Fr. Z’s Predictions for 2023

2023 Predictions

1) Cardinals Ladaria and Oullet will be replaced with manifest liberals
2) Biden will propose even more federal spending, tax hikes, and RINOs will support it
3) Harassment and marginalization of loyal clergy and normal Catholics will intensify
4) Another attack on the Vetus Ordo will come from Rome but TLMs will quietly increase
5) There will be a trend towards sedevacantism
6) We will learn how much money is flowing from China to the Vatican
7) COVID variants will prompt governments to force lockdowns again
8) After an “incident” China will interfere will maritime traffic in the South China Sea
9) Russia and Ukraine will agree to negotiations
10) Fr. Z will still not be made a “Monsignor”

How did I do last year?

2022 Predictions

1) Republicans will sweep the House and win a majority in the Senate. [+.5]
2) There will be more Traditional Latin Masses celebrated by the end of 2022 than there were in 2021. [-.5 I recently saw some stats that suggest it was about a wash.]
3) Liberal, aberrant NO Masses will not be corrected [+1]
4) SCOTUS will overturn Roe and return abortion law to the states [+1]
4) Francis will appoint commissars over the FSSP and ICK [-1]
5) The health of both Pope Benedict and Francis will continue to decline. [+1]
6) Women deacons, “deaconettes” will not be approved [+1]
7) Card. Burke will publish a book critical of liberal theology [-.5 I’m told that one is ready to go, cover ready, blurbs and everything]
8) More Catholics will be rounded up in China mainland and in Hong Kong and the Holy See will do nothing. [+1]
9) The Holy See will make a move against Catholic media sites and blogs [+.5 What was done to Fr. Pavone is part of this.]
10) Fr. Z will not be made a “Monsignor” [+1 yup]

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10 Comments

  1. acardnal says:

    Great work on 2022 predictions, oh, Great Karnak.

  2. Not says:

    Agree will all but #9. # 10 would be nice.
    The sedevacantist try to argue Doctrine and Dogma. Always leave out that without Peter there is no Church and Our lord said, that would never happen, and Jesus doesn’t lie.
    I have experienced a lot of sedevacantist
    flailing hands in the air when you don’t agree with them.

  3. TheCavalierHatherly says:

    I have a good deal of sympathy for the poor sedevacantists.

    It’s a hersey which emerges as a by-product of modernism: when the modernists deny the connection between the past and the present, the sedevacantists are merely taking them at their word.

    Frankly, if you can watch the Vatican Circus Troop shenanigans these days and keep it together, you deserve a trophy at the very least. Yeesh.

  4. Liam says:

    You forgot a perennial prediction, Father:

    11) The SSPX will not be regularized.

  5. Liz says:

    Since he was such a good friend to tradition and I’m sure his reward is great in heaven, I am asking for his intercession for those of us who love the old rite and it’s growth. (Don’t worry. I’m praying for his soul too. I figure that can help him in life too since God is outside of time or however God wants to apply it.) I have missed so much of what’s happened since we were traveling and got very sick over the weekend but I had the pleasure of lighting a candle for him on Friday at a beautiful church, St. Mary’s in St. Benedict, Kansas p.s. I moved the bumper sticker of him from one fridge to another more prominent one the other day when you said he was ill. https://www.cafepress.com/frzsstore.786193220

  6. The Masked Chicken says:

    #7 is never going to happen, especially given what is going on in China (no lockdown is sustainable, for long, as China demonstrates – it has brought the whole Communist apparatus to its knees).

    What is more likely to happen is that within two years, a universal COVID vaccine will be developed that does not target the Spike2 protein, but is based on a different protein region. We are getting close to a universal flu vaccine, as well, although it is farther out in development. I don’t think readers are aware of just how rapidly molecular biology is progressing.

    The Chicken

  7. kurtmasur says:

    The Masked Chicken wrote: “#7 is never going to happen, especially given what is going on in China (no lockdown is sustainable, for long, as China demonstrates – it has brought the whole Communist apparatus to its knees).“

    My thoughts exactly. The times of when Covid was overwhelming hospitals (and morgues) are over. We have finally reached the point where the virus no longer poses the same threat as before. Also, 3 years seems to be the average recovery time from a pandemic, and we have just passed that mark with Covid. Regarding the recent attempts in China to implement more hard lockdowns, the fact that people were willing to protest their communist regime against such hard (and exaggerated) policies is itself a testament of Covid not posing the same danger as before.

    @Not: Didn’t Jesus promise that the gates of hell would never prevail over His Church? That’s quite different than there not being a pope. The Church has had significant periods of time without a pope, some of them lasting years. Although I am not a sedevacantist, I wouldn’t let the stigma that comes with being associated with it prevent me from ruling out the possibility that the See of Peter might in fact be vacant now that Pope Benedict is gone.

  8. kurtmasur says:

    Sorry, my above statement should read: Although I am not a sedevacantist, I wouldn’t let the stigma that comes with being associated with that movement prevent me from accepting the possibility that the See of Peter might now be vacant now that Pope Benedict is gone. Not that what I think matters, of course, but I suspect I might not be alone in this.

  9. TonyO says:

    Pretty good for 2022. Of course, ya gotta admit that

    3) Liberal, aberrant NO Masses will not be corrected [+1]
    and
    8) More Catholics will be rounded up in China mainland and in Hong Kong and the Holy See will do nothing. [+1]

    were basically gimme’s

    #4 was a fantastic prediction that you nailed! Awesome.

  10. I’d love to see a TLM priest, especially one from the Ecclesia Dei communities, be consecrated a bishop and then made a Cardinal.

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