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02/03/2018
Rome may manoeuvre, dodge, deceive, outwit,
But with lines curved straight things by God are writ.
Rome may manoeuvre, dodge, deceive, outwit,
But with lines curved straight things by God are writ.
Providence has kept the Society safe at home – ?
By blocking many attempts to join with Rome!
Rome says, the Church’s crisis is not such.
Now Menzingen is likewise out of touch.
One foolish girl can ruin a whole estate
And thereby weigh upon a Kingdom’s fate!
To Vatican Two will Catholics wake up ever?
They surely wake up better late than never!
The tastier the bait put on the hook,
The more poor fish their foes for friends mistook.
Three bishops told the truth, but “None so blind
As he who will not see” – he shuts his mind.
Did the Society think it would save all?
That was the pride which goes before a fall.
While Menzingen is by Rome’s sirens charmed,
To keep the Faith, let forewarned be forearmed.
The Society is sinking, not yet sunk.
Pray for its leaders reeling, as though drunk.
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.