At the conclusion to their Fall Meeting in Baltimore last week, the Bishops of the United States issued a Special Message concerning the HHS mandate that is just begging for a Catholic reading.
Pope Francis has reminded us that “In the context of society, there is only one thing which the Church quite clearly demands: the freedom to proclaim the Gospel in its entirety, even when it runs counter to the world, even when it goes against the tide.”
At first blush this seems reasonable enough, but then the bishops shed a little more light on what they consider the “Gospel in its entirety.”
[WARNING: SOCIAL JUSTICE ALERT!]
We stand together as pastors charged with proclaiming the Gospel in its entirety. That Gospel calls us to feed the poor, heal the sick, and educate the young, and in so doing witness to our faith in its fullness. Our great ministries of service and our clergy, religious sisters and brothers, and lay faithful, especially those involved in Church apostolates, strive to answer this call every day, and the Constitution and the law protect our freedom to do so.
Feeding the poor, healing the sick, and educating the young…
If this is all it takes to proclaim the “Gospel in its entirety” and to witness to “our faith in its fullness,” for what exactly did the martyrs lay down their lives?
Needless to say, the bishops aren’t exactly swimming against the post-conciliar tide here, but it does cause one to wonder at what point it will occur to these men that setting aside the mission of converting the world to Christ; behaving instead as if Our Blessed Lord had commanded His Church to go out into the world like a body of Peace Corps volunteers, is what got us into this mess in the first place?
Yet with its coercive HHS mandate, the government is refusing to uphold its obligation to respect the rights of religious believers. Beginning in March 2012, in United for Religious Freedom, we identified three basic problems with the HHS mandate: it establishes a false architecture of religious liberty that excludes our ministries and so reduces freedom of religion to freedom of worship; it compels our ministries to participate in providing employees with abortifacient drugs and devices, sterilization, and contraception, which violates our deeply-held beliefs; and it compels our faithful people in business to act against our teachings, failing to provide them any exemption at all.
While I have little doubt that the overwhelming majority of the faithful, having been robbed unawares of any meaningful sense of Catholic identity, likely find this to be a perfectly commendable defense of the Faith, it is nothing of the sort.
So unabashedly anthropocentric are the bishops of Newchurch, that they can actually say, apparently with a straight face, that the “three basic problems” with the HHS mandate are all about us; our freedom, our liberty, our deeply-held beliefs, etc.,
If the Body of Christ was even slightly healthy every Catholic kid of confirmation age would realize that the number one problem with the HHS mandate has to do with its utter incompatibility with Divine Law and therefore the degree to which it is an offense against the sovereign rights of Christ the King.
Despite our repeated efforts to work and dialogue toward a solution, those problems remain. Not only does the mandate undermine our ministries’ ability to witness to our faith, which is their core mission, but the penalties it imposes also lay a great burden on those ministries, threatening their very ability to survive and to serve the many who rely on their care.
Bishops: It’s time to turn in your man cards. This is just embarrassing.
“God knows we’ve tried to dialogue! Wahhh!”
Yes, and God also knows that you’ve spent the past fifty years courting the favor of the worldly, doing backflips at every turn to avoid offending those in civil authority, neglecting therefore to preach the Kingship of Jesus Christ, the entirely unique freedom of His Holy Catholic Church and the objective moral truths entrusted to her care.
Now, as your abject failure is coming home to bite you in your collective black slacks, the best you can do is sniffle about how hard you’ve tried to “dialogue toward a solution;” an activity more properly known by those with even a modicum of Catholic sense as “negotiating with the Devil.”
Collectively, you “men” (to use the word lightly) are pathetic.
That said, what isn’t entirely clear is how many of the bishops would sign their name to this drivel as if coming from them personally and individually. I suspect there are some (likely not many, but some) who would not so attach their name to this text, and yet, in weakness they give their tacit approval by their silence.
This just goes to highlight (as if such were necessary) the dangers inherent to collegiality as group-think and bureaucraticism is inevitable.
The current impasse is all the more frustrating because the Catholic Church has long been a leading provider of, and advocate for, accessible, life-affirming health care. We would have preferred to spend these recent past years working toward this shared goal instead of resisting this intrusion into our religious liberty. We have been forced to devote time and resources to a conflict we did not start nor seek.
The whining continues.
