ask the intercession, blessed Virgin Mary, that someday...

The traditional Latin mass that was said on the top of of that mountaintop above Vienna that Jan Sobieski and his winged hussars went to mass was a traditional Latin mass.