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04/14/2018
Thanks be to God for one almighty gift –
Archbishop Lefebvre, who gave Tradition its lift.
Thanks be to God for one almighty gift –
Archbishop Lefebvre, who gave Tradition its lift.
Archbishop Lefebvre was wise – his rule of thumb,
“Recognise, yet Resist” is not so dumb!
Conciliar Popes I have to “disobey,”
But that they are not Popes, I need not say.
Infallibility is only lent to the Pope
From God through Church – else, he can be a “dope.”
Tradition is of Popes the measuring-rod
Because it came at first only from God.
If four conditions are not all in play.
The Popes can err in what they teach or say.
Galatians I, 8–9 is a classic text to prove the priority of truth over authority, i.e. of Catholic Tradition over today’s Rome.
The Ordinary Magisterium is indeed infallible, but its infallibility comes from God, and not from the Extraordinary Magisterium.
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’s multiple arguments defending Vatican II’s religious liberty are refuted. Its liberating man from God is insanity.
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.