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Fact-proof conciliar optimism

Fifty years after the opening of Vatican II, we are quite far from the optimism of John XXIII, who declared on October 11, 1962:  “It seems to Us necessary to state our complete disagreement with those prophets of gloom who always announce catastrophes, as though the world was near its end.”  He then pilloried all those who “in the presence situation of society see only ruins and calamities;  they have the habit of saying that our era has profoundly worsened in comparison to past ages.”

At the opening of the Synod on the new evangelization that is being held at the Vatican from October 7 to 28, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (USA) and Relator General of the synod assembly, drew up an affidavit concerning a “the dramatically changing societal background….  It’s almost as if a tsunami of secularism washed across the cultural landscape of and, when it receded, it took with it all of those foundational concepts: family, marriage, right and wrong, common good, objective order.” Secularism, he continued, “fashioned two generations of Catholics who do not know the Church’s foundational prayers,” do not understand the importance of going to Mass and have lost “a sense of mystery or the transcendent”.

What remedy should be applied to all these evils?  Is it enough to denounce, as Cardinal Wuerl does in the same speech, “the hermeneutic of discontinuity that permeated so much of the milieu of centers of higher education and was also reflected in aberrational liturgical practice”?  Can we be content with “a hermeneutic of reform in continuity”?

Looming over all the hermeneutics, the exegeses and the other interpretations of the Council, there are the facts.  And they speak for themselves.  Eloquently!

Father Alain Lorans

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Then, if you go to the online edition, you see the Communique listed above
has mention of his "refusing to show due respect and obedience...declared
 excluded..."



Communiqué of the General House of the Society of Saint Pius X (October 24, 2012)
Bishop Richard Williamson, having distanced himself from the management* and the government of the SSPX for several years, and refusing to show due respect and obedience to his lawful superiors, was declared excluded from the SSPX by decision of the Superior General and its Council, on October 4th, 2012. A final deadline had been granted to him to declare...

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Fact-proof conciliar optimism
Fifty years after the opening of Vatican II, we are quite far from the optimism of John XXIII, who declared on October 11, 1962:  “It seems to Us necessary to state our complete disagreement with those prophets of gloom who always announce catastrophes, as though the world was near its end.”  He then pilloried all those who “in the presence...

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Kenya : A Missionary Sister of Jesus and Mary Takes the Habit
On October 3, 2012, feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, patroness of the missions, one of our postulants received the religious habit and took the name Sister Nicolas of Jesus. To her joy, many of the young Swiss woman’s family members were able to be present. The ceremony was celebrated by Fr. Henry Wuilloud, superior of the district of Switzerland...

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Communiqué of the General House of the Society of Saint Pius X (October 24, 2012)


26-10-2012  
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Bishop Richard Williamson, having distanced himself from the management* and the government of the SSPX for several years, and refusing to show due respect and obedience to his lawful superiors, was declared excluded from the SSPX by decision of the Superior General and its Council, on October 4th, 2012. A final deadline had been granted to him to declare his submission, after which he announced the publication of an “open letter” asking the Superior General to resign.
 
This painful decision has become necessary by concern for the common good of the Society of Saint Pius X and its good government, according to what Archbishop Lefebvre denounced: “This is the destruction of authority. How authority can be exercised if it needs to ask all members to participate in the exercise of authority? “(Ecône, October 3, 1987)
 
Menzingen, October 24th, 2012
 
* The original text being in French, it must be noted that the word “authority” translates better the French word “direction”.



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Fact-proof conciliar optimism



26-10-2012  
Filed under From Rome, News, The Church in the world





Fifty years after the opening of Vatican II, we are quite far from the optimism of John XXIII, who declared on October 11, 1962:  “It seems to Us necessary to state our complete disagreement with those prophets of gloom who always announce catastrophes, as though the world was near its end.”  He then pilloried all those who “in the presence situation of society see only ruins and calamities;  they have the habit of saying that our era has profoundly worsened in comparison to past ages.”
 
At the opening of the Synod on the new evangelization that is being held at the Vatican from October 7 to 28, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (USA) and Relator General of the synod assembly, drew up an affidavit concerning a “the dramatically changing societal background….  It’s almost as if a tsunami of secularism washed across the cultural landscape of and, when it receded, it took with it all of those foundational concepts: family, marriage, right and wrong, common good, objective order.” Secularism, he continued, “fashioned two generations of Catholics who do not know the Church’s foundational prayers,” do not understand the importance of going to Mass and have lost “a sense of mystery or the transcendent”.
 
What remedy should be applied to all these evils?  Is it enough to denounce, as Cardinal Wuerl does in the same speech, “the hermeneutic of discontinuity that permeated so much of the milieu of centers of higher education and was also reflected in aberrational liturgical practice”?  Can we be content with “a hermeneutic of reform in continuity”?
 
Looming over all the hermeneutics, the exegeses and the other interpretations of the Council, there are the facts.  And they speak for themselves.  Eloquently!
 
Father Alain Lorans




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Isn't it odd, that Fr. Lorans goes to the trouble of quoting the Opening Speech
 of Oct. 11th, 1962 and fails to mention the most important part of it!  

Could that be by oversight?  Or was it deliberate??

If the latter, perhaps it is an indication of the agenda that drives this issue,
which also overlooks all the striking errors of Bishop Fellay over the past 12
years........................  Hey, maybe it's not so odd after all, eh?