Catholic Truth Keeping the Faith. Telling the Truth. Free www.catholictruthscotland.com

Catholic Truth is completely free. Funded by voluntary donations. Inside: The Mass… Marriage… Galloway… Pope Saint Pius X… Green Scapular…

Pope Francis welcomed Middle East leaders and presided over Christian, Jewish and Muslim prayers for peace, at an event held in the Vatican garden, 8 June, 2014. Pictured planting olive tree, symbol of peace.

In the apparition of July 13, Our Lady come for God to ask the Holy Father to warned the three [Fatima] seers that if make, in union with all the bishops of the people did not stop offending God, He world, the Consecration of Russia to My would punish the world "by means of war, Immaculate Heart. By this means, He hunger and persecution of the Church and promises to save Russia." www.fatima.org of the Holy Father," using Russia as His That is continuing to ignore chosen instrument of chastisement. She Our Lady’s request, apparently not told the children that "to prevent this, I shall believing God’s promise of world peace come to ask for the Consecration of Russia revealed to us through His Mother, is to My Immaculate Heart" and promised that, scandal enough. That he chooses, instead, by this single public act, Russia would be the publicity of entirely empty symbolism converted and peace would be given to the and the futile prayers for peace of those world. The Mother of God cautioned that if who reject Christ,1 is beyond belief. Many Her requests were not granted, "Russia will scriptural warnings and admonitions spring spread its errors throughout the world, to mind but none more so that Christ’s own raising up wars and persecutions of the words: “…he who shall deny Me before Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy men, I will also deny him before my Father Father will have much to suffer and various who is in Heaven” (Matt: 10:33) nations will be annihilated."

True to Her word, Our Lady reappeared to Footnote: Sister Lucy on June 13, 1929 at Tuy, Spain 1 Also present, the [schismatic] Orthodox leader who [and] announced that "the moment has reportedly read the Christian prayer. Contents include… Page

The Mass: Centre of Our Holy Faith 3 Benedict Carter

Is The Diocese of Galloway in Danger? 6 Editor

“Scottish Blunders” of Pope John Paul II 7 Iain Colquhoun

Letters 8

Education - Thinking Through Catholic Truth 10

In Defence of the Greatest 20th Century Pope Saint - Pius X 11 Leo Clear

The Green Scapular 16 Ellen Ward

When Irish Eyes Are NOT Smiling 17 Ongoing series

From the Blog 18

News Round-up 19

A General Rule to Distinguish Truth from Heresy 20 St Vincent of Lérins

Marriage Matters… “Catholic” Wedding Dresses 22 Fashion Editor

Editorial 24 Thou hast redeemed us, O Lord by Thy Blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and hast made us to our God a kingdom (Psalm). The mercies of the Lord I will sing forever: I will show forth Thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation…

(Introit from the Mass of the Precious Blood, Feast of the Most Precious Blood of

You know that you were redeemed from the vain manner of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 1st July.) life handed down from your fathers, not with perishable things as silver or gold but with the Precious Blood of Christ as the Lamb without blemish and without spot. (1 Peter 18-19)

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 2 [A]t its bottom-most level the rupture in the The Mass: Centre of our Holy Faith Church, seen most vividly in the novus ordo Mass, [is caused by] a loss of faith in the Benedict Carter existence of God and the invisible world. Born in 1963, lapsed, returned to Faith in 2005 I believe with all my heart that at its writes about the Novus Ordo Mass in which he was brought up. bottom-most level, [the rupture caused by the new Mass] is a loss of Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci (‘The whether the Novus Ordo is a valid Ottaviani Intervention’, 1969) to Pope Paul: Sacrament per se or not: this essay assumes that it is (although many hundreds “The Novus Ordo Missae, even when said of thousands of individual Novus Ordo with piety and respect for the liturgical Masses have undoubtedly been invalid for rules... is impregnated with the spirit of want of valid matter or form over the last Protestantism. It bears within it a poison decades). But valid is the very, very least harmful to the faith… We have limited it should be. There should be so much more. ourselves to a summary evaluation of the I am of the opinion that the Novus Ordo is Novus Ordo where it deviates most only *relatively* safe in the hands of an seriously from the theology of the Catholic orthodox priest. In the hands of a free- Benedict Carter Mass and our observations touch only thinker, a weak or an out-and-out heterodox those deviations that are typical. A of the First World War generation. So priest it is a lethal weapon against the complete evaluation of all the pitfalls, the prayers were said, our home was full of Catholic Faith. dangers, the spiritually and psychologically religious pictures, statues, music, books destructive elements contained in the The Mass, as the centre of our Holy Faith, and conversation, going to Mass was a document—whether in text, rubrics or should: very serious matter and the whole world of instructions - would be a vast undertaking.” 1. Reinforce the entire Catholic Faith in Catholicism was in our home constantly. Cardinal Alfons Stickler, November 27, every aspect - the way we worship contains My mother used to turn towards the 2004: within itself all that we believe; Tabernacle whenever she left a church and would bow to it, crossing herself, and would “The analysis of the Novus Ordo made by 2. It should raise up the individual not speak until she was outside in the these two cardinals has lost none of its reverently to the majesty and glory of God; churchyard. I have never forgotten it. I was value nor, unfortunately, of its relevance …. 3. It should present to the individual soul a child then. The next time I saw anyone the results of the reform are considered by the starkness and finality of the moral doing exactly the same was in Moscow at many today to be devastating. It was to the choices we have to make as Catholics in a Russian Orthodox church when I lived in credit of Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci that order to inherit Eternal Life; Russia thirty-five years later. How much we they discovered very quickly that the have lost! change of the rites led to a fundamental 4. It should keep us in safe continuity with change of doctrine.” the two thousand years of organic (and in The rupture has caused conflict within fact miniscule) development of the Church's families, civil war in the Church, and Pope Paul VI, October 13, 1977: main western liturgy, so that we can be apostasy on a scale not seen since the "The tail of the devil is functioning in the Catholics hearing the same words and 16th century and before that, in the time of disintegration of the Catholic world. The seeing the same gestures as a Catholic in Arius; and has lost countless souls. I am darkness of Satan has entered and spread Italy in the 4th century, as a Portuguese sure of this latter point: the changes have throughout the even to its Catholic in the 9th century, as a Swedish cost many, many souls. At the heart of the summit. Apostasy, the loss of the faith, is Catholic in the 14th century, as an rupture is the Novus Ordo: quite spreading throughout the world and into the Englishman hearing a recusant Mass in the understandable, as the Mass is the centre highest levels within the Church…I 17th century; as any Catholic at all until and summit of the Catholic Faith. So what sometimes read the passage of the 1968. Communion in worship is is the nature of the rupture, seen most end times, and I attest that, at this time, communion in belief, not only with one's vividly in the Novus Ordo? some signs of this end are emerging." fellow Catholics throughout the world, but I believe with all my heart that at its bottom- with all Catholics throughout the centuries Pope John Paul II, visit to the USA in 1979: most level, it is a loss of faith in the back to the time of Christ Himself. existence of God and the invisible world, "We are now standing in the face of the The Novus Ordo does NOT fulfil any of which for any authentic Catholic should be greatest historical confrontation humanity these functions of worship. When an SSPX the world that has most pull on his has gone through. … We are now facing Bishop says that it represents a new mentality, thoughts, conduct, and whole the final confrontation between the Church religion, he speaks as a Bishop. This view life. This has in turn led directly to the loss and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus should be thought about most carefully by of the sense of sin and of its seriousness. the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies any serious Catholic. It is a terrible charge And so of course the Confessionals are within the plans of divine Providence; it is to lay on the Novus Ordo and I believe that mostly empty. a trial which the whole Church ... must take fundamentally it is correct. up.” It also represents - as anyone understands ------That there has been a gigantic rupture in who knows from whom the New Mass What has happened to our Catholic Church the Church these past fifty years cannot be came into existence, and how - the fruit of since the mid-1960’s? A healthy Church (at denied. Those who do deny it are either a significant number of people in the the level of the laity and much of the clergy) stupid, have a vested interest in the rupture Church Herself who were seeking ways of has collapsed. Indeed, the collapse was or (even worse) are quite happy that it robbing the Mass of its Catholic nature in achieved by the mid-1970’s: all since then occurred, whatever the damage done; or order to appeal to German, Dutch, English has been a series of stases before the next they have been formed by it and don't know and other Protestants, to whom they lurch downwards. anything else. already felt closer than they did to their fellow Catholics; while some of them I We have seen everything change, but I was born in 1963 so came to self- believe actively wished to do the Church nothing has affected us so much as the consciousness with the changes already harm. changes in the Mass. What follows are my made. I count myself extremely lucky to be own thoughts and observations on this the child of parents whose whole lives and matter since my return to the Church in characters were formed by and steeped in 2005. I will not enter into a discussion of the Catholic Faith of their parents, people Continued on p.4

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 3 The Mass…Continued from p.3 These were Modernists who had kept a low utterly impoverished, and all of us are as a world. You can't abuse it - indeed, it is profile since the time of Pope St. Pius X but result greatly impoverished - a catastrophe. impossible to assist at the Old Mass and who were still very much around. Their To sum up (and for what I say about the NOT be a Catholic. world-view was shaped by the seeming Novus Ordo, the opposite is the case for One might ask, “If the useless priests were triumph of "historicity", by the (coming, they the true Roman Rite, the Old Mass, which eradicated, could you be reconciled to the thought) triumph of Marxism and its "truths", I refuse to call the “Extraordinary Form”): New Mass”? Well, I thought I was and by the onward march of science and reconciled to it for some time. But even technology. The Council experts, or periti, * it is a Mass specifically created (the first when I attended it, I wasn't reconciled in my were mostly made up of these people. time this has been done in history) to meet an imagined sociological need of a sup- heart. A new Mass was needed for the Modern posed "Modern Man". The bottom-line problem with the Novus Man formed by all these things they Ordo is that it is fundamentally un-Catholic. thought, a New Mass giving Man greater as the creation of a committee, it cannot * It is only because the sad figure of Pope "dignity" (which means physical and does not have any but a passing or- Paul VI couldn't stomach what Bugnini involvement, which means ‘Eucharistic ganic link with the venerable rite of at least really wanted to do that we have a valid Ministers’ and other laity tramping about 1,600 years which it replaced; Mass now at all. And even so he had to be the Sanctuary, the destruction of the shamed into some kind of stand by the priesthood). This Mass was created for the * it was designed to deliberately protestan- “Ottaviani Intervention” of Cardinals (Marxist Collective) "community" where the tise the Catholic Church. This has been Ottaviani and Bacci. individual soul is no longer called to say in explicitly admitted; A bad priest can turn the New Mass into his heart "I believe" but, along with the * it has led to Christ and the Sacrifice of His straight-forward sacrilege (clown Masses, Collective, had to say "We believe". The own life for us sinners being thrust out from Buenes Aires Tango Masses etc.) whilst a mind-set produced by this emphasis is one the centre to the periphery, both literally good priest has one arm permanently tied of “community”: thus the Mass as a "meal" and figuratively; is grossly over-emphasised. The Protestant behind his back by it. This is why I believe revolutionaries of the 16th Century did * it is so often proud, oh so proud, trumpet- that it cannot be reformed. By its very exactly the same. In fact, the Novus Ordo ing in its nature a "dignity" of Mankind that nature it’s no good. is the Collective at prayer (more properly it we sinners do NOT deserve; And in what does the difference is the Collective praying to itself). It is not a fundamentally lie? In a wholly different * it is a cultural non-entity; a meal for me in any sense: I prefer bangers theology - about the Church, about Our disaster; and mash. Lord Jesus Christ, about sin and And this Rite, by eliminating specifically * it banishes the soul's Redemption, about what is faith and what Catholic doctrine about Sacrifice, would private communion with I have to do to gain Salvation, about the appease all those Lutherans and Anglicans God and through noise nature of God’s relationship with His to whom we had been so nasty for so long, and distraction makes such creature Man. The Old Mass places me eh? communion well-nigh impossible; where the Faith says I should be - on my knees before God, knowing that only And for this Rite, with its centre of gravity * it cries out on every side its sheer infan- through God can I be saved. The New NOT Christ above the individual soul (a tility; Mass puts me in the centre, in the place of vertical relationship) but the Collective (a God Himself, or at the very least, alongside * it is the deliberate collectivisation of the horizontal relationship), there was needed Him. It assumes my deification has already Church's worship in Marxist form; a new physical orientation: priest and been achieved. But the whole thrust of the people have to face each other; the * practically, there are as many forms as Church these last decades is one of Tabernacle to which I knelt and prayed as there are Masses. I exaggerate only a little presumption about our Salvation, no? a small boy thrust out of sight into some to illustrate the fact that there are really So here are a few quotations: alcove chapel. All barriers (altar rails) that many versions of the Novus Ordo; legiti- “denied” the Collective its rightful dignity mate, semi-legitimate, illegitimate, and, not Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, main author were removed so that the Sanctuary is now rarely, scandalous or in the case of the of the New Mass, L’Osservatore Romano, the whole Church. New churches had to be so-called ‘Soho Masses’, sacrilegious. March 19, 1965: “We must strip from our built for the Community and these too This has been admitted by the liturgical Catholic prayers and from the Catholic represent the horizontal: they represent an experts who, together with then Cardinal liturgy everything which can be the shadow ancient Greek theatre where the Collective Ratzinger, participated at the Fongombault of a stumbling block for our separated could gather around itself. The churches of Liturgical Conference 2001 (Proceedings brethren that is for the Protestants.” (ie, we all our forefathers were built in one edited by A.Reid OSB in ‘Looking Again at must stop being Catholics and change our dimension - vertically, a line from the faithful the Question of the Liturgy’). religion!) to the deacons to the priest to God in His And again, in 1974, he said, “ ... the reform Tabernacle. I have found it so difficult to assist at Novus of the liturgy has been a major conquest of Ordo Masses here in Qatar where I live that Culturally, the Novus Ordo has been a the Catholic Church”. (These words of in the end I decided not to anymore. If I do catastrophe of world historical proportions. Bugnini should be pondered in silence). go, I feel I will lose my faith or have a faith That the Catholic Church, repository of the Now would follow “The adaptation or so hollowed out by the ‘New Church's’ greatest fruits of human endeavour in ‘incarnation’ of the Roman form of the secularism that my conscience would be history, should have effectively turned its liturgy into the usages and mentality of gravely offended, rather than just my sense back on Her cultural greatness is like the each individual Church.” or love of beauty. Certainly I will be bored Irish monks of the 5th to 9th centuries to death by the sheer banality of it all: the Father Kenneth Baker, SJ, editorial saying, "What the heck, the transmission laymen and women traipsing about the February 1979 “Homiletic and Pastoral of all that Greek and Roman knowledge Sanctuary as if they owned it only serves Review”: “We have been overwhelmed with and greatness is boring, let's chuck all that to infuriate me. As an altar boy, the changes in the Church at all levels, but it is copying into the Atlantic and have a rest". Sanctuary for me was HOLY, not to be the liturgical revolution which touches all of The Novus Ordo goes along with many defiled by profane things. It was the us intimately and immediately.” nefarious bedfellows. Iconoclasm (of an greatest honour possible for me to be order not seen since the Iconoclastic present in the Sanctuary. Heresy of the Eastern Church or the so- We have to get the Old Mass back if we called "") is one; it is culturally ever want the Church to triumph in this Continued on p.5

