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Hello Sean.

What's your opinion about Fr. Castellani? Do you think he was an heretic? I can't tell if you are being ironic about the meditation of that phrase.

His works are well spread among traditionalists and nationalists in Argentina. In my opinion he was one of the best "intelectual" priest we had in this country.

There are four books by him in which he talks about the Apocalypse. Two novels "Su Majestad Dulcinea" (His Majesty Dulcinea) and Benjamin Benavidez's Papers. One exegetical work called "St John's Apocalypse"(with Imprimatur) and "Will Christ ever come back?" The last one is the only fully translated into English.

I would say this, I've read many of his books (not the novel John XXIII(XXIV). He constantly warns us against modernism, religious naturalism. He preaches against blind obedience, there are limits to it and apparently the Jesuits are very much into it. The next chapter of the book I translated contains four letters he wrote to His superiors and brothers. One is about Obedience, the second one about Chastity, a third one about Poverty and the last one on the Government, I will translate those when I have time. He is not an all a modernist. He responds well to many objections the modern world does to the Church. Also he probably irritated many of the hierarchy with his critics.

The only time I read his opinion about CVII was before it occurred and was of hope in that perhaps it would lead to the conversion of Protestants.

I don't know the details of his troubles with his superiors, but something that he wrote caused some political troubles aparently with the Federal Government and many times the hierarchy doesn't want that.    
 

Hello Cruz-

I really don't know enough about him to form a judgment, but although I was being sincere when I mentioned his eschatological sample was well worth meditating upon, there were also instinctual alarm bells going off in my mind as I read the passage you quoted/translated.

It was almost as if he were comparing Catholicism to Judaism, and suggesting that just as the latter morphed into pharisaism, so too would the Catholic Church (and it would utterly fail, but yet somehow fail without incurring defectibility).

Its not clear to me how both those things could come to pass, without implying the Catholic religion was false.

True, we are in a state of worldwide apostasy today, and it does not injure indefectability, because as our Lord said, in the end times, the Church would be whittled down to a remnant.

But still, the comparison to Jєωιѕн Pharisaism didn't sit well.

I would have to spend some time and learn more about Castellani, and his ideas.

It also does not bode well that he was expelled from the Jesuits, and that the expulsion was approved by Pius XII, and that he was elected to congress in Argentina tends to show a revolutionary and conflicted allegiance in his heart/mind regarding the true nature of a priestly vocation.

And that he was mentioned by Fr. Grosso (SSPX priest who left and became sedevacantist) approvingly is another cause for reflection (i.e., Do Fr. Castellani's writings tend to cause one to despair regarding the divine nature of the Church and the Catholic religion?).

I think my overall inclination is to set Fr. Castellani aside, unless Archbishop Lefebvre or other pre-conciliar sources of undoubted orthodoxy can be found to promote him.

I sense (perhaps wrongly?) that there is something dangerous in him, like a Savonorola who, despite some good qualities, was truly on the wrong path.