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Another great issue! Alleluia!! (Time after Pentecost)
A really hot portion is found on page 3 (ending of 'From the Desk of the Editor'):
Some of you ask about the “Agreement of Tolerance” which has been rumoured between the SSPX and Rome. Let me make a few brief comments, no more. Firstly, agreements with modern Rome are only dangerous because they cause one to accept Rome’s modernist ideas and thus to lose the Faith by degrees. The SSPX as an institution has already accepted Rome’s modern ideas and institutionally it is losing the Faith (individuals notwithstanding).
What difference does and agreement make at this stage, other than that it would make their loss of Faith more visible and obvious? As Bishop Williamson says elsewhere, in hearts and minds, the agreement is already here. Its effects undeniably are, and surely that is all that matters.
Secondly, “tolerance” is a word beloved of God’s enemies. It is a modern “virtue”, though it is no real virtue. And it usually requires something on the part of the one being tolerated. If it were not so in the case of the SSPX, why all the fuss? Why the need for Fr. Pfluger to talk openly and proudly about ‘purging’ the SSPX of all those who disagree with the new line of Menzingen?
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the conciliar church is not “the official church” as Bishop Fellay calls it, it is another religion. We may not be able to define precisely where it begins and where it ends, but we must have no part in it whatsoever. “For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?” [II Corinthians vi. 14-15]
A generation ago, in the countries of the Eastern Bloc, situated behind the ‘Iron Curtain,’ many Catholic priests came to an arrangement with the Communist governments of their respective countries (the infamous ‘PAX priests’ in Poland, for example) whereby they would be tolerated. They were required to teach no heresy and they said the Latin Mass, though of course, they did not attack their communist governments. But the faithful who kept
the Faith stayed away, neither supporting them nor attending their Masses. We must do the same. The conciliar church is bent on attacking and destroying the Faith. The SSPX is now a part of the conciliar church since it accepts its doctrine and has agreed not to attack it and to stay silent.
Do not let us fall into the same trap. Let us meet the evil head on, with all the force our puny efforts can bring, confident in God’s grace and the prayers of Our Blessed Mother. Keep fighting! Fight harder! Wake up those around you, now, before it is too late!
“ ‘I know the Unknown God,’ said the little priest, with an unconscious
grandeur of certitude that stood up like a granite tower. ‘I know his
name; it is Satan. The true God was made flesh and dwelt among us.
And I say to you, wherever you find men ruled merely by mystery, it is
the mystery of iniquity. If the devil tells you something is too fearful to
look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If
you think some truth unbearable, bear it.’ ”
(G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown - “The Purple Wig”)
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Topic: The Recusant - Issue 18 - July 2014 (Read 3691 times)