Will it be a train wreck for the church or for the evil men controlling her?

Better not wait to get off the tracks until the train is five feet away!

Perhaps discussing the rumoured nuke to be dropped on the TLM on the third anniversary of Traditionis Custodes (July 16th) is premature. Why not wait and see and just be silent and let the chips fall where they may? After all, isn't the best course to live in the present moment? That's certainly one approach, and I won't argue with those who choose it.

On the other hand, there is something to be said for taking measures when a disaster is likely to happen. You don't wait until the hurricane is upon you to board up the windows. You don't wait until the train is five feet away before you get off the tracks. An article at OnePeter5 recommends that Catholics get ready, especially considering the accuracy of previous "rumors" reported by Rorate Caeli. Their track record is excellent. So let's check out the article by Carina Benton:

...it would behoove Traditional Catholics to familiarize themselves with four key issues so that they can be spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually prepped for what comes next.

Firstly, a crucial point made in OnePeterFive’s roundtable discussion last week [worth watching!] – and one that I’ve previously argued – is that the continued persecution of the Tridentine liturgy is not really about liturgy at all. It’s about theology. This is a war on doctrine, not a squabble over the use of Latin, altar rails and ad orientem worship. [To fight a problem, it's important to know exactly what it is. Archbishop Lefebvre saw clearly that the NO affected the priesthood and watered down the sacrificial nature of our faith. The change to the liturgy was not a tweak, but a wrecking ball.] The Traditional Rite fosters rightly-ordered worship and doctrinal orthodoxy, which renders it incompatible with the “who-am-I-to-judge? relativism” and the “any-road-up-the-mountain ecumenism” of Modernist revolutionaries. At a sociopolitical level, it also puts Traditional Catholicism at odds with the Climate Agenda wealth redistribution scheme, sexual nihilism, and open borders chaos which Pope Francis and many senior prelates are helping promote.

Another important observation that came out of the roundtable conversation was the increasing “ghettoization” of the Traditional Latin Mass, and the risk of normalizing the treatment of Latin Mass attendees as second-tier Catholics. With the release of Traditionis Custodes in July 2021, the Vatican trolled traditional Catholics with possibly the most cynically named papal document in the history of the Church. There’s nothing about this document that acted in any way as a “custodian of tradition.” It was a wrecking ball.You don’t have to go centuries back to Pope St. Pius V’s enshrinement of the liturgy in Quo Primum to identify the contradiction.Only four years earlier, Benedict XVI was crystal clear in his motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum. He expressly provided that “in parishes where a group of the faithful attached to the previous liturgical tradition stably exists, the parish priest should willingly accede to their requests to celebrate Holy Mass according to the rite of the 1962 Roman Missal” and that if such a group “has not been granted its requests by the parish priest, it should inform the diocesan bishop [who] is earnestly requested to satisfy their desire.” 

And yet during the very next papacy, there was a total 180 on the pastoral efforts made by Benedict who had acted not simply out of charity or a desire for unity, but precisely because the “the Roman Missal promulgated by Saint Pius V and revised by Blessed John XXIII is … to be … duly honored for its venerable and ancient usage.” Not even the most belligerent of popesplainers can rationalize how the Vatican went from revering the Tridentine rite under Benedict, to literally prohibiting the advertising of Latin Mass times in parish bulletins under Pope Francis....

"Absurdity" is the right word. Add to it "vindictiveness" and "cruelty." I have never seen so many Catholics subjected to mean-spirited vitriol than I have since the COVID debacle when bishops closed our churches and denied Catholics the right to receive on the tongue, a canonical right! But let's go on:

This feeds into the third issue, the framework of “limited obedience” as taught in perennial Catholic catechesis, and elaborated on by Aaron Seng in his excellent piece in Crisis Magazine. Seng explains that Catholics are not morally obliged to follow “any order that undermines or contradicts right reason, natural or positive divine law, or the received doctrine, morals, and rites of the Church.” [So -- can we stop with the lies and slander against Catholics who refuse to bow down and worship the gods of modernism!] Quoting the Catechism of Trent, he points out that should the commands of pastors be “wicked or unjust, they should not be obeyed, since in such a case they rule not according to their rightful authority, but according to injustice and perversity.”

"Injustice and perversity" describe the pope's legacy as he draws ever closer to the exit. What will he find on the other side of the door? The lady (Mary) or the tiger (the prowling lion named Lucifer)? 

And now the last point from the article:

This brings me to the final issue, namely the potential impact on Traditional communities. As always under the present pontificate, confusion and ambiguity are the order of the day. In 2022, Pope Francis signed a decree confirming the continued existence of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP). Yesterday, the Institute of Christ the King (ICKSP) announced that they had been received in private audience with Pope Francis, who apparently “insisted that [the ICKSP] continue to serve the Church according to [their] own, proper charism, in the spirit of unity and communion …” 

Yet on Sunday, the Superior of The Society of Missionaries of Divine Mercy, a French community of priests devoted to the Roman Rite, from the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon and in good standing with their bishop, announced that the ordinations of five seminarians have been blocked “due to the possibility for future priests to celebrate in the old rite.” All other ordinations, which the Vatican exceptionally suspended in 2022, just prior to ordering an apostolic visitation of Bishop Dominique Rey, have now resumed.

... everyone should at least get their heads out of the sand and be prayerfully prepared, whether as bishops, diocesan priests, traditional priests or laypeople, for what this renewed call for perseverance may entail.

So let's sum up the four issues:

1. It's not just about liturgy; it's about doctrine!
2. The conflict has turned faithful orthodox Catholics into second class members of the Church ridiculed, derided, slandered by a man they call "holy FATHER." He's been relentless in giving his traditional children stones instead of bread.
3. Obedience to the pope is not unlimited. He is not a dictator who can tell you to get particular vaccinations or buy an electric car, etc. He must be resisted to his face when he endangers the faith and is wicked and unjust to the flock he is called to shepherd.
4. All the signs indicate that the Vatican goal for traditional communities is their ultimate annihilation.

It ain't gonna happen. The pope and his wicked minions, who have done everything they can to enshrine sexual immorality into the Church, will not succeed in destroying the Mass of the Ages. Why not? Because the laity and our faithful shepherds will persevere and God is in charge and always brings good out of evil. We will pray the rosary, spend hours crying out for justice at Eucharistic Adoration, and remain rock solid in the faith of our fathers. The history of the church overflows with difficult times when heresy and error ate at her foundations. No matter how many helpers Satan had in the highest echelons of the Church he never succeeded and never will. Discouragement is not an option. When things look bad, we need to fight harder. And what are our weapons?: the sacraments, prayer, devotions, and faithful perseverance and submission to God's will. All that happens is according to His will and it is our duty simply to remain faithful.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.