by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

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We often talk about how Christians should forgive one another. We pray about it daily, when we say the Our Father.

But when Jesus forgives sinners, it is also necessary that we forgive them.

This irks us on those occasions where we nurture in our own hearts hatred for sinners.

In these cases, we also need to forgive Jesus for being more merciful that we would have Him be. And if we truly forgive Jesus, we must admit that it is not He who has committed a fault, but us, who have been too self righteous to be willing that God forgive this or that sinner.

When the Catholics of Rome elected the Monothelite heretic Eugene I, or the antipope Leo VIII, as pope, without doubt there were Catholics who at that time did not accept it.

We are in a double replay.

Catholics need to learn to forgive, and we can only do this with the humility to let Jesus forgive sinners and the  Church of Rome to decide for Herself, who shall be Her Shepherd. That’s been fine for Jesus for 2000 years.

It should be fine for us, too.

The title of this article may sound ridiculous. But it is more ridiculous that some Christians judge Jesus and want Him to run the Church as they want it to run. So this title is phrased from within their warped egocentric mentality, like a fishing hook lowered into the depths of sin and pride, to catch a big fish, who needs the mercy of the light at the bait of a sharp movement of the mouth.

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

It is a horrible sin of pride and theft to arrogate to yourself the right to judge others juridically in the Church. It is in a word diabolic. Because in the Church of God all authority comes from God, and NO man can claim to hold it, if it is not given him by God or His Church.

And the culmination of such pride and sin, is to judge as invalid a valid papal election, because this is tantamount to arrogating to oneself the right say this man is or is not the pope.

For this reason, though I was one of the first to report and follow the news regarding Team Bergoglio, when it came the canonical evidence, I agreed with Cardinal Burke and Msgr. Nicola Bux, that it would be hard to prove with the rigor necessary for a trial. And thus I abandoned saying the election was invalid.

For this reason too, though I recognized that the things said and taught by Jorge Mario Bergoglio as antipope were heretical and blasphemous, I never said or claim I had the right to put him out of the Church. No, rather, as every Catholic should, I called on the Cardinals or the bishops to meet and condemn him.

This is the catholic way.

I started writing at FromRome, long before anyone ever heard of Don Minutella or of Andrea Cionci. And it was Catholics from the United States and Canada, like Father Kramer and Fr. Gruner, who were way ahead of everyone on this topic. It is true that Raedelli was first to doubt the renunciation was an abdication, and that Fr. Violi was the first to say it was not conform to canon 332, and it was La Pace that said that you cannot renounce something in the future.

But with them the controversy went silent.

Yes, Socci took up talking around the issue in several books. But he never concluded to doing anything.

But of all these writers, I was the only one who consistently called for action to solve the problem. I even met with top canonists in Rome to suggest the same in 2019. But they wanted to do nothing, too.

So I had an entirely different outlook than every other major leader in the “Benedict is the Pope” crusade.  I also never wrote a book for commercial sale about it, as many others did. Nay, I went into debt to advocate Benedict’s cause. To my knowledge no one else did.

But now the great discessio has erupted between us, because I recognize the valid election of Pope Francis on Monday, last, and all these do not.

So now they are in a major crisis of faith. And what lies ahead for them is very very dark.  I call these the anti-Bergoglian Sedevacantists.

Unlike normal Sedevacantism, which occurs in those who unreasonably doubt the validity of a papal election in Conclave, these are inventing doubts about something at which they could have been all personally present, since it occurred in our days.

And unlike the anti-Roncallian Sedevacantists, nearly all of these agreed that the manner of electing was valid, before the election took place.

But it was the result which upsets them. (If anyone of them was elected, they would most likely accept the election as valid in proportion to what advantage they could personally derive from it.)

But for all of these Anti-Bergoglian Sedevacantists, there is a dark future. By the force of the logic of their position, they have to confront that the Church as they see it, no longer has the Petrine Minus, and thus is no longer the Church of Christ.  As none of them can read Latin or has studied Canon Law, they will find no canonical solution, and will end up rejecting every papal election in the Future.

And since they will invent out of whole-cloth their own conditions for a juridically valid election, even if they manage to pull off some sort of election at Rome, it will be null and void, and never recognized by the Church of Christ, because such an election can never happen again, since only the First Assembly, convened after the Death of a True Pope, has the right to elect the pope. As all papal history proves.

So their malcontent is leading them to perdition, because since they want to judge who is and who is not in the Church, and who is and is not a valid candidate for the Papacy — throwing Canon Law on the bonfires of their demonic pride — they have set their faces against God and have declared themselves His enemies.

They will all die in despair or in false hope, if they do not repent, and their sacraments and rosaries will obtain nothing more for them. In their habit of mind which finds fault only with others, they will fail to see that their pride grows like a forest, their vices like a raging fire, and their darkness like that experienced by those being dragged into the infernal abyss.

I pity them all, more than nearly all of my readers can imagine, because I ate and drank, prayed and sang along side nearly all of them. I was their collaborator and have thousands of emails to prove it.

But when the crisis hit, NONE of them asked my counsel, and ALL of them proceeded to disagree publicly with me, some even insulting and cursing me.

Until everything was going their way, they praised me to the skies. But when they had to repent of their personal hatred for the man, Bergoglio, that was the point beyond which they could not go. Because unlike me, who hated only his sins, not the man, they hated both.

And hate is the first prerequisite of Hell.

But now all their work and fever of mind will be to sow division in the flock of Christ. To deny the works of God in His Church, and to oppose true reform and renewal, by endlessly trolling us Catholics. They will nurture their malcontent with further sins, and become Collaboratores in Mendacio, collaborators in the lie.

So I urge you to pray for them all the more. It took only natural reason to see Benedict XVI is the Pope. But it requires Faith to see that Christ now has a Vicar on Earth.

I hate none of them. As a matter of fact, I am scrupulously avoiding reading or listening to anything they say against me, so as to preserve charity for them. I shall hope for the rest of my life, that they are all once again reconciled with the Church. But I recognize that I might not be able to help them in that any more.

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

For those who understand jurisprudence, canon law, Papal history, theology, no signs are necessary to see that Pope Francis is now the Vicar of Jesus Christ, the holder of the Petrine Munus, following his juridically valid election on Monday, January 30, 2023 at Rome, Italy, by the Catholics of Rome, in accord with the ordinance of St. Peter.

And for those who followed my articles you also do not need signs, if you understood them well.

But for those who do need signs, to believe or to have confidence, God gave me this sign this morning, on the feast of Candelmas.

For us religious, this feast is our annual celebration, because the prophetess Anna and the priest Simeon are types of Catholic religious, who dedicate themselves to prayer, awaiting the fulfilment of God’s promises. Mary and Joseph who brought the Child Jesus to the Temple are also role models for us religious, who strive to live in simplicity following the Lord and caring for His own with our works and prayers.

So, by inspiration I sought out a Convent of Poor Clares, that I might celebrate this Feast with my sisters in St. Francis.

And arriving in an ancient medieval town with streets like a maze, my navigation app brought me to the wrong place. I found myself in a piazza with the wrong Church. A man who was going to the Mass at the Convent helped me and led me there. On the way he switched speaking to me, from Italian to English.

I asked him. Oh, you speak English well, what country are you from, Ghana? Since I know they speak English in that West African country and could see he was from Africa.

He said no. I am from the Congo.

So I had this sign to day. To celebrate a feast which only those who where there 2025 years ago believed in and recognized, with my sisters in St. Francis and the Clergy and people of Congo, where the Holy Father is currently visiting.

When my candle for Candelmas was lit, I held it high in gratitude to God who sees all and rewards all!