Our skepticism was proven right.
In the days leading up to Holy Thursday, I had already made my skepticism regarding the date for the release of a possible document known when I published the words, "Ja nicht auf das Fest, auf daß nicht ein Aufruhr werde im Volk!" (i.e. "Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people," St. Matthew, xxvi, 5, famously set to music by Bach in his Matthäuspassion). That obviously was too cryptic for many, so I had to write down more intelligible reasons for my skepticism.
Around the world, pedophiles, sodomites, perverts of all kinds, and other abusers of the body are commended and promoted in the Church; and, only when their abuse is made public, they are hidden and quietly dismissed. Around the world, heretics, dissenters, liturgical wreckers, and other abusers of the soul are praised and elevated.
Meanwhile, Traditional Catholics, those who merely want to be catechized, to pray, and to worship as countless generations of Catholics did, are the lepers of Catholicism. They are despised, trampled upon, hated, persecuted, and, when tolerated, ghettoized. They receive hatred and ridicule from "liberal" bishops. They are seen with mistrust and disdain by "conservatives".
This reality is very clear to me and to most Traditionalists, who are keenly aware of the Catholic version of "Murphy's Law": "If a measure which favors Traditional Catholics is expected, then it will probably not happen." This law has been in force for 40 years and Catholics who follow this kind of news must never forget it -- I certainly never did and I had assumed most, if not all, Traditional Catholics were experienced enough to know it.
Another blogger amusingly saw despair here... Not at all, I have always expected the worst, and I have never expected much, not even in the most optimistic days, for this is the state of our times -- even though I felt compelled to report and translate what I had read elsewhere. This is an unfortunate age, but it auspiciously allows Catholics to earn many merits which otherwise would have been impossible for them to earn: "...the Divine permission of the greatest evils is holy, for it aims at a superior good, a good which we will one day contemplate and which only God may judge." (Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life). If we do not see the supernatural side of things, we will always be disappointed about ecclesiastical power struggles which are not for us to settle.
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And the document, will it come out? Well, why not? But the eventual signs for it will have to be clearer (see items (b) and (c) of my "increasingly skeptical" post here). A surprise, perhaps?... That would be very unlikely, but may God choose the time He sees fit.
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In Dr. Philip Blosser's parallel blog Scripture and Catholic Tradition, a wonderful interview, first printed in the Latin Mass Magazine, with Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, with very good insights on the worst pontificate in modern times (Which one? Check here.)
In the days leading up to Holy Thursday, I had already made my skepticism regarding the date for the release of a possible document known when I published the words, "Ja nicht auf das Fest, auf daß nicht ein Aufruhr werde im Volk!" (i.e. "Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people," St. Matthew, xxvi, 5, famously set to music by Bach in his Matthäuspassion). That obviously was too cryptic for many, so I had to write down more intelligible reasons for my skepticism.
Around the world, pedophiles, sodomites, perverts of all kinds, and other abusers of the body are commended and promoted in the Church; and, only when their abuse is made public, they are hidden and quietly dismissed. Around the world, heretics, dissenters, liturgical wreckers, and other abusers of the soul are praised and elevated.
Meanwhile, Traditional Catholics, those who merely want to be catechized, to pray, and to worship as countless generations of Catholics did, are the lepers of Catholicism. They are despised, trampled upon, hated, persecuted, and, when tolerated, ghettoized. They receive hatred and ridicule from "liberal" bishops. They are seen with mistrust and disdain by "conservatives".
This reality is very clear to me and to most Traditionalists, who are keenly aware of the Catholic version of "Murphy's Law": "If a measure which favors Traditional Catholics is expected, then it will probably not happen." This law has been in force for 40 years and Catholics who follow this kind of news must never forget it -- I certainly never did and I had assumed most, if not all, Traditional Catholics were experienced enough to know it.
Another blogger amusingly saw despair here... Not at all, I have always expected the worst, and I have never expected much, not even in the most optimistic days, for this is the state of our times -- even though I felt compelled to report and translate what I had read elsewhere. This is an unfortunate age, but it auspiciously allows Catholics to earn many merits which otherwise would have been impossible for them to earn: "...the Divine permission of the greatest evils is holy, for it aims at a superior good, a good which we will one day contemplate and which only God may judge." (Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life). If we do not see the supernatural side of things, we will always be disappointed about ecclesiastical power struggles which are not for us to settle.
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And the document, will it come out? Well, why not? But the eventual signs for it will have to be clearer (see items (b) and (c) of my "increasingly skeptical" post here). A surprise, perhaps?... That would be very unlikely, but may God choose the time He sees fit.
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In Dr. Philip Blosser's parallel blog Scripture and Catholic Tradition, a wonderful interview, first printed in the Latin Mass Magazine, with Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, with very good insights on the worst pontificate in modern times (Which one? Check here.)
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A Happy Easter to all!
