Life in the 1950's was literally standing on the cliff, as H.E. says here.
That would refer to me because I lived in the 1950's. It was an
entirely different world than the world today.
At lease the majority of Catholics knew right from wrong.
It was easier to save your soul at that time than it is now.
Because evil in most part was restrained.
For example the so called gαy pride would be a one way
trip to a mental hospital.
Anyway, God Bless Bishop Williamson.
The life of the 50's is gone forever, along with the 50's. It's possible
that we may get something of it back, but too many people today
are engaging in a materialistic life that will never be forgotten, and
as such, will make a complete return to the life of the 50's impossible.
We hopefully soon will have the Collegial Consecration of Russia as
Our Lady promised, and the consequential conversion of Russia,
likewise, but it will be the Triumph of Mary indelibly scarred by the
memory of what happened AFTER the 50's.
At least one would think so.................... (?)
Burning question: how could the leaders of the Society of St Pius X, which was founded by Archbishop Lefebvre to resist the Newchurch, now be seeking its favours in order to rejoin it ? ...the SSPX leaders began to dream of being once more officially recognized. And the dream took hold, because after all dreams are so much nicer than reality...
The author could have given us three clips instead of the whole EC,
but we would not have understood him as well...
Because Catholics in general in the 1950's were outwardly maintaining the appearances of the true religion, but inwardly too many were flirting with the godless errors of the modern world: liberalism (what matters most in life is freedom), subjectivism (so man's mind and will are free of any objective truth or law), indifferentism (so it does not matter what religion a man has), and so on. So Catholics having the faith and not wanting to lose it, gradually adapted it to these errors.
These are the framework upon which the rest is built.
The "Archbishop had his failings," but he more importantly held firmly within
him the "substance.. of Catholicism," which enabled him "to recreate,
almost alone, a pre-Vatican II seminary and Congregation," and "attracted"
many "vocations," and continues to do so even today. But now, "the
substance of his heritage came to seem heavier and heavier to push
against the ever stronger current of the modern world."
Lesson: it is precisely our "flirting with the godless errors of liberalism,
subjectivism and indifferentism" that causes us to find that "the substance
of his heritage came to seem heavier and heavier to push against the ever
stronger current of the modern world."
It is a war of substance. The substance of the Faith vs. the substance of
the world, which is why in the Salve Regina, it is called "this valley of tears,"
or
hac lacrimarum valle.