As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly: The folly of the Transalpine Redemptorists
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.
-Proverbs 26:11, DRBLet's start off with what was publicly stated by the Transalpine Redemptorists in 2008. Read how important undisputed communion with Rome is for them... back in 2008.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Canonical Good Standing
1 July, 2008
Feast of the Precious Blood
My dear friends,
I am happy to inform you that last June 18th, before Cardinal Castrillon and the members of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei in Rome, I humbly petitioned the Holy See on my own behalf and on behalf of the monastery council for our priestly suspensions to be lifted.
On June 26th I received word that the Holy See had granted our petition. All canonical censures have been lifted.
Our community now truly rejoices in undisputed and peaceful posession of Communion with the Holy See because our priests are now in canonical good standing.
We are very grateful to our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI for issuing, last July, the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum which called us to come into undisputed and peaceful Communion with him.
Now we have that undisputed communion! It is a pearl of great price; a treasure hidden in the field; a sweetness that cannot be imagined by those who have not tasted it or who have not known it, now for many years. Its value cannot be fully expressed in earthly language and therefore we hope that all traditional priests who have not yet done so, will answer Pope Benedict's call to enjoy the grace of peaceful and undisputed communion with him. Believe us, the price to pay is nothing; even all the angry voices that have shouted against us and calumniated us are as nothing when weighed in the scales against undisputed communion with the Vicar of Christ; others have died for it; what are raucous voices?
We publicly thank all those souls who have prayed for us over the last months; some of you have truly stormed heaven for us. You have kept us afloat. We are deeply grateful. Especially we thank that priest who was unknown to us, until June 16th when he wrote in fraternal support. Where did he come from? Why us? But he told us of the number of Masses, Offices, prayers and sacrifices he had personally said for us; he had also enlisted the prayers of contemplatives and Third Order societies and had a great number of people fervently praying for us with an abundance of prayers. We were amazed! Thank you Father! Thank you also to that brave person who, so kindly wrote to us to say that if he said any more prayers for us he would be floating! What wonderful people! Thank you!
Looking to the future, the next stage will be to have our community canonically erected. So please, dear friends, keep praying for us, there will be many crosses to bear; but they will be yokes sweetened by the grace of these last days.
We assure you all of our very best wishes.
Your devoted servant,
Fr. Michael Mary, C.SS.R.
Vicar General
Source: https://papastronsay.blogspot.com/2008/07/canonical-good-standing.html
Now, read what they say now, in 2025
Thursday, October 16, 2025
An Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops, Priests, Religious and Faithful
Dear Catholic Soul,
We have just concluded our General Chapter where we considered our Congregation and its vocation in the Church and in the Diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand where the Bishop had decreed its expulsion.
The attached letter expresses the convictions of our Congregation.
This is not a task we embrace lightly. We have considered the array of possible punishments that the hierarchy may use against us - all mentally terrifying really, yet buttressed in the knowledge that the hierarchy has broken with the chain of command, which renders it human, and spiritually null. But when Our Lord’s honour is at stake, silence becomes a form of betrayal. We therefore take up this work with trembling hearts but with firm conviction, desiring only to defend the Holy Name of Jesus Christ and the purity of His Spouse, the Church.
“Every one therefore that shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father Who is in Heaven. But he that shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father Who is in Heaven.”
(Matt. 10:32)
a pdf version is here.
Source: https://papastronsay.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-open-letter-to-catholic-bishops.html
Through years of trials and experience we have come to the unfortunate conclusion that the Traditional Catholic Faith, the Faith of all times and of the saints, is incompatible with the new, modern Church, the fruit of the Second Vatican Council. They simply cannot coexist in one body. Since we deeply cherish and honour the Traditional Latin Mass and cannot give up the Holy Mass of the centuries and of the saints, this new Church does not want us. Because of our fidelity, we have been considered stubborn, difficult and rebellious; stitched up and lied about in never-ending acrimony.
They are supported by schismatic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano:
Statement by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
regarding the religious community
of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer
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The day will come
when people will no longer tolerate sound doctrine,
but, itching for something new,
they will accumulate for themselves teachers
to suit their own desires,
refusing to listen to the truth.
