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Introduction
Readers are probably sick and tired of hearing about the dangers of Feeneyism and we are sick of addressing it. But times and circumstances now exist that did not exist when Feeney was excommunicated in 1953. Then we had a visible Church, a Church which has always taught in Her official documents throughout the ages, Suprema haec sacra most recent among them, that implicit desire could possibly apply even to pagan and non-Catholics in certain cases, not generally. The false dogma that it applied in all cases became the teaching of the Novus Ordo church following the election of John 23 and the official establishment of neo-Traditionalism. Feeneyism is the topic here once again because it must be understood that this heresy is being used as a cover operation for a more generalized campaign to totally discredit the papacy and Pope Pius XII in particular.
This should not surprise those who understand the level of infiltration by Modernists, Communists and secret societies that has taken place over the past 200 years. Their first targets were the Jesuits, the “Secret Service” for the papacy, because this order was closest to and most loyal to the Roman Pontiff. Modern-day conspiracy theorists have made Jesuits past and present the root of all evil, in an effort to deflect the extent of the damage done by secret societies as a loosely connected whole. This is certainly true of the Novus Ordo Jesuits of today. But over the centuries it is the secret societies, not the Jesuits, that have so fine-tuned the art of infiltration and dissemination of error that it now happens undetected under our very noses and not infrequently on a personal level.
Tracking those who insist on papal obedience
Because of my insistence on obeying the teachings of the Roman Pontiff as far back as 1981, I have been specifically targeted by various groups and individuals who took issue with my defense of the papacy and particularly my support for a papal election. The first challenge to my suggestion to elect a pope in 1982-83 came from a British group writing out of London. I was brought to this group’s attention by a Trad “priest” who I had recently left for teaching heresy. One of this British group’s members later became a well-known LibTrad apologist. They ran an actual Gnostic cult that preyed on families in the U.S. and Europe and I was one of its members for a short time — about nine months. They promoted papal teaching to some extent but adamantly opposed a papal election or imperfect council.
Their cruel treatment of children and parents was anything but Catholic and whatever they were they were not Catholic themselves. This experience and other life-changing events I was undergoing at that time made me perfect fodder for the ill-fated David Bawden papal election effort. Bawden was also briefly involved with the British group but later claimed to share my views on the papacy. This, I learned later, however, was only to further his own personal aspirations. He and his convert father, a former (?) Freemason and John Birch Society publicity director, planned his election all along, even though they knew I did not believe David was a fit candidate. They also used shaming techniques at the time of the election to coerce me and a fellow election supporter to “vote” for Bawden when no one else presented as a candidate.
I learned only later of the Masonic connection to the founding of every Traditionalist movement in the United States; of the confirmation of Marcel Lefebvre’s own membership in a Masonic group, (in addition to his ordination and consecration by Lienart) and of the Masonic makeup of the heads of the John Birch Society. I even had a former Bawden “cardinal” inform me that the Bawdens were actually working for and with the Society of Saint Pius X to make certain no validly ordained or consecrated priest or bishop would be elected as pope. For even if elected by the laity, it could appear that such a man was a true pope, even though today the canonical election necessary to validity is an impossibility.
During my time with Bawden, I worked as a reporter under two editors in two different states who identified themselves as ex-military intelligence officers. After leaving Bawden I was shadowed by someone who, unbeknownst to me, was connected with the British people that operated the cult. I later discovered he was indeed still in communication with them. After moving to yet another state, I was approached by someone who wanted to “give me a platform” and make videos and I agreed to this. Later they were taken down and the producer campaigned to discredit me. A reader informed me afterward that this person also was military intelligence.
I will always regret attempting to elect David Bawden as pope, but I will never regret defending the papacy at a time when nearly all LibTrads were demeaning it and questioning it. And if even a master theologian and logician such as St. Vincent Ferrer could err in supporting an antipope and still manage to be canonized, the demonization of those who made what St. Vincent’s biographers described as an error or “mistake” should be seen as nothing more than this: a manifestation of LibTrad fears that a true papacy might be restored.
A more personal surveillance
And the intrusion into my privacy did not end there. Several other people appeared on the scene of my new location, one an ex-law enforcement person and were welcomed into my home, introduced to my family and treated as guests, as a sign of good will. These were people I had corresponded with for a fairly long time over the Internet. They professed to be sincere stay-at-home Catholics, (but then some Feeney sect members do pray at home). Sure enough, over a period of time, all of them denounced the Church’s teaching on the papacy and left to join — you guessed it — the Feeneyites.
