Of Sticks and Stones and Names That Never Hurt Us

 

Last night I was made aware of the Statement of the Diocese of Aberdeen concerning the canonical process of their judgment of schism against me, and their warning that the people of the diocese should have no dealings with us.

The abundant peace that pervades our consciences is ample confirmation to us all that we are Catholics; Catholics made free from the hostage situations that we have survived these past several years. I love those who have judged us. Charity does not feel offended and we are not at all offended by false judgments and exclusions. We ask pardon for all offences that are attributed to us in as far as we are guilty of them. I am not conscious of having said anything or thought anything in order to offend charity. Still, it is to be expected that different opinions, because they are different, can cause offence. Pardon me.

Thoughts and doubts need resolution. When there are no obvious answers to doubts we must seek clarification. When there is no clear light, we must pray and search for the light. When we have found it, there is relief as the doubts melt away. That is the long and the short of our journey. Great relief, shining clarity, holy peace that the world cannot give, and sense of well being towards everyone who has not found what we have found -even if they seek to punish us for our finding the treasure hidden in the field.

Indeed, like the man in the Gospel, we are prepared to sell everything to buy that field at any price because of its treasure, its gold that is neither fake nor fools’; incorruptible, Apostolic, immutable, well worthy of dungeon, fire and sword. Domine semper da nobis panem hunc. Lord, give us always this bread (Jn 6:34). And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst. Happy are we to kneel before the Infant Jesus in His Bethlehem, House of Bread, where the roaring of those who charge us is far away, and the voice of Him Who loves us is close at hand. We bless those who charge us. We bless them.

The prayer that we make is that they too will follow the advice of Our Lady of Fatima: Learn how to read! Read the encyclicals of the true popes; check out their warnings about the direction of the Church’s enemies, their infiltration of Her Holy structures. The pre-Vatican II popes had strong descriptions of those (“popes and priests”) who promote Religious Indifference (False Ecumenism). They called them “madmen”, “most suspect of heresy”. They were like thieves. They were perverters, men of depraved opinions. Men of, false, shameful, incredible opinions. They were wicked, fraudsters, they disseminate poison and will perish forever. They work with new arts full of subtlety.

You ask, who are they? Where are they? These men are in the bosom and heart of the Church and open the great movement of apostasy. The pre-Vatican II popes have judged the Vatican II popes. For Pope Leo XIII they are all madmen. Pope Pius X judges them: they disseminate poison through the whole tree, so that there is no part of Catholic truth from which they hold their hand, none that they do not strive to corrupt. … they easily lead the unwary into error.

None of these are our judgments. These are the descriptions and judgments of the popes before Vatican II, and these descriptions and judgments do fall upon the Vatican II popes who have spread their errors all through the Holy Church.

People may gasp! They may say that it is “unthinkable”. Yes, but many “unthinkable” things do happen. And when they happen, they have consequences. We are living in the midst of the consequences of the most “unthinkable” things. The good people who do not accept what I write, are good people who have either not learnt to read, or do not want to face the consequences of the “unthinkable!”.

Even good churchmen, bishops and priests, have either to go to the encyclicals of the Holy Popes and do their homework or live with the chaos of the consequences of the most “unthinkable” things.

To read, to learn how to read, to believe the holy popes, to face the reality that we live in does not stop anyone from being a Catholic. And the “punishments” of the well-meaning count for nothing. May Jesus and Mary reign in our hearts and consciences. May the voices of the holy popes not be silenced. May the reign of the blind and the fraudsters come swiftly to an end.

+ Michael Mary, F.SS.R.
Papa Stronsay
Orkney, Scotland, UK

28 July, 2026