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10/03/2009
The Mass is central to the Church because it embodies Catholic Doctrine. The Mass needed saving first. Now for the Doctrine.
The Mass is central to the Church because it embodies Catholic Doctrine. The Mass needed saving first. Now for the Doctrine.
And were the Rome-SSPX discussions to arrive at some practical agreement, the crucial question would be, who appoints henceforth the SSPX bishops?
How dare the SSPX discuss infallible Doctrine, and with Rome? Because it is only re-asserting that Doctrine which Rome is abandoning.
Such is today’s corruption that minds objectively wrong easily appear subjectively sincere. Catholics, beware like the plague of feel-good “sincerity.”
Where too many people split religion from today’s reality, “Letters from the Rector” are recommended for attempting to fit them together again.
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.
The expression “Conciliar Church” means the neo-modernist human corruption attaching to, but incapable of staining, the spotless Bride of Christ.
As Truth is above Authority, so sedevacantists clinging to Truth may often be better Catholics than liberals clinging to Authority.
What is Neo-modernism? It is the Conciliar revival of the century-old error seeking to adapt the Church to the modern world.
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.