Resistance Policy – I
When the Shepherd is struck, the truths of salvation must be upheld inviolate, but “The wind must be tempered to the shorn lambs.”
When the Shepherd is struck, the truths of salvation must be upheld inviolate, but “The wind must be tempered to the shorn lambs.”
The Church’s infallible Ordinary Magisterium is to the Pope’s infallible Extraordinary Magisterium as dog is to tail, and not as tail is to dog.
A reader complains of the “Comments” on GREC, but the problem remains – SSPX priests should have known better than to take part.
The seventh paragraph of the Newsociety’s Doctrinal Declaration of last April equals the “hermeneutic of continuity,” which is balderdash!
Newsociety priests closely involved in GREC’s non-doctrinal attempt to solve a huge problem of doctrine are still pursuing their fantasy.
A reader’s multiple arguments defending Vatican II’s religious liberty are refuted. Its liberating man from God is insanity.
A Parisian group of priests and laity, formed to reconcile Rome and the SSPX, is by-passing doctrine. It cannot achieve its aims.
However perverse our age is, still men know when they are breaking God’s law. Newsociety leaders know they are forsaking God’s Society.
One may suspect that Newsociety headquarters are conspiring with Newrome to achieve an agreement. Priests disagreeing should protest.
If the Newsociety’s leaders are now failing, one explanation is that they are reverting to the relatively cosy Catholicism of the 1950’s.
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.
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