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 4 The Mass…Continued from p.4 Professor Peter L. Berger, a Lutheran "The Church acknowledges Gregorian a short period of time by those who had no sociologist: “If a thoroughly malicious chant as especially suited to the Roman sense of duty, no filling of responsibility, no sociologist, bent on injuring the Catholic liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, charity, no faith - only their own barbaric community as much as possible had been it should be given pride of place in liturgical instincts. an adviser to the Church, he could hardly services." (116) Isn’t it tragi-comic that the patient, polite, have done a better job.” "The texts intended to be sung must always persistent, fifty years’ work of true Catholics Professor Dietrich von Hildebrand: “Truly, be in conformity with Catholic doctrine; who love the Church have eventually won if one of the devils in C.S. Lewis’ The indeed they should be drawn chiefly from the day and put our Hierarchy to such a Screwtape Letters had been entrusted with Holy Scripture and from liturgical sources." shame that they now do not know how to the ruin of the liturgy he could not have (121) get out of the swamp they jumped into on done it better.” their own initiative ? Let them all go to the From which it can be seen that the present Greek Church and learn there what is the Cardinal Heenan of Westminster, liturgical life of the vast majority of parishes Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and realize what autobiography “A Crown of Thorns”: in the Catholic world as well as the Mass a mess they have made or allowed to be of Paul VI itself, is in blatant defiance, “Subsequent changes were more radical made of it in our churches. And, betrayal even, of the Second Vatican than those intended by Pope John and the paradoxically, the Greeks are “schismatics” Council. bishops who passed the decree on the and our bishops “Catholics”. Liturgy. His sermon at the end of the first I do not dispute that the Mass in any valid session shows that Pope John did not I ask forgiveness form is the “the perfect re-presentation of suspect what was being planned by the Calvary.” But you don’t need a degree in liturgical experts.” for everything which may theology to understand that the effect the Cardinal Heenan warned the Council have caused Mass has on those present does not Fathers of the manner in which the periti scandal and depend on its validity alone. The ritual itself could draft texts capable “of both an (where is found what is essential for orthodox and modernistic interpretation.” disturbance validity), can make the Mass’s impact on He told them that he feared the periti, and concerning the an individual the opposite of what the dreaded the possibility of their obtaining the Sacrifice of Calvary upon the altar offers power to interpret the Council to the world. veneration due us: it can, and regrettably with the Novus On 26 June 1966 The Tablet reported the to this great Ordo does, empties Christ’s Sacrifice of all creation of five commissions to interpret meaning, as we all know from Youtube, and implement the Council’s decrees. The sacrament. endless reports from around the world, and members of these commissions were, the all the tragic experience of the last fifty report stated, chosen “for the most part Pope John Paul II years. from the ranks the Council periti”. We have even had a public apology from Father Joseph Gelineau SJ, Council Who amongst the laity was asking for the Pope John Paul, unprecedented in the peritus, enthusiastic proponent of the post- Novus Ordo in the first place, before it was entire history of the Church: “I would like to conciliar revolution, wrote in “Demain la introduced? No-one. It was simply ask forgiveness - in my name and in the liturgie”: “To tell the truth it is a different imposed; and millions were squandered name of all of you in the Episcopate - for liturgy of the Mass. This needs to be said on printing endless paperwork, the everything which … may have caused without ambiguity: the Roman Rite as we vandalization of churches, on the scandal and disturbance concerning the knew it no longer exists. It has been brainwashing of young seminarians, on the interpretation of doctrine and the veneration destroyed.” subversive work of confidentially-organized due to this great sacrament. And I pray.. I am truly sorry to draw the conclusion that, pressure groups, on the organization of that… we may avoid in our manner of in calling the Novus Ordo and the Old Mass “refreshment courses”. Are not the new dealing with this Sacred Mystery anything “two versions of the same Rite”, the church buildings the monuments of which could weaken or disorient in any way previous Holy Father was engaged in naive uncharity, “as ugly as sins” as one architect the sense of reverence and love that exists hopefulness at the least. His “reform of the called them in his book? Where are the in our faithful people” (Dominicae Cenae reform” was always doomed: you can’t call works of art which our ancestors left us as 1980). a Trabant a Bentley and expect someone a precious heritage and which our liturgical Nothing has changed since. He complained wanting to buy a Bentley to believe gurus took liberty to demolish in order to again in his Encyclical Ecclesia de otherwise. In comparison with the Old satisfy their monstrous appetites? Many Eucharistia 2003 (9/6, 52/1), the CDW Mass, the Novus Ordo is a child’s scribble books have been written and many more issued Redemptionis Sacramentum 2004, alongside a Caravaggio. They are different could be written about the scandal to which listing the pages of abuses – all in vain. It and mutually antagonistic things. The one we were and still are exposed. is now 40 years that we have been enjoying is Catholic to the last syllable. The other is The bishops and the priests have forgotten the “benefits” of these abuses; there is no a cuckoo planted deliberately in the Latin if they ever knew what it was, people improvement in sight, and we must accept Catholic nest, to the latter’s very grave are used to the street vernacular the fact that these so called “abuses” are injury. “translations”, to the lazy, mechanical what the New Mass is all about, and that The said this “active” repetition of phrases with their the Mass of the kind celebrated in the regarding the reform of the Liturgy (from minds elsewhere, to sit comfortably most London Oratory is – abuse. It should be the constitution "Sacrosanctum Concilium"): of the time, “feel well”; and the priests are now clear that the term Inferior Form "...no other person, even if he be a priest, “pleased” for being so "pastorally relevant”. reflects the of the OF. may add, remove, or change anything in The Old Mass requires an active "...no other person, even if he be a priest, the liturgy on his own authority." (22.3) involvement, whether in a silent prayer of may add, remove, or change anything in one’s own choice or in following the priest’s the liturgy on his own authority." "...care must be taken that any new forms prayers from their Missals - all that requires adopted should in some way grow a substantial effort, whether one can read - this is routinely done by many, perhaps organically from forms already existing." Latin or chooses to follow the text in the most, priests. (23) vernacular. It will obviously require much "...care must be taken that any new forms "...the use of the Latin language is to be time, resources, active involvement of the adopted should in some way grow preserved in the Latin rites." (36.1) clergy, instructions by the Hierarchy, to organically from forms already existing." rebuild what was easy to vandalize in such Continued on p.6

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 5 The Mass…Continued from p.5 - the new liturgy did not grow organically of the Mass is crucial; it’s paramount; it’s quoting from the feedback at the meeting from the old, but arose from a wholesale intrinsic to everything, like all Sacraments of the clergy of the Archdiocese of revision of the liturgy by a commission which are portals to eternity, as Glasgow: one priest had written: made up of six Protestants and one sacramentals are whispers and ‘brushings’ “The input of [Father] McFadden was Archbishop later exiled to Iran who were with it. nothing short of a disgrace. It is a travesty not representative of either the College of So let us never forget what the Mass IS: that such a denigration and denial of Bishops or the laity. Even Paul VI argued The Sacrifice of the Mass is the Church’s Catholic doctrine concerning the much with this commission, whom he heartbeat; it’s the Church’s breath. All of priesthood, the Sacraments and the frequently chastised for going too far. reality returns to Calvary to the source of Magisterium firstly be given a voice, and "...the use of the Latin language is to be our Redemption to be nourished, re- secondly, not receive so much as a word preserved in the Latin rites." invigorated, revitalised. We cannot live of criticism from the senior clergy present.” without Our Lord’s Body and Blood. Let us - obviously the Council, though wanting to I included in my letter the fact that the poor worship Him in the most beautiful and provide limited space for the vernacular, did teaching in the Scottish seminary on Fr gravest manner possible, using the Rite of NOT mandate that the WHOLE liturgy McFadden’s watch became clear to me Mass developed since the earliest days by should be celebrated in it. when, in the company of a friend, I visited so many generations of our ancestors, who Scotus on an Open Day and could not find "The Church acknowledges Gregorian loved and revered it. Chant as especially suited to the Roman one priest or student - including Fr Why do the Revolutionaries who gave us liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, McFadden - who believed in the Real the Novus Ordo hate Catholics so much? it should be given pride of place in liturgical Presence. Nor did any priest or student services." identify the Mass as the Sacrifice of Calvary. One seminarian suggested Benedict Carter is a graduate of - though is prescribed in “sacrifice of service” as being a more Cambridge University in History and of the new Missal, it is in reality totally accurate description of the Mass. replaced by vernacular songs (the word BRNC (Dartmouth); he is Managing “hymn” seems to have disappeared). And Director of Caravel Global Consultants, Homosexual approaches to students led the “Chant” we do get is not the timeless resident in Qatar, married, with two some to abandon their vocation and, beauty of Gregorian Chant but the dirge- children. ultimately, the seminary was closed. It is, like intonations of self-appointed musically therefore, a matter of some concern that ungifted “liturgical composers”. Fr McFadden makes reference to “homophobia” in his address to the "The texts intended to be sung must always Assembly of Clergy of the Archdiocese of be in conformity with Catholic doctrine; Glasgow indicating that he may identify indeed they should be drawn chiefly from more closely with the “gay rights” lobby Holy Scripture and from liturgical sources." than with Catholic sexual morality. (See - these aforesaid songs are most frequently Address to the Assembly of Priests of the Archdiocese of Glasgow, 23 May, 2002: in the NOT drawn from either Scripture or section The Priest And Relationships Fr liturgical sources, at least not primarily. I McFadden expresses the view that “[priests] have personally witnessed “Let it Be” by the can fail in intimate relationships with other men Beatles being proffered by a choir as a since becoming affectionate with another male recessional hymn. This is not religion. It’s Is The Diocese of can often trigger a homophobic response that a mad house, a Bedlam. can be uncomfortable or frightening.” ) “To conclude, innovation should not be Galloway The above extracts from my letter to the made unless when real and definite Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, advantage will accrue to the Church” (SC in Danger? concluded with a plea to resist all efforts 23). by the Scottish Bishops to elevate Fr Editor McFadden to the episcopate, since the What are these advantages which were the Catholic Church in Scotland is very weak condition for an allowance for innovations? Issue No. 21 of our newsletter (September, and has been suffering from a manifest The numerous documents complaining lack of episcopal leadership for many against abuses confirm that there are no 2002) carried a report which, a Vatican source told us at the time, put an end to years - another public dissenter is the last advantages. Admittedly, the complaints are thing we need. usually preceded by a glorification of any and all hopes of Galloway priest, Fr “benefits”, but we are never told what these Willy McFadden ever being raised to the Happily, mine was not the only letter to be benefits are. episcopate. Our report quoted from his mailed to the Vatican on the subject: one address to the clergy of the Archdiocese of of our readers mailed a short letter to warn The body of “experts” chosen to tailor the Glasgow in which he attacked the “models” against appointing Fr McFadden, and liturgy did not seem to have been of Church and priesthood “[where] the enclosed, as a reminder of the state of the competent in matters of sociology and priest’s main task is to provide the Church in Scotland, another letter she had psychology (Fr. A. Nichols, OP, Looking at sacraments, especially Mass and written to the then Archbishop (now the Liturgy 1996). They seem to have had Confession”. Predictably, he also made Cardinal) Müller prior to his visit to some DIY idea as to what is ... “better for short work of celibacy. Glasgow in 2013. This reader has granted the people”, and chose to carry the matter Imagine our shock, therefore, on being kind permission to reproduce that original through without any preliminary letter here, but prefers anonymity… sociological or psychological studies. Can contacted recently with requests to write one imagine such a reconstruction, without again to the Vatican, because under Pope 1st June 2013 preliminary studies of its possible impact, Francis, anything goes and since Fr Willy in any serious business? But obviously, our McFadden is known to be a favourite with Dear Archbishop Müller, “experts” did not have to put at risk their the Scots Bishops for promotion, it would I write to welcome you to Glasgow. own pockets: their experiment has to be be helpful if we could write again to remind I hope you have a very fruitful visit and that paid by their experimental rabbits - “the the Congregation for the Doctrine of the you will become more aware of the people of God.” Faith why appointing Fr McFadden to the problems we are facing in the Catholic office of Bishop of Galloway would be a Church here in Scotland. In summary, let us always keep to the front further nail in the coffin of Catholicism in of our minds the fact that the Holy Sacrifice Scotland. I wrote, therefore, on 22/5/14, Continued on p.9

