For as long as I have known that there was a difference between the Novus Ordo Church and the Real Catholic Church there has been fighting between Trads.
That has to be expected. It's not because there's no head. It's because what separates us from Protestants and those confessing not even the belief in God is what separates those trying to be faithful to Catholicism. For instance, when Kelly criticizes the Thuc line, it's on the basis that Thuc couldn't be taken seriously. But when he criticizes the SSPX, it's because he rightly criticizes the Roman Protestant, for the same things. The SSPX confess the revised 'canon law', for example. So if it is objectionable, then those who confess it might be subject to criticism, SSPX or no. When he criticizes the Feenyites, it's not because Catholicism looks different in their hands. It's because The Church, prior to Vatican II, found the group to be wrong, and wrong-headed.
But there are differences as there ought to be.
I think the problem is that there is this allowance that, given the proper encouragement, some in the Roman Protestant institutions might throw it off and confess Catholicism. If that might be accomplished, then Catholics might NOT lose Notre Dame, or St. Peters, to any further demolition or destruction. The same for the Vatican library, to the extent it hasn't already been destroyed. The same for the artwork, and the rest that was created and bequeathed to The Church. All of Vatican City.
Others might say, you have to give due credit to the usurpers. They've suceeded. It's their stuff now. And they can't take it with them. Instead, the field isn't about protecting treasures and inheritance. It's about saving souls, even if done in upper rooms, and back rooms, on the cliffs or in the catacombs, even in the face of centuries of Catholic contributions to society and the accuмulation of Church wealth. THEY'VE got it now, not Catholics.
If seen in that way, as a Church that essentially needs to be physically rebuilt almost from scratch, where the great treasures, just as they were seized by Protestants historically, have again been taken away and probably for good, there will still remain legitimate disputes among those who have been shut out of those formerly Catholic institutions. Again, the Feenyites predate what was done even under Bugnini, never mind the subsequent Vatican II and his later works. And they were said to be excluded, for good reason. That would have to stand.
And if one challenges the Roman Protestant, but finds compromise among Catholics with them, then that compromise must be criticized simply because one rightly condemns Roman Protestantism. It must be consistent.
It's difficult to know what the future is for The Church. God has provided for many young families. And they make the effort to attend Catholic parishes and support them. But they are relatively few. The Roman Protestant 'community houses' still pack them in, just as the other Protestant 'communities' are able to count on large memberships. Catholics are a relatively small remnant. But that doesn't necessarily mean that numbers must take a priority when there are legitimate differences between those attempting to be faithful to Catholicism. Perhaps one can 'get dirty' in the world of politics. Many 'moral values' voters simply won't do that, to the chagrin of the 'professional pol'. But in religion, when it comes to the one, true Church founded by God, no less, one is either for or against. Voting 'dirty' isn't an options. And so there WILL be these disagreements, because there ought to be.
Topic: Trad Catholic "Ecuмenism" (Read 989 times)