Two Journeys
The SSPX leadership has long disguised its leftwards slide, blocked temporarily by the General Chapter, but liable to pick up again.
The SSPX leadership has long disguised its leftwards slide, blocked temporarily by the General Chapter, but liable to pick up again.
A priest friend of the SSPX watches anxiously its present turn towards Newrome. He no longer fully approves, nor yet fully disapproves.
A friend writes that he sees the Newsociety failing to denounce cultural problems. This failure makes it more than vulnerable.
The bishop expelled from the Newsociety is expelled also from Wimbledon. He stays near London and will travel again.
SSPX Headquarters has put out an explanation of five puzzling remarks of the Superior General. They puzzle more than ever.
Maria Valtorta’s controversial Poem of the man-God is defended against attack, and recommended for family reading in the home.
The author of “Eleison Comments” offers for readers’ delight a little collection of counter-comments, many going back to Sweden.
The General Chapter’s concluding Declaration is strong on piety but weak on doctrine, with a fatal ambiguity in its doctrinal sections.
Those who seem divisive rebels are not always the real rebels. John VII shows the crowd being divided by Our Lord’s teaching.
The document submitted by the SSPX to Newrome as a basis for an SSPX-Newrome agreement is fatally ambiguous. Anathema!
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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