Virtus In Medio Stat

No Apologies from the Apologists: Why Are Apologists Defending Ambiguity? Laurence Gonzaga, MA, https://virtusinmediostat.blogspot.com/ I don’t engage in as much apologetics activity as I once did years ago. It can get exhausting. If anything, it helped me understand the faith better by trying to explain it to others in a way they can easily understand, even if they end up rejecting it. To put it simply, I always understood apologetics as giving an account for the faith which gives us hope (1 Peter 3:15). I’ve been out of the game long enough to not really spend much time paying attention to the apologetics landscape. With the “controversies” and theological confusion that have been coming out of the current pontificate, it has been easier for the sake of my sanity to just stay ignorant of what is going on, after all, I have had a history of privately declaring certain seats vacant, not saying which. Not seriously; but very close at times. But this issue which came up for me ...

About an hour ago, I saw a post by Father Paul Kramer, of Consecrate Russia Now fame on his Facebook page. I can't find it now after I did a bit of poking around. He commented on how the word "Bergoglio" in the Basque language translates to variations of "Antichrist" in Spanish and Tagalog, and almost every language that Google Translate offers. When I checked this out myself, my closet sedevacantist tendencies started to consume me. I started to get suspicious, however, when it would not translate small case "bergoglio" in the same way. Furthermore, it would not translate "Antichristus" back to "Bergoglio" in the Basque. Could this be a gag by Google? Could this be bait for the sedevacantists who number in the tens of twenties all across the... country? Why would Google even care? In any case. It doesn't hurt to say. Come back home to Mother Church (and go to confession), outside of which there is no salvation....