Fearful Over Coming Restrictions on Novus Ordo, Fr. James Martin Launches the "Society of St. Bugnini I"
A headline from the year 2027
New York City, April 1, 2027 - Recently elected Pope Celestine VI’s (Cardinal Robert Sarah) January 2027 motu proprio Traditiones Restorantes making the “Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite” (a.k.a. TLM) into the primary and normal form of the liturgy within the Western Church, has Novus Ordo aficionados worried that the “Ordinary Form” mass could soon be suppressed.
The swing from the liberal, pro-Vatican II reform and rather anti-traditional last pope to Pope Celestine VI over the past year has been welcomed by most Catholics as a much-needed course correction against modernistic excesses that prevailed in a less than fully challenged way for much of the last century. However, liberals like Fr. James Martin S.J., well known for his promotion of “gayness” and “synodality” in the extreme, see the changes in the Church already promoted by Pope Celestine VI as “disastrous and close-minded.”
James Martin, a Jesuit who seemed to be held in the prior pope’s favor, professed “general allegiance” to Celestine throughout 2026, even as he criticized him frequently over such changes as “mandating communion rails”, “ending the concept of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion” and rolling back canon law to the 1917 Code and the Catechism back to the Catechism of Trent. Martin has also adamantly called for “more pride and gay stuff” throughout his entire career, and so, has through Pope Celestine’s pontificate so far also complained about how the new Pope is “rolling back the clock” and “taking us back to a dark time.” But even as he moaned and complained, he showed no signs, until today’s announcement of his real, calculated response to the conservative pope.
Although Martin is accustomed to being a stage personality at the center of attention, this plan was to be bold and ostentatious even for him.
Before a crowd in Atlanta today at a meeting of the “The Brotherhood of Dorothy Day” a self-proclaimed “Novus Ordo Extremist Group,” Martin announced his intention to found something called the “Society of St. Bugnini I” that would “ensure the perpetual continuation of the Novus Ordo mass, along with proper training of priests in synodality, theological liberalism, and the “spirit of Vatican II.”
“The Spirit of Vatican II, the spirit of synodality, of gayness, of rainbows, butterflies, unicorns, and yes, beautiful socialism, is under attack under the so-called Pope Celestine,” Martin said in his address. “Therefore, I’m joining with Cardinal Arthur Mohagany and Cardinal Gunter Schuster to found a new society to keep that spirit alive in the dark times of traditionalism that we have found ourselves in.”
“Bugnini, who should have been canonized and should have been Pope, was the greatest man of the 20th century, and his liturgy the greatest of all time, until, that is, we come up with some way of being gayer. Therefore, I’m creating a society of priests and the people of God that will be dedicated to the Novus Ordo he created with the help of the CIA and USAID and to keep it going no matter what those traditionalists in the Vatican might do. The SSBI will welcome all people of synodality, expand quickly to add female priestesses, and pretty much do the opposite of whatever the Pope calls for as long as we’re being synodal while doing it.”
“Let’s have a good time,” he said. “Hey, who wants to be a bishop? I’ll get Roche and Cupich to consecrate you today. We'll take over churches, launch our own seminaries, launch our own tribunal with guaranteed—, well, we’ll just call them divorces. Maybe we'll even call our own council and elect our own Pope, a synodal one obviously... As our first act, after I get made a bishop, of course, something I obviously deserve for all the good I’ve done for synodality, we’ll be to declare Annibale Bugnini a saint and doctor of the church, as well as retroactively as a Pope so he can be our patron. But rest assured, with us, the New Order will stay. And it won’t just stay. We’re going to take the best ideas of the 1970s and 80s liturgy wise, and make them even bolder, flashier, and better than ever.”
Mohagany and Schuster will be bishops for the “inclusive, unguarded, and open” organization that will separate itself entirely from the Catholic Church’s hierarchy and formal structures. They will consecrate Martin, who plans to “leave” the Jesuits, as a bishop and as overall leader of the SSBI over them, as “he's the most liberal and synodal of all of us,” as Schuster puts it.
Pope Celestine VI has not yet responded formally to the announcement, which, due to the brashness and departure from Church tradition and the hierarchy alone of Martin's plan, constitutes Martin, Mohagany, and Schuster as having launched a formal schism and being de facto excommunicated. Of course, Celestine VI’s February 2027 encyclical on truth, as we all know, confirms this excommunication as being the default outcome for such acts as what Martin is performing here.
A rift within the trio is already evident. While all three agree on theological liberalism and their preference for the Novus Ordo, Martin thinks promoting homosexuality is their most important work, Mohagany thinks liturgical dance is most important, and Schuster thinks synodality is most important. Expect a splinter “Society of St. Martin Luther” to be formed by one of the trio members at some point in the near future.
dorothy day was a sincere catholic btw. sad this is only a dream.
Too funny.