A Critical Review by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

I really should not waste my time wading through videos which are full of errors. But as the fake “opposition” “Catholic” grifter media won’t allow the truth to be spoken, but rather attacks it either openly or by a back door in which they only interview persons who misrepresent it or make it appear foolish,* I see that it is necessary to publish a critical review of the above video, wherein Stephen Kokx, recently let go from LifeSite News and Dr. Edmund Mazza, the Catholic historian who nearly always gets it wrong on questions of ecclesiastical jurisprudence or theology, speak about the invalid Conclave of May, 2025.

Right out of the gate, Kokx shows he is a modernist who does not admit the existence of objective truth, when he asks Mazza, “Why do you believe that” Pope Benedict XVI validly resigned.  This is the standard tactic of framing a discussion in the wrong way, to prevent anyone from even daring to admit that there is an objective factual and legal reality about Pope Benedict XVI’s Declaratio and how he acted thereafter.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Stephen’s surname is Dutch for “Son of Jacob”.

As for Mazza, he responds to this question in entirely the wrong way, with a historical textual journey into the past, rather than offering a juridical answer, the only answer which has any forensic validity to conclude the debate. For in a legal dispute, you begin with your strongest argument, not your weakest.

Then, Stephen calls Mazza a “sedevacantist”, which while Mazza objects initially, naming himself a “interregnumist”, end ups agreeing with, which just gutted his position as objectively rational and put it in the categories of conspiracy theorist or ideologue.

Then, Mazza quotes McCusker, quoting Billot, and attempts to limit the notion of heretics to those who also deny the Magisterium of the Church in addition. But he fails to realize that every pertinacious denial of a de Fide Catholica includes such a denial.

Then Stephen says he is willing to consider hearing out others who say all the popes since Pius XII heretics; doing this in such a away that clearly shows that he is probably a sedevacantist himself.

Then Mazza wrongly states that the Cardinals of antipopes in 1417  were allowed to vote for Martin V by reason of the principle of Ecclesia supplet, which is false, since it was by approval of the previous pope before his death.

Then, Stephen claims that opposition to Prevost’s magisterium is “starting now”, in the first week of August?  Talk about historical revisionism.

Then Mazza says, “papa dubia, papa nulla”, which is incorrect, the correct phrase is “papa dubius, papa nullius” or “nullus”. — A doubtful pope is the pope of no one, or is no pope. — Next he says, “I personally believe that Amoris Laetitia contains heresy”, and thus puts the entire discussion into the frame of relativism, rather than objective truth. — Then he says that “Cum ex apostolatus officio” was published by Pius VI, when it was published by Paul IV.

Then Stephen jumps to say that that Constitution of Paul IV was abrogated in with the first Code of Canon Law in 1917, which is false. — Then Stephen seems to claim that no one else is arguing that Prevost is not the pope, even though he and Mazza know that is a lie.

Then Mazza says “you have to speak the truth”, even though they just agreed to a lie.

Then Stephen calls the antipope, “Leo XIV”, rather than, “Prevost”, just to make clear that he has been faking it throughout this interview. Later he calls him the “predecessor” of Pope Francis, just to make clear he accepts his claims to be legitimate to have been validly elected.

Then Mazza says that those who oppose Leo XIV need to collaborate, even though he and Stephen just showed they are totally in favor of living by lies and collaborate with liars, which is exactly what the Russian author he quotes says NOT to do. — Which is a crazy principle to suggest that all Catholics accept, since it is so masonic.

Then Stephen concludes by saying we have to wait for a “true Catholic Pope”, but says it in a way to make clear that he is waiting for the Cardinals, after the death of Leo XIV, to elect one.

So you can see how this video is a complete and very excellent piece of masonic propaganda, which holds your hand and brings you back into the dominant narrative of lies. — If you want to know where Stephen Kokx is coming from, he took off his mask in this recent interview with Mazza: they are going to pretend to be Alt-Trad inc, but they are really Pro-Prevost Big-Narrative and they are committed to psychological manipulation of their audience to get you hooked back into that. Or, in other words, they are acting just like Globalist Freemasonic bought-and-paid-for intelligence operatives. That is why they appeared out of nowhere, when Francis 2.0 took to the stage.

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** For example, in the U.S.A., back in 2008, when there was a very public debate over whether Barrak Obama was eligible to run for the office of President of the United States, since the Constitution of that nation requires that candidates be “natural born citizens” — a definition given by Der Vattel — that is born on the soil of, of two parents who were also citizens at time of the child’s birth; but never interviewed anyone except those who spoke about his place of birth and studiously avoided and avoid to this day, the fact that his father was never a U.S. citizen.

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