Slowly some are starting to turn.




Bishop Schneider’s Christmas gift: A ‘to do list’ to save the faith
Athanasius Schneider , Catholic
December 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Kazakhstan Bishop Athanasius Schneider is a very practical thinker as well as a great theologian, a polyglot, and one of the most courageous prelates in the Catholic Church.  Last year he offered 12 steps to surviving as a Catholic familyin a heretical wasteland. Now, in a new interview he’s offering a “to do list” for the times we live in today.
In the interview, with Poland’s Polonia Christiana, Bishop Schneider makes a fascinating comparison of the times of the Arian heresy to the current crisis in the Church.
“During the great Arian crisis in the 4th century the defenders of the Divinity of the Son of God were labeled ‘intransigent’ and ‘traditionalist’ as well,” he said. “Saint Athanasius was even excommunicated by Pope Liberius and the Pope justified this with the argument that Athanasius was not in communion with the Oriental bishops who were mostly heretics or semi-heretics.”
And now, without further ado:
Bishop Schneider’s To Do List to Save the Faith Today
1.     We have to encourage ordinary Catholics to be faithful to the Catechism they have learned, to be faithful to the clear words of Christ in the Gospel, to be faithful to the faith their fathers and forefathers handed over to them.
2.     We have to organize circles of studies and conferences about the perennial teaching of the Church on the issue of marriage and chastity, inviting especially young people and married couples.
3.     We have to show the very beauty of a life in chastity, the very beauty of the Christian marriage and family, the great value of the Cross and of the sacrifice in our lives.
4.     We have to present ever more the examples of the Saints and of exemplary persons who demonstrated that in spite of the fact that they suffered the same temptations of the flesh, the same hostility and derision of the pagan world, they nevertheless with the grace of Christ led a happy life in chastity, in a Christian marriage and in family.
5.     We have to found and promote youth groups of pure hearts, family groups, groups of Catholic spouses, who will be committed to the fidelity of their marriage vows.
6.     We have to organize groups which will help morally and materially broken families, single mothers, groups who will assist with prayer and with good counsel separated couples, groups and persons who will help “divorced and remarried” people to start a process of serious conversion, i.e. recognizing with humility their sinful situation and abandoning with the grace of God the sins which violate the commandment of God and the sanctity of the sacrament of marriage.
7.     We have to create groups who will carefully help persons with ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ tendencies to enter the path of Christian conversion, the happy and beautiful path of a chaste life and to offer them eventually in a discrete manner a psychological cure.
8.     We have to show and preach to our contemporaries in the neo-pagan world the liberating Good News of the teaching of Christ: that the commandment of God, and even the sixth commandment is wise, is beauty: “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes” (Ps 19(18): 7-8).
9.     Cardinals, bishops, priests, Catholic families, Catholic young people have to say to themselves: I refuse to conform to the neo-pagan spirit of this world, even when this spirit is spread by some bishops and cardinals; I will not accept their fallacious and perverse use of holy Divine mercy and of “new Pentecost”; I refuse to throw grains of incense before the statue of the idol of the gender ideology, before the idol of second marriages, of concubinage, even if my bishop would do so, I will not do so; with the grace of God I will choose to suffer rather than betray the whole truth of Christ on human sɛҳuąƖity and on marriage.
See the full interview with Bishop Schneider here.

I read number 1 more optimisticly.
Most Catholics that go to church are older so learned the old catechism
And the younger ones never learned any.

These steps are not bad in and of themselves, however they are based on the teachings of V2, it’s catechism and it’s Mass. it’s conciliar from front to back. Just like the indult: smells and bells without the true faith being preached. Just window dressing. 

I do agree, however one must start somewhere, just like they took the Faith away little at a time, he might be saying we can bring it back, a little at a time.

I have to applaud him and this is the reason I started my own blog, (link below)  I was hoping to reach the older people who once knew the catechism, Catholic culture and remind them before it is forgotten.  Anyone who has read my blog might notice there is no room for debating the different Traditional camps, just start with the basic Catholic faith and teach it to the youth. I hope to jog the memory of those who have fallen asleep.


Remember Our Lady said, someday the world will be saved by the scapular and rosary, she didn't mention the Mass and Sacraments because she knew they would be scarce, or perhaps stopped entirely in places of the world.  This was probably what that THIRD secret of Fatima was really all about.  

Of course, Rome cannot just regain the Faith overnight, barring a miracle of Divine Providence. The problem is the root of all of this “going back” is going back to the supposed “true” Vatican 2, NOM, COCL 83, CCC, etc. It’s a return to what the “springtime” was supposed to bring about in the minds of the conservatives who say V2 wasn’t that bad. While it might be a turn, I’m not going to get too excited about it until it’s “turn back to the Catechism of Trent,” “ecuмenism is a sin,” and “stop attending the NOM”. This is the same bishop who suggests that the Church should use ecuмenism to accept the SSPX! And what is more dangerous is the appearance of tradition sprinkled over V2 and it’s garbage. So while it might be a “turn,” I would certainly say it’s nothing to get too excited about. 

I think I was misunderstood. I agree, we have to do something to effect the conversion of Rome. Unfortunately, it’s not simple. Obviously even the Archbishop couldn’t sway them. I have dealt with many modernists and they honestly *want* to be modernists. Even presented with truth, with infallible statements they *want* to keep being a heretic and they honestly believe V2 wipes everything away and heremeneutic of continuity and all the insanity. And the Pope makes things worse, the bishops make things worse, every bishop preaches something different, each priest. It’s like having a zoo: you can go and look at the lions, the tigers, the bears, the monkeys, so you end up in the Church, the charismatics, the traditionalists, the conservatives, etc. We have another voice saying another interpretation of V2. It might be better, and leading to a better direction (tradition leaning), but is still the same V2 voice. Of course we as the Church militant have to fight! And we do. I have been trying with several modernists, trying to get them away from this but even though they know the problems, they just don’t care. And this will lead to much more of that sadly. 

It has also been my experience that the generation prior to mine wanted the 'revolt'. My 86yo mother is a classic example. Her new favorite saying is "who am I to judge "?

Exactly. I know people who just want to have a good feeling on Sunday going home. And that’s all they want. No truth, no sin, no penance, just butterflies in my tummy. We need much much prayer and penance to try to convert them. Talking does nothing. It almost makes me wonder why they don’t just go be Protestant. They say things like “I know what the Church says about Communion in mortal sin, but I don’t think anything should keep me from Jesus”. They know, and they want to be the way they are and if you even try they shut you down. It’s unfortunate. We should keep this bishop in our prayers that he makes that jump to tradition. 

Sounds like really attractive window dressing. 

It was a blessing from Our Lord that the Novus Ordo was so offensive and clownish because if the new service would have seemed holy and pious it would have ensnared even more souls. 

Souls were lost, nevertheless. Many still wander in the wilderness. Will God call them back when the church is restored, alas. I pray to see the day the demons are ousted.