Today's Novus Ordo "conservatives" are yesterday's (i.e., pre-conciliar) apostates.
Ratzinger once told an interviewer (I think it was the guy on EWTN) that he hasn't changed since the 1950s. While he was considered to be liberal before Vatican 2, by the time he was elected to the anti-papacy, most people considered him to be an arch-conservative, yet he hadn't really changed his beliefs. The whole of society around him had shifted so far that he seemed to be on the opposite side of the spectrum.
I saw this first hand growing up. As a child, the pastor at my parish was liberal on the issue of liturgical reform (though I was never aware of any liberalism on matters of faith). He welcomed the initial reforms: The use of English, Mass facing the people, simplification of many rubrics, reform of the Breviary, the use of lay-readers for the Epistle. But as the reforms continued, he began to visibly be shaken. He was very hostile to distribution of Communion while standing. He was even more hostile to Communion in the hand. He refused to remove kneelers as was done in throughout the archdiocese in most churches. He positively detested Saturday anticipation Mass. When I graduated high school, he was considered an old, stick-in-the-mud conservative by most people. Yet, he was the very same man I knew who gave me my first Holy Communion.
You are definitely correct on what you said above. Today's "conservatives" in the Conciliar sect would have been excommunicated under Pope St. Pius X if they had publicly expressed the views they express today.
It's important for us to keep this in mind because when we hear "conservative" in the MSM we should translate the word for ourselves before we would understand the message more accurately.
There has been a complete spectrum of transition over 3 generations bringing us to the stark insanity of today compared to the time of the early 20th century. What kind of family could produce a boy who, when he becomes a father at 15 and then 2 years later is walking with his own son near a pond, attempts to push the child into the water trying to drown him in the presence of the child's mother who is pregnant, because the 17 year-old father wants to 'make room' in the house for the new baby on the way? Yet this was in the news just 2 weeks ago.
I have been saying for years that we ought to keep a handle on what's going on and all the changes taking place, because there will come a day when our grandchildren or great-grandchildren will sit at our knee and ask us how things could have changed so much and how the church of Pope St. Pius X could have become what they see in their own time. We need to be able to answer that question for our progeny.
How could it have happened to
Merry Old England? The Faith of our Fathers had been quite strong in the middle ages, but then something changed and corruption set in, until the monasteries were pillaged and their property confiscated and their infirm inhabitants sent into the streets to become the beginning of rampant poverty in the big cities like London. The King and his followers broke away from Rome and formed what they called
'The Church of England' and they've never looked back for 500 years. How could that have happened? Well, we're seeing it happen worldwide now, and it's the same story.
The arch-liberals at the time the changes begin become so-called arch-conservatives within 3 generations, but they're objectively the same arch-liberals that they were before the revolution took hold. Their views have not changed at all, but the popular outlook on what it means to be 'catholic' has morphed into something else.
The rank and file Catholics of the 15th century kept going to church in the 16th century and the gradual changes didn't really look like a 'new religion' to them, and they thought they were still Catholic, even if the word "Catholic" was no longer used.
This time around, the liberals have managed to keep the word "Catholic" even though they've gutted the substance. Good priests of the 1920's if they were still alive, would say the hierarchy in office today are the ilk of the heretics that they saw condemned by Pope St. Pius X in his time and expelled from seminaries when they refused to take the Oath Against Modernism.
In point of comparison, at least the heretics of 1 century ago were honest enough to admit that they took umbrage with the contents of the Oath. Now, they dare to look you in the face and tell you that it's all the same thing and it doesn't matter. They've dared to cross the line and say that a thing can
BE and it can also
NOT BE at the same time.
2,400 (two thousand, four hundred) years ago the sound thinkers of Greece all agreed that when the principle of non-contradiction would be denied, it would be the utter end of all sound thinking. But under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, we have been force-fed with his
'hermeneutic of continuity' which 'teaches' this very prime heresy, the denial of the principle of non-contradiction.
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