Imagine the Crisis in the Church getting WORSE for Trad Catholics in their day-to-day efforts to live Catholic and keep the Faith.

Things large, medium and small, such as:

Something happens to P.M. and his DRBO.org site goes away.
(Are there any other sites that unique and valuable, in the "one horse operation" category?)
Something happens to larger (backed by groups), equally useful sites like ccwatershed, due to funding, persecution of the Latin Mass, etc.
More persecution of the Indult, complete shutdowns of many locations, leaving many "beginner" Latin Mass fans (and someday possible "full Trads") drifting about without a Mass option.
Framing/propaganda against "right wingers" and worse propaganda than we've seen to-date on Social Media against Trads (for example, that recent story about the FBI and Trad Catholics)
More shutdowns/persecution of all "public churches" like we saw with COVID in 2020 -- affecting protestants but also good Trad Catholic chapels
Internet restrictions or lockdowns, requiring a special ID to get on the Internet
Implementation of RealID, social credit system, digital currency, aggressive measures to combat "climate change"/CO2 emissions, etc.
Problems in the world at large, like economic collapse, war, shortages, real epidemics, etc.

Long story short, it could get a lot worse than it is today. We COULD be looking back on April 2023 as part of "the good old days".

Of course, and unless a certain person fulfills the request from Heaven, things will get worse.  First of all, collect BOOKS!  Real books to study.  Have a place to hide them for possibly long time periods without getting ruined by the elements.  Second, MEMORIZE the Baltimore Catechism, the MASS and selected prayers and Scriptures.  If you books get vaporized by nukes and you survive, so does everything you’ve memorized.  Fathers, challenge your wives and children to do the same.  (No whinging!  My parents memorized the Catechism at ages 15 and 12.  Mom had to wait five years for the bishop to come around.  They said 10 was too young, and when the day finally came, the bishop muttered, “Too old, too old!”  When it was was her brother’s turn, he was only nine, turning 10 in a week.  The bishop muttered, “Too young, too young!”). They both lived and died Catholics.  # my father, Confirmed at age 13. 

This is what I always say, and why so much of our activity online should be "make hay while the sun shines".  Downloading everything of interest is also a good thing, especially with videos, because they, ahem, tend to disappear...

We need to live as though the Internet will disappear tomorrow as well.  I copy the entire contents of my computers onto portable hard drives and keep them in packages wrapped in aluminum foil, to minimize the potential effects of EMP, and it would be wise to take an old laptop or two, and put them in Faraday-like containers as well.  I also have solar panels (sadly, not enough to power the whole house) and storage batteries, so that if worse comes to worse, you always have some sort of renewable power supply to power at least a small laptop.

And the books.  Books aren't susceptible to a massive power surge.

Food storage is also vitally important.  Right now, I have about two months' worth of food for my family, and I recycle club soda bottles (I drink club soda to ease my stomach), storing tap water for drinking and rudimentary hygiene.

And don't count on being able to BUY books later. I've heard that most/all TAN books are being updated to legitimize Vatican II and the new religion.

I haven't verified this personally, but it is certainly possible!

Also, that only goes for the books they KEPT IN PRINT in the first place. I'm sure "The Great Sacrilege" is no longer published by TAN.

De facto signaling by law enforcement to the antifa and hormone-popping ragers that it's no-consequence open season on Catholicism, especially the good old-fashioned sort that the feds have labeled as extremist [fill-in-the-blank]-phobes. This Washington State he/she (article below) was allowed to walk after vandalism of both a church and a police vehicle and also what should have been charged as felony assault. It's going to be a long summer.

April 12, 2023 5:00am EDT
By Joe Schoffstall | Fox News

Biden DOJ recommends no jail time for trans vandal of Catholic church:
Biden's administration previously came down hard on pro-life activists.

President Biden's Justice Department offered what critics are calling a sweetheart plea deal to a vandal who admitted to defacing a Catholic church with profane graffiti, destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, assaulting a church worker, and resisting arrest.

A plea agreement reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that the DOJ recommends zero jail time for the perp, Maeve Nota, a 31-year-old transgender individual who vandalized the St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington, following Roe v. Wade's overturning last June.

Nota sharply contrasts with the Biden administration's earlier approach of throwing the book at pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics.
 
"It is very clear that the Biden Justice Department has politicized and weaponized the FACE Act to go after pro-life Christians praying outside of abortion clinics like Mark Houck while turning a blind eye to violent felons terrorizing and badly damaging Catholic churches like Maeve Nota," Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, told Fox News Digital.

WASHINGTON STATE CATHOLIC CHURCH VANDALIZED WITH GRAFFITI IN SUSPECTED HATE CRIME: 'WOMEN HATERS'

Maeve Nota smashes a glass door at St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington. (Twitter)

"The Biden Justice Department tried to put Houck in prison for 11 years for defending his son while recommending no jail time for Nota after this deranged trans terrorist badly damaged a Catholic church, fought with the police, assaulted a church employee, and scared the hell out of a little old lady praying," Davis said.

Nota smashed two glass doors with rocks and spray-painted the church's outside walls with messages that read, "F--- Catholics," "rot in your fake hell," "kid groomers," and "woman haters," among several other messages.

A church staff member was spray-painted across their face while attempting to chase Nota away.

When officers located Nota, police said he used a backpack full of spray paint cans to smash the police vehicle before turning himself in.
Nota appeared intoxicated during the arrest and was said to be angry about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe. v. Wade the week before the incident, investigators previously told KOMO News.

President Biden's DOJ charged Nota with a misdemeanor and is recommending no jail time.  (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)
Shortly following the event, Police Capt. Darryl McKinney told FOX13 Seattle that the $10,000 in damages fall under a hate crime statute.
According to filings from early March, Biden's Justice Department hit Nota with destruction of religious property, a misdemeanor that can carry up to one year in prison and $100,000 in fines.

A week later, however, a previously unreported plea agreement between the Justice Department, Nota, and his attorney shows that they will recommend no jail time and three years of probation at the time of his sentencing on June 2.



Door smashed by Maeve Nota in St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington. (Twitter via the Bellevue Police)

The Justice Department did not respond to a Fox News Digital inquiry on the recommendation.

Nota's situation sharply contrasts with pro-life activist Mark Houck, whose encounter with a Planned Parenthood escort led to the Federal Bureau of Investigation raiding his home and the Biden administration wanting him to face 11 years in prison.

A jury acquitted Houck after he allegedly pushed a Planned Parenthood escort during an encounter outside an abortion clinic.
The Biden administration alleged Houck violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which criminalizes using force with the intent to injure, intimidate and interfere with clinic workers.