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 6 “Scottish Blunders” of Pope John Paul II Convention comprised of most Scottish left and liberal parties and both the Catholic Iain Colquhoun Church and The Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) to promote devolution and My first involvement with Pope - now 'Saint' The Bishops' response to my evidence was thus a Scottish Parliament. Wright, by - John Paul II came in one of denial. Thus when challenged, Fr enlisting Catholic support through the 1985 over a scandalous Monaghan's Archbishop Keith O'Brien went device of his ecumenical activities was able Edinburgh priest who on so far as to claim: ‘Brook is not involved in to claim a unanimity of support in Scotland a radio phone-in abortion, and Scottish Homosexual Rights for the setting up of that parliament. recommended pregnant Group has no connection with paedophilia women to attend an and has said so, and on 'Open Line' Fr Ecumenism & The Scottish Referendum abortion-referral agency. Monaghan is doing God's work and the The dangers in this strategy now become The Second Vatican Pope's' 2 Council was, according to imminent as the ruling SNP party is holding 'Saint' John XXIII, intended to raise the What does this astonishing claim imply? a referendum on Scottish independence in status of laypeople, but in fact it did the Surely that its author knew full well the September 2014 and, should it succeed, it reverse. As clergy ventured into activities situation in Rome and hazarded a guess is pledged to abolish Trident or indeed any such as this, the leaders of the Church acted that nothing would be done to remedy the nuclear weapons, thus achieving the end swiftly to stamp out any ‘dissent’. Thus when scandal. Papal indifference to complaints for which Canon Kenyon Wright, working I sent tapes of the above priest, Fr Andrew in Britain followed the pattern of those in for the Communist front, had worked so Monaghan, to Rome requesting them to the USA, where a clerical abuse scandal hard. It is startling to think that the withdraw his permission to broadcast, the prompted dozens of complaints. The Pope ecumenical movement itself had become papal nuncio stated that he didn't need that later regretted his failure to assert clerical a front for promoting radical left wing ‘permission' and slated my complaint as discipline, but as events prove it was politics. What was the key factor that set 'anti-clerical nit-picking'. symptomatic of a general lack of discretion these events in train? Surely that ill-advised in the exercise of his office. permission for the Catholic Church to The reality of the matter was revealed by a participate in the BCC and SCC and thus priest who conducted the Vatican An Ecumenical Papal Visit to the UK afford them a respectability they ought not investigation: writing in 'The Wanderer' in to have had. The Pope ought to have 1989, he stated: 'This writer has listened When Pope John Paul II visited Britain in known their profile: with the BCC funding extensively to un-edited tapes, and can 1982, he met the leaders of the British and Marxist terrorists in Africa, endorsing the testify that "Andy" and his female assistant Scottish Church Councils (BCC and SCC), WCC’s silence on the treatment of Russian are always so nice and sweet to everyone. and was urged by them to allow the Christians; while in Britain it supported the But that of course is precisely what makes Catholic Church to join their ecumenical legalisation of divorce and abortion, with the programme so pernicious. The very organisations. In response, as the official the BCC funding a group called ‘Grapevine’ niceness and sweetness of it all lulls the record of that visit states, he invited them set up to popularise the acceptance of listener into a mood of general sympathy, to Rome 'to continue the discussions' 3 contraceptives among schoolchildren. If so that when..."Andy" purrs "Thanks very ordinary people knew about these things, much, Judy" after a pregnant girl has been The outcome was revealed in a BCC why not someone now canonised as a referred to a "pro-choice" counselling publication: …'in May 1983 there was a saint? The BCC’s profile being so political, center, a little voice starts to whisper, "Well, return visit to Rome led by the Primus of he should have foreseen the dangers. does it really matter...?" And you have to the Scottish Episcopal Church (the Rt Rev remind yourself of the one who whispered Alistair Haggart) and made up of BCC and Some Catholics might claim that being about eating apples in Eden. Listening to ...Catholic leaders. From these tentative canonised sets Pope John Paul II above "Open Line" is rather like eating a soft, steps came the Inter-Church Process..' 4 criticism. This is fallacious. For, through a strawberry sponge cake which happens to The purpose of this was to pave the way politically subverted ecumenism, which have a few dollops of poison here and there. for Catholic entry into these organisations was also a false ecumenism in any event, Which makes it an extremely potent – which was achieved in 1990. In fact the he not only encouraged false ecumenism instrument for spreading that poison - Pope later clearly endorsed his earlier in Scotland but also contributed to events acceptance of homosexuality, premarital permission, in 1992, by commending the in the political order that may, arguably, sex, and abortion - among Scottish Scottish Catholic Bishops for joining the threaten both the sovereignty and security teenagers. The crying scandal is that they 7 relevant organisation5. of this Kingdom. are receiving these weekly lessons in "openness" to sin with the support of the But there was more to the BCC than any Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and truly ‘ecumenical’ agenda – its purpose was Iain Colquhoun is a retired nurse, widowed, who lives in Wales. He has written extensively on Edinburgh, and with the endorsement of made evident by the activities of the one the political manipulation of ecumenism in no less a dignitary than the Supreme who set up the ‘Inter-Church Process’ in Scotland. See also ‘Kenyon Wright’s Scottish Pontiff's personal representative in Scotland, namely Canon Kenyon Wright, Strategy’ in ‘Christian Order’ October 1999 and Britain'.1 (emphasis added) the General Secretary of SCC. For at http://www.solvesecret.co.uk/chapter9.html unknown to the majority, he also held very Here are some facts about the above senior office in a Soviet ‘front’ called scandal in which Fr Monaghan was heard ‘Christian Peace Conference’ whose aim Footnotes: to recommend pregnant women in S.E. was to inculcate opposition to nuclear 1 Scotland to attend Brook Advisory Centre, 'The Wanderer' 20/4/89 weapons, among Western nations. The link 2 Letter to Mr James Bogle, Secretary of 'Pro Fide' the main abortion-referral agency in the between BCC and CPC started in 1964, January 1986. area. He also advised homosexuals to when BCC official Canon Paul Oestreicher 3 ‘The Pope in Britain’ by Peter Jennings & Eamon attend the 'Scottish Homosexual Rights had set up a British Regional Branch of this McCabe, published by Bodley Head, London 1982 Group' (SHRG) which had links with 4 ‘Strangers No Longer’ Rev Derek Palmer, Hodder & Soviet front6. And throughout the 1980’s Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), Stoughton 1990. Canon Wright, its foremost member, both being set up on the same Catholic 5.‘L’Osservatore Romano’ (Weekly edition), tirelessly campaigned against the premises. SHRG was patronised by men 4th Nov 1992, reported also in ‘Scottish Catholic Observer’ installation of ‘Trident’ weapons in the such as Thomas Hamilton, who went on to 6. ‘Discretion and Valour’ by Trevor Beevor, Fontana Clyde. And he was now to promote a way shoot 16 children and their school-teacher Glasgow 1974 in which they could be abolished. He 7.Catholic Truth does not support the nuclear weapons at Dunblane. established the Scottish Constitutional industry, in any way.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 7 Thank you for the last excellent issue (no.82). I found the articles on the new Your Letters “canonisations” most enlightening. We’re living in confusing times indeed. More than Billions of thanks for your absolutely During one of President Higgins [Ireland] ever we need to be on our guard and fantastic newsletters which always put into speeches in London recently, he said "We question everything coming from the print exactly what I’ve been thinking about must however never forget those who died, “Conciliar Church”. Best wishes as always. regarding the faith, the Church and (God were bereaved..." Also he quoted French Claire Conlon, Dunoon help us) the current Pope. Paul Ricoeur "to be forgotten is to die twice.” I wonder did the President I’ve just been reading an interview which R.I.P… also remember the 100,000 Irish and 7 Fr Malachi Martin gave in an Art Bell Talk Please pray for the repose of the soul of Miss Hilary million unborn babies killed by abortion in Show in 1998 (just before his untimely McDonald, Norfolk, England who died recently. the UK since the 1967 abortion act, death) regarding the Third Secret of Fatima With Thanks to Mrs Kate Dillon, West Kirby, for including their bereaved families? and the post-Vatican II popes, particularly kindly writing to let us know. Ann Campbell, Co. Monaghan, Ireland Pope John Paul II, after whose 26 year reign Please also pray for the repose of the soul Ed: unfortunately, despite occasional lip-service, of reader, Dr June Barclay, New Zealand, the Church was on its knees. Where’s the the bishops and priests of the Catholic Church evidence of sainthood there? who died in September 2013. Eternal rest are not committed to fighting abortion. If they grant unto them O Lord, and let perpetual The description of all the popes since were, Catholic politicians would not be queuing light shine upon them, may they rest in Vatican II does sound very like the apostasy up to receive Holy Communion alongside pro-life peace. activists at Sunday Mass. They would be of the conciliar popes and that’s obviously reprimanded in whatever suitably “pastoral” why none of them will reveal the entire Third terminology their priest/bishop thought N O T I C E S Secret. appropriate, in order to drive home the message This current Pope wants to destroy our 2000 found in Canon Law that they must not approach for Holy Communion until they had repented of Our sincere gratitude to everyone who year tradition for the sake of a pan their obstinate grave sin of facilitating the murder donated to our funds following the religion/ and all he [seems to be] of unborn babies (see Canon Law # 915). May, 2014 edition. We are impressed and interested in is his popularity with the media Politicians responsible for state-sanctioned touched by your generosity. - never mind saving souls and passing on killing of innocent babies self-evidently fall into the faith (which he is in the process of the category of obstinate public sinners who, if To save postage, we no longer write demolishing). they partake of Holy Communion, are manifestly letters of acknowledgement for individual “eating and drinking unworthily” and, thereby, donations although if you include an As Sister Lucia said, we are in the Last Days “eating and drinking Judgement to himself.” email address, Editor will thank you as foretold in the Apocalypse. Everything (1 Corinthians 11:29). Pro-life issues cannot be personally. Email addresses are included we ever knew is upside down (Satan is often divorced from the crisis in the Church. Apostate bishops and clergy have failed to fight the pro-life cause, as they with all PayPal donations online. represented as an upside down man). What have failed to defend Catholic Faith and true morals A special word of thanks goes to our is good is now mocked, what is bad is great more generally. - and never mind all the chaotic/extreme regular Standing Order flooding and weather conditions etc. All we Many thanks for Catholic Truth No. 82. donors… need now is World War III and the Anti- I find [the newsletter] most interesting and This is because, of course, Christ. Can’t be far off. I’d be surprised if very much a subject for prayer. these regular donations help not. Pat Shepherd, Co. Kerry, Eire I was ordained [an Orthodox Priest] last our planning immensely. year in March in Melbourne, Australia, to Our postage costs The reasons why Popes John XXIII and try to establish a church in Vanuatu - are rising steadily, John Paul II cannot possibly be given full unsuccessful as the Catholic Church is so be assured that sainthood have been well aired. I would like very strong there and only 2 of the 35 your generosity in donating on a to add another. Truly great priests invariably people claiming to be Orthodox would regular basis is very greatly inspire young men to follow them into Holy attend the Sunday liturgy. appreciated. Orders. Why then, in the last fifty years has I went twice to the Catholic cathedral for Miss McMoneypenny. the number of priests in my diocese Mass. It holds about 800 and was full, with decreased by 70%, a drop equalled more people sitting outside - traditional and or less in all the western world. Nuns, the wonderful. In the Blessed Lord’s Name… For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of heart of the Church, have suffered a similar Rev Ronald S. Matheson, Fife water in My name, because you disaster. Our grossly understaffed parishes Ed: welcome home to Scotland, and thank you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, should now be run by this missing ‘John sincerely for your kind letters and generous he shall not lose his reward. Paul II generation’. Jim Allen, Torquay support, all greatly appreciated. (Mark 9:40) Thank you so much for sending me Thank you for your stimulating magazine Catholic Truth. I am sure [the newsletter] is and blog. How is the UK to manage when truly a means to inform, though sometimes 'Bonnie' Scotland chooses Independence? heartbreaking reading at times, but would Will Alexander Eliot Anderson Salmond surely produce much prayer for our beloved qualify for beatification or even, eventually, Church by most of your readers. Sainthood?! The fact that he is not a Catholic of any persuasion, but a loyal and The Editor Could you please send the magazine to the conscientious member of the Church of Catholic Truth, following [names two friends.] Scotland should, in our times of unheroic 10 Sandyford Place Diane Palmer, London Glasgow, G3 7NB Ed: Thank you for your generous support. Your sanctification and Religious Indifferentism, two friends have been sent copies of the May not impede this process! Michael O’Leary, Tel: 0797 90 53666 Wales edition and their names have been added to our Email: mailing list to receive regular copies. Ed: …as long as they don’t ask me to introduce the cause of St Salmond of Scotland! [email protected]

The UK & Irish Bishops plus the Pope and Prefects of every Vatican Congregation receive this publication. If it contradicts Catholic teaching, we invite the Hierarchy to correct us in accordance with their duty under Canon Law # 823

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 8 Diocese of Galloway - Letter continued from p.6 I say “more aware” because I know that broadcasting on Sunday evenings, thereby premises. That was all, nothing about your Congregation has been supplied with breaking the Sabbath. He has recently left breaking the First Commandment. facts on a very regular basis with reports of the priesthood for a married woman, Our once beautiful St Andrew’s Catholic scandals caused by dissident clergy, and causing grave scandal. Cathedral has been renovated to the detrimental results this has on the Next we had Archbishop Mario Conti; I accommodate such profane secular Catholic laity. frequently reported abuses of the liturgy to concerts. There is no reverence shown The problems we face here have been him to no avail. for the Real Presence. ongoing for the past fifty years. Sadly this The spread of ecumenical services has After years of suffering all these and has been at the cost of many souls. also quickly eroded the faith to the extent many more, I received the grace to reject I will offer you some of my own that indifferentism is widespread not only all these errors and find comfort and experiences of these problems and throughout the Archdiocese of Glasgow but peace in attending the Traditional Latin scandals. In the early part of the throughout Scotland. Mass. Mind you that was not an easy eighties, the then Archbishop of solution; it entailed a five hour round trip The use of General Absolution has resulted Glasgow, Thomas Joseph Winning each Sunday to attend. in all sorts of sacrileges. implemented the “Renew” program. Part Even today, six years after Summorum of this involved the formation of small The spread of sectarianism here in the Pontificum, we have not the provision discussion groups. The purpose we were west of Scotland encouraged by some of envisioned by Pope Benedict XVI. I told was primarily to discuss the Catholic the clergy is scandalous. I witnessed one constantly have to explain to friends and faith with a view to strengthening it. Parish Priest begging from the pulpit, for a family that the was not Unfortunately it had the opposite effect, with ticket for a European Cup tie in which abrogated. The ignorance of both clergy people revealing the most intimate details Glasgow Celtic Football Club were taking and laity on this subject is abysmal. It is of their life in the small group setting. This part in Spain. The following week he still a three hour trip to attend. Although led to gossiping and disunity was the result. received not only a ticket for the game but some of the younger clergy protest that No increase in Catholic faith just distrust the cost of flight and accommodation. This they would say this “Extraordinary Rite” and confusion. It also led to the same parish priest now they seem to be prohibited from doing so abandonment of parish activities such as supplements his income by the current Hierarchy. May and October devotions and Lenten by working as a chaplain Stations of the Cross. Parish sodalities also on luxury cruise liners I sincerely hope, Your Grace, that suffered as the Archbishop insisted that the while his parish is left in you will keep your eyes and ears Renew program took precedent over other the hands of poor open when you visit this country to meetings such as St Vincent de Paul, itinerant African priests. give the Annual Cardinal Winning Lecture. I also hope you look at Legion of Mary, Union of Catholic Mothers, Another Parish Priest went off to Lourdes the true legacy which Cardinal Catholic Young Men’s Association. All on Pilgrimage, leaving the Catholic Church Winning left the Church. We have no these apostolates suffered, some in the hands of a group of visiting National Seminary, virtually no Catholic irreparably. This is just one example of the Buddhists. schools, dissident clergy, weak insular destruction of the faith in the Glasgow Each evening this group were using the laity, banal liturgical services and Archdiocese during this period. Church as a fringe venue as absolutely no leadership. Truly we are Shortly before he died, Cardinal Winning part of a visit to Glasgow sheep without a shepherd. Please help openly admitted at a lecture in St Aloysius of the Dalai Lama. They 1 Jesuit College that during his watch the conducted “singing bowl” us. Church had lost two if not three generations concerts and meditation of Catholics due to bad catechesis. He said sessions. I was outraged and “Woe to the shepherds who this in such a jocular fashion that he was went in person to the destroy and tear the sheep of my greeted by spontaneous laughter and Archdiocesan Office to inform the applause, confirming that most of the Archbishop of this desecration of the pasture, saith the Lord. Therefore audience were proof of his statement. The Church. His secretary refused to disturb thus saith the Lord, the God of others were close to tears to witness such him even after I had explained the urgency Israel, to the pastors who feed my betrayal of his office. of my request for a meeting. I sought out the Vicar-General and explained what was people: “You have scattered my Clergy scandals were also plentiful during happening. He said that it was nothing to this period. In my own parish the curate flock and driven them away, and do with him and told me to leave his office made a great display of appealing for as it was none of my business either. you have not visited them: behold, prayers for his mother whom he claimed I will visit upon you for the evil of was dying in Ireland. Many elderly ladies, Meantime a friend of mine was attempting daily Mass-goers were extremely upset, unsuccessfully to inform Cardinal O’Brien your doings, saith the Lord. And providing him with cash contributions and in Edinburgh as he was then Chairman of I will gather together the remnant promises of prayers. The Parish Priest also the Bishops’ Conference. A few friends of my flock out of all the lands into sympathetically, granted him leave of and I gathered at the Church to say the absence to be with his dying mother. A Rosary in reparation for the sacrilege that which I have cast them out. And I week later he was informed by a young was taking place within, they had a picture will make them return to their own seminarian that his curate was not in Ireland of the Dalai Lama on top of the altar, fields: and they shall increase and but was appearing nightly in a city centre surrounded with flowers and candles. The variety hall as comedian/compere. When organisers called the police because we be multiplied. And I will set up the parish priest reported this to Cardinal were discouraging people from attending pastors over them, and they shall Winning, he himself was banished to a thereby resulting in loss of revenue. The feed them: they shall fear no more poorer, obscure parish, where a short time police arrived and said that this surely was later he died broken-hearted at the state of not a criminal matter we should take it up and they shall not be dismayed... the Church. Meanwhile the comedian priest with our Archbishop. They obviously were (Jer 23:1-4) was given promotion to parish priest in quite astonished that we had had to resort another parish. to this public protest. Incidentally the seminarian after ordination Eventually, I received a letter from Foonote 1 as a priest for the Diocese of Motherwell, Archbishop Conti saying that it was Note, the author of this letter, dated 1st June 2013, has also gained notoriety as a secular radio host perfectly alright to have concerts on Church received no reply. Her heartfelt plea has been ignored.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 9 Thinking Through Catholic Truth “I have come to Scotland to unteach heresy and to save souls”

