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11/30/2013
Six reasons are given by the trail-blazer of the “Resistance” in France for the lack of reaction within the SSPX to its betrayal in 2012.
Six reasons are given by the trail-blazer of the “Resistance” in France for the lack of reaction within the SSPX to its betrayal in 2012.
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.
The problems of the Newchurch go back to the late Middle Ages. Vatican II was merely the end of a long process.
The author of “Eleison Comments” has been excluded from the Newsociety of Bishop Fellay, not a good sign for the old SSPX.
Cardinal Siri was a fine churchman, but by his lack of reaction to the disaster of Vatican II, arguably not fine enough.
The General Chapter’s concluding Declaration is strong on piety but weak on doctrine, with a fatal ambiguity in its doctrinal sections.
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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