Listening to some interview by Jesuit editor of America magazine saying that Bergoglio and Prevost "shared a brain" (thought exactly alike) and that Prevost won Bergoglio's confidence by his appointments of bishops ... which even Strickland is finding more troubling.

What I find interesting is that Strickland, not exactly a Trad, seems far more pessimistic about Prevost than most Trads, saying he's troubled by the bishops this guy picked.

https://youtu.be/Rris7tRVOCA?si=GsFFIzYC0ne-BoZL
Interesting analysis of Leo XlV from a non Catholic

A transcript would be nice.

A 17-minute video is kind of long.   Maybe I'm just getting cranky in my old age, but I really don't have time to sit down and try to listen to him get to the point (or points).

Same with all these "how-to" videos, I just want to know how the damn thing works.  For that, I can read a user manual.

A transcript would be nice.

A 17-minute video is kind of long.  Maybe I'm just getting cranky in my old age, but I really don't have time to sit down and try to listen to him get to the point (or points).

Same with all these "how-to" videos, I just want to know how the damn thing works.  For that, I can read a user manual.

Now - though, like you, I detest any how to video that doesn't immediately get to the "how to" - I'm exactly the opposite when it comes to figuring out what's going on in church and state. I've been trained in the art of investigation, and I find that it is precisely by sifting through 99% nonsense that one discovers the 1% gold. 

In that spirit, then, and in no other, I now proffer another Bro Bug "masterpiece." This "masterpiece" addresses Lad's current thinking, namely exposing the "grifter collective," as Bug and his roly-poly sidekick have termed it.   

I'm cleaning out a bedroom right now, and so my mind is poised to sift as I hear nonsense and suck up dust bunnies. I am certain I will hear, at the very least, food for thought. 

I would caution anyone tuning in to have a chore that they can do while listening. Therefore their time will not be wasted. Also their mind will be relaxed, so that when the gold comes, if it comes, they will recognize it right away. 

https://www.fromrome.info/2025/05/12/the-reactions-to-the-conclave-have-unmasked-the-grifter-collective/

  Actually I'm an old lady!!!!!!! Must've missed him!

I didn't mean to be dismissive, sorry.  I just thought everyone had heard of Cardinal Cody.

I didn't mean to be dismissive, sorry.  I just thought everyone had heard of Cardinal Cody.

I did only because I went to school in Chicago (Loyola U), so we heard all about the Daley (crime) family, Bernardin, and his predecessor Cody.  I wasn't sure what to make of Cody.  There was an old priest in Chicago there, a Father (sp?) Cepon ... who had been friends with Cardinal Cody, and Cardinal Cody gave him perpetual permission to keep offering the Tridentine Mass.  Bernardin hated it, but Cody had formalized the agreement to be in force so long as Father remained active there.  At some point Bernardin force-retired him at the age limit.

When I was at St. Thomas Aquinas in 1994 we had a Novus Ordo priest at the seminary who saw the light and was doing some training at the seminary, Fr. Brian ...cannot remember the last name.  He was ordained by Cardinal Cody, but Cody, while being a valid bishop, used the new rite.  Several of us told Bp. Williamson, "He might not be a valid priest, he was ordained with the new rite."  Eventually Bp. Williamson convinced Fr. B. to get conditional ordination, and Bp. Williamson did it.  But it took a lot of convincing this priest because he was convinced of his priesthood.  What a mess - a valid bishop using the new rite. 

Ok. Prevost is the seventh head. He’s gonna bring all the semi trads and r&r into his sect and then he’s gonna die, I beleive in a few years, his sucessor will be the false prophet



That’s my prediction.