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Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., explained in but one sentence the simple fact those steeped in error cannot have any part in the Catholic Church, meaning that all of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's desire as a chief planner, true son and firm apologist of false ecuмenism to justify his conciliar revolution is just so much sophism, permitting him to continue to live in his own world of fantasy:

    There is a fatal instinct in error, which leads it to hate the Truth; and the true Church, by its unchangeableness, is a perpetual reproach to them that refuse to be her children. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, commentary on the life of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen.)

     

Although there will be a fourth part in this series to do a bit of justice to Ratzinger/Benedict's nod to the Americanists at the "Second" Vatican Council and their desire to see "religious liberty" embraced by the council's fathers, perhaps it is useful at this point to note that Ratzinger/Benedict is still telling us that the "real" "Second" Vatican Council is just now being discovered:

    It seems to me that 50 years after the Council, we see how this Virtual Council is breaking down, getting lost and the true Council is emerging with all its spiritual strength. And it is our task, in this Year of Faith, starting from this Year of Faith, to work so that the true Council with the power of the Holy Spirit is realized and Church is really renewed. We hope that the Lord will help us. I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious. (Blame the Media, Not the Council, Not Me or My Apostate Views.)

     

"Really renewed"?

Explicit classroom instruction in matters pertaining to the Sixth and Ninth Commandments even though this was forbidden by Pope Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri, December 31, 1929

"Cardinals" and "bishops" speaking out in favor of "civil unions" for those engaged in perverted acts against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments and providing "ministries" to those who are identify themselves on the basis of one of the four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance?

The systematic recruitment, retention, promotion and protection of effeminate men who are inclined to the commission of these sins?

"Liturgies" that make a mockery of any concept of Holy Mass as the unbloody re-presentation of Our Lord's One Sacrifice to His Co-Equal and Co-Eternal Father in Spirit and in truth?

Permitting supposedly "Catholic" officials in public life to remain in "good standing" in what they think is the Catholic Church while they support the chemical and surgical assassination of innocent preborn children and promote other grave evils, including "marriage" for those engaged in the unnatural acts mentioned just above?

The proliferation of "lay movements" that are founded in one condemned proposition after another, including emphasizing the supremacy of the laity over a supposedly ordained priest?

Even this very partial list, made incomplete by the lateness of the hour (it is now eleven days, fifteen and one-half hours before Ratzinger/Benedict does his impression of the thirty-seventh President of the United States of America), begs the following sarcastic observation: "Some renewal."

Pope Pius VIII, writing in his first and only encyclical letter, Traditi Humilitate Nostrae, May 24, 1829, warned us quite specifically against the likes of those, such as Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI in our own day, who want to raze the bastions of the Catholic Faith:

    Although God may console Us with you, We are nonetheless sad. This is due to the numberless errors and the teachings of perverse doctrines which, no longer secretly and clandestinely but openly and vigorously, attack the Catholic faith. You know how evil men have raised the standard of revolt against religion through philosophy (of which they proclaim themselves doctors) and through empty fallacies devised according to natural reason. In the first place, the Roman See is assailed and the bonds of unity are, every day, being severed. The authority of the Church is weakened and the protectors of things sacred are snatched away and held in contempt. The holy precepts are despised, the celebration of divine offices is ridiculed, and the worship of God is cursed by the sinner. All things which concern religion are relegated to the fables of old women and the superstitions of priests. Truly lions have roared in Israel. With tears We say: "Truly they have conspired against the Lord and against His Christ." Truly the impious have said: "Raze it, raze it down to its foundations." (Pope Pius VIII, Traditi Humilitate Nostrae, May 25, 1829.)

 

It is the razing of the bastions of the Catholic Faith by the revolutionaries such as Angelo Roncalli, Giovanni Montini, Albino Luciani, Karol Wojtyla, and Joseph Ratzinger that have emptied Catholic churches and closed parishes and schools and driven hundreds upon hundreds of millions Catholics out of any semblance of belief in the Catholic Faith no matter how many times Ratzinger/Benedict, living in his own personal fantasyland, tries to blame the media.