Yes, the USCCB would have preferred working toward the fairytale, authored by Satan himself, that “life-affirming health care” is a “shared goal” with a government that is Hell bent on exterminating the most innocent of human beings.
And while it is perhaps true that “we” did not seek this conflict, “we” most certainly invited it the very moment “we” decided (in earnest with the approval of Dignitatis Humanae at Vatican II) that a State does well to treat the Holy Catholic Church as if she is but one religious choice in a free society, of no more value than the many false religions that reject Our Lord Jesus Christ and His life giving truth.
As the government’s implementation of the mandate against us approaches, we bishops stand united in our resolve to resist this heavy burden and protect our religious freedom.
Once again, it’s all about us. I am sick unto death of hearing these should-be Apostles simper on about “our religious freedom,” as if “our” freedom is no different that the liberty that is supposedly due to Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and everyone else who worships a false god in a false religion that cannot possibly save anyone from anything.
Even as each bishop struggles to address the mandate, together we are striving to develop alternate avenues of response to this difficult situation. We seek to answer the Gospel call to serve our neighbors, meet our obligation to provide our people with just health insurance, protect our religious freedom, and not be coerced to violate our consciences. We remain grateful for the unity we share in this endeavor with Americans of all other faiths, and even with those of no faith at all.
Oh how they struggle and strive!
When will the bishops, including the Bishop of Rome, finally wake up to the reality that one of the reasons the Church in our day struggles so mightily is because this so-called “unity” that we supposedly share with the practitioners of false religions is a facade built upon mere earthly concerns?
It is our hope that our ministries and lay faithful will be able to continue providing insurance in a manner consistent with the faith of our Church. We will continue our efforts in Congress and especially with the promising initiatives in the courts to protect the religious freedom that ensures our ability to fulfill the Gospel by serving the common good.
What ever happened to “For thou, O Lord, art my hope?” (That, by the way, is a strictly rhetorical question.)
I suppose that went by the wayside, at least for the current crop of shepherds, the day Pope Paul VI paid homage to humanity at the UN saying, “The peoples of the earth turn to the United Nations as the last hope of concord and peace.”
This resolve is particularly providential on this feast of the patroness of immigrants, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. She was a brave woman who brought the full vigor of her deep religious faith to the service of the sick, the poor, children, the elderly, and the immigrant. We count on her intercession, as united we obey the command of Jesus to serve the least of our brothers and sisters.
Closing their message by invoking the intercession of a Saint who came of age during the pontificates of Blessed Pope Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII and Pope St. Pius X, is certainly a nice touch, but who’s kidding who?
If she could have read this text during her lifetime, St. Frances Cabrini wouldn’t have recognized these words as even Catholic, much less befitting a body of bishops.
Hello Louie,
I am fairly new to your blog, but am edified by it. Thank you for so clearly stating the obvious, that the emperor is not wearing any clothes. I too am sick unto nausea from all the talk, talk, talk, when Jesus Christ is our Sovereign Lord, deserving and demanding of our allegiance. Praise be Christ the King! May He rule every nation and people! Only in Him is our salvation! Almost makes me want to jump ship to the SSPX, but my intuition tells me that would not be wise.
The SSPX is the only order that has kept its sanity. I am so sick of weak bishops compromising on every moral issue in an attempt to be relevant. Post-conciliar bishops are all about community and 60s style social justice, but are incapable of understanding the importance of sacrifice and proper reverence in the Mass. May we have good shepherds to lead the flock and may we see a restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass soon. Praise be to Christ the King (not Christ the Democratically Elected President of The People)!
I believe that most of the Bishops never had a “man card” to begin with due to them having unresolved same-sex attraction which reflects a gender development arrest. It’s emo, self centered, heretical and ignorant speeches that show their lack of card ownership. Men with even “transitory” same sex attraction should never be considered for the priesthood. It’s like allowing 12 year old’s into the SEALS. Thank you for helping our intellects align with the Truth Louie. “Men make men” I once heard…and I’m grateful that courageous men like you have woken up to fight the insanity. God bless you!
They say that if you eat your vegetables, say your prayers nightly, and root for Hulk Hogan (but only when he is wearing the yellow tights), good things will happen. That having been said, I would just like to add…” in the darndest places.
