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03/09/2013
The Parisian group wants everybody to be nice to one another. But where is the God of Truth amidst the human niceness?
The Parisian group wants everybody to be nice to one another. But where is the God of Truth amidst the human niceness?
However perverse our age is, still men know when they are breaking God’s law. Newsociety leaders know they are forsaking God’s Society.
A famous prayer of St Theresa of Avila, turning wholly to God, is more and more suitable for our times turning away.
The SSPX leadership has long disguised its leftwards slide, blocked temporarily by the General Chapter, but liable to pick up again.
If the Newsociety’s leaders are now failing, one explanation is that they are reverting to the relatively cosy Catholicism of the 1950’s.
A friend writes that he sees the Newsociety failing to denounce cultural problems. This failure makes it more than vulnerable.
As Christendom is burnt out, so Christmas becomes a more and more artificial celebration. Yet Christ did come, and gave us happiness.
The problems of the Newchurch go back to the late Middle Ages. Vatican II was merely the end of a long process.
It is not clear that the present need is to rebuild a classic Congregation or Seminary. Both may be somehow out-dated.
The author of “Eleison Comments” has been excluded from the Newsociety of Bishop Fellay, not a good sign for the old SSPX.
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.