Since my recent brush with death I have been struggling thinking about "Trads" not as Catholics, but as the latest usurpers, the new "Chosenites."

To be clear, in no way do I impugn Catholicism or the true Church, but only the most arrogant ersatz pontiffs among "Trads." In no way is this an endorsement of or submission to the Novus Ordo and its lineage of impostors "subsisting in" the Chair of Peter.

Cue the rage.

Not to derail this thread, but I see your point that feudalism wasn't perfect either. I indicated this in my OP, but I appreciate the points you raised.

It seems that the ideal perhaps would be a blend of a centralized system and the feudal system, a system that is centralized to an extent but at the same time does not eliminate subsidiarity.…

Perhaps you do not understand my perspective on "since." Certainly "Nothing focuses a man's mind like impending death." Of course, the immediate spectre of death demands prompt reflection and contrition, but my post is not about that immediacy and urgency of contrition in the time near death. Too, current events parallel with a global "brush with death." It's bad 'out there.'

My post regards the things I have been thinking about "since" ("after") that immediacy, the aftermath, specifically:

"Why have myriads of 'Trads' usurped, arrogated to themselves, authority (and charisms) that we do not have?"

I do think that, as Drolo and St. Louis have hinted, that the apparent headlessness makes a vacuum, a void that more easily allows individuals (and individual leaders of sects/factions) to wander according to their/our various proclivities and conscupiscences.

Before my brushes with death I wondered about these problems. In the immediacy of the brushes, I properly had no time for abstract concerns about  the world's problems. In the aftermath of this most recent brush, I have the luxury (Deo gratias!) of again pondering such abstract (?) concerns. Why are there so many little 'popes' leading in different directions?

Capisce?


Though it has little to do with my original post, my favorite prayer touches on your grenade anecdote.

Prayer of St. Augustine

Before Thy eyes, O Lord, we bring our offences, and we compare them with the stripes we have received.
If we consider the evil we have wrought, what we suffer is little, what we deserve is great.
What we have committed is very grave, what we have suffered is very slight.
We feel the punishment of sin, yet withdraw not from the obstinacy of sinning.
Under Thy lash our inconstancy is visited, but our sinfulness is not changed.
Our suffering soul is tormented but our neck is not bent.
Our life groans under sorrow, yet mends not in deed.
If Thou spare us we correct not our ways; if Thou punish we cannot endure it.
In time of correction we confess our wrong-doing; after Thy visitation we forget that we have wept.
If Thou stretchest forth Thy hand we promise amendment; if Thou withholdest the sword we keep not our promise.
If Thou strikest we cry out for mercy; if Thou sparest we again provoke Thee to strike.
Here we are before Thee, O Lord, shameless criminals; we know that unless Thou pardon we shall deservedly perish.
Grant then, O almighty Father, without our deserving it, the pardon we ask for; Thou who madest out of nothing those who ask Thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Let us pray
O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy suppliant people, and turn away the scourges of Thy wrath, which we deserve for our sins. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

I disagree with many, but I don't think so. Most of us are in good faith and attempting to be Catholic. I focus on the Marxist subversion over hammering out theological details. Most of the people commenting have never been trained and have no authority to solve disputes, so it is largely an exercise in futility. A lot of people fight over BoD, etc., but it is a waste of time without some means of authoritatively settling the question and we don't have that means.

Marxism, on the other hand, has been authoritatively condemned and is what strangles the world all around us. Western and Eastern Marxism dominate and flow through every institution on either "side" for the purpose of Convergence. This "scientific" management of human affairs is, in my opinion, indisputable as an active force in modern societies, and its incompatibility with the Catholic Church led them to seek its destruction. Marxism is behind the UN, Great Reset, technocracy, etc.

Marxism (Judaism) must be destroyed if the Catholic Church will resurface. Marx delenda est. I call on everyone with the means to oppose Marxism wherever possible and expose their agenda to as many people who can still listen.

…capitalism is the better engine to orchestrate the erosion of sovereignty as we move into a corporate oligarchy or technocracy. At least Klaus Schwabe and his ilk think so.

Perhaps you do not understand my perspective on "since." Certainly "Nothing focuses a man's mind like impending death." Of course, the immediate spectre of death demands prompt reflection and contrition, but my post is not about that immediacy and urgency of contrition in the time near death. Too, current events parallel with a global "brush with death." It's bad 'out there.'

My post regards the things I have been thinking about "since" ("after") that immediacy, the aftermath, specifically:

"Why have myriads of 'Trads' usurped, arrogated to themselves, authority (and charisms) that we do not have?"

I do think that, as Drolo and St. Louis have hinted, that the apparent headlessness makes a vacuum, a void that more easily allows individuals (and individual leaders of sects/factions) to wander according to their/our various proclivities and conscupiscences.

Before my brushes with death I wondered about these problems. In the immediacy of the brushes, I properly had no time for abstract concerns about  the world's problems. In the aftermath of this most recent brush, I have the luxury (Deo gratias!) of again pondering such abstract (?) concerns. Why are there so many little 'popes' leading in different directions?

Capisce?


Though it has little to do with my original post, my favorite prayer touches on your grenade anecdote.

Prayer of St. Augustine

Before Thy eyes, O Lord, we bring our offences, and we compare them with the stripes we have received.
If we consider the evil we have wrought, what we suffer is little, what we deserve is great.
What we have committed is very grave, what we have suffered is very slight.
We feel the punishment of sin, yet withdraw not from the obstinacy of sinning.
Under Thy lash our inconstancy is visited, but our sinfulness is not changed.
Our suffering soul is tormented but our neck is not bent.
Our life groans under sorrow, yet mends not in deed.
If Thou spare us we correct not our ways; if Thou punish we cannot endure it.
In time of correction we confess our wrong-doing; after Thy visitation we forget that we have wept.
If Thou stretchest forth Thy hand we promise amendment; if Thou withholdest the sword we keep not our promise.
If Thou strikest we cry out for mercy; if Thou sparest we again provoke Thee to strike.
Here we are before Thee, O Lord, shameless criminals; we know that unless Thou pardon we shall deservedly perish.
Grant then, O almighty Father, without our deserving it, the pardon we ask for; Thou who madest out of nothing those who ask Thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Let us pray
O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy suppliant people, and turn away the scourges of Thy wrath, which we deserve for our sins. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.