Traveling in the eastern periferies of western civilization (Poland), I stopped by the local SSPX chapel this past Sunday. Low and behold, who do I see in the entrance procession but none other than the First Assistant to the Superior General himself, Father Nicholas Pfluger. Awesome homily ensued (the tieing in of the essense of the Gospels from the 4th, 5th and through to the 6th Sunday after the Epiphany just oozed with clearity and a high degree of Teutonic Ordnung), and Fr. Pfluger sang the Confiteor before Communion (it’s a SSPX thing, however it’s usually recited by the faithful) that was simply stunning. The man has a voice.
And the piece de resistance was the lecture after the High Mass. The title of the lecture had to do with the Crisis and how the SSPX is handling it. (He spoke in German, with a translator – and I only have a working handle of Polish so I could have gotten something wrong). Naturally, he proceeded to bitch slap the modernists, “while wearing a long glove” (it’s a local expression – ). One could say “diplomatically”. (The SSPX are diplomatic to a fault.) But the man has talent. Anyways, in the first half hour, he managed a tour de force through the battlefield left by the modernist heresy, starting at the back with Francis, and ending almost at the back with JPII. Benedict was spared. (He elicited many grins when he mentioned the moderist use of the dialectic, and reminding the locals that they had experienced it first hand not that long ago.) But the recipient of the most powerful bitch slap was Karl Rahner. This led to the main thesis of the lecture, i.e. what the post conciliar church was up to. According to Fr. Pluger, the modernists are waging a war on Grace, (as in supernatural gift from God to intellectual creatures for their salvation). The modernists hate Grace because it is a threat to their religion of man. How can the “new theology” focus on providing for man’s well being (think social justice), if that same man is primarily focused on working out his salvation. So to get man off the “salvation kick”, the modernists set out to destroy the structure why which man obtains the needed Grace. First they redefined the relationship between God and man. God did not send his Son to buy our salvation individually, but rather salvation comes from the fact that God became man, therefore since God choose to became man, this means (supposedly) that God loves man soooo much that all men are saved. (Here again, I might have gotten it wrong, but I think that am close to what Fr. Pfluger said).This is where the bitch hand met Luther. Fr. Pfluger pointed out that for the first 1500 years, the concept that individual men worked out their own salvation was unquestioned. It was the protestant heresy that started teaching that it was God who decided which men will be saved, so “sorry Charlie” if you are one of the unlucky ones. And it was the modernists that camoflaged this heresy (Rahner/JPII ) and repackaged it into the notion that since God came to earth as a man, therefore he loves man so much that he wouldn’t dream of letting anything bad happen to him. ( Hell, stinking hell, we don’t need no stinking hell). This is basically where JPII left off. Benedict tried to return some sanity, but he was outgunned. And this is where Francis comes in.
But the modernists haven’t been able to get man (the ones who still go to Church, that is) off the “Grace kick” over the last 50 years. You know, those darned Pelagians with their dogmatic certainty and legalistic metality counting those rosary bouquets and keeping their hands folded while they pray those memorized paryers, etc. So Francis in turn has set out to get rid of Grace once and for all. He (or rather this clique) realize that they will not be able to get rid of Grace, and refocus man on his earthly matters if the architecture by which Grace flows from God down to man exists. This architecture is the heirarchical structure of the Bride of Christ. Grace flows from God through the Priest down to the faithful. So the Francis and the modernists (sounds like a boys band) want to destroy the hierachical order of the Church and replace it with a horizontal strucure. So by taking a baseball bat to the hierarchical structure of the Church, all that will be left is the horizontal structure,that will then be free to focus “out” as opposed to “up”. This is why the modernists continuously focus on the periferies. They desperately need to take the faithful’s focus from individual salvation, and put that effort into, say building a just society. And at this point the “hand” fell on Francis. The biggest problem with Francis is not what he says, but rather on what he doesn’t tell the faithful. The part of the Catholic doctrine that Francis omits is the most important part, i.e. that part of the doctrine that is necessary for the individual salvation.
And at this point, I had to leave because Mrs. Armaticus called freaking out, thinking that something might have happened. She keeps on confusing Poland with Russia. Oh well. But to be perfectly fair, I did leave her in a hotel with one of the young and unwell Armatici.