St John Ogilvie SJ St Feast: 10 March Founder of the granted him the peace which he desired, Feast Day 31st July and so he continued until his confessor stopped him at the end of the week. At last, however, he triumphed over all obstacles, St Ignatius was born in 1491 at the castle name is unknown. Then all of a sudden, he and then abounded in wonderful graces of Loyola above Azpeitia in Guipuscoa; he became conscious that the after-effect of and visions. died at Rome, 31 July, 1556. He was these dreams was to make him dry and brought up in the household of Juan dissatisfied, while the ideas of falling into It was at this time, too, that he began to Velásquez de Cuellar, contador mayor to rank among the saints braced and make notes of his spiritual experiences, Ferdinand and Isabella, and in his suite strengthened him, and left him full of joy notes which grew into the little book of "The probably attended the court from time to and peace. Next it dawned on him that the Spiritual Exercises". God also afflicted him time, though not in the royal service. This former ideas were of the world, the latter with severe sicknesses, when he was was perhaps the time of his greatest God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began looked after by friends in the public dissipation and laxity. He was extravagant to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew hospital; for many felt drawn towards him, about his hair and dress, consumed with the clearer. One night as he lay awake, and he requited their many kind offices by desire of winning glory, and would seem to pondering these new lights, "he saw teaching them how to pray and instructing have been sometimes involved in those clearly", so says his autobiography, "the them in spiritual matters. Having recovered darker intrigues, for which handsome young image of Our Lady with health, and acquired sufficient experience courtiers too often think themselves the Holy Child Jesus", at to guide him in his new life, he commenced licensed. How far he went on the downward whose sight for a his long-meditated migration to the Holy course is still unproved. The balance of notable time he felt a Land. From the first he had looked forward evidence tends to show that his own reassuring sweetness, to it as leading to a life of heroic penance; subsequent humble confessions of having which eventually left him now he also regarded it as a school in been a great sinner should not be treated with such a loathing of which he might learn how to realize clearly as pious exaggerations. But we have no his past sins, and and to conform himself perfectly to Christ's details, not even definite charges. especially for those of life. the flesh, that every In 1517 a change for the better seems to The voyage was fully as painful as he had unclean imagination have taken place; Velásquez died and conceived. Poverty, sickness, exposure, seemed blotted out from Ignatius took service in the army. The fatigue, starvation, dangers of shipwreck his soul, and never again was there the turning-point of his life came in 1521. While and capture, prisons, blows, contradictions, least consent to any carnal thought. His the French were besieging the citadel of these were his daily lot; and on his arrival conversion was now complete. Everyone Pampeluna, a cannon ball, passing the Franciscans, who had charge of the noticed that he would speak of nothing but between Ignatius' legs, tore open the left holy places, commanded him to return spiritual things and his elder brother calf and broke the right shin. With his fall under pain of sin. Ignatius demanded what begged him not to take any rash or extreme the garrison lost heart and surrendered, but right they had thus to interfere with a pilgrim resolution, which might compromise the he was well treated by the French and like himself, and the friars explained that, honour of their family. [taken to] Loyola, where his leg had to be to prevent many troubles which had re-broken and reset, and afterwards a When Ignatius left Loyola he had no occurred in finding ransoms for Christian protruding end of the bone was sawn off, definite plans for the future, except that he prisoners, the Pope had given them the and the limb, having been shortened by wished to rival all the saints had done in power and they offered to show him their clumsy setting, was stretched out by the way of penance. His first care was to Bulls. Ignatius at once submitted, though it weights. All these pains were undergone make a general confession at the famous meant altering his whole plan of life, voluntarily, without uttering a cry. But the sanctuary of Montserrat, where, after three refused to look at the proffered Bulls, and pain and weakness which followed were so days of self-examination, and carefully was back at Barcelona about March, 1524. great that the patient began to fail and sink. noting his sins, he confessed, gave to the Eventually he [spent] eleven years, more On the eve of Saints Peter and Paul, poor the rich clothes in which he had come, than a third of his remaining life to studies. however, a turn for the better took place, and put on garment of sack-cloth reaching [He, and his followers] were eventually and he threw off his fever. to his feet. His sword and dagger he made priests on St. John Baptist's day. But suspended at Our Lady's altar, and passed So far Ignatius had shown none but the Ignatius took eighteen months to prepare the night watching before them. Next ordinary virtues of the Spanish officer. His for his first Mass. By the winter of 1537 it morning, the feast of the Annunciation, dangers and sufferings has doubtless done was time to offer their services to the Pope 1522, after Communion, he left the much to purge his soul, but there was no who desired to send them about as sanctuary, not knowing whither he went. idea yet of remodelling his life on any higher missioners from place to place. In April, But he soon fell in with a kind woman, Iñes ideals. Then, in order to divert the weary 1541, Ignatius was elected the first general, Pascual, who showed him a cavern near hours of convalescence, he asked for the and on 22 April he and his companions the neighbouring town of Manresa, where romances of chivalry, his favourite reading, made their profession in St. Paul Outside he might retire for prayer, austerities, and but there were none in the castle, and the Walls. The society was now fully contemplation, while he lived on alms. But instead they brought him the lives of Christ constituted. He was a strong disciplinarian here, instead of obtaining greater peace, and of the saints, and he read them in the but he despised any other motives for he was consumed with the most same quasi-competitive spirit with which he action except the love of God and man. He troublesome scruples: had he confessed read the achievements of knights and died on 31 July, 1556. this sin? Had he omitted that warriors. "Suppose I were to rival this saint circumstance? At one time he was violently in fasting, that one in endurance, that other tempted to end his miseries by suicide, on in pilgrimages." He would then wander off Taken from the Catholic Encyclopaedia which he resolved neither to eat nor to drink into thoughts of chivalry, and service to fair Online http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07639c.htm (unless his life was in danger), until God ladies, especially to one of high rank, whose

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 10 In Defence of the Greatest 20th Century Pope Saint - Pius X Leo Clear described by Anglican critic as “Ill-educated…no formed intellect…old ignoramus… with Jesus, ‘Not my will but Thine be done’” (Dal-Gal, p.53). When asked by his mother patron saint of the half-educated…” why he was so sad while all in his home village rejoiced, the saint replied: “Mother, An Anglican contributor to our blog - you do not realise what it means to be a Zamburlini of Udine, “he was a model for Bishop- I shall lose my soul if I neglect my “Dowden” - recently launched a fierce all in the Seminary.” (ibid p. 10). duty.” attack on Pope Saint Pius X - so much The rector of the Padua Seminary wrote to Of course, defending the reputation of a for ecumenism. the rector of Treviso: “Sarto left nothing to great Pope against ill-informed criticism Dubliner, Leo Clear, responds… be desired. On the contrary, he gave a offers a welcome opportunity to speak of continual example of gravity and his many virtues, or rather to let first hand [Your comments] seriously undermine any excellence in piety and conduct. In a word: witnesses speak. It’s a fair bet that claims to lecture anyone here about may God grant us more young men of this representatives of the Argentine diplomatic scholarship, let alone pass judgement on calibre” (cited in Saint Pius X, by Yves Chiron, service were never anything other than a the academic rigour of the priests of the p. 26). hard bitten, unsentimental bunch. Society of Saint Pius X, to say nothing of “He (the future Pope) would have preferred Ambassador Senor Daniele Garcia- casting baseless, ignorant, and distasteful to attend classes at the university faculty Mansilla has this to say: aspersions on the intellectual standing of of theology rather than those in the “The first impression the Servant of God the Society’s patron [whom you describe as] seminary, in order to simultaneously follow made on me was that here was a man from “ill- educated”, “no formed intellect”, “old a course in oriental languages…To do this whom piety emanated. I could not restrain ignoramus”, “patron saint of the half he would have to live elsewhere. The my tears - a sensation I had never before educated”. Bishop of Treviso would not allow this since experienced. I must add that of all the The implicit suggestion that any scruffy young Sarto’s “free place” was in the Popes whose acquaintance I had the “yoof” strolling, mid- seminary, and not elsewhere” (ibid, p 20). honour to make, none made a deeper morning into the The Pope who would found the Biblical impression on me than Pius X”. (quoted in library to work on Institute “had already- at the age of 19- Pius X, by Father Hieronymo Dal-Gal, p. 180) sensed the importance of reading the some post grad In view of the accusation that the great sacred texts in the language in which God dissertation, saint was somehow responsible for the had inspired them” (ibid, p. 21). looking as though grievous persecution inflicted by the agents he has just woken up I trust that readers of objective mind and of Masonry on the Church in after from two days sleep on a sofa, somehow good will have grasped the point: enforced 1906, it might be fitting to [note the holds an intellectual or educational edge lack of a university degree was no following] quote from a suitably qualified over the Pope responsible for Pascendi is indication of lack of the required ability and son of the “Eldest Daughter of the Church”. more than slightly ridiculous. Let those who application, much less grounds for some Monsignor Baudrillart, a member of the wish to cast judgment on the great Saint’s charge of “anti-intellectualism”. As stated French Academy, and future Cardinal, who powers of intellect read that particular previously, the abundant evidence of the visited Pope Pius in Rome every year from encyclical and examine all the other saint’s great mind can be read by anyone. 1907 to 1914, offered this testimony: abundant evidence. The absolute necessity of natural “His appearance, his words and his [I will examine, in turn, your] blatant errors intellectual accomplishments on the part of personality manifested his generosity, regarding the French secular powers’ the successors of the apostles is rather firmness, and faith: generosity revealed the breach of the 1801 Concordat, the open to question. A cursory acquaintance man, firmness the leader, and faith the treatment of the apostate Jesuit, George with the is enough to take priest, the Pope, the man of God. A more Tyrell, and the sainted Pope Saint Pius X’ that in. Over the last fifty years, there have spiritual man it would be hard to imagine. defence of the Deposit of the Faith against been at least three successors of Peter ‘Deus providebit’, which was ever on his the assault of the Modernists. There is a whose academic achievements are unlikely lips, characterised the faith burning in his compelling need to defend the good name to be called into question by those now soul. When he had made a decision he did of a truly, absolutely, outstanding Vicar of occupying the major seats of modern not worry about the consequences any Christ against ignorant, outrageous, learning. more, in the knowledge that God would baseless, and unsubstantiated slurs. Objectively speaking, those Popes have change insignificant and passing evil into No other Pope in history is known to have overseen a catastrophic breakdown in useful and permanent good. He seemed to passed through all the grades of the Church governance and religious life, have a special intuition for always doing Hierarchy before ascending to the Chair of almost universal liturgical abominations, the right thing. Calm and unperturbed, he Peter. The fact that this did not involve and, putting things charitably, a totally pointed out evil wherever he came across spending time at University is not inadequate and ineffective safeguarding it, and he never allowed fear of men to admissible as evidence of lack of intellect and transmission of the Faith. The “auto make him deviate from the path of duty. or learning. destruction” [within the Church - Pope Paul VI] Never was there a Pope who fulfilled more Young Giuseppe Sarto was an exceptional and “silent apostasy”, [Pope John Paul II] perfectly the role of reformer. Ever faithful student to the end of his days in the arguably resulting in significant measure to his principle ‘Instaurare Omnia in Seminary. At the conclusion of his first year, from the manifest failure, for whatever Christo’ he set about and accomplished his he earned the following commendation: reason, to imitate Pope Saint Pius X, have task with incomparable energy. While endangered countless millions of souls. Governments feared him, the people loved “In discipline second to none, of the greatest him and were inspired with confidence by As for his appointment to the episcopacy, ability, (blest) with a very great memory, and his fatherly spirit.” (ibid, p.179-180) (giving) the highest promise.” (Pius X, Fr. the only dispensation that Monsignor Sarto Hieronymo Dal-Gal, p.8). “Eminent in study, in sought from Pope Leo XIII was to be diligence and piety,” wrote Archbishop spared the task, before humbly accepting his cross. “What a Calvary! I can but say Continued on p.12

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 11 Pope Saint Pius X …Continued from p.11 [Turning now to the] ill-informed It’s beyond reasonable argument that the 1906 (six months after the law was and unsubstantiated judgement deterioration in relations between the enacted), before condemning this attack on the dealings of Pope St Pius X secularists of France and the Holy See against the God-given constitution of the with the enemies of Christ in were, by unilateral orchestration, well under Church two months later in the encyclical, France, [you say] “His profound way before Pope Saint Pius X became Gravissimo Officii Munere. The French ignorance of the wider world led him into all Supreme Pontiff. The offending party didn’t bishops had pronounced against the cult sorts of disasters, from a pointless conflict even try to hide their bad faith. In a speech associations as the December law with France… inept handling creating a delivered to the Senate in March 1903, envisaged them, by a majority of 72 to 2 needless crisis… innocent French religious Combes cynically stated that: (Chiron, p. 179). were sacrificed in an aberrant policy phase “To denounce the Concordat just now The Pope, as much as anyone was aware before educated common sense reasserted without having sufficiently prepared men’s of the likely vicious retribution in itself”. minds for it, without having clearly proved consequence of rejection of the policy of In view of the tidal wave of concerns that the Catholic clergy themselves are appeasement, and refusal to be forced by engulfing faithful Catholics in these times, provoking it and rendering it inevitable, the Church’s enemies down the path of ruin relations between the Vicar of Christ and would be bad policy on the part of the of the Church in France. To maintain that the secular, or rather secularist, powers in government, by reason of the resentment the despoliation and confiscations were France in the late nineteenth early twentieth which might be caused in the country. I do somehow the responsibility of the Pope is centuries might not be a pressing interest not say that the connection between a bit like suggesting that the Poles were at present. Nevertheless, given the ever Church and State will not someday be responsible for the Nazi onslaught on their more open attacks of the powers of severed; I do not even say that that is not homeland in September 1939. darkness, it can’t be said that those events near. I merely say that the day has not yet “No other course of action was left open to are irrelevant to modern times. A bit of come.” (Pope Saint Pius X, F. A. Forbes, p. 96). Us without greatly offending Our background might be useful. As early as The secularists’ programme of provocation conscience. Fearlessly, therefore, we look 1869, Leon Gambetta, a Freemason, had included a visit by the to the judgement of history, for it was never urged the separation of Church and State French President to the Our intention to humble a civil power or in the famous Programme of Belleville King of Italy in Rome, as oppose any particular form of Government, (Saint Pius X, by Yves Chiron, p. 161). well as French political but merely to defend the rights of the There followed decrees against interference in the Church founded by Christ Jesus Our Lord” unauthorised religious congregations course of allegations of (Encyclical, Une fois encore, January 1907). (March 29, 1880), a law suppressing the scandal against two The ordeal inflicted on the Church in observation of Sunday rest (July 12, 1880) French Bishops, who France undoubtedly led to frustration of the a law on compulsory education and the resisted summonses to aims of the enemy and vindication for the laicising of education (March 28, 1882), a Pope Saint Pius X Rome. When the Pope Pope. There was no “Gallican” or law authorising divorce (July 27, 1884), a persisted in his duty to interview them “republican” schism [as alleged by Anglican law laicising the personnel in state schools, concerning a matter of ecclesiastical critic on the Catholic Truth blog]. Rather (October 30, 1886), a law of associations discipline, not diplomacy, the French Separation had the effect of attaching the (July 1, 1901), which forbade religious government used it as a pretext for clergy and laity of France more closely to congregations to exist unless they were breaking off diplomatic relations (Pius X, Rome. authorised, and making the existence of the Father Hieronymo Dal-Gal, p. 171). others dependent on the goodwill of the “Our bishops, priests and people,” wrote The false claims about the Pope, made in political authorities. The French government George Fonsegrive in 1913, “are absolutely confidence to the French ambassador by ignored protest from Leo XIII against the devoted to Rome and obedient to the Pope. a Cardinal who had been overlooked for latter. Previously, in his 1892 encyclical Au After the passing of the Separation Law all promotion didn’t help matters. milieu des sollicitudes, the Pope had the orders of the Pope were immediately denounced the “vast conspiracy planned by Finally, on December 9 1905, the executed…every attack on its members certain men to annihilate Christianity in separation of Church and State in France attaches them more strongly to the source France.” finally became law. There was no hasty and centre of their life. Religious life is over reaction from Saint Pius, but a everywhere increasing in depth and It’s quite clear what any Pope of that era measured response over time which intensity” (Forbes, p. 102). was going to be faced with. The persecution included three encyclicals, a religious of the Catholic Church by Mason-ridden In answering baseless and ridiculous response in the form of the consecration of governments was under way in France long claims about “profound ignorance of the 14 bishops, and then the examination of before the 1903 conclave [when Guiseppe wider world”, the coming months offer a the law’s practical consequences, which Sarto - - was elected]. The timely opportunity to contrast the political included Church property becoming State fruits of the diabolical programme were very and diplomatic perception of Saint Pius X property, controlled by locally elected “cult evident. with the madness and incompetence that associations” who would take possession engulfed Palaces, Cabinet offices, General In 1880, 38 male religious congregations of Church property. Such an arrangement Staff HQs, and newspaper offices across were expelled (Unholy Craft, by Arnaud de was obviously “contrary to the divine Europe a century ago. “I see a great war”, Lassus, p. 133). constitution of the Church, Her essential Pope Saint Pius told his sisters from time Due to the law of associations, there were rights and Her liberty” (encyclical, to time. His Secretary of State, Cardinal 8,200 closures of schools between July Vehementer nos). These cult associations, Merry del Val gives the same witness. “I 1901 and December 1903 (Chiron, p. 164). independent of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, can testify that Pius X on many occasions The exile of Religious Communities from could be made up of laymen hostile to the predicted the unleashing of the Great War France in 1901 was proof that the good will Bishop and clergy. The Church was clearly in Europe…As early as 1911 and 1912 the of Pope Leo had been snubbed and that his held to ransom by the fear that the State Holy Father spoke of an imminent conflict, effort at reconciliation had failed. would put the Church’s property to other and he referred to it in terms that made a use if agreement was not forthcoming. deep impression on me” (cited in Chiron, p. Emile Combes, President from 1902, and a 298). Freemason, determined to provoke a Pius X did not reject the new cult breach with Rome in order to achieve his associations hastily but waited to see how On the Roman question, gestures of aim of separation of Church and State, “a the law would be applied, wanted to have goodwill by Pope Pius X laid the lay society, unencumbered with all clerical the issued studied by legal experts, and groundwork for the eventual signing of the subjection” (interview in London National sought the views of the French Bishops at Review, March 1905, cited in Chiron, p. 164). a plenary assembly on 30 May to 1 June Continued on p.13

