Ecclesiastical Self-Incriminating Struggle-Sessions.

Only one set of beliefs is forbidden in a tyrannical regime.

The above picture is “the governor of Heilongjiang province, Li Fanwu, falling victim to the Cultural Revolution in 1966,” (p/c Inside Story of Australia.)

Wikipedia describes the history of Communist Struggle Sessions: People non-compliant to the Communists “were forced to wear placards around their necks bearing the words ‘Counter-Revolutionary Revisionist’ or other similar slogans with their names crossed out. Specific methods of abuse included hair shaving (阴阳头) dunce caps, “jetplane position” (喷气式) (a type of stress position), and verbal and physical attacks... The term ‘struggle session’ refers to a session of pīdòu (批鬥.) The session is held in public and often attended by a large crowd of people, during which the target is publicly humiliated and subject to verbal and physical abuse, for having ‘counter-revolutionary’ thinking or behavior.”

A self-incriminating struggle session is a public humiliation trial used by Communists against counter-revolutionaries. Marxists were not content with the conversion of lukewarm Christians to Communism. Rather, if anyone showed even the slightest resistance against Mao, he had to make a public confession. Notice that it wasn’t good enough to be accused by others in such a public trial. The counter-revolutionary had to accuse himself if he was going to avoid the death penalty. Hence the term “struggle session.” This was not only a punishment for the past, but a painful pledge to avoid any traditional beliefs in the future.

The first people targeted by Communists are always traditional Christians (Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and evangelicals.) Then the intellectuals. The people not targeted are obviously those who stand no threat against a Marxist regime. That’s important to remember as we go forward into this analogy of “Ecclesiastical Self-Incriminating Struggle-Sessions.”

Before we get to who the Vatican exposes to struggle-sessions, let’s see who is not brought to Toucho’s Inquisition in Rome.

Over the last fifty years, adherents to every world religion have been marched into the Vatican told to pray to their respective “gods” and finally given photo opportunities with the Pope. (The above is a Voodoo priest in Assisi, not the Vatican.) But since Vatican II, every Pope (starting with John XXIII) has not only welcomed Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and atheists into the Vatican, but they have been told to pray in front of Catholic clergy. They have not been called to conversion by such clergy. The pagans and infidels have even been given their specific areas in which they are able to worship demons. For example, last year the Vatican gave Muslim scholars their own prayer room within the Vatican Apostolic Library.

Also within the last year, the Vatican welcomed an LGBT pilgrimage into St. Peter’s and the Gesú, inviting all to Holy Communion without repentance for their sodomy. Even a reporter approved by the Vatican Press Office (see above) insisted the approval for this LGBT pilgrimage went all the way to the top.

Who is welcome into the modernist Vatican to worship and collaborate? The list is very long: Charismatic Catholics, Liberal Catholics, mildly conservative Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Mormons, atheists, rock-stars, homosexuals, abortion advocates and globalists. None of them are called to conversion to Christ or the Church.

Yet, who is not welcome into the Vatican? Traditional Catholics.

Traditionalists are not rejected because of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) like many would want to believe. Rather, Traditional Catholics are shamed by the modernist Vatican for holding to what the Catholic Church held for 19 centuries about salvation and the Church, namely, Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus or “Outside the Church there is no salvation” (shortened to Extra Ecclesiam for the rest of this article.)

You see, the only people not welcome in the current Vatican are Catholics who hold to Extra Ecclesiam (the only Catholic soteriology for 19 centuries.) And the biggest group in this category is the SSPX.

It’s a little ironic, since among traditionalists, Archbishop Lefebvre held to the least rigorous interpretation of Extra Ecclesiam. Still, his soteriology was not pocked with all the loopholes seen in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) released in 1992. But even that new CCC hesitantly admits that Extra Ecclesiam is still part of Catholic teaching. (Just above CCC 846 the subtitle to the chapter reads verbatim: “Outside the Church there is no salvation.”) So, no one can say the Catholic Church has ever changed her teaching on this, even to this day.

Yet that is the teaching most shameful to heretics and apostates who want to welcome and even promote every false religion in the world. How do I know acceptance of Extra Ecclesiam as the main reason why SSPX was targeted for excommunication? Because they were told they had to accept Vatican II in order to re-enter the synodal church of Rome. Specifically Lumen Gentium.

