Compare and contrast with the heretic bishops of Germany. Traditional Catholic teachings are optional; slavish devotion to the passing zeitgeist is not.
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A “rigid” cynic might think the mandate was just one more excuse to eliminate all vestiges of the traditional Roman Catholic Church…
I really don’t get the hatred for traditional Catholicism.
I attended the High Mass at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Conshohocken yesterday, something I do once a month or so, being bound to my novus ordo parish. What struck me is that this old, small, dark Polish church was standing room only, for a two and a half hour long mass.
About a third of the people there were under the age of five. There are, what? Five altar boys in attendance, as well as a deacon and a sub-deacon?
I asked an usher how hard it was to get altar boys and he misunderstood my question, responding, “yeah, that’s a problem. Unless the boys ask to serve at least a month in advance, they won’t have a chance to do it. There are too many of them.”
Too many altar boys.
The FSSP has 39 seminarians in their Mid-Atlantic Region alone.
God is clearly, indisputably working in the FSSP and among Traditional Rite Catholics. The contributions overflow and a more engaged, willing to sacrifice group is hard to imagine. By every measure of what even the least holy bishop would want of a congregation, “Traddies” deliver.
I really, really don’t get it.
I really don’t get the hatred for traditional Catholicism.
Vatican II was supposed to open a sunlit future for Catholicism. That it has been an almost complete failure is anathema to many clerics of the Pope’s vintage who were young at the time of the Council. They will continue the floggings of traditional Catholics until morale improves. Pope Benedict represented the sadder but wiser men of Vatican II, who had learned from the past six decades. All Pope Francis has learned is how to say “rigid” over and over again as a swear word against traditional Catholics, in a classic case of projection.
Satan also hates Holy Water.
I cannot recommend highly enough the book Iota Unum, by Romano Amerio, available in English from Angelus Press (the publishing arm of the SSPX.) Amerio traces in depth the Modernist revolution in the Church throughout the 20th Century, and back to its roots in the Protestant schism. Amerio analyzes in philosophical and theological terms the thought and actions of the hierarchy who effected the revolution, (and those who failed to stop it, most notably Paul VI.) He details how the revolution reached its apex in the takeover of Vatican II by the Modernist cabal, and its aftermath. He goes topic by topic through the changes in doctrine disguised as “development”, and how the Modernist attack targeted every aspect of Catholic life as it existed prior to 1970, both in doctrine and in praxis.
One thing I’ve realized from this scholarly and very deep work is that Francis could very well be labeled as the first occupant of the Holy See to be a complete product of Modernism in all its heretical colors. If Modernism is, as Pope St. Pius X said, the “synthesis of all heresies”, the so-called magisterium of Francis is the synthesis of all Modernism. Carefully ambiguous in his words, but undeniable in his actions.
The fact that even this full-on, centuries-long assault from within has still failed to destroy traditional Catholicism is probably what makes the aging “Vatican II generation” of hierarchs so mad. They are losing in the long run, and they know it.
They are losing in the long run, and they know it.
Precisely Frank, and Iota Unum is a masterpiece.
Powerfully articulated, Frank. I’ll pick up a copy of Iota Unum.
A “rigid” cynic might think the mandate was just one more excuse to eliminate all vestiges of the traditional Roman Catholic Church…
The vaccine fades, it isn’t that effective against one variant which has appeared since its introduction and it’s useless against another, it appears that the ailment is fading away naturally, and the relationship between aggressive interventions and death rates is pretty haphazard. IOW, there is zero reason to mandate this vaccine. Either the people insisting on it are idiots or they have ulterior motives. Who can tell which?
The full interview with the Mother Superior is here. It’s quite shocking really.
https://newdailycompass.com/en/convent-shut-down-after-nuns-refuse-covid-vaccine
Mother Superior is puzzled about the real reason to shut down a convent with 5 nuns who are not all elderly, who live a fairly cloistered existence in a convent that is economically self-sufficient.
The only logical explanation is hinted at the end of her interview- which is, that they are using the Covid vaccine as an excuse to seize the property for something other than a convent and for some economic gain. In a years time if this place ends up being anything but a place of prayer, then you bet your bottom dollar that $$ is behind the decision to move those sisters away.
And the Covid vaccine was just a random excuse.
Re: from Art @”the people insisting on it [the vax] are idiots or they have ulterior motives. Who can tell which?”
I’d go with ulterior motives. Maximal social control. If through threats, intimidation, bullying one can be forced to take an injection they don’t want and don’t truly consent to, what “rights” do they actually retain?
Where will these poor women go? How will their needs be met? Where will they live? Are they officially no longer nuns in the Catholic Church?
@Frank: Spot on, about Romano Amerio’s “Iota Unum.”
I think most compelling is the fact that Amerio is a literal eyewitness to the events and actions of Vatican II and all of the usual culprits. I have always recommended to people to at least read the first 100 pp’s (It is nearly 800 densely fact-filled total pages of prophetic history) is an amazing chronology.
@Steve P, agreed. And it takes some work to read it all, but I found it worthwhile.