Father Kramer Answered my Question at the Papacy Conference

~Ember Friday, 2026 and Feast of Saint Cleophas~

Because so many are struggling to find a house of formation due to the current Church crisis, I felt compelled to post this, today. I have been meaning to post this question I asked anyways, but I kept forgetting. Yet, honestly… the question AND answer are still just as relevant, today, if not more so! It aged like fine wine. About three years ago my friend Doc Edmund Mazza hosted a conference on the “two pope” situation after Pope Benedict’s death in 2022 and before the death of anti pope Bergoglio. This conference had speakers Liz Yore (lawyer), Anne Barnhardt (podcaster), Archbishop Vigano and my dear friend and hero Father Paul Kramer. About mid conference they paused for a series of Q&A and I was so thankful my question was selected because I really wanted it answered by stable minded non compromised Catholics. I will time stamp my question, answered by Father Kramer so you can listen in its entirety, but I will also paraphrase it below. My question was as follows:

Father’s answer not only flooded my soul with relief, despite the gravity of the answer, but it showed me how God Himself shielded me from entering into ACTUAL schism. Father Kramer said “because the standard of schism according to canon law (751) is in fact THE PAPACY, to willfully enter a community that pledges allegiance to an anti pope would be immoral and unlawful.” In short, I would be in mortal sin. Schism is a sin against charity.

This reminded me of when I had a phone call with Father Isaac Reylea a few years ago and he told me he CANNOT recommend any order or seminary (not even the SSPX) because they are houses of compromise. Those are sobering words, especially when we see the laws laid out before us in the code of canon law, and even the old testament commandments carried over into the new covenant.

At the top of my head, to name a few, I considered joining the Carmelites of the Holy Face over in Ireland, a community of discalced Carmelites in Colorado, and a new Carmelite Hermit community in Oklahoma and ALL pledged allegiance to Bergoglio (fake pope #1) in some shape or form, OR as was in the case of Colorado I was told I couldn’t receive communion in their chapel, per the made up non canonical rule of their priests, if I did not accept Bergoglio as pope.

They said, “we can’t know if he is the pope or not.” Not only does that not fall in line with Church history (the Church has had about 40+ anti popes in her 2,000 year history) as Catherine of Siena rejected an anti pope of her time (accepted by Vincent of Ferrer) as an unlettered 3rd order Dominican, got the true pope to return to Rome, as well as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux single handedly removed an anti pope from the throne of Peter, but it is not even Church teaching to say “we can’t know who the pope is”. That… is a pathetic opinion.

We can absolutely KNOW who the pope is. HE IS THE STANDARD OF SCHISM. Notice how Bernard didn’t wait for the anti pope to die? We are BOUND by the law to reject an anti pope WHILE HE IS LIVING (at this rate, the next wanna be pope of the counterfeit “church” is going to be a trans furry identifying themselves as a “non practicing white”), and if we knew true Church history, we would see a trail laid by the saints and doctors of the Church that came before us who also rejected anti popes in real time, and leave us with a crystal clear path to follow.

The issue today? Many simply lack the courage to do what’s right or care more about their reputation in the eyes of men than defending Our Lord. As my papa told me once, “very few are really willing to lay down their life for Christ.” He is not wrong. The Church is filled with effeminate cowards today, making up their own laws rather than keep with the actual commandments of the Church. But as the real Sister Lucia said, “God WILL chastise the world, and it will be in a terrible manner.” We are going to be punished for our actions… and non actions.

I have heard too many times to count that it is monasteries keeping the world in existence. No they are not. NOT TODAY. They used to be! Compromised monasteries and seminaries are an even greater offense to God. May I remind readers of just how offended God the Father was at any form of compromise or disobedience from the Old Testament:

1.) When Aaron’s two sons Nadab and Abihu offered a “strange fire” on the altar of sacrifice, God killed them. This of course grieved Aaron, but it also showed that disobedience and disrespect to the sacred, merited the DEATH PENALTY. Our Lord does not change. He is “I AM”. If He felt that way then, He feels that way, now(Leviticus 10:1–2).

2.) I use this example a lot, but it’s my go-to. When Oza stabled the Ark, with good intensions, God too… had him killed. This so grieved King David that he cried, “who can have the Ark”? (2 Samuel Chapter 6: The event takes place in verses 6–7.
1 Chronicles Chapter 13: The parallel account takes place in verses 9–10).

Notice how both of these examples were direct “kills” by God Himself. Yikes. We can never care too much about making sure we are not offending God. The sad truth is we have lost reverence, care and zeal for the sacred, for the commandments and… for the chair of Peter. Where is the Holy Ghost’s Gift of FEAR OF GOD? We prefer ourselves and our own comfort over true love of Our Lord. Our Lady of Akita did warn however that the Church will be filled with those who accept compromise. I would rather die at home with my soul intact than enter into schism just to wear the habit. I would rather die in exile like some of the great popes who came before me, then succumb to iniquity. When we die, we will have nothing to take with us, only the faith. Thankfully, Christ died to give the Church the true faith, which NO MAN can take from her.

AVE MARIA, CHRIST IS KING!