From Father Feeney: a pretty decent article!!
March, 1959
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM THOMAS WALSH
Who Tried To Warn Us Before It Was Too Late
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At the end of World War II, William Thomas Walsh journeyed to the tiny village of Fatima in Portugal. He had come to learn at first hand the terrible, beautiful story of what had happened there in 1917: when the Queen of Heaven appeared to three shepherd children and entrusted them with the knowledge that unless the world were converted to her Immaculate Heart, every nation, without exception, would feel the wrath of her Divine Son.
When Walsh returned to the United States, it was with the conviction, “that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917, which for some reason have been so neglected, so distorted, so misunderstood.” In 1947, he saw the publication of Our Lady of Fatima, the most popular of his books, and the most popular account in English of the Fatima apparitions.
Our Lady of Fatima was no pious supplement to William Thomas Walsh’s lifework, but its logical climax. Those anti-Church movements that he had traced through five centuries to our present evil day led inexorably to Our Lady’s warnings of divine vengeance about to fall upon the world. And Walsh had even foreseen the shape of this vengeance. He had predicted One World united in Socialism, in opposition to the catholic unity of the Church. Our Lady of Fatima warned that the Communism of Russia would assuredly dominate the entire world, devastating the Church at the same time, unless her demands were heeded.
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It would be false to suggest that one can read every page of William Thomas Walsh without ever encountering any weaknesses. What can be affirmed is that the back-tracking, compromising statements, though present, are not essential to his arguments, nor do they follow from them. It is as though he had descended, momentarily, from the heights of militant Catholic utterance out of sheer dismay at finding himself there all alone.
Thus, in any appreciation of William Thomas Walsh, there is inevitably bound up a contrary and stern indictment of those who by vocation and the grace of their office should have joined him — indeed, should have led him — in the battle against the Church’s enemies. That these leaders failed in their obligation is the central reality, and tragedy, of our times. It is a tragedy in which all American Catholics have accepted a role, and which seems to be moving rapidly toward its climax.
Too bad I didnt title this better. The article hits right into the heart of what we are going through in the crisis of the sspx.
Are you referring to how the Menzingen-denizens are reflected in "those who by vocation and the grace of their office should have joined [Mr. Walsh] — indeed, should have led him — in the battle against the Church’s enemies. That these leaders failed in their obligation is the central reality, and tragedy, of our times" - ?
If so, the Menzingen-denizens have joined forces with the False Friends of Fatima
inasmuch as they have joined forces with the Church's enemies by failing to
engage in the battle against them, but even more so — by deliberately attacking
any of the SSPX priests who stand up and proclaim their adherence to the
founding principles of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
Then, you could choose a new title and merely post this article anew in the SSPX-
Rome Agreement sub-forum.
McFreeland might be pretty miserable without being able to respond, but he could
send an e-mail to Romanitaspress and ask him to do his dirty work by proxy.
HAHAHAHAHAHA :rolleyes:
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