The Diocese of Aberdeen moved swiftly in the aftermath of the episcopal consecration of Bishop Michael Mary Sim, F.SS.R., on Papa Stronsay to ensure the conciliar-synodal Church is kept free from Catholicism.
In a statement released within hours of the consecration on July 25, the Bishop of Aberdeen declared that the act had placed Sim and the Transalpine Redemptorists outside communion with the Catholic Church.
Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB had warned in advance that an episcopal consecration without a papal mandate would be “unlawful,” “a grave act of disobedience,” and an “act of schism.” When the ceremony nevertheless went ahead as planned, the diocese announced that its canonical process had reached judgment.
Sim was found guilty of the charges against him, “most notably that of schism,” and was declared excommunicated, dismissed from ecclesiastical office, and prohibited from celebrating Mass or the other sacraments. His Excellency has since issued a public statement noting the “abundant peace” he feels after having been “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,” he said.
Following his consecration, Bishop Michael Mary preached his first homily as bishop on Sunday, July 26. He took a less combative approach than his consecrator, Bishop Pierre Roy, had taken a day prior.
Bishop Michael Mary was careful not to portray his new episcopal status in a triumphalist light, but rather as one of exposure, danger, and dependence on the Blessed Virgin.
“Vouchsafe, O sacred Virgin, to accept my praises. Give me strength against thy enemies,” he began, linking his episcopacy to spiritual combat rather than an administrative office.
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The homily’s central contrast was between what he called the Catholic “species” of worship and the altered habits produced by post-conciliar practice. Sim repeatedly avoided declaring individual opponents evil — “I’m not saying they’re wicked. But what they do is wicked” — while insisting that a transformation of Catholic life had taken place through apparently small changes in prayer.
“The way you pray is the way you believe,” he said, arguing that when people are taught “to pray in a different way, not just the words, but their actions,” they are “slowly changing the species of the man.”
The old Catholic instinct, he further said, was to enter a church “in that sacred silence,” to take holy water, become “aware that our Lord is present in the tabernacle,” and kneel “before his God.” He then juxtaposed this with a caricature of the modern parish atmosphere.
“Welcome to the Catholic Church. Come on in. You are so welcome. Come and sit down here, and how’s your week been?” mocked Sim.
His Excellency then explained that this went beyond informality, and that it introduces aberrant theological implications. “He’s not praying at all. He’s coming in to a meeting and it’s not got that sense of sacredness.”
The sermon also contained grievances about Christchurch and Aberdeen, in which Sim accused ecclesiastical authorities of reactive containment, saying that once his group “made our declaration,” new Latin Mass provisions appeared, and called the incoming priest “a hireling.”
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The homily ended with an act of humility before closing with the plea “that our Blessed Lady take this episcopacy that I have in my soul,” and make it what she wants.
Trad Inc. gets triggered
Synodal trads, modernist conservatives, and apologists of the Novus Ordo religion once again showed that their admonitions against forming a “circular firing squad” only applies to those attending diocesan and former Ecclesia Dei communities.
Similar to how they behaved during the aftermath of the excommunication of the SSPX, the usual popesplaining, reality-denying suspects wasted no time firing the first salvo in the direction of the freshly excommunicated Sim and his order, as if he and not the scoundrels in the Vatican is the problem today.
With his usual sanctimony, Eric Sammons took to X to let his audience know: “Schism begets schism. It’s simple, Catholics: Stay in communion with the pope to stay in the Catholic Church.”
Then, as if to show that they obtained a script from a central intelligence point (Müller?), former Church Militant personality and feminist agitator, Christine Niles, wrote on Facebook: “Schism begets schism,” while noting that Mary and Roy were formerly associated with the SSPX.
Predictably, former presidential candidate Taylor Marshall — who is increasingly becoming an enthusiastic cheerleader for the Conciliar Church — also took to X.
“STAY WITH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND WITH ROME! That’s the only solution. Sedevacantism and schism are grave errors,” he exclaimed.
But what church is he talking about?
In a 2021 video, Marshall said that in the 1960s and 70s “Satan was introduced into the bosom of the Church and … some kind of a false church has been introduced.”
So, stay in the “false church” where the devil “was introduced” decades ago? Got it.
The real schism took place at Vatican II, when the magisterium of the popes prior to then was flagrantly cast aside. Modernist clergy and their dissident allies bragged about disobeying Catholic tradition, effectively announcing they were setting off on their own schismatic path.
The endless divisions that have resulted in the Novus Ordo since then (a recent poll showed more than 20 percent of US bishops approve of homosexual men becoming priests) are the rotten fruits of this unwillingness to love the truth (II Thess. 2:10). The revolution has eaten its own, in other words.
Ultimately, there is no “unity” in the conciliar “church” Marshall & Friends want us to stay in. This was even pointed out by his priest friend Father João Silveira on X recently where he said that it is not the traditionalist who are “creating divisions.”
Catholics indeed must remain in the Roman Catholic Church and that means staying out of the Conciliar/Synodal imposter church that “excommunicated” Bishop Michael Mary and the SSPX.