Summa summarum. Awesome experience. If anyone ever has the opportunity to hear Fr. Pfluger in person, I would highly recommend it. But before you go to a lecture, learn German. It’s worth the effort. 🙂
The servants of the serpent have amassed so much power, everywhere, at this point that to *seriously* oppose them requires that one MUST be willing to embark upon the road to martyrdom. God Will decide if the price is to be paid, but one MUST embrace the possibility and conform oneself to His Will.
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Pope Francis has give anyone that would rather avoid such unpleasantness an out with his [paraphrased] “poor people and old folks are our top priority” and “we shouldn’t obsess about abortion and the escalating persecution of Christians by sodomites.”
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So the princes of the Church here in the US are jumping on the out given to them by Our Holy Father.
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Thank you Mr. V for call them onto the carpet about it. May the rebuke do them (and us) good.
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May Our Lord bless us with the purification of His Holy Priesthood. Drawing His priests ever closer to Him. Making them holier, and wiser, and braver. That they may ever conform themselves to HIS WILL, and are protected from evil. And may He bless those in need with the grace of true contrition.
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And may it please God to hasten the day that Our Blessed Mother crushes the head of the serpent under her heel.
Although Rome fell under the chastisement of God, by the violence of the successive barbarian invasions, a remnant stayed faithful. The outstanding figure of this remnant was St. Remigius. From his fidelity came the conversion of Clovis, the Franks and the beginning of medieval Christendom. St. Athanasius, a century before, fleeing the semi-Arian persecution, would bring to Rome the seed of aAlthough Rome fell under the chastisement of God, by the violence of the successive barbarian invasions, a remnant stayed faithful. The outstanding figure of this remnant was St. Remigius. From his fidelity came the conversion of Clovis, the Franks and the beginning of medieval Christendom. St. Athanasius, a century before, fleeing the semi-Arian persecution, would bring to Rome the seed of a new model of religious life, monasticism. This seed would germinate in St. Benedict of Nursia and would give birth to the Benedictine order, largely responsible for the two religious reforms that gave shape to the Middle Ages. There was also St. Augustine who left another seed that would germinate: it was his great work The City of God. This book was taken by Charlemagne as the fundamental book that oriented him in the institution of the new Empire. Thus we have in St. Remigius, St. Athanasius and St. Augustine the same law of the remnant that returns to fulfil the plan of God.
From the height of the Middle Ages to our days, the Catholic Church and Christian Civilization has suffered the offensive of the revolutionary conspiracy. Three great revolutions shook the stability of the Reign of Christ: the Protestant Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Communist Revolution. The germs of these three revolutions have penetrated into the Holy Church and, by a strange paradox, today there are ecclesiastics who promote the most advanced strains of the Revolution. The apostasy of Hierarchs, Clergy and the faithful has reached unimaginable proportions. Those who are faithful are reduced to a small remnant.
This small remnant is formed in part by those who are here present. My message to you is this: Do not think that we are isolated, smashed, without the possibility of doing anything. We have behind us thousands of years of History of the Old and New Testament in which the same law of the remnant is verified. We are the remnant of medieval civilization. And we are the seed of a new era. We have before us a glorious future that will be the Reign of Mary. After this, there will be a decadence and the end of the world will come. In the Middle Ages, the one who found himself in a position similar to that of our times was Saint Remigius, who saw the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Reign of Christ installed over the earth. At the end of the world, the ones who will be in an analogous situation to ours are the Prophet Elias, the Prophet Enoch and those few who will remain faithful. They will see the end of the Reign of Mary and the beginning of the Celestial Jerusalem.
We are in an epic historic position. If we extend one hand to the past we will find the hand of St. Remigius. If we extend the other hand to the future, we will find the hand of the Prophet Elias. We are the present remnant that can support itself on the past remnant and on the future remnant.
Within this broad perspective of History and the glorification of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I am pleased to transmit here one of the important laws that governs the plans of God, the law of the fidelity of the remnant. Residuum revertetur! The remnant shall be returned! The remnant shall once again conquer! from the transcript of the tape and adapted by Atila S. Guimarães new model of religious life, monasticism. This seed would germinate in St. Benedict of Nursia and would give birth to the Benedictine order, largely responsible for the two religious reforms that gave shape to the Middle Ages. There was also St. Augustine who left another seed that would germinate: it was his great work The City of God. This book was taken by Charlemagne as the fundamental book that oriented him in the institution of the new Empire. Thus we have in St. Remigius, St. Athanasius and St. Augustine the same law of the remnant that returns to fulfil the plan of God.
