Everybody likes a Hollywood ending, right?

The Lord God says, “I don’t want you recreating the Church of the 1950s. I want My Church, which is going to stand against the world for Truth and is going to save souls, which is not going to put souls on the edge of the abyss, like the Church of the 1950s. I don’t want Hollywood Catholicism. I’ve had enough of it,”  says the Lord God.

So if Hollywood Catholicism is coming back inside the Society, then, says the Lord God, “I am going to give the Society a shaking. I’m going to allow the Society to go through a shaking.”  That’s exactly what’s happening. I think it’s because the Lord God has had enough of wishy-washy, sentimental, chocolate Catholicism, and he doesn’t want any more of it.

That’s not how the Church was built. The Church was built by martyrs being torn to pieces by the lions in the Colosseum in Rome. It wasn’t built by chocolate Catholics.
Every morning in any of the Society’s houses, Prime is read, and part of the office of Prime is reading what’s called the Martyrology, which is the story of the martyrs. For each day of the year there are martyrs of that day, martyrs and saints, but a lot of them are martyrs, and you hear how these martyrs are torn to pieces, and the sufferings and torments that they all underwent simply because they would not renounce the Faith.

That is what converted Rome.
To see young girls, virgins, going through these torments and being torn to pieces and still happy, it blew these virile Romans’ minds, and eventually the virile Romans said, “OK, there’s got to be something here. What is it? Tell me about it.”   “Well, God is three in one, one in three. He died on the Cross.”  “Oh, it’s crazy, all that stuff.”  Then he goes back to the arena to watch the girls being torn to pieces. They’re still there, and there’s always more of them, and the Emperors smash down and they destroy all the Catholics, and then they come back again and they’re still there.

So this old veteran of Roman wars, he says, “Hey, there’s got to be something here.”  He learns about the doctrine. He says, “This doctrine is noble. There’s something true about it.”  
Then he studies the doctrine. “Old man, come to Mass. We’ll be an hour at the catacombs at such and such time.”  So he goes down and he attends Mass in the catacombs. “Oh, there’s something there.”  He’s a man. He’s not a woman, and it’s no use despising women when you watch how these girls behaved under the Roman emperor, getting torn to pieces. Eventually he submits. He says, “Yes, I admit,”  and he becomes a Catholic.

The Roman Empire was converted. The Roman Empire was not converted by chocolate Catholics. It was converted by blood-and-guts Catholics, and what the Lord God wants in today’s apostasy is blood-and-guts Catholics. He needs some more martyrs. He needs another crop of martyrs to spill their blood. There were a lot of martyrs in the Communist countries, and surely there’s going to be another bunch of martyrs. I don't know but it’s very possible, very probable.

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Everybody likes a Hollywood ending, right?

No. On the contrary, a bishop in white dying as martyr in Rome (*), and many of us Catholics following his fate in our places, would be a more realistic and hence Catholic ending. Well, just like Our Lady foretold us in Fatima.

(*) When this bishop in white should be Card. Ratzinger, well then he and we are lucky because this would be a good ending for a man who betrayed the Church a life long. But God is merciful and just at the same time.


A very martyr-like bishop told us recently:

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The Lord God says, “I don’t want you recreating the Church of the 1950s. I want My Church, which is going to stand against the world for Truth and is going to save souls, which is not going to put souls on the edge of the abyss, like the Church of the 1950s. I don’t want Hollywood Catholicism. I’ve had enough of it,”  says the Lord God.

So if Hollywood Catholicism is coming back inside the Society, then, says the Lord God, “I am going to give the Society a shaking. I’m going to allow the Society to go through a shaking.”  That’s exactly what’s happening. I think it’s because the Lord God has had enough of wishy-washy, sentimental, chocolate Catholicism, and he doesn’t want any more of it.

That’s not how the Church was built. The Church was built by martyrs being torn to pieces by the lions in the Colosseum in Rome. It wasn’t built by chocolate Catholics.
Every morning in any of the Society’s houses, Prime is read, and part of the office of Prime is reading what’s called the Martyrology, which is the story of the martyrs. For each day of the year there are martyrs of that day, martyrs and saints, but a lot of them are martyrs, and you hear how these martyrs are torn to pieces, and the sufferings and torments that they all underwent simply because they would not renounce the Faith.

That is what converted Rome.
To see young girls, virgins, going through these torments and being torn to pieces and still happy, it blew these virile Romans’ minds, and eventually the virile Romans said, “OK, there’s got to be something here. What is it? Tell me about it.”   “Well, God is three in one, one in three. He died on the Cross.”  “Oh, it’s crazy, all that stuff.”  Then he goes back to the arena to watch the girls being torn to pieces. They’re still there, and there’s always more of them, and the Emperors smash down and they destroy all the Catholics, and then they come back again and they’re still there.

So this old veteran of Roman wars, he says, “Hey, there’s got to be something here.”  He learns about the doctrine. He says, “This doctrine is noble. There’s something true about it.”  
Then he studies the doctrine. “Old man, come to Mass. We’ll be an hour at the catacombs at such and such time.”  So he goes down and he attends Mass in the catacombs. “Oh, there’s something there.”  He’s a man. He’s not a woman, and it’s no use despising women when you watch how these girls behaved under the Roman emperor, getting torn to pieces. Eventually he submits. He says, “Yes, I admit,”  and he becomes a Catholic.

The Roman Empire was converted. The Roman Empire was not converted by chocolate Catholics. It was converted by blood-and-guts Catholics, and what the Lord God wants in today’s apostasy is blood-and-guts Catholics. He needs some more martyrs. He needs another crop of martyrs to spill their blood. There were a lot of martyrs in the Communist countries, and surely there’s going to be another bunch of martyrs. I don't know but it’s very possible, very probable.

(Section V of Bishop Williamson's Conference in Bristol, England, 22–24 June 2012)