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The Enemy Is Still Here! THE ENEMY IS STILL HERE! A REORGANIZED SYNTHESIS OF The War Is Now! November 1994—March 2003 Edited & Published by Hutton Gibson for the Alliance for Catholic Tradition Cover by Michael Gibson The Enemy Is Still Here! Copyright © 2003 by Hutton Gibson Publisher All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by USA copyright law. Table of Contents This book is a minimally edited compilation of The War Is Now! # 35 to 57, plus a few pages from #58 (not issued at time of printing). It has been largely re- arranged by subject matter, and the rest in mostly chronological order. Evolution Wildcats Darwinist Lament 1 SSPX — Another Split 81 Genocide 3 From Confused non-Catholic 81 JP2 to Pontifical Academy 4 Aust-NZ SSPX Official Letter 82 Quarterly Review of Biology 5 Perils from False Brethren 84 Evolutionary Fiction 7 Ever Fragmenting SSPX 85 From the Slime of the Earth 8 Reaction to Fragmentation 88 B. D’Abrera to A. Fraser 9 Lienart & Apostolicae Curae 93 Magisterium: Human Nature 10 Mme de Boismenu 94 Book of Origins 13 Circular Philosophy 96 Knee Jerk Wars 17 Piverunas Pontificates 97 Errors, Zanini De Solcia 19 Cricket Law 98 Letter to a Priest 19 Cummins’ Replacements 100 Einstein Theory 20 Canadian Capers 101 Geocentrism Marriage Annulments 103 Inspiration of Scripture 21 SSPX Masonic 104 Redmond O’Hanlon 22 Hour’s Drive from Mass 108 Evolution & Geocentrism Equal 26 No Catholic Can Tolerate Schism 108 Further Objections, Difficulties 28 Objections Answered 110 Bellarmine, Bible, Galileo 32 Argument Corner 117 Neutrality of Facts 35 Brian & Laura Kasbar 119 Objections 38 Ngo Dinh Thuc Defense 122 Authority 41 Guest Argument Corner 124 Reiteration of Inapplicable 43 No Salvation Outside the Church Space Probe Charts 45 Leonard Feeney’s Innovation 129 Function of Revelation 50 Desire & Deception 141 Theological Status, Heliocentrism 50 Objections 148 Michael Davies en masse Crying in the Wilderness 152 New Mass & Indefectibility 52 Exurge Michaël 155 Interview 59 Unbaptized Saints 159 Versus Brian Harrison 60 Richard Ibranyi, Charges 162 Comparison with O’Connor 62 Letter to Ibranyi 165 Cooke’s Tour Perils of Private Correction 167 Ultra-traditionalist? 65 Ibranyidiocy #13 170 Cooke Unhappy 71 St. Benedict Center Article 171 Misapplication of Laws 73 Expurge Ibranyi 172 Excommunication 77 Finis Feeney 173 Letters 78 Peter Dimond 174 Lay Cardinals 175 The War Is Now! # 44 The War Is Now! # 35 Rip Van Winkle Returns 241 Standard of Unity 176 Salesmen of Change 241 Another Vacuum Filled 176 Argument Corner Latin Ordinariate 177 No More War Is Now 242 Anti-Semitism, History & Causes 179 Marian Wojciechowski 243 Robert Bergin’s Authority 182 Evasion of Papal Infallibility 245 The War Is Now! # 36 Wergild 247 Christian Apologetics 184 Episcopal Conferences–Zimmerman 248 Reply to two Papal Electors 186 The War Is Now! # 45 Catechism, Catholic Church 188 Introducing Nexus article (next) 250 The War Is Now! #38 Hidden History, Jesus, Holy Grail 251 Ordination of Women 201 In Murky Waters of Vatican II 256 Jesus the Jew – Zannoni 202 Modernism is Ancient 259 Argument Corner 208 The War Is Now! # 46 Gillies Wach, The Remnant 208 Ad Tuendam Fidem 260 Heather’s Guidelines 209 Ratzinger’s Further Analysis 263 The Noble Savage? 209 Letter to Chief Usurper 264 Veto in Papal Elections 210 Canon 2316 264 Canon Law & Modernism 210 Lutheran Agreement 265 The War Is Now! # 39 Aquinas Academy Programme 265 Paul VI’s Courage 211 Thoughts on our Mass 268 The War Is Now! # 40 Thoughts on Laetare Sunday 270 For Clarity & Truth – Pintonello 212 St. Athanasius on Incarnation, Death The War Is Now! # 41 of Christ, Refutation of Jews Santamaria Defense of “Pope” 215 272 The War Is Now! # 42 St. Cyprian – Jealousy & Envy 279 Olympics for Sydney 223 The Lord’s Prayer 279 The Day of the Sermon 224 Idols are not Gods 279 Plumbing the Depths 225 St. Ignatius–Martyrdom, Polycarp 280 Argument Corner 228 Tertullian–Apparel, Spectacles 280 Grand Orient Award Refused 229 St. Paul–I Thess. ii, 14-16 281 Pope on Path to Reconcile Sects 229 Pell-mell to Perdition 281 Vatican, New Line on Sins 231 The War Is Now! # 36 The War Is Now! # 43 Nopery 283 On Ursula Oxfort 232 The War Is Now! # 47 Dear Miss Oxfort 235 A Non-Catholic Cannot Be Pope 285 The Year of Jesus 236 Cum ex Apostolatus Officio 287 Cardinal Siri on Latin Liturgy 238 East Timor Continued Betrayal 293 Petitions in the Mass Ordinary 294 Search for Truth & Unity 297 Robber Church – Omlor 299 The War Is Now! # 48 The War Is Now! # 53 Discussion on Execrabilis 300 Brian Harrison 331 Canon Law – Cicognani 302 Antipapal Authority 338 Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue 303 From Government to Help You 340 U.N. Invades Confessional 303 The War Is Now! # 54 The War Is Now! # 49 Alter Boy – X = WKQ 342 Question Time 305 The War Is Now! # 49 The War Is Now! # 50 Golden Heresy 353 Statement – N. M. Hettinga 307 The War Is Now! # 55 Hilaire Belloc–The Great Heresies 308 Messianic Prophecies 357 St. Patrick to Judge Irish? 