The problem I have with it is that many Traditional minded Catholics have been deceived by tradcasters to believe that Benedict was a lover of the Church and Tradition.

THIS ^^^.  Bennyvacantism is a pernicious position that implicitly claims that the pre-Bergoglian V2 papal claimants were orthodox Catholics, that the crisis in the Church began in 2013 with the election of Bergoglio ... all of which implicitly holds that V2 and the NOM are perefectly good and fine and acceptable to Catholics.

So, my wife was listening to Barnhardt's last podcast, and I would catch parts of it here or there, and her hubris and narcissism are quite striking.  No wonder she spends so much time ranting about narcissism.  Not only does she posture as having knowledge of Catholic theology and Canon Law ... of which she is entirely bereft, but if anyone ever disagrees with her, even on the slightest point or tiny detail, she ruthlessly excoriates them, and also spread various slanders based on anonymous sources that she accepts as being completely factual.  She slurs them by questioning their masculinity (a quality which Ann Barnhardt has much of).  Then she has the temerity to accuse them of being mean and nasty ... when her own nastiness against others remains unrivalled (see post cited below from Brother Bugnolo).

She was completely ripping on the "1958 sedevacantists", calling them like тαℓмυdic Jєωs because "they're in and everyone else is out".  That's utter hogwash, and a slanderous strawman.  No, Ann, they think they're right while you're wrong, just as YOU think you're right (and have THE answer) and they're wrong.

Barnhardt wouldn't last 5 minutes in an actual debate against sedevacantists ... or anyone else really.  So she just has her yes-man peanut gallery on there patting her on the back and nodding in agreement with every point she makes, no matter how stupid ... and, trust me, the majority of her comments are downright stupid, if not at times slanderous.  She's a total hot mess where it comes to Catholic theology and Canon Law, and yet postures as some kind of Doctress of the Church.

At one point she was ripping on Brother Bugnolo (also a Bennyvacantist) ruthlessly, and so I told my wife, I bet it's because Brother Bugnolo distanced himself from Barnhardt.  No sooner did I say this than my wife found this with a Google search on "Bugnolo Barnhardt".

https://www.fromrome.info/2022/06/21/br-bugnolo-i-want-to-distance-myself-entirely-from-ann-barnhardts-horrendus-modus-operandi-which-poses-as-catholic/

Here is Brother Bugnolo's distancing from Ann Barnhardt, the exact word I had used in my speculation against Barnhardt.  I happen to agree with every word of this (except his theories about Ratzinger having been the pope).  People need to stop supporting Barnhardt, and she needs to be completely silenced.

Oh, before I quote Brother Bugnolo, I have to point out the hubris of coming up with her own replacement for "A.D." or "Anno Domini" for dating.  She uses this ridiculous "ARSH".  See, the expression "Anno Domini" which has been used throughout Church history, by Fathers, all the Doctors, all the theologians, all Catholics, which appears in every single papal docuмent or decree or publication from the Holy See and every bishop in the world, and was good enough for them ... it is not good enough for the Narcissist Ann Barnhardt, so she has to improve upon it.  Reminds me of Wojtyla's improvement upon the Holy Rosary.

So here's Brother Bugnolo --

Lad,

You've made very good points in this thread. Yet it's important to clarify something, lest Bugnolo seem to be something praiseworthy.

Your opinion is that Barnhardt starting ripping on Bugnolo AFTER he publicly distanced himself from her.

NO!!!!

She fired the first shot in May of 2022. He did not make his public display of indignation until June, approximately one month after her missile launched.

You can see it all in one of Bugnolo's posts:

https://www.fromrome.info/2022/05/17/ann-barnhardt-admits-to-calumniating-a-certain-franciscan-friar-to-all-the-big-players/

This is what Ann said on her blah-g:

“Many people have asked why a certain layman masquerading as a “Franciscan friar” is NEVER mentioned on this blog. Welp… now you know. TOTAL GRIFTER. He should literally be in prison for his larcenous schemes. And I don’t care who he thinks the Pope is. The guy is a larcenous fraud – who is now trying to profiteer and GET LADS KILLED AS MERCENARY CANNON FODDER OF THE SODO-Jєω ZELENSKY REGIME IN UKRAINE. Thank God I’ve been able to warn all of the big players – for lack of a better term – off of him, and his damage at the levels of the Church that actually still matter has been totally neutralized.”