From the height of the Middle Ages to our days, the Catholic Church and Christian Civilization has suffered the offensive of the revolutionary conspiracy. Three great revolutions shook the stability of the Reign of Christ: the Protestant Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Communist Revolution. The germs of these three revolutions have penetrated into the Holy Church and, by a strange paradox, today there are ecclesiastics who promote the most advanced strains of the Revolution. The apostasy of Hierarchs, Clergy and the faithful has reached unimaginable proportions. Those who are faithful are reduced to a small remnant.
This small remnant is formed in part by those who are here present. My message to you is this: Do not think that we are isolated, smashed, without the possibility of doing anything. We have behind us thousands of years of History of the Old and New Testament in which the same law of the remnant is verified. We are the remnant of medieval civilization. And we are the seed of a new era. We have before us a glorious future that will be the Reign of Mary. After this, there will be a decadence and the end of the world will come. In the Middle Ages, the one who found himself in a position similar to that of our times was Saint Remigius, who saw the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Reign of Christ installed over the earth. At the end of the world, the ones who will be in an analogous situation to ours are the Prophet Elias, the Prophet Enoch and those few who will remain faithful. They will see the end of the Reign of Mary and the beginning of the Celestial Jerusalem.
We are in an epic historic position. If we extend one hand to the past we will find the hand of St. Remigius. If we extend the other hand to the future, we will find the hand of the Prophet Elias. We are the present remnant that can support itself on the past remnant and on the future remnant.
Within this broad perspective of History and the glorification of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I am pleased to transmit here one of the important laws that governs the plans of God, the law of the fidelity of the remnant. Residuum revertetur! The remnant shall be returned! The remnant shall once again conquer!
from the transcript of the tape and adapted by Atila S. Guimarães
I have to chuckle a bit about the comment board. We’re all criticizing the bishops for insufficient courage… via anonymous postings in a small corner of the internet…
Bryan Kirchoff
St. Louis
Bry: Glad you’ve found something to laugh about as the traitors try to erect the church of perdition for the damnation of all mankind – what’s really not funny but sad is that you’re laughing at the one’s on the narrow road – the road to salvation – I hope you’re on it, and with fear and trembling, trying to keep on it. In case you don’t know what the narrow road is, it is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, Who is the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. There is no God or Heaven for anyone thinking they can by-pass Christ and His Bride – the Church. Real is Real and nothing is more Real than Christ – the Truth.
How is Halina,Taylor, Kathleen any more anonymous than yourself? Are you a celebrity – am I supposed to know who Bry from St Louis is? Mate, you’re as anonymous as the rest of us.
But in case you’re out of the loop – those people with profiles watch these sites, want to no what the peasant’s are thinking and doing…and so, we’re saying.
At any rate, I’m sure Louie welcomes you to this ‘small corner of the internet’ – I can recommend the ‘A Conversation with Louie Verrecchio’ on Church MilitantTV – 13 episodes packed with the facts and some genuine humour – we could all learn a lot.
God Bless the SSPX – they are still on the Rock – they never left it.
It is more than interesting that Fr. Pfluger found the link in the modernist chain proper goes from JPII to FI; The Pope Emeritus is no shipwrecker.
p.s. Bryan Kirchoff
check out the posts for 23. October, 2013
24. October, 2013. Mr Verrecchio had some heavy gun endorsements for this site until a few weeks ago; mentioning the things that are amiss in the bands of Bishops – including of Rome (as he does not refer to himself as the Pope, I think we should all stop doing so) is not a nothing thing to do and a nowhere place to be. Quite the contrary. But then what it can earn a true son of the Church, a true soldier for Christ is the pernicious ‘exile of the ignored.’ Something the soon to be horizontal Church hierarchy are well versed in meeting out. That’s what’s so great about the SSPX – they were approved of, then disapproved of, the excommunicated, then recommunicated and now they mere suffer the exile of the ignored – but, happily, God clearly isn’t ignoring them – the vocations are booming, their Faith is rock-solid Roman Catholic. It helps to look at those who are being exiled, shut-out….it’s a good indication of who is really on God’s side.
At first glance at my comment (this morning), I was surprised to see,how long was my message, another mess-up, it’s he the ‘devil’ who likes to go out there and make a mess.
