Where Compromise Ends and the Cross Begins

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Where Compromise Ends and the Cross Begins

The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | May 3, 2025

Why the True Faith Must Come Before the Sacraments in This Age of Apostasy

This is not just another sermon.

This is where compromise ends and the Cross begins.

In an age when many offer valid sacraments while remaining in submission to Modernist Rome, one priest refuses to trade the Faith for access. While others hide behind externals and avoid confrontation, Father Hewko stands where the saints stood: uncompromised, undiluted, unafraid.

No Indult. No Neo-SSPX. No Sedevacantism No false resistance.

These are not vague labels. Each represents a real and deadly betrayal of Christ and His Church.

The Indult functions by permission from those who reject Christ’s Kingship.

The Neo-SSPX silences its founder and seeks reconciliation with the very errors he condemned.

The false resistance tolerates scandal and doctrinal ambiguity while pretending to defend Tradition.

All of them may offer valid sacraments. But validity is not enough.

This is the dangerous error of sacramental minimalism: the idea that as long as the form is correct and the rite is valid, the Mass is safe to attend. But the Church has never taught that validity alone guarantees spiritual fruit. The sacraments work ex opere operato, but only within the framework of the true Catholic Faith. Outside that framework, they can become a danger to souls. They can even become a trap.

A Mass offered in union with error may appear holy. But it becomes a doorway to compromise. It forms consciences to accept half-truths. It weakens the will. It tells the soul that union with Modernist Rome is tolerable, even beneficial. But it is not.

To attend such a Mass is not a neutral act. It is a silent consent to betrayal.

Only the full Catholic Faith remains pleasing to God. Not partial truths. Not conditional fidelity. Not sacramental minimalism.

This is the test of our time. Will we accept valid sacraments from those who have betrayed the Faith? Or will we remain faithful, even when that means sacrifice, isolation, and suffering?

This is where the saints stood in every age of apostasy.

They were exiled. They were hunted. They were martyred.

Not because they lacked Masses, but because they refused to attend Masses that were offered in union with error.

They knew what we must remember. The Faith comes first. The sacraments are not magic. They are not given to cover betrayal. They are for those who remain with Christ, even when that means the cross.

Watch. Share. Stand with the truth.

Because the time has come when even the sacraments are used to lead souls into error. And only those who love Christ more than comfort will see the danger.

This is the line. This is the battle.

This is where the Cross begins.