Bugnolo was supremely happy riding on the tails of Ann's bloomers for as long as he could. For she was an indirect source of income, I'll wager. As long as he could claim being on her team - and being in Rome itself - he had a cash cow.

His June post was damage control, and PR, and a new fundraising schema. Though she hulled him and he bled freely, he stayed in Ukraine for a long time, trying to persuade people he is a genuine article of some kind.

His latest ploy is this vile and disgusting conclave three ring circus. It may have been you or another, but someone mentioned that this looks like a money grab.

Absolutely.

Did Ann spot a grifter in Bugnolo? I'd say she spotted a fellow grifter. They have extrasensory ways of identifying each other.

For a time they either played nice for profit, or she ignored him hanging his cowl on her hat rack for cash.

But there came a time when their respective interests diverged; and so much so that she went public on him.

My best guess is that the puppeteers told her to do it. For no one, I repeat, no one can be a bennyvacantist except there is money and power and an agenda behind the scenes. 

Did Ann alert her handlers, or did they alert her? She admits she's in the eardrums of important types. And I'm sure they dictate directives back.

How can people overlook such a transparent sham?

Let us never forget that by working hard for Ratzinger, the BV's, of logical necessity, work hard for Bergoglio, et. al..

P.S. Do you know who Bugnolo is now hinting might be elected "pope" by the Roman plebs? This Don Minutella (sp?).

I have no idea who this individual is, but I clicked on the link for his podcast. The show's intro is a nauseating collage of real Saints and V2 hoaxes, like Escriva, Stein, Mother Theresa, JPII. This! this!! this!!! is what they mean by the hermeneutic of continuity. They substantially change the Faith, and disguise the change by superimposing Catholic sensory images over their foulness. The hermeneutic of continuity means a cover up. It's lipstick on the pig. That is the defining and essential characteristic of BXVI's "pontificate." And that's what all BV's, who are made in the image and likeness of Ratzinger, strive to do. They hate Bergoglio only because he goes out without his makeup on!!! They hate him because he is, in a sense, risking everything. He's risking that people will finally wake up and leave.

And now you have your reason why Mr. Emeritus hung around. He was plausible deniability for the entire sick structure. It's one big fat hegelian comedy - and the laugh is on the conservatives.   

Lad,

You've made very good points in this thread. Yet it's important to clarify something, lest Bugnolo seem to be something praiseworthy.

Your opinion is that Barnhardt starting ripping on Bugnolo AFTER he publicly distanced himself from her.

NO!!!!

Well, I think what touched it off was Barnhardt questioning the masculinity of that one Andrea Cionci, to which Bugnolo took exception.  But I might be wrong.

But this isn't the first or only time that Barnhardt has ruthlessly shredded people just because she didn't like them ... like her obnoxious derogatory comments about sedevacantists, and she's also hostile to +Vigano for not particular reason.

Trump is the Katechon of Thessalonians!  He was stopping the evil of Satan!  Vigano said so!

... this nonsense come from people who have reading comprehension issues.  Never did he say that Trump was THE katechon from Scripture.  That would be Barnhardt projecting again, as she claims that Ratzinger was THE katechon.

... this nonsense come from people who have reading comprehension issues.  Never did he say that Trump was THE katechon from Scripture.  That would be Barnhardt projecting again, as she claims that Ratzinger was THE katechon.

The quote in question stems from an interview:

What scenarios await the Catholics of the world if Trump should lose?

If Trump loses the presidential elections, the final kathèkon [withholder] will fail (2 Thess 2:6-7), that which prevents the “mystery of iniquity” from revealing itself, and the dictatorship of the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr, which has already won Bergoglio over to its cause, will have an ally in the new American President.

https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/5075-interview-by-francesco-boezi-with-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano

Chuckling.....

She certainly has her ways ......

 

Are there any other female personalities that Catholics look to for answers?  I can't think of any.

Ann Barnhardt is the "Karen" of the NO sect. If she was a liberal she would be the one yelling at you in the supermarket for not wearing a mask.  She is absolutely, positively right at all times. There is no room for another female personality. She takes up the space ( and the oxygen)