S.Armaticus I would like to know how did you happen to be in Poland? Fr. Pfluger is a dynamite speaker, for sure on fire for Truth to reign. Wish I was there. May God Have Mercy, who no longer preach on ‘grace’……..even Pope Francis…..Ave Maria! God could give men no greater gift than ‘Grace’. To be death to grace is worse than any other kind of death. Beware of the ‘deceivers’ , ‘the wolves in sheep’s garments’……!
I spend 6 weeks in Poland last summer. All I can say, if I lived there again……. the SSPX would be my ONLY refuge, as it is in this Protestant country. What an infiltration, what a ‘frustration’ to see, what the Communism planted, the ‘modernists’ continue in disguise (universally)…….in the name of the false glory of the new Pentecost, the Second Vatican Council……..Miserere!
God Bless the SSPX – they are still on the Rock – they never left it. Bravo, Saluto!
God bless All Soldiers of Christ, for the ‘remnant’ shall again conquer!!!
Viva Cristo Rey!
On another thought…….If, you think that living as a ‘traditional Catholic’ in this Protestant country is tough………imagine what it must be like in the so-called John Paul II……Poland. It’s 10,000 times worse. It’s a ‘true’ heart-breaker……to see how grave is the infiltration. We are head-on, against Satan’s kingdom on earth. Let us not be deceived…….May those who are blind, pray for the scales to fall off.
“In the world you will have affliction; but take courage, I have overcome the world.”……St. John 16:33
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before you.”…….St. John 15:18
“When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”………St. Luke 18:8
@ S Armaticus,
Once again the worldwide conspiracy of elitist/gnostic anti-modernists has reared its ugly head in your sharing.
I ask you, what’s your definition of modernism?
Let us pray the The Immaculate wraps her cloak around the SSPX particularly now. I saw an horrendously deranged and disparaging attack on them allowed to be published not long ago on NCR. I will not mention the author’s name.
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“We don’t want to invent anything—we are Catholic.”
“The situation in the Catholic Church is such that the traditional life has been made impossible.”
—Bp. Fellay
The USCCB is an acronym meaning; United Spatchcocked Conference of Catholic Bishops
HA!!! spatchcocked….GREAT word!!!!!! Will have to steal and use it. 🙂
Nothing else needs to be said when a close family member, who is for all intents and purposes not a practicing Catholic, can recognise most priests and masses celebrated in the USA (we are from western Europe) as simply protestant concoctions. These men are SOOOO far apart from the Catholic and apostolic faith that they are BLIND that they are nothing else than protestant members of “New Church” or the “Church of Nice” or the “Conciliar Church” or however else you want to call them masquerading as catholics.
“Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit.” Matthew 15:14
Samwise: I take it we don’t agree on the definition of what constitutes a modernist.
Saluto: Fr Pfluger mentioned it several times that Benedict wanted to correct a lot of the errors. In turn, on the Rorate Caeli blog I read where a FSSP cleric felt heartbroken about their disloyalty to Archbishop Lefevbre. One good turn deserves another, I guess.
Halina: Company has an office in Poland. Travel there once in a while. Take family with me offseason so that they can see their ancestral homeland. As far as the local are concerned, the older folks are very sensible, but the youth is swayed by the pop culture. The media, after the fall of Communism was left in the hands of the ex-communists, so the war against the Church has for the most part been uninterupted. But all in all, nice place to visit, even live. However, it is expensive but you probably know that already. As far as the SSPX, massive presence in last few years. They have about 10 chapels in Poland, and support the SSPX apostalates in the Baltic countires. As a matter of fact, Fr. Pfleger appologized that he did not speak Polish, and suggested that that was the next language that will need to be mastered in Menzingen due to the huge demand. 🙂 And I will leave it off there.
St. John Cantius, ora pro nobis.
St. Stanislas Kostka, ora pro nobis,
St. Stanislas Bishop and Martyr, ora pro nobis.
“We have been forced to devote time and resources to a conflict we did not start nor seek.”
No, these mamsy-pambsy bishops most certainly did NOT seek a conflict. But they got one.
And although they didn’t start it, there are some real Catholics left in this country who’ll be glad to finish it for them.
All they have to do is faint on the sidelines as they watch how the motivated and fortified Church Militant will spill its blood on the field.