308 Pontius Pilate Acquitted 362 Hilaire Belloc–The Great Heresies 309 The War Is Now! # 56 African Animal Sacrifice 309 Literary Converts 363 Nostra Culpa ad Nauseam 310 Rebellion Against Tyranny 366 Miracles 311 Sermon 13th After Pentecost 367 The War Is Now! # 51 From a Self-Acknowledged Seer 370 Broken for you 311 Clerical Pedophilia 371 The Mystery of Iniquity 312 Divorce Must Stop – GKKK 372 Argument Corner 317 Friday Abstinence (#58) 373 Nobel Peace Prize 318 New Abstinence (#58) 376 The War Is Now! # 52 Another NOM Argument Blown 377 From 2 1930 Sermons – Coughlin 319 The War Is Now! # 57 Tradition in Religion & Science 320 Sermon, St. Jude’s, 2/10/02 377 Dominus Jesus 324 Sermon (excerpts) 6/30/02 380 Hermeneutics of Suspicion 327 Mothers’ Watch 381 We Resist You to the Face 327 Hebrew People, Holy Scriptures in Christian Bible 382 In the Catholic view of the Eucharistic rite, the perpetual offering of the real blood of the Lamb of God is an act of worship which is a fitting and natural realization of the types embodied in the shedding of the blood of inferior victims under the old dispensation. The type should not be more real or in any sense greater than the thing typified. The sacrificial worship of the Old Law, which was a type of the worship of the New, should not be followed by a form of worship which is inferior as such to its type. No mere memorial service can follow that which was the most perfect form of worship, namely, sacrifice. – M. P. Hill, S.J. The Catholic’s Ready Answer, p. 290, Benziger Bros., N.Y., 1915 * * * * * * Catholicism, which is as rich and complex as life itself, differs from the academic over-simplification of the great heresies much as Sussex differs from a map of Sussex. The universal Church is the home of all mankind, whereas every heresy is an artificial simplification with a limited and particular appeal to a particular mentality. —Arnold Lunn * * * * * * We hear so often that if these last four antipopes are not legitimate popes then the gates of hell would have prevailed against the Church. This notion is obviously directly contrary to truth and reason. Manifestly, if a public heretic were legitimate head of Christ’s Church, as His vicar, then would the gates of hell have prevailed. What greatly helps forestall them prevailing is refusal to grant legitimacy to interlopers or Catholicity to heretics. Preface My religious views are set. Nothing except proof that I err can change them. If I err the Church erred in teaching me, which turns the exercise into futility. I believe exactly what the Catholic Church, unchangeable by nature, taught me. I accept no innovation from authority whose primary purpose is preservation, from authority incompetent to innovate in matters of doctrine, morals, and sacraments. Every change in these necessarily introduces doubt. This is self- evident, even to the innovators, whose motives must be immediately challenged. Doubt in these matters is not permitted. It breeds heresy even where it has not already (as in the new rite of “mass”) introduced and proclaimed heresy. In the presence of doubt the safer (pars tutior) course must be taken. The safe course is always the traditional. No one, pope or not, can teach us anything we do not already know, nor oblige us to, nor excuse us from, any worship to which the Church had not previously obliged us. Salvation’s requisites are changeless. No stones have been left unturned. Most, if privy to my campaigns, would have been astounded by the hatred encountered from those charitable priests and bishops. They attack me—not my arguments. They hate tradition! The few who argue line up immediately against the Council of Trent, to the doctrines of which at ordination they took most solemn oaths from which no one can dispense them. This stance places them deeper in heresy. They back all these moral, doctrinal, and sacramental innovations with papal infallibility, which cannot cover such. They all pretend, and some believe, that what came forth from Vatican II, a self-designated “pastoral, non-dogmatic council,” bears the stamp of papal and conciliar infallibility, though it often diametrically opposed Catholic doctrine as infallibly taught by genuine popes and councils from St.
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