I’m sorry but I don’t believe all the above are coincidences. As I have mentioned before, in the majority of cases coincidences are messengers of the truth. Certainly this many coincidences cannot simply be dismissed as happenstance. The fact that Feeneyism has been used by these individuals as their way “out” is quite telling. Also suspicious is the timeline of the arrival and departure of these people. Just as one would depart, another would suddenly arrive. I refused to consider myself a victim but I do believe that all this demonstrates a pattern of deceit, infiltration, an attempt to obtain personal information and to discredit anything presented on this site.
Feeneyism is only a convenient excuse to join the ranks of those bent on destroying the Church’s teaching on the supreme jurisdiction granted by Christ to St. Peter, just as Feeney himself — the first neo-Traditionalist — set out to do. No matter how it manifests, whether from sedevacantist quarters, other LibTrad groups, recusant “Catholics” or the recognize and resist sector — at the top, all are secretly if indirectly linked to an effort to destroy the idea of an infallible papacy possessing supreme jurisdiction. They especially zero in on Pope Pius XII because he put the ax to the root of the tree and brought a screeching halt to everything that attempted to violate papal jurisdiction or Church law during an interregnum.
What to do if approached
Beware of them in your own dealings. They often present as Greeks bearing gifts (the Trojan horse) and present a sad story of some sort. Do not judge rashly but simply distance yourselves, pray and watch. We are entering times when we must protect ourselves and our families from every possible threat to our faith, no matter how innocent it may seem. The devil is a raging lion seeking whom he may devour, and his time is growing shorter. This blog has been difficult to write, but I don’t know how else to warn people of what is fast approaching.
As noted before, if baptism of desire does not exist, this jeopardizes the belief in confession of desire (a Perfect Act of Contrition) and the reception of the Eucharist by desire (Spiritual Communion). Both these beliefs are solidly grounded in the constant teaching of the Church. It must be remembered that Feeney himself headed up a destructive personality cult (see HERE and HERE). Also, shortly before his death, his excommunication was lifted by no less than Paul 6, which tells us where he issued from in the first place. Baptism by desire, (in some cases where water baptism cannot be received by a trustworthy person) and Church membership by desire are crucial to our existence in these times. Those who were busy destroying the Church were certainly aware of this. So Feeney played the dual role of labeling Pius XII as a heretic and casting doubt on the very means of salvation that would remain once the destruction of the Church was accomplished.
We should remember that these infiltration tactics are common practice. In her 2023 work, When the Sickle Swings, Kristen Van Uden quotes one Cuban refugee who explained that “Due to [an] atmosphere of distrust and uncertainty, many Cubans who felt called to resistance preferred to take renegade individual action rather than become entangled with [a] group… It may not have been as effective a strategy as organized resistance but it was safer… This strategy is still employed today as the culture of informing and infiltration still reigns supreme in Cuba.” And sadly it is practiced today even by those pretending to be Catholic.
Conclusion
This is enough about Feeney, an angry little man who served as a prototype for the early Traditionalist groups in this country. If we omit his name from what we see as the result of his teachings concerning the authority of the papacy — the same teachings basically espoused by LibTrads — we can dismiss his stance as a straw man fallacy, something that “…doesn’t accurately reflect the stance that it was originally meant to address… [and] is not directly relevant to the discussion at hand” (effectiviology.com). What IS directly relevant is the demeaning of Pope Pius XII and papal authority modeled by Feeney, not his rejection of implicit desire or his pitiful cult. Those hiding behind the EENS distortion he promoted are really, at heart, deniers of infallibility and supreme papal jurisdiction, just as Feeney himself was.
Just because they adopt this heretical stance doesn’t mean they get to hide behind the hype that now surrounds him, websites that promote Feeney as a sort of folk hero and warning bell for Vatican 2, despite his return to this sect. Take Feeney out of the equation and you have the Pope St. Pius V Society that refuses to accept the changes in the ritual for Holy Week, the promoters of the ridiculous material-formal hypothesis and all the other LibTrad sects. They all operate invalidly, denying that Pope Pius XII’s Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis nullified their very reception of Orders during an interregnum and strips them of any and all vestiges of authority.
Secret societies, the Modernists the Communists — the founders of neo-Traditionalism among them — all were working from their inception to destroy Catholic monarchies and the papacy, and they have openly declared as much. Strip the Feeney shroud from those pretending to be “ultra-Catholic” — believing they are cleverly one-upping those already insisting on obedience to everything the popes taught — and you simply have a denial that the Church has the power to determine how Her own age-old teachings on implicit desire are to be believed and understood. From here on out these deniers should simply be recognized as the LibTrad heretics and schismatics they truly are, not Feeneyites.
And if some claim that they are rightly acting on an erroneous conscience, then we should pray for them and recommend them to God’s mercy, all the while condemning everything they teach and do. For this is the teaching of Canon Law under Can. 2200: They are to be judged as heretics and non-members of the Church until the contrary is proven. Therefore pray, watch, and hit out with the stick whenever necessary.