Look, every very honest person (Catholic and non-Catholic alike) now admits that the “ecumenism” found in Vatican II essentially teaches that people of all religions are saved without any need for Jesus Christ. Yes, yes, I know the attempts to square the circle. For two decades I denied this, claiming “Vatican II can be interpreted in light of tradition.” But once I stopped my dishonest intellectual gymnastic games, I was able to see why both traditionalists and liberal secularists alike were able to admit that the “ecumenism” in Vatican II means nothing short of a teaching that all world religions save people.

Yet this heresy has been condemned by numerous Popes before Vatican II as the “heresy of religious indifferentism.” Thus, there is truly a rupture in dogma pre-and-post Council. And SSPX chose the dogma of 19 centuries prior before the ecumenism of Vatican II. They chose Extra Ecclesiam. Even if Archbishop Lefebvre [rightly] avoided every Jansenistic and Feenyite interpretation of it.

Vatican News makes it very clear that the SSPX must accept Vatican II in order to enter the synodal church:

The procedure set out by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, beginning on July 1, 2026, provides that a priest who has decided to leave the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X — and who is willing to accept the Second Vatican Council and the legitimacy of the Novus Ordo Missae, while remaining attached to the ancient rite — must “find an Ordinary — a diocesan Bishop, a Major Superior of clerical religious institutes of pontifical right or of clerical societies of apostolic life of pontifical right, etc. — willing to receive him ad experimentum.”

As seen above, a priest defecting from the SSPX and approaching a mainstream diocese may then be accepted ad experimentum. Those two words in Latin mean he will be watched like a hawk by the receiving chancery and treated as a second-class citizen by his receiving bishop for his entire life. Obviously, any PX defector cracking under a self-incriminating struggle session will never lead a normal life under a tyrannical regime.

Also couched in the demands above is the false-accusation that the SSPX denies the validity of the New Mass. They do not. I have spoken to many SSPX priests, and I know they accept the new sacraments as valid. But they do say there are errors in the documents of Vatican II. So, that accusation is the only true one coming from Rome against them. Thus, everything comes down to Vatican II in the recent news surrounding the SSPX.

But wait a minute. Why do Muslims get a prayer chapel in the Vatican Apostolic Library, while those who hold to 19 centuries of Extra Ecclesiam teaching are considered “excommunicated”? Why do gays get their own day of pilgrimage into St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome while the SSPX is left out in the cold for rejecting Vatican II?

Because, again, it all comes down to Vatican II. Vatican II is the untouchable Sacred Cow that is not even allowed to be doubted by the modernists. You can put incense in front of every god of every false religion along side the documents of Vatican II. But if you incense the Trinity at the Traditional Latin Mass (a Mass that has no room for false-religions) you are kicked out of the synodal church. Extra Ecclesiam has no place in the hearts of the adherents of Vatican II. That is why they can and must accept every false-religion before Apostolic Catholicism.

You see, this isn’t about us rad-trads wanting to keep people out of heaven. Quite the opposite. In fact, Archbishop Lefebvre and the SSPX are missionaries all over the world charitably making converts to Christ. I stand up for them not because I am going to join them, but because I want to stand up against the bullies who despise the Most Precious Blood of Jesus—the blood without which there is no forgiveness of sins.

Notice also above what is required by the Vatican to any SSPX defectors: Public letters repenting for ever having rejected the heresy of religious indifferentism. Forget the fact SSPX priests never received a private or even a public trial before 2 July 2026. Nope. Yet now the Vatican’s demand for letters and a self-induced confession from the SSPX for rejecting Vatican II must be public.

Yes, this is the case, even as all other world religions are accepted by every chancery coast-to-coast. And that is how we know SSPX is over the target of Satan. Not because they have nice vestments or younger priests. Not because they’re allegedly-rebels. It’s because they’re the only real Catholics being hauled away to these Ecclesiastical Self-Incriminating Struggle-Sessions while every other world-religion is rolled into the Vatican or local chancery on a red carpet.

If the untouchable Sacred Cow is defended tooth-and-nail by the same exact clergy who promote Islam and LGBT pilgrimages into St. Peter’s in Rome, then you can see why real Apostolic Catholics cannot incense that cow anymore, even if former ED-communities hold mental-reservations over it while still offering the TLM.

To them I say: The mental games are over. It’s time to stand for the truth of Christ and the unchanging altar like the Maccabees did, regardless of consequences, regardless of the personal cost. They’re coming for you whether you stay mealy-mouthed like you are now… or get bold about it. So you might as well get bold about it.

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