So if a pious young man shows up at a trad seminary, he should be thrown in the dungeon and put on the rack a few times, to make sure he's not a Marrano infiltrator?
You need to read up on history. That is just Black Legend propaganda. However, many of the greatest saints were questioned by the Inquisition and regarded these occasions as spiritually profitable self-examinations and reasonable precaution by a holy and necessary Church institution. All the saints of the Middle Ages approved of the Inquisition and many participated directly. No wise Catholic would wish to be part of a seminary, school, or any other institution not guarded by the Inquisition.
I don't think there IS a solution to such a sophisticated level of evil. Embracing paranoia is not an option. Committing grave sins against the 5th commandment (e.g., torturing innocent parties) is not an option.
Again, torture has nothing particularly to do with Inquisition, any more than it has to do with crime investigation or military intelligence. Throughout human history, torture was the primary means of investigation in all human spheres. It still is in most regions of the world, in many classified departments of the US government, and the global underground economy.
What is the essence Inquisition if not torture? Merely a willingness to admit the spiritual reality of this fallen earth, despite its unpleasantness. Modern men prefer to imagine a world rainbows and unicorns even as the whole of it groans under the tyrannical yoke of its prince. However, Christ provides the means to exchange this tyranny for His gentler yoke. That is the Good News. In other words, we need no longer cower in fear of that prince yet even while we remain on this earth. We are able to built protected spaces that not only improve the quality of this life, but allow greater numbers to gather in preparation for the next.
Without the Inquisition there would have been no Catholic kingdoms, no Catholic Europe, and no Roman Catholic Church as we once knew it. If the Inquisition had not been overcome by its enemies, such kingdoms and Church human institutions would still be standing. Modern Catholics may not be interested in satanic conspiracy, but satanic conspiracy is interested in them (and their families). We need human institutions like the SSPX or the Resistance to create protected spaces for our children to grow up in the faith. I suspect the SSPX may have been compromised and that this has diminished the safety of the spaces they provide and that the infiltration will eventually destroy the Society if it is not rooted out. Furthermore, I believe that any saint transported from the Middle Ages to our time would quickly reach the same conclusion.
Historic mainstream protestants became deist and atheist liberals when they started imagining themselves more holy than Christ. World-conquering Catholics became weaklings and cowards when they starting imagining themselves more holy than their greatest saints, popes, and kings after falling for the liberal lie that the Holy Inquisition was a sin. One cannot claim to support the Social Kingdom of Christ while rejecting its foundational defensive arm, the Holy Inquisition.
Obviously, a Resistance seminary in modern France could not employ torture just as most of the actual work of historic inquisition did not employ torture. Ending the post-Inquisition retreat from spiritual reality would require that every inmate of the seminary fully understand the likelihood that they are targeted and fully commit to behave accordingly. To paraphrase Paul, "When I became a man, I put away rainbows and unicorns." Genuinely reestablishing the Social Kingdom within seminary walls would involve dedicated study of the ancient texts and modern evidences concerning infiltration of the priesthood. There is no shortage of material, especially with the internet.
Catholics are GOING to be victims in this world. The good are always victimized by the wicked. That's what heaven and hell are for -- to balance the scales of justice and make everything right.
Just remember how Christ conquered all on Good Friday. The ways of God are not the ways of men.
Even Christ's own apostles didn't understand this, and all but 1 were scandalized when He was taken prisoner. The Jєωs of His time certainly didn't understand.
Catholics saints of the Middle Ages did understand. Catholics today, less so. Judge a tree by its fruit.
Would God permit the destruction of the SSPX to be completed and a similar fate for the Resistance? How could He be so cruel? Well, He did give us the Church. And she in her wisdom gave us the Holy Inquisition. And history proves that the Inquisition was critical to the Church's success and its defeat was critical to the success of Church enemies. If we, hanging at the end of our rope after countless surrenders, are still so blinded by the conceit of ourselves more holy than the saints that we pridefully refuse to pick up the sword forged by the Church to fight the very foe now crashing through the last bulwark, do we deserve to be saved?
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