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 12 Pope Saint Pius X …Continued from p.12 . The French ambassador to Alfred Firmin Loisy [French priest and from Martin, insights which get more Rome, Barrere, was realistic enough in author of ‘My Duel with the Vatican: the relevant by the day. 1904, to acknowledge “the continuation of autobiography of a Catholic Modernist’] “The true Catholic, according to Tyrrell, Pius X’s personal policy, which favours, not described Tyrrell’s posthumous book, ‘believes in humanity; he believes in the conciliation above everything else, but a de Christianity at the Cross-roads as “a world. To deny that God is the primary facto rapprochement with Italy” (cited in prophesy of revolution” (Davies, p. 74) author of all intellectual, aesthetic, moral, Chiron, p. 258). Tyrrell’s open attack on Pascendi in two social, and political progress seems to a [So], let’s hear no more talk of “inept letters to The Times left the Holy See and Modernist mind the most subtle and handling creating a needless crisis”, or his Bishop with no alternative, if they were dangerous form of atheism’” (p. 279). “profound ignorance of the wider world”. to drag him out of his errors. Remember, Tyrrell expressed the view that “to feel the in those days, pastors did actually see the “Heresy has been called a canker: “It relation of fraternity between the various salvation of souls as an absolute priority. spreadeth like a canker”. (2 Tim. 2:17) members of the religious family…is to be Tyrrell’s attitude of defiant rebellion is best a Catholic”; for “Modernism acknowledges As a canker infects the whole summed up by the prideful words he among the religions of the world a certain body, so heresy infects the addressed to the fatherly Bishop Amigo in unity of variety” (p. 280). whole soul - the mind, the heart, a letter of 1 November 1907: “However life the intellect and the will. It is also is too short and busy to be wasted in Don’t let anyone think that the crisis in the called a plague; for it not only wrangling over words; and my experience Church today is some sort of manifestation infects the one contaminated with of the last two years convinces me that any of haphazard, accidental, imprudent it, but others who associate with him. Truly further correspondence with Pius X or his bumbling and foolishness motivated solely the spread of this plague in the world has representatives would be worse than futile” by efforts to be on good terms with injured the Church more than idolatry. – (Davies, pp 81-82). everyone. Saint , The History of Heresies. One last brilliant quote from Martin: [The] ill-informed and unsubstantiated Don’t let anyone think that attack on Saint Pius X on [the Catholic Truth the crisis in the Church “Without a doubt, were Tyrrell alive today, blog] included the charge of “an evil he would not be beyond the pale, but would persecution of an unfortunate Irish Jesuit”. today is some sort of be flourishing in a professor’s chair at a Jesuit university or seminary” (p. 283) I presume this unnamed individual is the manifestation of convert who apostatised, . Says it all, really. Tragically, Tyrrell on all available and haphazard, accidental, I don’t know how “unfortunate” readers will indisputable evidence was a pertinacious imprudent bumbling and consider Tyrrell to have been. Tragic, it heretic who failed to recant, even on his certainly appears, in the only matter that deathbed. His name may not be widely foolishness motivated solely counts. I trust readers can judge for mentioned nowadays, but along with fellow by efforts to be on good themselves on the charge that he was the excommunicated priest Alfred Loisy and victim of some so-called “evil persecution” layman , he can be terms with everyone. on the part of those who in Christian charity identified as one of the “heralds” of the tried to save him from himself and drag him Invasion of the Modernists which has In a brilliant post about the Jesuits before back into the Barque of Peter, outside of wrought previously unimaginable Christmas, [Catholic Truth blogger] which there is no salvation. destruction in the Church and danger to Christina mentioned the late Father souls over the last five decades. But for their Malachi Martin’s book entitled, The Jesuits. “Guard the deposit committed to thy trust, “heirs”, discussions on this blog might even I would say that this book is pretty much avoiding the profane novelties of words and be confined to serene and edifying essential reading for anyone who wants to opposition of knowledge falsely so-called” “devotional” threads or discussions on get a real grasp of the descent into (1 Tim 6:20) apostasy amongst Jesuits in particular, and inspirational pastoral letters and encyclicals [Our Anglican critic] certainly managed to which clearly articulated Catholic Truth. the Modernist crisis in the Church in general, and also get some idea of what cram in an above average amount of While with the Jesuits, Tyrrell “was almost makes the present Successor to Peter tick. unsubstantiated and unsustainable expelled before taking his final vows. His Even starting off at the chapter devoted to assaults against reality and truth. [He] superior saw in him a violent self-will that Tyrrell is enough to grasp the scale of the actually called Pope St Pius X “a simple made him unfit for the Society…In 1899 the nightmare: peasant clinging to the faith of his Jesuit General in Rome condemned an uneducated ancestors and condemning article Tyrrell has written as unorthodox” “What makes Tyrrell’s case most relevant any newer intellectual view, which he (Partisans of Error, by Michael Davies, p. 35). in any assessment of a large number of understood no better than they did, as Jesuits today – as well as an equally large being ‘modernism.’” He charged Pope St The Jesuits actually expelled him in 1906, number of theologians and bishops – is the a year before he launched his attack against Pius X with “anti-intellectualism”. Once uncanny resemblance between their views again nothing remotely resembling serious Pascendi [Encyclical of Pope Pius X On the and Tyrrell’s views, between their attitude Doctrines of the Modernists]. evidence that would stand up to any sort to papacy and Church hierarchy and of scrutiny is presented. Tyrrell was very much the forerunner of the Tyrrell’s attitude” (p. 275). The fact that these slurs are not original Modernist termites and sappers who wished Martin quotes the words of Tyrrell that very to stay within the Church while they carried doesn’t make them any less objectionable. succinctly demonstrate the apostate’s Talk of “parrots” is a more than a little hard out their programme of destruction. Before errors: his death, Tyrrell acknowledged that the to take. [Anglican critic writes - “Pius X is revolution had been halted, if temporarily, “We cannot frame our minds to that of a a sort of patron saint of the half-educated but “he hoped that the day would come first century Jewish Carpenter”. (P.279) and, in selecting their patron, the Lefebrists when ‘thanks to a silent and secret (sic) presumably gladly espouse his anti- Tyrrell denied , the intellectualism. There is no harm in being preparation we shall have won a much Church’s teaching authority, Divine greater proportion of the army of the Church an out-and-proud holy but brain-dead Revelation through the Bible, and a raft of Old Believer, parroting the words to the cause of liberty’” (Davies, p.73). Davies other Church dogmas. quite rightly states that substituting “error” of a Dead Pope’s Society it is just for “liberty” would match the current crisis If anyone thinks the Modernist toxins of a matter of being honest about the with Tyrrell’s aspirations. Tyrrell and others are buried in a previous game one is playing – real age just consider the following insights Continued on p.14

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 13 Pope Saint Pius X …Continued from p.13 archaeology or pious legends of dubious dislike for all that savours of antiquity and death, praise came from the unlikely figure saints.” ] become eager searchers after novelties.... of Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro who wrote Ed: note: “parroting” is a sarcastic reference to The law of our forefathers should still be that “the number of documents relating to the passing on of Catholic Tradition. held sacred: let there be no innovation: Holy Scripture which the holy Pope issued As Pope, Saint Pius X expressed acute keep to what has been handed down." with his authority, was greater than any awareness of the grave responsibility of Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922), Encyclical Ad other pope had published.” Beatissimi Apostolorum, November 1, 1914. office in his 1906 Encyclical Pieni l’animo: Father Leopold Fonck, a German exegete, “With our soul full of fear for the strict Can [our Anglican critic] produce any was head of a Higher Course of Sacred account we shall have to give one day to evidence that Pope Pius XII or Father Scripture for clerics already possessing the Prince of Pastors, Jesus Christ, with Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP who were diplomas in theology, which was set up at regard to the flock entrusted to us by Him, responsible for the 1950 encyclical, the Pontifical Gregorian University. During we pass our days in continued anxiety to Humani Generis were somehow guilty of an audience with the Pope on January 10, preserve the faithful, as far as possible, from “anti-intellectualism”? To make such an 1909, he was struck by the Pontiff’s the most pernicious evils by which human attempt really is to invite ridicule. That enthusiasm and by “the exact nature of his society is at present afflicted.” particular encyclical can be seen as a knowledge” on Biblical studies. prime example of continuity, a strong The virtue of charity cannot contradict truth. addition to the bastions and weapons During the audience the Pope gave the “Catholic doctrine tells us that the primary against Modernism that were in place following encouragement: duty of charity does not lie in the toleration thanks to Pope Pius IX’s Quanta Cura and of false ideas, however sincere they may “I do not think that we can be content to Pius X’s Pascendi. be, nor in the theoretical or practical teach the ancient doctrines with old indifference toward the errors and vices in “For truth and its philosophic expression methods, spurning genuine progress. which we see our brethren plunged but in cannot change from day to day…Let no Without distancing ourselves from antiquity the zeal for their intellectual and moral Christian therefore, whether philosopher or in matters of principle, we must improvement as well as for their material theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly nevertheless take account of new well-being…” (Pope Saint Pius X, Our Apostolic whatever novelty happens to be thought up approaches in matters of form and method, Mandate.) from day to day, but rather let him weigh it not following the modernist method, but in a modern way in a good sense.” In exercising his office as Christ’s Vicar on with painstaking care and a balanced Earth, the sainted Pope did nothing more judgement, lest he lose or corrupt the truth I think readers have, at this stage sufficient than fulfil his duty to safeguard and transmit he already has, with grave danger and evidence to make up their minds about the Sacred Deposit of the Faith as very damage to his faith.” Humani Generis #30 “parrot” and “old ignoramus” slurs, and clearly proclaimed at Vatican I. “For the Holy The old chestnut hurled at Pope St Pius X charges of “condemning any new Spirit was not promised to the successors about “anti-intellectualism” is another intellectual view” and “anti-intellectualism”. of Peter that they might disclose new example of fantasy and ignorance washing Anybody wishing to do further should read doctrine, but that by His help they might against the hard rock of evidence. the excellent biography of the sainted Pope guard sacredly the revelation transmitted by Yves Chiron, entitled Saint Pius X, As mentioned previously, as a nineteen through the Apostles and the new deposit Restorer of the Church. year old seminarian, Giuseppe Sarto of faith, and might faithfully set it forth.” Vatican I, see Denzinger 1836 realised the importance of studying Oriental languages. As Pope, while being a Continued on p.15 The “simple peasant clinging to the faith of determined opponent of rash exegetical his uneducated ancestors” jibe is very works, he was an enthusiastic promoter of revealing. Does [our Anglican critic] propose Biblical studies. Factual evidence reduces that someone compile a catalogue of social to powder claims of an aversion to classes for the Saints and Doctors of the scholarship and “anti-intellectualism”. Church going all the way back to the Holy Family? Does anyone think that Our Lord “Just as one must condemn the temerity of got it wrong in his choice of disciples? those who, more anxious to follow the taste I claim no automatic superiority in sanctity for novelty than the teaching of the Church, or religious knowledge over any semi- employ critical procedures that are literate farm labourer or scullery maid of a excessively free; one must also disapprove hundred years ago. I’m certain that very few of the attitude of those who will not, in any of the Kantian Modernist mind rot infested way, risk breaking with the current scriptural exegesis, even when - providing It is not charitable to inhabitants of academia in these days of the tolerate errors in religion Zombie Apocalypse can do so. In passing, that the faith remains sound - the and immorality. As Pope I it might be of interest to know that the wholesome progress of studies commands have a duty to speak out… previously mentioned convert turned them to do so; you have set your course, apostate George Tyrrell had his interest in most felicitously between these two the Faith awoken by his mother’s maid. extremes.” Letter of Pius X to Monsignor Le Camus, January 11, 1906. The words of a long list of Popes can be In 1904, in his Apostolic Letter Scripturae produced as evidence of the papal duty to Sanctae, the Pope affirmed his desire to adhere to Tradition. Not that it matters, but “promote the study of Sacred Scripture would anyone consider either St Pius X’s more and more amongst the clergy.” predecessor or successor as “a simple Pope St Pius X peasant clinging to the faith of his Two years later in another Apostolic Letter, ancestors”? Quoniam Re Biblica, he wrote that the professor of Sacred Scripture “will Do [any of Pope St Pius X’s critics] have Who am I to judge ? assimilate all the genuine progress of this any response to the words of the latter: science and all the discoveries of modern "Nor do we merely desire that Catholics scholars, but he will leave to one side the should shrink from the errors of Modernism, adventurous commentaries of innovators.” but also from the tendencies, or what is In 1909, in line with his predecessor’s called the spirit, of Modernism. Those who initiative, the Pope founded the Pontifical are infected by that spirit develop a keen Biblical Institute. Forty years after his Pope Francis

