English
Dutch
French
Italian
SpanishDifficult Discussions – III
09/19/2009
How dare the SSPX discuss infallible Doctrine, and with Rome? Because it is only re-asserting that Doctrine which Rome is abandoning.
How dare the SSPX discuss infallible Doctrine, and with Rome? Because it is only re-asserting that Doctrine which Rome is abandoning.
The gaunt last movement of Beethoven’s 29th piano sonata clearly foreshadowed the horrors of modern “music,” nearly 200 years ago.
At best the Rome-SSPX discussions will give witness to Catholic Truth. At worst some practical agreement would circumvent that Truth.
A religious revival reportedly taking place in Russia may suggest that with the Fatima conversion it will help to save the Western Church.
Such is today’s corruption that minds objectively wrong easily appear subjectively sincere. Catholics, beware like the plague of feel-good “sincerity.”
On both sides of the divorce of Catholic Truth from Catholic Authority, Catholics strive to re-unite them. Truth has the absolute priority.
Where too many people split religion from today’s reality, “Letters from the Rector” are recommended for attempting to fit them together again.
A passage from Maria Valtorta’s admirable “Poem of the Man-God” diagnoses Judas Iscariot’s downfall – he wanted to save himself.
A Catholic man, severely discouraged by today’s wasteland, testifies that praying fifteen Mysteries a day changed his situation completely.
The divorce of Catholic Truth and Authority from one another is something unthinkable, yet the Vatican II churchmen made it a reality.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.