Reproduced below is a translation from the French of an article by Jean Madiran, Editor of Itineraires, which appeared in The Remnant of March 6, 1976. It is being reproduced below in order to reveal to Catholics the "character" of the Post-Vatican II Curia……...Dr Cyril B Andrade


6 March 1976
Confidence Is Dead
Jean Madiran

The Roman post-conciliar Curia has lost all moral authority. The Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, which forms part of the Roman Curia, has rejected the "recourse" of Fr. Coache. In ecclesiastical law, the "recourse”, is what is known as “to make an appeal” in civil law. Condemned unjustly by his bishop, Fr. Coache appeals to Rome; that is, he sends an appeal to the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy.
At least, he makes known that this is his intention. But he does not do it. At least, not at once. He takes his time. There is an Italian postal strike. He wants to wait until the strike is over to send his appeal. The Sacred Congregation for the Clergy does not wait, however. It passes sentence in these terms: “Having examined Fr. Coache’s appeal, our Sacred Congregation has decreed: the appeal is rejected.”
Thus the Sacred Congregation claims to have “examined” an appeal which has not yet been sent to them! But they assumed it had been sent, and only that the Italian postal strike had held it up.
When did this happen? In June 1969. It’s a bit dated – this is not the latest news we report. Nor is it a story of what took place before the Flood. 1t is about the new Roman Curia – post-conciliar and recycled. From this we can see how it works, how it Judges, and what confidence it inspires. And if it is worth writing about six years later, it is to point out this: The judges who were guilty of such an obvious crime went unpunished; they are still in office. It must be that their crime was thought to be quite normal – or at least tolerable.
Provided that the victim of sui.h an injustice be a “traditionalist”, the injustice is allowed as government procedure by the Vatican administration. But the administration must not be surprised to learn that confidence in her is dead. Whatever her juridical authority may be, she has lost all moral authority.
The Roman tribunal of the Apostolic Signature rejected the appeal of Abbé Jamin on 27 November 1975 with the same words: “Having examined the appeal of Abbé Jamin …”  What proof is there that Abbé Jamin's appeal was examined any more than that of Abbé Coache? The Roman tribunal of the Apostolic Signature is also the one which, obeying an arbitrary order of Cardinal Villot, did not even examine Msgr. Lefebvre’s appeal!
This extraordinary rejection after “examination” of an appeal that hadn't yet been sent is the subject of letters 28 and 29 in our dossier: “The Unjust Condemnation of Abbé Coache” (on sale at our offices for twelve francs). It is thus witnessed and proved today that when a Roman Congregation declares that it has examined something there are no grounds for believing it.
One day justice and order will be restored to the Roman Curia. There is great need for a pope capable of ending the injustice and disorder which has settled in Rome since the Council. Let us pray for this intention and ask for votive Masses to be said “for the election of a sovereign pontiff.”  The Church is in great need of this.
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NOTE
It is probable that few, if any, of the readers of this article will have heard of Itineraires or its editor, and so a little supplementary information is necessary to ensure that the above article of Jean Madiran is evaluated at its true worth. Itineraires is a French traditionalist-monthly journal which can be up to 350 pages long and cost ₤3-00 an issue (in 1976). It is certainly the most scholarly traditionalist journal appearing anywhere in the world; for there is nothing comparable in English-speaking countries.
Jean Madiran, like the paper he edits, is a man with no equivalent in English-speaking countries. His writings are on such a level in their theological, polemical and literary aspects that there is no living person at all with whom he can be compared. He has engaged in countless controversies with progressive priests, the French hierarchy and the Vatican itself. As far as I know, he has never been shown to be in error when a question of fact is concerned. He is a man whose integrity would not be questioned even by his worst enemies. Itinereires itself deals with such topics as theology, the liturgy, philosophy and politics in such depth and at such an intellectual level that English-speaking Catholics would be quite astonished.
It is hoped that the above article by Madiran will open the eyes of Catholics  –  wherever and whenever it may be read – to the nature and character of the clerical vermin that infest the Vatican corridors. And these vermin have the consummate gall to call themselves “sacred” Congregations.
Dr Cyril B Andrade
NOTE
These 2 pages were scanned into electronic format in 2009 as a possible help for faithful Catholics to better understand the nature of an enemy-occupied Vatican.  Indeed, the situation has grown much worse since Madiran wrote his article herein contained.
Paul Ellwanger