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 14 Pope Saint Pius X …Continued from p.14 [Our Anglican critic] has made the rather credible in the 20th. You might as well say to have its origin in the opinion of some outlandish, not to say ill-informed, irrational that a certain can be believed Holy Father or particular Council is not a and provocative claim that: “The choice for on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Divine Tradition, even though it should be the professed Romanist is between Tuesdays.” (Orthodoxy, p. 135) celebrated throughout the entire Church. For if we did not attend to this rule, we accepting the authority of a living I’ve already referred to the abundant should have to admit without certain Bishop of Rome, who is always evidence of Church teachers concerning foundation, new revelations regarding faith liable to think, and (‘having thunk’) the immutability of doctrine throughout the or morals, which has been always abhorred share his thoughts, or clinging Church’s history. They have been and impugned in the Church by men the grimly to the dead words of dead presented regularly on the Catholic Truth most attached to religion. Hence, the theologians and dead popes from whatever blog. sovereign pontiffs, the Councils, and the obscure period of history takes the fancy.” Is [our Anglican critic] now going to put Fathers, have been most careful to reject (Catholic Truth blog, General Discussion Thread, forward the private judgement that all these all novelties or new doctrines on matters of May 23, 1.55pm) , Doctors and Popes were faith, which differed from those that had If words have any meaning, he has grasped anti-intellectual, ignorami who suppressed been already received." (St. Alphonus Liguori, nothing from the Church’s teaching on the orthodox and divinely guided learning until Exposition and defense of all the points of Faith immutability of doctrine, as expressed since the Invasion of the Modernists liberated the discussed and defined by the Sacred Council of Apostolic times by Saints, Fathers of the Catholic faithful? Trent, Dublin 1846, Pg. 51) Church, Doctors of the Church and Popes On reading ignorant and unsubstantiated right up to Vatican II. Unless he has missed They tell me a attacks on the reputation of one of the great the much repeated evidence on the Catholic small child Truth blog, it appears as though he is Popes, or indeed any of the other great should be able papal defenders of Catholic Truth, men determined to languish in the slow learners’ to understand class. who have zero chance of being canonised this. Go out while the Modernists occupiers remain in Quite frankly, any child above the age of and find place, I’m reminded of the following words reason should be able to grasp that truth [Dowden] a in Pascendi: does not change. The five times tables and small child. He the law of gravity will change before Divine can’t make “There is little reason to wonder that the Law and Truth will change. To suggest or head nor tail Modernist vent all their bitterness and imply that a successor to Peter “liable to of it… hatred on Catholics who zealously fight the think” is somehow mandated to change battles of the Church. There is no species constant Church doctrine is to suggest that of insult which they do not heap upon them, the Vicar of Christ is nothing more than but their usual course is to charge them Repeating the words of one of those some sort of guru or cult leader. with ignorance and obstinacy…For them Doctors should be sufficient here: in the the scholarship of a writer is in direct “Remember your prelates who have spoken 4th Century, St. Vincent of Lérins explained proportion to the recklessness of his the word of God to you; whose faith follow, what constitutes the proper development attacks on antiquity, and of his efforts to considering the end of their conversation, of Catholic doctrine: undermine tradition and the ecclesiastical Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today; and the “Let, then, the intelligence, science, and magisterium…The young, excited and same forever.” (Hebrews 13: 7-8) wisdom of each and all, of individuals and confused by all this clamour of praise and Truth does not change, whatever tactics the of the whole Church, in all ages and in all abuse, some of them afraid of being Modernists employ. Of course the disciples times, increase and flourish in abundance; branded as ignorant, other ambitious to of Modernist apostate George Tyrrell will but simply in its own proper kind, that is to rank among the learned, and both classes choose instead to cling to his pride dripping say, in one and the same doctrine, one in goaded internally by curiosity and pride, not words concerning truth: the same sense, and one in the same infrequently surrender and give themselves up to Modernism.” “…it is always and necessarily we ourselves judgment.” who speak to ourselves and who (aided no Rather than being contradicted, that Perhaps [Catholic Truth readers] might doubt by the immanent God) work out truth teaching on Tradition was dogmatically and take solace from those words. by ourselves.” infallibly enshrined in Vatican I, which (Scylla and Charybdis, p. 281 cited in Michael teaches in the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Leo is an accountant who lives and works in Davies’ Partisans of Error, p. XV). Filius: “Hence that meaning (sensus) of the Dublin, Ireland. He is a regular contributor to the Catholic Truth blog. Davies gives the logical interpretation of sacred doctrine must always be retained what Tyrrell has just said: “In plain words, which holy mother the Church has once God is ourselves.” declared, and we must never abandon that Since many of you do not meaning under the appearance or in the belong to the Catholic Our Lord instructed the first Pope to name of a deeper understanding.” Church and others are non- “confirm thy brethren” in the faith (Luke believers, from the bottom of 22:32).He didn’t tell him to do a bit of brain The need for papal vigilance concerning my heart I give this silent storming to see if he could come up with the presentation of sound doctrine is not a blessing to each and every any new ideas. When Saint Paul was tipped modern phenomenon. Pope Clement XIII’s one of you, respecting the off his horse on the road to Damascus, he warned in his 1761 encyclical, Dominico conscience of each one of didn’t hear a Voice saying that the Church Agro, that none of the faithful should have you but knowing that each would benefit from his ideas. He was well “extraordinary opinions proposed to them, one of you is a child of God. Pope Francis and truly reduced to humble submission. not even from Catholic doctors; instead, they should listen to those opinions which G.K. Chesterton, in his own inimitable way, have the most certain criteria of Catholic Where is the road which expressed judgement on the idea of truth: universality, antiquity, and unanimity.” leads us to Jesus Christ? It changeable doctrine, a judgement with is before our eyes: it is the which, surely, no Catholic can disagree: Concerning Popes who are tempted to Church. enthusiastic over-indulgence towards “An imbecile habit has arisen in the modern It is our duty to recall to untrammelled thinking when it comes to everyone, great and small, controversy of saying that such and such a carrying out their duty as Vicar of Christ, creed can be held in one age but cannot be the absolute necessity we are another Doctor of the Church sets forth the under to have recourse to this held in another. Some dogma, we are told, guiding principle, again totally in line with Church in order to work out was credible in the 12th Century, but is not constant Church teaching: "What is found Pope St Pius X our eternal salvation.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 15 The Green Scapular Is There a “Gay” Do miracles still happen? Culture at the Ellen Ward

A few years ago there was a popular song in this offering. This therefore is how she Catholic Herald? performed on the X Factor about miracles. depicts the graces radiating from her Editor I can’t remember the exact words but the Immaculate Heart to us. As she was given gist of it was “when you believe” then to us from the Cross as our Mother so she My attention was drawn to a letter in the wonderful things happen. Do wonderful has all the graces from this event to give to Catholic Herald (23/5/14) penned by Fr things still happen today? us in her motherly care. The most important Julian Shurgold, who is a priest of the Do we ever wonder why Our Lady came grace for each of us is the grace of Archdiocese of Southwark, England. His to Paris in 1830 to present the Miraculous conversion. opening salvo set the scene: “Why do so Medal to St Catherine Laboure? many of your correspondents take such a This is one of the graces attributed by many serious, humourless and overly pious who have used the Green Scapular. It was a tremendous sign that God was view of the world?” with His people. France was, One of the first miracles was the man who Now if you think he was referring to the and soon all of Europe would was in charge of producing the scapulars. letters from Modernists distraught at the be, in turmoil as a result of He had been very careless about the introduction of the new translation of the the . practice of religion himself, but had recently new Mass (which, don’t laugh, they Although the Revolution returned to full practise; however, his describe as the “old” Mass) you’d be began in 1789 it caused bookkeeper was an unbeliever and was wrong. I’d not read the original letter to devastation in France well very ill. He prayed fervently and was which Fr Shurgold was replying but it instrumental in his friend accepting a into the 19th century. The apparitions of wasn’t difficult to guess the gist of it scapular and being reconciled to God on because Fr Shurgold went full steam Our Lady to St Catherine (1830), Justine his deathbed. Bisqueyburu (1840) and the children at La ahead, moving swiftly from insulting The scapular was widely distributed by the “humourless” Herald readers to praising Salette (1846) are generally associated Daughters of Charity and countless with all the unrest and upheaval stemming the transgender winner of the Eurovision miracles occurred. These Song Contest, “Conchita” (real name from the Godlessness of the French miracles and graces are still 1 Revolution. available today. All that is Thomas Neuwirth) and to celebrate “her” The result of this visit of Our Lady to St required that the scapular be victory as “a well-deserved black eye for Catherine Laboure was that the medal was blessed by a priest and either Putin, certain members of the Russian approved by His Holiness Pope Pius IX worn about the body or even Orthodox Church and other vile, bullying and was distributed throughout the world. just placed in someone’s Russian homophobes”. His scandalous The miracles that were attributed to the room if they are sceptical. letter concludes with the observation that wearing of this medal were so great that it The prayer on the scapular “…many leading Russians were seriously was nicknamed “The Miraculous Medal.” should be said each day; it upset by Conchita. Well, it all goes to This was only the first of many apparitions can be said by the person giving it not show that there may be justice in the world of Our Lady to encourage the people not necessarily by the one who is prayed for. after all.” to lose heart, to trust in God and in the When Our Lady appeared to the children at I emailed Fr Shurgold to express surprise miracles and graces He would bestow on Fatima, she again showed them her at his “indulgent attitude” towards those who asked. Immaculate Heart and said that God wishes “Conchita” and, clearly furious, he replied: In the same convent of the Daughters of to establish in the world, devotion to her “How wicked of me to be “indulgent” to Charity of St Vincent de Paul in 1840, Our Immaculate Heart. We must take these Conchita - after all she`s only a human Lady again appeared to another novice apparitions seriously. If we do not believe being who`s different, and I`m in good called Justine Bisqueyburu and gave her maybe the first miracle we should ask for is company, as Cardinal Schornborn,2 the the design for the Green Scapular. This is the grace to believe. Archbishop of , has said: ‘I am glad that Tom Neuwirth [Conchita] had such a piece of green cloth with a picture of the There is so much scepticism today; it is very success… as we all know, there is multi- Immaculate Heart of Mary, pierced with the sad that people have lost their faith in the coloured variety in God`s garden’… sword, recalling the prophesy of Simeon sacramentals of the Church. It is not really “Tut, tut, I hope I`m not getting too in St Luke’s Gospel. This heart is encircled surprising when even the requirements for charitable and upsetting all those ‘right- with a prayer “Immaculate Heart of Mary miracles for canonisations are overlooked. thinking’ people who’ve got God in their pray for us sinners now and at the hour of But we must restore this practise of using pocket!” our death.” On the other side is a picture what are very special gifts from God. It will of Our Lady with her heart exposed and not only work miracles for the people we I submitted a letter to the Catholic Herald radiating rays of love for all her children. give them to, it will increase our faith and asking Fr Shurgold to explain why a It is a most unusual portrayal of Our Lady trust in Our Lady’s promises for ourselves. Catholic priest would employ a term like as she has no head covering. She “homophobe”, coined by “gay” lobbyists explained that this is when she stood at to deter all criticism of their “lifestyle”. It the foot of the Cross after having taken off was not published on the grounds that it her veil to cover the nakedness of her was “too short” and so didn’t take the beloved Son. This is the very moment of Glaswegian, Ellen Ward served on the discussion forward. It all seems to confirm the Crucifixion. When our Lord said Newsletter Team for a number of years as the rumours about a “gay culture” at the “Father forgive them, they know not what Treasurer. She is credited with coining the Catholic Herald. Note: Fr Shurgold never they do.” Our Blessed Lady heard these name Miss McMoneypenny. Ellen did give us a reason, in any of his emails, words and echoed them in Her Immaculate continues to work with the Team as an for his use of “homophobe”. Say nothing. Adviser and sometime Columnist. Heart. This was the climax of His life here Footnotes on earth, offering His life for our salvation. 1 Throughout his letter Fr Shurgold used the feminine At every Holy Mass we attend this is what pronoun. happens, Our Blessed Lord offers His life 2 Notorious public dissenter, previously featured in several for us and she stands beside Him sharing editions of this newsletter and on our blog.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 16 News From Cyberspace hurled in with sewage is not correct. When Irish Eyes There are things going on O’Neill noted exaggerated reactions to the in the Church and in the piece in prominent media outlets that world that you won’t read compared the Tuam home to the Nazi Holocaust and the Rwandan atrocities. (uncensored, if at all) in the press. Thanks to the internet, we can “What madness is this? How did speculation that some children out of 796 bring you this challenge to the news might have been buried in a former septic Are NOT Smiling reports about the burial of hundreds tank become news headlines about 800 The Association of Catholic Priests of babies at an Irish Catholic home dead children having been found in a septic (ACP), in Ireland, says the church must for unwed mothers. tank, leading to comparisons being made ordain women and allow priests to marry between Ireland’s old nuns and the in order to survive. Pointing out that there Distorted claims about the burials of architects of the Nazi Holocaust?” are only two priests under the age of 40 hundreds of children who died at an Irish “There is no doubt that life was grim in that in the Dublin archdiocese, Father Sean home for unwed mothers show a trend of home in Tuam, as it was across the west McDonagh says the Church is “facing an “exaggerations and myths” about injustices of Ireland in the early to mid-twentieth implosion in terms of vocations to the in the country's Catholic past, one century,” O’Neill acknowledged. He noted priesthood.” 1 commentator charged. The truth about the the “depressingly high” infant mortality in Heavens above, even the Modernist hundreds of children allegedly buried in a early 20th century Ireland, particularly due Pope Francis has said unequivocally that septic tank “was a very different story to the to the spread of infection in institutions. He the door is closed to women's ordination. fact-lite, fury-heavy tale that had already said that the Ireland of previous centuries Double-locked and bolted. Somebody gone round the world,” said Brendan was “sometimes a harsh and unpleasant needs to tell the hapless members of the O’Neill, editor of Spiked Online. O'Neill place” and the Catholic Church Association of (anything but) Catholic made his remarks in a June 9 editorial about “undoubtedly” mistreated some women and Priests to get over it! news coverage of the Bons Secours Sisters’ children it cared for. [Ed: individual nuns or St. Mary’s home for unwed mothers, which even Religious Orders are not “the Catholic But hang on. There’s more to this women operated in Tuam in the twentieth century. Church”] priests business than we might at first realize: “Clearly this isn’t about news anymore; it “But the unhealthy obsession over the past isn’t a desire for facts or truth that elevated 10 years with raking over Ireland’s past has Meanwhile in the Anglican Church one the crazed claims about Tuam up the little to do with confirming such facts and woman has got over the objections to agenda; rather, a mishmash of anti-Catholic instead has become a kind of grotesque women’s ordination by becoming a man. prejudice, Irish self-hatred and the modern moral sport, providing kicks to the anti- Episcopal priest Rev Cameron Partridge thirst for horror stories involving children Catholic brigade and fuel to the historical was born female, entered a lesbian rela- turned Tuam into one of the worst reported self-flagellation that now passes for public tionship in college. Then she and her stories of 2014 so far,” he said. life in Ireland.” partner had a couple of children (we’re “The transformation of Ireland’s past into a O’Neill said that claims of large-scale not told how) and then she decided to cesspit of human wickedness that modern abuse at industrial schools and the become a man. Cameron says his-her Irish historians and assorted Catholic- Magdalene Laundries have also been sexuality is “ambiguous”. bashers can dip into in search for stuff to called into question. The women inmates The Anglican Church’s welcome to stand up their contemporary prejudices of the laundries included orphans from transgendered clergy is not new. In 2000 inevitably leads to the skewing of facts.” abusive or neglectful homes, elderly The Rev Peter Stone, a Church of Eng- women without other support, homeless O’Neill responded to media coverage about land vicar was re-assigned and became women, women with physical or mental Rev Carol Stone and his change of gen- the work of a local historian, Catherine disabilities or mental health problems, Corless, who researched the unmarked der was warmly welcomed by his bishop women who had committed petty crimes and people. burials of 796 babies and young children and women who had given birth out of who died at the Tuam home during its years wedlock. A government report about the Members of the [ACP] in Ireland should of operation from 1925 to 1961. The laundries found that the “vast majority” of be aware that the Anglican experience of children died at a rate of about 23 per year. the girls were not physically punished and women’s ordination is that it leads to the The reports focused on the burial of the found no cases of sexual abuse, O’Neill full acceptance into the ranks of the children in unmarked graves, with much said. One of the most popular books about clergy of homosexual and transgendered coverage focusing on claims that some the laundries, Kathy O’Beirne’s “Don’t Ever persons as well. This “ambiguity” of bodies were interred in a former septic tank. Tell,” which claimed she was raped and sexual identities is connected with the O’Neill said that the facts in the case have abused in other ways at the laundries, has acceptance of women’s ordination. It been wildly distorted. also been exposed as fraudulent. could be that the [ACP] in Ireland thinks this is also a good thing, but maybe they “The septic tank or the grounds of the Another government report about the haven’t thought it all through completely former home have not been excavated. No abuse of boys in Catholic-run schools and seen the connections. 2 babies have been ‘found in a septic tank’, found 68 allegations of rape over an 85- as the Washington Post, The Guardian and year period. News coverage exaggerated Who’d have thought it? But,if anyone others claimed. The claim that the babies this figure to report that “thousands” had thinks that the ACP would disapprove of were ‘dumped’ into some kind of sewage been raped. those “connections”, think again. The system is wrong, too,” he said. “If as many myths were spread about by a ACP is likely to welcome “transgender” clergy like the rest of us welcome fresh Corless has also clarified her research, government in relation to a war or cream cakes. With unalloyed joy! telling the Irish Times that she never said something, there would be outrage, the bodies had been “dumped.” O’Neill demands for an inquiry; why is it okay, Footnotes: countered several depictions of Corless’ then, to promote half-truths, non-facts and embellishments about the Irish Catholic 1 Taken from Irish priests calls for ordination of women research in the media. and marriage in Church, Irish Central, 11/6/14 Church?” O’Neill asked. (Taken from Critic slams 2 Visit “The claim that the babies were ‘dumped’ 'crazed claims' about Ireland child burials, Catholic http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2014/ in a tank is not true, according to Corless News Agency http://www.catholicnewsagency.com ) 06/irish-priests-call-for-womens-ordination.html herself. And the notion that the babies were

