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| "Theaters are the new church of the masses – where people sit huddled in the dark listening to people in the light tell them what it is to be human." —1930's theater critic |
The recent desecration of St. Peter's Basilica has proven to be quite the conversation starter. His Traddiness and I discussed the violent reaction this would have induced in the Catholic Romans of olden times—a new pope would need to have been elected soon thereafter—and I heard a sermon on Gaudete Sunday where the priest took the opportunity to chastise the faithful for allowing such sacrilege to make them unjoyful. Meanwhile, Mark Shea and other lukewarm hissyfitters are scourging anyone who points out the obvious about their precious Padre Jorge.
It's a demoralizing situation. The liberal Catholics who operated quietly (but freely) under Wojtyła and more surreptitiously under Ratzinger are now parading openly through the streets, waving prismatic flags and wearing tee shirts with peace signs as they make war against God. The Holy Trinity laughs at the Gentiles as they rage, but in the mean time we suffer under the weight of the yoke of their iniquities.
The Year of Mercy has turned into an orgy of indulgence, pejoratively speaking. Annulments are to be handed out for everyone, homewreckers are encouraged to desecrate the Lord's Body, and soon outright perverts will march up demanding the right to desecration. The façade of St. Peter's has been transformed into a projection screen for an anti-human environmentalist show, so how long will it be until Papa Franky removes the statues of the apostles and replaces them with carvings of endangered beasts?
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| "A people that continually provoke me to anger: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day." (Isa. 65) |
"See no evil, hear no evil," is another relevant monkey-related adage. What could it possibly take to infuriate the ultramontanists into action? Allowing pagans to desecrate Catholic churches with their perfidious ceremonies didn't do it. Watching prelates receive blessings from heathen priestesses didn't, either. We shouldn't be surprised if atheists are soon invited to preach from our cathedral pulpits. After all, we need to learn how to listen better!
Fiat Lux, indeed—"Woe to you that put darkness for light, and light for darkness." Now there is no virtue but leniency, and no vice but criticizing the pope. God help us.
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| "It shall no more be inhabited for ever. But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there." (Isa. 13) |
God Bless you for this post.
ReplyDeleteFranciscus RIP (Resign Immediately Please) is an AntiChrist
I didn't know Bonzo was still around. On a serious note, I agree that this was a disgrace as is the current occupant of the See of Peter. Unfortunately, I don't see him resigning before his natural end. I believe he is in love with all the adulation he gets from the masses.
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"These Monkey Catholics were anti-modernists under Pius IX, liturgical inventors under Pius XII, natural family planners under Paul VI, hermeneutical continuitists under Benedict XVI, and climate change believers under Francis I."
ReplyDeleteSpot on. This is precisely why a large piece of traditionalism and I don't see eye-to-eye and why the non-traditionalist Catholics are surprised when they learn my papal disagreements with "trads" are not because I believe them to be be anti-pope. It is because they are pope-obsessed, wishing to be yes-men and monkeys of a particular era rather than this one.
Good thing we have the internetz where merry little bands of nonconformist misfits can gather ;)
The whole situation is a mess, is it not? Now I know why our beloved St. Benedict left Rome so many years ago.
ReplyDeleteSancte Benedicte,
Ora pro nobis.
And where would we be without St. Panda, patron saint of bamboo shoots and American zoo marketing campaigns?
ReplyDelete"...hermeneutical continuitists under Benedict XVI, and climate change believers under Francis I."
ReplyDeleteI can't disagree with these examples, especially given the remarkable overlap in these last two cohorts (see the present bishop of Portsmouth).
And yet few of us would disagree that the former presented much less danger to the hygiene of the Church Militant, given that a) they at least were engaged in an exercise which seemed to try to take doctrine and its integrity seriously, however much it strained credulity at times, and b) there really weren't all that many among the clergy, let alone the episcopates, on the signup list for it anyway (certainly not in Europe or Latin America!), with the much more common reaction being sullen acquiescence rather than the almost universal schlocky enthusiasm with which current papal priorities are being greeted. Which of course has everything to do with how much each is respectively congruent with current secular obsessions. At least the Cecil the Lion Brigade is happy.
We have a long ways to go before a balanced ecclesiology reemerges in the Church - along with so much else.
I know that the Church of Christ cannot fail, for it is His mystical Body.
ReplyDeleteBut at times like these i ask myself, where is that unfailing Body...
These Monkey Catholics were anti-modernists under Pius IX, liturgical inventors under Pius XII, natural family planners under Paul VI, hermeneutical continuitists under Benedict XVI, and climate change believers under Francis I. What will they be under John Paul III, Koran-kissers?
ReplyDeleteGod save us from company men.
J., could you expound a bit more on this?
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