Bring it on, Apolyon!
We work your demise, we win!
You kill us, we win more greatly!
Dear S.Armaticus,
I am puzzled by Fr Pfluger mentioning that B XVI wanted to correct a lot of the errors. I am sure he is an excellent priest and a courageous and generous soul, but is the celebration of the abomination of Assisi III an example of wanting to “correct things”? I believe Benedict loves the Church and wishes what he believes to be the best for Her, but regardless of his best intentions the proof is in the pudding – he mingled with the same modernist errors of his predecessors and Assisi III is solid proof for that. Hence, unlike a lot of other trads I don’t see a substantial difference between Benedict and JP II.
Dear Edu,
Like I said in my post, Fr. Pfluger spoke in German, and was translated into Polish by the head of the SSPX for Poland, who appears not to be a native Polish speaker either. I in turn have a “working” understanding of the language, but am not fluent. Therefore, don’t take what I wrote as an “exact” translation. Having said the above, Fr. Pfluger definitely referred to Benedict in a good light, as opposed to the other individuals that he mentioned. And the context of what Fr. Pluger said was that Benedict tried to “correct” some of the modernist influences of the “new liturgy”. That was the essence of the Fr. Pfluger’s comments, as I understood them.
Lou, while I agree with your criticisms, you need to add that the collective failsure of the Catholic laity to establish a Catholic order and resist secularistic politics have put the Bishops in the position where they can only hope to maintain their fringe benefits so long as they take a flismsy stance as in the above quoted document.
Remember that we live in a Masonic state, which when pushed, would show its colors as a tyrannical anti-catholic persecuting butcher. Perhaps many bishps simply want to avoid something wose, and so temporize. If laymen are not courageous, can they criticize Bishops for not being so?
Taylor, you said “The SSPX is the only order that has kept its sanity. I am so sick of weak bishops compromising on every moral issue in an attempt to be relevant.”
I do not know where you have been, but the proposed reconciliation document between the SSPX and the Vatican last year starkly contradicts your assertion…
C@R said: If laymen are not courageous, can they criticize Bishops for not being so?
Consecrated is consecrated – if you haven’t the Heavenly mark that can turn bread into the Body what can you do? Not be misled and not let others be misled.
What does devotion and respect incline towards? Obedience to those who have an ontological gift unlike anything the human being could hope to imagine? Even when those with this gift have turned their backs in favor of satan’s promise?
‘Brood of Vipers’, Christ called vampiric clergy. Criticism of Bishop’s following that which was promised to Eve is a good thing.
The articles are great. We can jump in to help by continuing to learn the truth and waking up our fellow catholics. One thing you can do that will certainly cause a change in management is to radically reduce your weekly collection contribution. Send money to groups that instead promote the true faith and provide edifying content for us to learn from. May God bless you all!
Rick: Spot on. If the Faithful would just learn to “vote with their pocketbook” and financially support ONLY those individuals and initiatives that are pro restoration, the Church would be in a much better position. The thing that is most lost in all this dialogue is that at the end of the day, an anthropocentric religion is “materialistic” at its core. Think of the situation with the German Bishops and the Church Tax. How much of those funds go to support that part of the Church that is faithful to Tradition? Probably not a lot, if any.
I agree with Bryan Kirchoff: anonymous comments should be prohibited on all Web sites.
Excuse me, authority comes from the top down, not the bottom up. For example, if the principal of a school is top-notch,than the teachers and students will follow suit. No, the bishops are the leaders and the laity are only following. When the general in a war is bad the soldiers die. Laity are losing their immortal souls (worst than their lives on earth) because of the bishops.
All of us who have been blessed to see TRUTH are expected to speak out and help others and not forget prayer. PRAYER and WORKS, we are not Lutherans.
Thank you , all of you, for your courageous stance in exposing yourselves to possible future persecution. We all know by now that we are watched in everything that involves internet communication….! I wish to add only this: Jesus Christ came into the world to LOVE the world, to SAVE the world, and to call ourselves His followers, we must do the very same… So, let us try to live lives devoted to our brothers and sisters, first of all those who surround us in our daily lives, and then those we reach through the net. Fraternity is what he calls us to and its apex is to be willing to give our life for our brother/sister, whoever He may be. Let’s ask Him, the Lord of our lives to give us the Grace we need to go forward in His LOVE…..