Catholic Truth: Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 17 Thurifer on From the Blog… In , The Dogma Helen on Leo on Of The Faith Will Restoring Tradition: Will Pope Francis’ Inter- Always Be Preserved… Reasons For Hope… Faith Peace Prayers IF? Please God? If So, Undoubtedly the Third Secret is I can see confusion all about conditional. As far as what, who knows? I me no matter what church I Which One? think there will be both a visit. As I said before, if my Truth be told, barely a week goes by in this spiritual and physical granny were to return to earth papacy without the faithful with any sensus chastisement. And with she wouldn’t recognise the Catholicus being scandalised. Granted the Muslims praying in the present day Church and respect due to the office of the Vatican palaces this that’s for sure!I often wonder Vicar of Christ, to remain Sunday, the Holy Feast of how our leaders can’t see this for silent in the face of this Pentecost, it may be quite themselves or are they stuck in some time scandalfest cannot be the sooner than we’d like. warp? We are sheep without a shepherd. manifestation of a true fidelity Nobody wants a chastisement at all. to the Church. It never has Instead we should always desire mercy, been. [Ed:this refers to Pope especially for those who are tempted Francis’ inter-faith prayer event in Vatican much, like so many in the hierarchy. Vianney on garden on 8/6/14] Justice will come eventually. For some, Whatever Happened To As Pope Leo XIII, citing his predecessor their lives are a hell on earth. For others, Felix III, teaches: “An error which is not they will experience hell when they die and resisted is approved; a truth which is not are judged. The Priesthood? defended is suppressed.” (Inimica Vis The [SSPX] priest last week preached on Aren’t we all supposed to be [1892]). a number of topics. priests nowadays? I’ve This nod towards indifferentism and One of things he asked is why do good heard of places where the religious relativism, practical atheism, and people suffer and why do evil men become entire congregation say the in the very heart of the Church, where lie astonishingly successful? And his answer words of the consecration Peter and many of his successors, is was different – he said it was a punishment together. I also think that something that would not even have to evil men that they become successful. having Eucharistic ministers crossed the mind of any Pope prior to 1958. There they are blinded by wealth, power, (sic) has undermined the priesthood and I doubt any of those Popes would have ambition, greed, etc., and so by their sins diminished its importance in the eyes of the reacted with anything but incredulity and become ever more enslaved. laity. Someone told me once that they had fury to the suggestion of something gone into one of the Portobello churches for resembling yesterday’s assembly taking So why does the Church of Christ, which confession one Saturday and was told by a place. cannot do evil, suffer? Well because She lady that the Canon was ill so there were no “If any man come to you and bring not this is going through the Passion of our Lord. confessions. She then added “in fact, one doctrine, receive him not into the house nor Why did Christ suffer? Well because we of the Eucharistic ministers had to say the say to him: God speed you. For he that are all so so sinful. Even the slightest Mass this morning.” saith unto him: God speed you, venial sin is an abomination in the eyes of communicateth with his wicked works” (2 the Most Holy Trinity. John 10-11). So our sins affect others in ways we cannot Jobstears on imagine. That is why our Lady at Fatima asked us to make reparation – which is to Must Catholics Reject Halal Meat? try to make up for the sins of others. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us! Until I read this article, I have been opposed to halal meat because of the barbaric manner in which the animals are killed. But now, knowing that the animals are slaughtered as a sacrifice to Allah, I’d have even more reason to avoid Halal meat. I don’t buy Kosher products either. Athanasius on The Two Popes… Petrus on Trouble Ahead? Archbishop Tartaglia to Pope Francis: Scots Martyr Cardinal Ottaviani hit the nail on the head regarding this great error when he said: Died For Religious Freedom – Come and Celebrate “The only example of Collegiality at work in the history of the Church is With Us! when the Apostles collectively Archbishop Tartaglia is a de facto Protestant. What’s the chances of him following abandoned Our Lord during His St John Ogilvie’s example and dying for the Catholic Faith? Zero! Passion.” A very wise observation indeed! If Archbishop Tartaglia is correct in what he says, what on earth did St John Ogilvie die for? This an affront to his sacrifice. The archbishop should reflect To sign up for our blog visit on St John Ogilvie’s last words: “If there be here any hidden Catholics, let http://catholictruthblog.com/ or, if you them pray for me but the prayers of heretics I will not have”. How very require help, email UN-ecumenical. [email protected]

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 18 News Round-Up What The Papers Say Dag Hammarskjold on sexuality, desire Patrick McKay, Beds, England, writes... is the entirely unsuitable headline on p.14 of the Scottish Catholic Observer (SCO), What’s in a Name? 23/5/14. Enthusiastically juxtaposing the a great deal when the name thoughts of the former Secretary-General 21 May 2014 of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold, is UK Lifeleague with the thoughts of the Catholic priest-cum- Thought you might be interested to know eastern“mystic” (whom he what's in the latest edition of 'Engineering We were alerted by readers in England quotes as saying “celibacy is hell”) Fr & Technology' Magazine. The Institution to the new UK Lifeleague website. So we Ronald Rolheiser very cleverly manages to of Engineering & Technology (IET) are paid a visit. communicate his own dissatisfaction with only conducting a survey to find out how the celibate life while giving the appearance many 'gay' Engineers there are - and of appreciating the practice of sublimating what sort of 'discrimination' the poor sexual desires, according to the luvvies have to endure. Hammarskjold/Merton school of thought. Although Fr Rolheiser doesn’t actually [After all] would the IET ever dream of We noted that the “Topics” section admit that he dislikes celibacy in his SCO conducting a survey of how included advocacy of the “safe-sex” article, his other writings are notoriously full many Catholic Engineers have endured message - something which Jim Dowson, of sexual innuendo and he clearly believes discrimination, abuse, ridicule (and the Protestant man who previous ran UK that a life without sexual intimacy is akin to sometimes open hostility) in the Lifeleague denounced, and not, Christmas without Santa for five year olds. workplace because of their beliefs? presumably, because most of his supporters were Catholics. There was no meaningful point to this latest I've already e-mailed the Editor to Rolheiser sex-fest. He really needs help. express my distaste: Mother Most Pure, pray for him. Dear Sir Under the heading ‘Why the Church With regard to the LGBT agenda, I would must be ‘infallible’ Mgr Basil Loftus advise that a very shrewd six-point plan (Aberdeen) used his Catholic Times article was formulated by activists back in 1987:- on 25/5/14 to re-define infallibility. Hardly surprisingly, his re-definition echoes 1. Talk about 'gays' and 'gayness' as dubious positions held by his favourite loudly and as often as possible authors. No raised eyebrows then, when 2. Portray 'gays' as victims, not as he begins by quoting the heretic Hans Kung aggressive challengers who queries: “Can anyone who is not God be immune from error?” (He means, 3. Give protectors a just cause Then we visited the “Partners” page to obviously, “apart from Mgr Loftus”) … 4. Make 'gays' look good see what we could find out about Of course, throughout, Mgr Loftus seeks to “MioXSexy” and hastily departed again 5. Make the victimisers look bad create the illusion that he is not challenging when we saw the pornographic material Catholic teaching, but merely quoting 6. Solicit funding for the cause featured there. others. This is his usual modus operandi. A few points of information are in order. Thus, he attacks Humanae Vitae as being Firstly, there is no scientific evidence to non-infallible because “Cardinal Kasper” (of support the 'born that way' claim, this is let’s give adulterers Holy Communion a complete myth. Secondly, there is an fame) “said earlier this month: ‘The Church extraordinarily high incidence of STDs is clearly not against birth control at all’” (sexually-transmitted diseases), child Loftus continues: “Outwith the formulas of abuse, suicides and other violent deaths dogmatic definitions such as that of the among the LGBT 'community', which Assumption, it is difficult to see where and numbers a mere 2% of the population. when and how such infallibility has been This matter has been well-researched invoked.” No mention of the natural moral and the findings well-documented. law in relation to birth control and no Homosexuals and bisexuals also rank We emailed from the website “Contact attempt to distinguish papal infallibility from among the world's most prolific serial Us” page, asking the following questions: the ordinary and universal magisterium. killers. Is UK Lifeleague still connected to Jim Mgr Loftus’s contempt for all things truly To promote or encourage the LGBT Dowson in any way? Catholic shines through when he adds to the list of “erroneous papal teaching” agenda is criminally insane. It is, to say Are you still using the mailing list of the original the least, disappointing that a learned UK Lifeleague, and if so, are you making clear provided by the infallible Hans Kung, the organisation such as the IET should have the dramatic change of direction of the new further unsubstantiated example of “the been suckered by the LGBT lobby. "Lifeleague"? occasional canonisation of people later shown never to have existed”. Again, in Sincerely, Patrick McKay IEng MIET How can the "safe sex" message be compatible with the pro-life message? keeping with his MO, Loftus fails to cite a single example of such canonisations, but, Postscript… How can the inclusion of a pornographic hey, who’s counting? "partner" possibly be helpful to the pro-life With regard to the 'six-point plan', the info cause? Are graphic images of this "partner" Just as well the hapless editor of the source for this can easily be found. Just visit included in any print material you are sending Catholic Times placed the headline http://library.gayhomeland.org/0018/EN/EN_Overha to supporters? END “infallible” in inverted commas because the uling_Straight.htm where you can read 'The Loftus definition is very far removed from Overhauling of Straight America' (Kirk and Pill). No reply has been received. So, beware, As for serial killers, you can take your pick from folks, if you receive requests to donate the real thing and not a single example of Donald Harvey, John Wayne Gacy, Patrick money to UK Lifeleague - don’t. Not error in infallible Catholic teaching was Kearney, Aileen Wuornos, Dennis Nilsen, Fred unless you want to promote the (anything given in his confusing column. Literally, a & Rosemary West… but) safe-sex message and pornography. waste of space. Theology for the Brain Dead. And then some.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 19 A General Rule by different men in different ways, so much Church; and let them be teachers so that it seems almost possible to extract approved and outstanding. And whatever from it as many opinions as there are men. he shall find to have been held, approved to Distinguish expounds in one way, Sabellius and taught, not by one or two only but by in another, Donatus in another, Arius, all equally and with one consent, openly, Eunomius and Macedonius in another, frequently, and persistently, let him take Truth from Photinus, Apollinaris and Priscillian in this as to be held by him without the another, Jovinian, Pelagius and Caelestius slightest hesitation." (Emphases added) Heresy in another, and latterly Nestorius in another. Therefore, because of the intricacies of error, which is so St. Vincent de Lérins The Vincentian Canon, in multiform, there is great need for the Commonitorium, chap IV, 434, ed. laying down of a rule for the exposition Moxon, Cambridge of Prophets and Apostles in accordance Patristic Texts - As the crisis in the Church worsens, it is with the standard of the interpretation worthwhile reflecting on the words of St. Visit of the Catholic Church. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3506.htm Vincent de Lérins on how we are able to identify true and false teachings. "Now in the Catholic Church itself we take the greatest care to hold that which has It is crucial to make such distinctions been believed everywhere, always and by False Doctrine because ignorance will be no defence at all. That is truly and properly 'Catholic,' as our judgment. God will judge us on our is shown by the very force and meaning of response to the ambiguities and false the word, which comprehends everything Widespread teachings of our times so, while we have almost universally. We shall hold to this a duty to educate ourselves in the Faith rule if we follow universality, antiquity, and Post-Vatican II always, the fact is that at a time of grave consent. We shall follow universality if we crisis such as we are living through, the acknowledge that one Faith to be true Archbishop Marcel Lefebvree onus is on each one of us to know what which the whole Church throughout the is true divine revelation and what is false world confesses; antiquity if we in no wise Who can deny that Catholics in the latter and heretical, in order to safeguard our depart from those interpretations which it part of the twentieth century are confused? spiritual, religious and moral integrity. is clear that our ancestors and fathers A glance at what has proclaimed; consent, if in antiquity itself, happened in the Church over we keep following the definitions and the past twenty years is In the 5th century, St. Vincent of Lérins saw opinions of all, or certainly nearly all, enough to convince anyone that the people were faced Bishops and Doctors alike. that this is a relatively recent with the various errors and phenomenon. heresies of Donatus, Arius, False doctrine should not be Only a short time ago the Photinus, Pelagius and accepted by Catholics, path was clearly marked: others, and gave them this who should cling to either one followed it or one good advice on how they did not. One had the Faith--or perhaps had could know with security the Tradition and what has been lost it--or had never had it. But he who had true Catholic Faith. Even if it believed everywhere, it--who had entered the Church through is taught by distinguished always, and by all… baptism, who had renewed his baptismal men or Prelates, the bad doctrine should promises around the age of twelve and had not be accepted by Catholics, who should received the Holy Ghost on the day of his cling to Tradition and what has been Dissent confirmation--such a person knew what he believed everywhere, always, and by all had to believe and what he had to do. [quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab "What then will the Catholic do, if a Many today no longer know. They hear all omnibus creditum est]. Actually, he stated: small part of the Church has cut itself sorts of astonishing statements in the "I have continually given the greatest pains off from the communion of the universal churches, they read things contrary to what and diligence to inquiring, from the greatest Faith? The answer is sure. He will prefer was always taught, and doubt has crept possible number of men outstanding in the healthiness of the whole body to the into their minds. holiness and in doctrine, how I can secure morbid and corrupt limb. a type of fixed and, as it were, general, But what if some novel contagions try On June 30, 1968, at the close of the Year guiding principle for distinguishing the true to infect the whole Church, and not of Faith, His Holiness Pope Paul VI made Catholic Faith from the degraded merely a tiny part of it? Then he will take a profession of the Catholic Faith, in the falsehoods of heresy. care to cleave to antiquity, which cannot presence of all the bishops in Rome and hundreds of thousands of the faithful. In his "And the answer that I receive is always to now be led astray by any deceit of novelty. introductory remarks, he put us on guard this effect: That if I wish, or indeed if anyone What if in antiquity itself two or three against attacks on Catholic doctrine which, wishes, to detect the deceits of heretics that men, or it may be a city, or even a whole he said, “give rise, as we regretfully see arise and to avoid their snares and to keep province be detected in error? Then he today, to trouble and confusion in many healthy and sound in a robust faith, we will take the greatest care to prefer the faithful souls.” ought, with the Lord's help, to fortify our decrees of the ancient General Councils, faith in a twofold manner, first, that is, by if there are such, to the irresponsible The same words crop up in an allocution the authority of God's Law, then, by the ignorance of a few men. of His Holiness Pope John Paul II on tradition of the Catholic Church. February 6, 1981: “Christians today, in But what if some error arises regarding large part, feel lost, perplexed, confused, "Here, it may be, someone will ask: ‘Since which nothing of this sort is to be and even deceived.” The Holy Father the canon of Scripture is complete, and is found? Then he must do his best to summarized the underlying causes of the in itself abundantly sufficient, what need is compare the opinions of the Fathers and trouble as follows: there to join to it the interpretation of the inquire their meaning, provided always Church?’ The answer is that because of the that, though they belonged to diverse times “We see spread abroad ideas contrary to profundity itself of Scripture, all men do not and places, they yet continued in the faith the truth which God has revealed and place the same interpretation upon it. The and communion of the one Catholic statements of the same writer are explained Continued on p.21

