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Author Topic: The Duty to Publicly Profess the Faith in Times of Danger — Bp. de Castro Mayer  (Read 7096 times)

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Offline Ladislaus

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FFF -- Fearless Father Feeney



THIS ^^^

NOBODY except Father Feeney was fighting Vatican II before it happened, and NOBODY saw it coming.  On the surface everybody thought that the Church was doing great, with churches, schools, monasteries, and convents going up left and right, where they almost didn't know what to do with all the vocations ... but Father Feeney knew that something was wrong.

He reflected and prayed ... and he figured it out, AND even with the benefit of hindsight, which is 20/20, 99% of Trad clergy STILL haven't figured out the actual theological root cause of the Crisis.

Father Feeney stood ALONE, without any support from any bishop ... whereas at least +Lefebvre had +de Castro Mayer and many, many priests.

What an incredible faith it takes to hold to it with such certainty when you're alone.  If I had been in that position, standing alon, with nobody but some laymen rallying to my side in support of me, I probably would have begun to falter, wondering whether it was possible that all these people could be wrong, while I am right, especially when the hierarchy LOOKED very normal.  It's easy now within a collapse like this, but back then?  Father Feeney was a giant.

Offline Ladislaus

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TFP really have been subject to a smear campaign.  I differ with them on many points, but to denounce them for anti-clericalism?  Well, when 99.9999% of the "clergy" went apostate after the Council, had abandoned the sheep to the wolves, and in fact fed poison to the sheep by way of their heresies, well, yeah, I could understand a bit of anti-clericalism, except that it's an anti-clericalism rooted in practical reality and not in principle, since all of them love the Mass and the Sacraments.

We see 99% of the modern Trad clergy acting like a bunch of babies, fighing over stupidity, acting as if they were asleep during Logic 101 class but then pontificating to everyone as if they were popes and attempting to impose their (often false) positions on the faithful, breaking up families due to their nonsense, fighting over collection basket revenue and money, acting like jerks (like most of the current SSPX leadershp), and continuing to "excommunicate" those such as teh much-maligned "Feeneyites" who actually understand the theology behind the Crisis far better than they do, or others who come to different conclusions on subjects that are far from dogmatically decided by the Church ... they still do themselves no favors.


THIS ^^^

NOBODY except Father Feeney was fighting Vatican II before it happened, and NOBODY saw it coming.  On the surface everybody thought that the Church was doing great, with churches, schools, monasteries, and convents going up left and right, where they almost didn't know what to do with all the vocations ... but Father Feeney knew that something was wrong.

He reflected and prayed ... and he figured it out, AND even with the benefit of hindsight, which is 20/20, 99% of Trad clergy STILL haven't figured out the actual theological root cause of the Crisis.

Father Feeney stood ALONE, without any support from any bishop ... whereas at least +Lefebvre had +de Castro Mayer and many, many priests.

What an incredible faith it takes to hold to it with such certainty when you're alone.  If I had been in that position, standing alon, with nobody but some laymen rallying to my side in support of me, I probably would have begun to falter, wondering whether it was possible that all these people could be wrong, while I am right, especially when the hierarchy LOOKED very normal.  It's easy now within a collapse like this, but back then?  Father Feeney was a giant.
I agree that the crisis began because men began to water down revealed truth, especially the dogma that outside the Church there is no salvation. Heaven then offered a remedy through Fatima. Men refused the remedy. The culmination was Vatican II.




FFF -- Fearless Father Feeney


Fr. Feeney walked so that we could run :incense:
I'd bet there are more Catholics now who truly believe there is no salvation outside the Church then there were in the first half of the 20th century

Offline Ladislaus

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As for the brainwashing cult charges, anyone who knows the TFP understands that's bunk.

Those were in fact smear jobs, much of which originated with the so-called "Heralds of the Gospel", their mortal enemies in Brazil who did end up taking over nearly all of their property in Brazil.  That stupid Litany to Plinio's Mom is obviously just a hilarious parody written by some students who had gotten a bit bored, very similar to some literary efforts my brothers and I produced in our youth mocking the Novus Ordo.

... just a small excerpt.  Only a total moron wouldn't see through that half of these are jabs against the types of typics that Dr. Plinio like to speak about, along with the suggestion that he was a "Momma's Boy".
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Mother of Dr. Plinio, pray for us.
Mother of the Doctor of the Church, pray for us.
Mother of our Father, pray for us.
Mother of the Ineffable, pray for us.
Mother of us all, pray for us.
Mother of the Axiological Principle, pray for us.
Mother of the Temperament of Synthesis, pray for us.
Mother of all purity, pray for us.
Mother of the Transphere, pray for us.
Mother of Seriousness, pray for us.
Mother of the Counter-Revolution, pray for us.
Restorer of Temperaments, pray for us.
Fountain of Light, pray for us.
Generator of Innocence, pray for us.
Consolation of Sr.. Dr. Plinio, pray for us.
Mediatrix of the Grand Return, pray for us.
Mediatrix of all our graces, pray for us.
Dawn of the Reign of Mary, pray for us.
Dona Lucilia of the Smile, pray for us.
Dona Lucilia of the Flashes, pray for us.
Flower more beautiful than all, pray for us.
Our refuge, pray for us.
Our consoler, pray for us.
Our succor in the Bagarre, pray for us.
Cause of our perseverance, pray for us.
Vessel of logic, pray for us.
Vessel of the Metaphysical, pray for us.
Martyr of isolation, pray for us.
Queen of serene suffering, pray for us.
Queen of the ‘jeitinho,’ pray for us.
Queen of Serenity, pray for us.


:laugh1: :laugh2: :laugh1:

Clearly the work of some clever, bored, and mischievous young students ... and yet Dr. Plinio rightly banned it, since it does cross the line a bit by creating a parody of a Litany.