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09/26/2009
And were the Rome-SSPX discussions to arrive at some practical agreement, the crucial question would be, who appoints henceforth the SSPX bishops?
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.
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.
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 all structures of Western civilization crumble around us, we wonder if the next step is a super-9/11, or 9/11 squared – 81/121.
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.