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 20 False Doctrine Widespread Post Vatican II … Continued from p.20 which the Church has always taught. Real hundred years, into a prophet or doctor of The Sacraments are administered in a heresies have appeared in dogma and the Church, since he is not a saint. manner which varies from place to place; moral theology, stirring doubt, confusion, If I read La Documentation Catholique1 or [for example] the age for baptism and rebellion. Even the liturgy has been the diocesan papers, I find there, from the confirmation, variations in the nuptial harmed. Christians have been plunged into Joint Catholic-Lutheran Commission, blessing, introduction of chants and an intellectual and moral illuminism, a officially recognized by the Vatican, readings which have nothing to do with the sociological Christianity, without clear statements like this: liturgy--but are borrowed from other dogma or objective morality.” religions or a purely secular literature, “Among the ideas of the Second Vatican sometimes simply to express political ideas. This confusion is seen everywhere--in Council, we can see gathered together Latin, the universal language of the conversations, in books, in newspapers, in much of what Luther asked for, such as the Church, and Gregorian Chant have radio and television broadcasts, in the following: description of the Church as ‘the generally disappeared. All the hymns have behaviour of Catholics, which shows up as people of God’ (a main idea of the new been replaced by modern songs in which a sharp decline in the practice of the faith Canon Law--democratic, no longer it is not uncommon to find the same as statistics reveal, a dissatisfaction with hierarchic, idea); accent on the priesthood rhythms as in places of entertainment. the Mass and the sacraments, a general of all baptized; the right of the individual to relaxation of morals. freedom of religion. Other demands of Catholics have been surprised also by the sudden disappearance of religious garb, We naturally ask, therefore, what brought Luther in his time can be considered as as if priests and religious were ashamed of on this state of things? For every effect being met in the theology and practice of looking like what they are. there is a cause. Has faith been weakened the Church today: use of the common by a disappearance of generosity of soul, language in the liturgy, possibility of Parents who send their children to by a taste for enjoyment, an attraction to Communion under two species, a renewal catechism discover that the truths of the the pleasures of life and the manifold of the theology and celebration of the Faith are no longer taught, even the most distractions which the modern world offers? Eucharist.” basic: the Holy Trinity, the mystery of the These cannot be the real reasons, because Incarnation, Original Sin, the Immaculate they have always been with us in one way Has faith been weakened by a Conception. Hence the feeling of profound or another. The rapid decline in religious disappearance of generosity disorientation: is all of this no longer true, practice comes rather from the new spirit of soul, by a taste for out-of-date, passé? Christian virtues are which has been introduced into the Church no longer even mentioned. Where can you and which has cast suspicion over all past enjoyment, an attraction to the find a catechism speaking of humility, teachings and life of the Church. All this pleasures of life and the chastity, mortification? The Faith has was based on the unchangeable faith of manifold distractions which become a fluid concept, charity a kind of the Church, handed down by catechisms the modern world offers? universal solidarity, and hope is, above all, which were recognized by all bishops. hope for a better world. The faith was based on certitudes. The Quite a statement! Meeting the demands Novelties like these are not the kind which, certitudes have been overturned and of Luther, who declared himself the in the human situation, appear at a certain confusion has resulted. Let us take one resolute and mortal enemy of the Mass and moment in time, so that we get accustomed example: the Church taught--and the of the pope! To gather together things to them and assimilate them after an initial faithful believed--that the Catholic religion requested by a blasphemer who said: “I period of surprise and uncertainty. In the was the one true religion. It was, in fact, declare that all brothels, murders, thefts, course of a human life, ways of doing established by God Himself, while other adulteries, are less evil than this things change. If I were still a missionary religions are the work of men. abominable Mass!” From such an in Africa, I would go there by plane and no Consequently, the Christian must avoid all extravagant summary, we can draw only longer by boat--if, indeed, you could find a contact with false religions and, one conclusion: either we must condemn steamship company still in operation. In furthermore, do all he can to bring the Second Vatican Council which this sense, we can say that one should live adherents of false religions to the religion authorized it, or we must condemn the in one's own time; one is really forced to of Christ. and all the popes who, do so. Is this still true? Indeed it is! Truth cannot since the sixteenth century, have declared But those Catholics on whom they tried to change--else it never was the truth. No new Protestantism heretical and schismatic. impose novelties in the spiritual and fact, no theological or scientific discovery- It is understandable that Catholics are supernatural order, on the same principle, -if there can be such a thing as a confused by such a turn of events. But realized it was not possible. You do not theological discovery--can ever make the there are so many others! In a few years change the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Catholic religion any less the only means they have seen a transformation in the Sacraments founded by Jesus Christ; you of salvation. heart and substance of religious practices do not change the truth revealed once and for all; you do not replace one dogma with But now we have the Pope himself which adults have known from early another… attending religious ceremonies in false childhood. In the churches, the altars have religions, praying and preaching in the been demolished or replaced by tables, churches of heretical sects. Television which are often portable and disappear conveys to the whole world pictures of when not in use. The tabernacle no longer Taken from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre: An these astonishing events. The faithful no occupies the place of honour: most of the Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Chapter longer understand. time it is hidden, perhaps perched on a One, Why Are Catholics Confused?” post, to one side. When it remains in the Available to read, in full, online at Martin Luther…cut entire nations off from centre, the priest turns his back to it during www.catholictruthscotland.com (Links) the Church, pitched Europe into a spiritual the Mass. Celebrant and faithful face each and political turmoil which destroyed the other and dialogue. Catholic hierarchy over wide areas, Anyone may touch the sacred vessels, invented a false doctrine of salvation and which are often replaced by breadbaskets, a false doctrine of the sacraments. His platters, ceramic bowls. Laity, including revolt against the Church became the women, distribute Communion, which is model for all revolutionaries after him who received in the hand. The Body of Christ is would throw Europe and the whole world treated with a lack of reverence which casts Footnote: into disorder. It is impossible to make doubt on the truth of . 1 La Documentation Catholique, July 3, 1983, No. 1085, Luther, as they want to do now after five pp. 696-697.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 21 Morality Marriage Matters Matters “Catholic” “Catholic” Problem Solving Wedding Dresses Aunt Evangeline Fashion Editor Those who have been reading Catholic Meet Catholic Truth blogger Leprechaun Truth since its launch may remember our and his wife of 53 years, pictured on the day Agony Aunt, Evangeline, who helped she became “Mrs. Leprechaun”. answer readers’ problems in a couple of Recent editions of Catholic Truth have early editions. Well, she agreed to make a featured articles by young Catholics comeback in order to answer the following expressing their hopes and dreams for a question from Edinburgh reader, Fiona… happy marriage. Plan C was to feature I never know how to behave around public some modest wedding dresses but we had sinners, both inside and outside of my to look no further than the photos featured family. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want in the right hand sidebar - sent to us by one to be unkind to anyone and yet I don’t want of our bloggers, just for our interest. His to give anyone the impression that lovely wife gave her willing permission for Mr & Mrs Leprechaun were whatever they want is acceptable. What us to publish them, as did Mike and Mo, as married on 4th April 1961 - and should I say? When should I say it? an example of beautiful brides, in stark have now been married for 53 contrast to the crude low cut dresses now years. Aunt Evangeline replies… worn by most brides, and modesty go hang. You are not alone in feeling confused about Indeed, given that most brides today are no this matter. Just about every Catholic family such thing, their immodest wedding dresses is affected by the breakdown in marriage. simply reflect the loss of morals prevalent They see close relatives and friends co- in our society today. To remind us of the habiting and engaging in pre/extra marital good old days, Leprechaun supplied the relationships, and don’t know how following account of how he and Mrs to react. Priests and Bishops Leprechaun met… appear to be deliberately We met at Mass, all those years ago, avoiding confronting these finding ourselves side by side in the days situations, which makes laity when Masses were so crowded that if you who mention the subject didn't arrive quite early, you could not get a seem like extremists. seat. I was due to become Catholic the However,unless you have following week, and I commented after a duty of care, as a parent for Mass on the beautiful Missal this young lady example, there really is no “rule” that had. It was one of those Virtue & Co requires a lay person to say anything in Missals in tooled maroon leather with an these situations. As a parent or close enamelled picture let into the front. It must relative, you could arrange a chat but this have cost her a fortnight's wages, and she needs to be done calmly and in a manner offered to lend it to me - a complete which allows you to express your concerns stranger. That made a big impression on (not anger or frustration) at various levels; me. Our eldest son was conceived on the your concern for the eternal ramifications honeymoon, and we were both virgins. How of living in a manner which flouts God’s law unusual is that, in these modern days of Mr Michael Laghai and Miss Ingrid would be one key aspect of the pre-marital trials, and postponing a family (Mo) Shan were married at St. Anne's conversation. Some Catholics feel they until all the material requirements had been SSPX chapel in Leicester on 14th must, in practical ways, make a difference provided ? We have always maintained that June, 2014. between friends and our marriage was made in Heaven. What a family members who are soppy pair we are! married and those who are co-habiting - one mother tells me that she On Divine Providence… doesn’t accept invitations “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your for Christmas dinner, for body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than example, since that gives clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in Keep Calm the appearance of barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable and Ask condoning the living than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Aunt arrangements of her co- And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. Evangeline habiting son - but that is They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his a matter for the individual splendour was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass conscience. And, of course, any children of of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not these unions are innocent and should never much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall be treated differently. In summary, take we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after any opportunities which come along to all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. highlight your concerns in a caring manner, Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has pray for your family but don’t worry. enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 22 Why would any bride want to wear one “cool”? Frozen, more Men think the real reason why of those classic style wedding dresses like. What a numpty! women wear white on their wedding when you can look cool in a low cut, day is so they’ll blend in better with backless, strapless, modern dress? the rest of the kitchen appliances …so I’m wearing tartan!

Popes & Aliens…

Pope Francis said he would baptise aliens but he’s never tried to convert Muslims, Jews and schismatics. Just invited us to do a bit of gardening in the Vatican. What’s so special about Aliens?

Mum says I’ll be going to Hell forever if I don’t stop living with my boyfriend. And before you ask, that makes me feel awful. she read it in Catholic Truth, Aunt Evangeline says so. But until the Bishops write it in one of their recycling letters, I won’t believe it.

Catholic Truth… Keeping the Faith, Telling the Truth - a bi-monthly newsletter for informed Catholics 23 The Success of Vatican II foundation, and which is knit together by around you to educate themselves by From the editor... heavenly sacraments, could be rent and visiting our blog, reading and praying more torn asunder by the force of contrary wills." - though not necessarily in that order! We For since the mystical body of Christ, in the cannot remain silent while the Church is Dear Reader ... same manner as His physical body, is one... attacked from within, even at the highest In the Constitution on the Church, it were foolish and out of place to say that levels. So spread the word. Reflect on Practising Catholics are in short supply the the mystical body is made up of members Christ’s warning:“…he that shall deny Me Lumen Gentium, only a few world over, including Latin America, where paragraphs refer to the priest, and which are disunited and scattered abroad: before men, I will also deny him before my 1 those subordinate him to the bishops Catholicism has collapsed. By every whosoever therefore is not united with the Father who is in Heaven” (Matt: 10:33) And if or to the universal priesthood of the objective measurable standard, the Church body is no member of it, neither is he in that doesn’t work, try this: “Death comes has declined as a result of the “reforms” of communion with Christ its head. like a thief in the night.” (1 Thess 5:2). In short, Vatican II. Don’t blame secularism. Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ act now! Immediately, if not sooner! Secularism was around prior to Vatican II no man can be or remain who does not - with bells on; the Church was instituted accept, recognize and obey the authority by Christ to fight secularism, to lead souls and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate to Heaven, so no use blaming secularism successors.” 4 for the fact that the hierarchy, from the top down, is failing to see to it that the Church But quote any pre-Vatican II pontiff - or even succeeds in its mission. They - (popes, any of the early Church Fathers5 and bishops and priests) - not secularism - are Doctors of the Church on the subject and responsible for the failure of the Church to you’ll be confronted with another heresy - change the spiritual and moral health of the that of the evolution of dogma, the false world in our times. teaching that dogma may be updated to fit in with the changing world. This is thinly The Second Vatican Council has disguised as development of doctrine when Pope Francis receives a blessing succeeded in changing the Church in just it is, in fact, a contradiction. To test whether from an Anglican “Archbishop” about every respect, where, previously, something is a true development we need Protestant “reformers” failed. The Church to see that the original teaching remains Wherefore, strictly is now steeped in ecumenical and inter- intact - it must be exactly the same teaching, adhering, in this matter, to faith activity, setting other religions and the decrees of the only better understood. Blessed John Henry denominations alongside the Catholic pontiffs, our Cardinal Newman offers some examples of Church on an equal footing. John Miller, predecessors, and true development, including infant baptism. Pope Leo XIII Church of Scotland minister and former confirming them most th fully, and, as it were, renewing them by our Moderator of the General Assembly of the Newman Quotes St. Chrysostom, 4 century Church Father: "We baptize infants, authority, of our own initiative and certain Church of Scotland, is enthusiastic about knowledge, we pronounce and declare that though they are not defiled with sin, that the changed attitudes within the Catholic ordinations carried out according to the they may receive sanctity, righteousness, Church as a result of ecumenism 2, which Anglican rite have been, and are, absolutely adoption, heirship, brotherhood with Christ, allow him to assert the following with null and utterly void. and may become His members." (Aug. confidence: # 36 On the Nullity of Anglican Orders, contr. Jul. i. 21.) Newman then comments: Apostolicae Curae, Promulgated “[h]istory is embedded in language.” he This at least shows that he had a clear view September 18, 1896 by Pope Leo XIII writes. “In some ways, as a visitor, I am of the importance and duty of infant wanting out of courtesy to use the phrase baptism, but such was not the case even Footnotes: ‘The Catholic Church’ … But I want to be with saints in the generation immediately 1The survey unfortunately bears out what many Evangelicals sure that you know that I have a share in from North and South America have been boasting about before him. As is well known, it was not since the 1990's: the mass conversion of tens of millions of the Catholic Church. For there it is in the unusual in that age of the Church for those, Catholics in Latin America to Evangelicalism. This is Creed when I say: ‘I believe in the Holy who might be considered catechumens, to mirrored in the United States where Hispanics are also Spirit, the holy catholic church, the delay their baptism…for reasons good or defecting in considerable numbers to Protestantism. The Collapse of Catholicism in Latin America: New Poll, communion of saints…’ Accordingly, I may bad, infant baptism, which is a fundamental Statistics, Tables and Graphs - Extensive Analysis often use the expression the Roman rule of Christian duty with us, was less http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/ 2 Catholic Church. It is not intended as a earnestly insisted on in early times.” 6 John Miller, Whatever happened to ecumenism, Open discourtesy. Rather it is to secure my own House, April 2014. [Ed: OH is a dissident journal, published claim to be part of the Catholic Church, The teaching on the necessity of Baptism in Dundee, Diocese of Dunkeld] when I am quite clearly not part of the was there from the beginning; deepening 3 “[T]he proper name for the universal Church is not the understanding of Original Sin and the Roman Catholic Church. Far from it. That term caught on Roman Catholic Church” 3 mostly in English-speaking countries; it was promoted introduction of infant baptism did not mostly by Anglicans, supporters of the "branch theory" of There you have it: the heretical belief that contradict the doctrine - merely affirmed it. the Church, namely, that the one, holy, catholic and apostolic the Catholic Church is not the sole ark of A true development. Church of the creed was supposed to consist of three major branches, the Anglican, the Orthodox and the so-called salvation, the one Church of Christ, but The “success” of Vatican II is all around us. Roman Catholic. It was to avoid that kind of interpretation merely a part - the Roman part - of a wider Think lapsation, liturgical chaos, religious that the English-speaking bishops at Vatican I succeeded in Christian Church. A Vatican II success. warning the Church away from ever using the term officially indifferentism, moral laxity, and the herself: It too easily could be misunderstood.” Read entire What follows, however, is authentic readiness to accept heresies like the article at https://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/churb3.htm Catholic doctrine on salvation: evolution of dogma. But this mess was only 4 Mortalium Animos, Encyclical of Pope Pius XI, On possible because of a major pre-Vatican II Religious Unity, 6th January, 1928. “...the union of Christians can only be http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf error which placed formal obedience in “top promoted by promoting the return to the _p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos_en.html place” over Faith. Married layman, Dietrich 5 For example, St Athanasius, Bishop & Doctor of the one true Church of Christ of those who are von Hildebrand, praised by John Paul II and Church: “But what is also to the point, let us note that the separated from it… To the one true Church very tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church described by Pius XII as the twentieth of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and from the beginning was preached by the Apostles and century doctor of the Church, argues that preserved by the Fathers. On this the Church was founded; which is to remain, according to the will of a wrong emphasis on formal obedience is and if anyone departs from this, he neither is, nor any longer its Author, exactly the same as He ought to be called, a Christian.” to blame for the unthinking acceptance of instituted it. [The] holy Martyr [St ] 6 Newman Reader, Chapter 4, Instances in Illustration the Council by the majority of Catholics.7 http://www.newmanreader.org/Works/development/chapter4.html#or with good reason marvelled exceedingly iginal Until this fault line is corrected, the Vatican that anyone could believe that "this unity in 7 Trojan Horse in the City of God, (Chicago, 1969) pp 30-31 the Church which arises from a divine II “successes” will grow. Exhort those quoted in Michael Davies: Pope John’s Council, Liturgical Revolution - Volume Two, Angelus Press, Kansas City.

24