2 Tim 4, 3-4
A few days ago, after seventeen years of tensions with the Vatican and with the Bishop of Christchurch in New Zealand, culminating in an order of expulsion from the Diocese confirmed by a decree from the Holy See, the Transalpine Redemptorist Community issued an Open Letter (here). In this Open Letter, the Redemptorist Fathers denounce the principal errors of the conciliar-synodal church, its open hostility toward the Apostolic Mass, and the malpractices to which the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer have been subjected. The Redemptorist Fathers affirm that “the chain of command has been broken” within the Hierarchy: “When a superior distances himself from his obedience to Christ the King, his command is no longer the arm of Christ, but the gesture of a man” (IIa IIæ, q. 104, a. 5).
The crisis of authority in the Catholic Church is now evident. In the subversives’ plan, it is intended to lead to the dissolution of the ecclesial body, replacing the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church with a surrogate of human origin and Masonic inspiration. The principal instrument of this subversion is synodality, that is, the application of the revolutionary principles of democracy and popular representation to a divine institution that its Founder, Jesus Christ, intended to be monarchical and hierarchical. In this way, having broken the bond of obedience to God, Authority becomes absolute and tyrannical, answerable for its decisions neither to Our Lord Jesus Christ nor to the Christian people. This revolution allows the faithful to be manipulated into believing that the innovations and heresies introduced by the Hierarchy are being demanded by the rank and file, when in reality they are imposed by a lobby of those deviating from Faith and Morals.
I can only praise the courage of these Redemptorists, whose denunciation joins the increasingly frequent denunciations of the scandal and profound discontent of the clergy and people of God with regard to a rebellious and apostate hierarchy. We are no longer witnessing mere conciliar ecumenism toward non-Catholic sects (despite being condemned by the Pontiffs up to Pius XII), but rather the acceptance and legitimization of all false religions and idolatries, and the programmatic points of the globalist agenda (LGBTQ+ pansexualism, immigrationism, environmentalism), with which the “synodal church” is fully aligned.
This crisis is theological in nature, not canonical. It concerns the systematic dismantling of the perennial Tradition of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church and the dissolution of the Depositum Fidei: it should therefore be addressed with theological arguments. Judging different cases individually in the light of Canon Law, without correlating them within the broader context of a subversive action planned for decades and implemented with the active and conscious cooperation of a large portion of the Episcopate, merely gives official recognition to an erring and morally deviant Authority, to usurpers who exercise the power they have seized against the will of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Head of the Mystical Body, to the detriment of the Faithful, for purposes opposed to those Our Lord established for His Church.
I exhort the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer and their faithful with the words of Saint Peter: Remain strong in faith, knowing that the same sufferings are afflicting your brothers throughout the world (1 Pt 5:9). The Exsurge Domine Foundation – with which the Transalpine Redemptorists already have relations of fraternal friendship – myself as Archbishop and Successor of the Apostles; together with the clerics of the Fraternity of the Familia Christi, also persecuted and “canceled” by the “Bergoglian church”; together with the many priests and religious scattered throughout the world whom I follow regularly, we assure them of our full support, in the absence and complicit silence of fearful and cowardly Pastors. For it is written: If these were silent, the stones would cry out (Lk 19:40).
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
October 17, MMXXV
S.ctæ Margaritæ Mariæ Virg.
NOTE
1 – Take away the Mass, you destroy the Church is a quote from Martin Luther taken from his pamphlet De abroganda missa privata Martini Lutheri sententia of 1522.
Source: https://exsurgedomine.it/251017-christchurch-eng/
I leave you with Ephesians 4
Ephesians 4
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
4 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called,
2 With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.
3 Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 One body and one Spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling.
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.
7 But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ.
8 Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men.
9 Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
11 And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors,
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ;
14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive.
15 But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.
17 This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.
19 Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness.
20 But you have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind:
24 And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak ye the truth every man with his neighbour; for we are members one of another.
26 Be angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger.
27 Give not place to the devil.
28 He that stole, let him now steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.
29 Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth; but that which is good, to the edification of faith, that it may administer grace to the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice.
32 And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.