Perillous “Sincerity”
Such is today’s corruption that minds objectively wrong easily appear subjectively sincere. Catholics, beware like the plague of feel-good “sincerity.”
Such is today’s corruption that minds objectively wrong easily appear subjectively sincere. Catholics, beware like the plague of feel-good “sincerity.”
As Truth is above Authority, so sedevacantists clinging to Truth may often be better Catholics than liberals clinging to Authority.
Archbishop Lefebvre chose for the SSPX the 1962 Missal as being the last officially promulgated Missal to be completely orthodox.
If only liberal Catholics were clearly outside the Church! Inside, they are doing such damage as surely God alone can repair.
St Pius X’s great Encyclical denounced subjectivism, but it is now everywhere. Has it not today disoriented the highest of churchmen’s minds?
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.