Crucifixo Barroco Venerado Na Sede Do Conselho Nacional Da TFP, Em São Paulo
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Catolicismo, no. 220-221 – April-May 1969 – Hidden Groups Plot Subversion in the Church 1 Baroque crucifix venerated at TFP National Council headquarters in São Paulo (the actual corpus of Our Lord is 32 cm high). From a 32-picture study by Studio F. Albuquerque, São Paulo. HIDDEN GROUPS PLOT SUBVERSION IN THE CHURCH On the Cross Our Lord Jesus Christ suffered not only because of the moral and physical abuse inflicted by His executioners. He also suffered anticipating all the sins that would be committed until the end of time. Among them, the secret plot hatched in powerful Catholic circles to ‘reform’ the Church and turn her into a pantheist, demythified, desacralized and disalienated New Church at the service of communism undoubtedly was one of the most atrocious torments of our Divine Redeemer Who, with His Life, Passion and Death taught precisely the opposite of these clamorous errors. Catolicismo, no. 220-221 – April-May 1969 – Hidden Groups Plot Subversion in the Church 2 Next to the Paris-Lyon railway, an employee controls the level crossing. Is she married or single? What are her beliefs, thoughts and way of life? Nothing transpires. She is just like any other employee. This is the "new look" of women religious in the New Church according to the aspirations of the so-called “prophetic groups.” This is the "ideal" of desacralization: Nuns should display nothing sacred or with an appearance of sacred. This employee is Sister Germaine, of the Dominican Order (this picture and the first two on the last page are from a report by Robert Serrou quoted in footnote 34 of the text). Nuns like the ‘New Church’ wants them – and doesn’t There is no possible misunderstanding. This is an authentic nun that dedicates her whole life to specifically religious works and is fully immersed in a sacral environment. She is guiding children in a parish procession in Paris. The “prophetic groups" fermenting the New Church detest not only the appearance but also the spiritual content of such scenes. Catolicismo, no. 220-221 – April-May 1969 – Hidden Groups Plot Subversion in the Church 3 In triumphal ascension: The Modernist Heresy Most Rev. Antônio de Castro Mayer, Bishop of Campos Easily one of the most expressive to the modernist spirit of innovation infecting figures of Vatican II by his solid arguments souls here, there and everywhere. That and elegant language, in a hallway resistance includes the invaluable work by conversation Cardinal Ruffini said that Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, In Defense of modernism is now enthroned in the Church. Catholic Action, which did nothing but warn The eminent prelate closely knew the official groups of the lay apostolate against a person and work of the greatest Pontiff of this modernization which, in essence, established century, so he knew very well what he was a New Church. talking about. We, in the government of Our diocese, Indeed, after being crushed by the have also felt an obligation to alert Our flock apostolic vigor of St. Pius X, modernists against a series of theses which, in the words never relented on their nefarious enterprise. of the Sacred Congregation for Seminaries, According to the testimony of St. Pius X stealthily spread among the faithful like himself (Motu Proprio Sacrorum Antistitum, serpents and contain the whole modernist September 1, 1910), after being condemned mentality. the modernists took refuge in secret societies Currently, abusing the patience of the and from their dens cautiously but relentlessly Holy Father, the enterprise to reconcile the continued to disseminate the poison of their Church with the evolutionary and sensual destructive spirit modern world has in Catholic circles. left the hiding All the places of secret successors of St. sects and come Pius X felt obliged out in broad to renew his daylight, warnings to the embodied in the faithful against so-called “post- Modernism. That conciliar” Church. lasted until Paul The two VI, who did so in documents his first Catolicismo offers encyclical, its readers in this Ecclesiam Suam. double issue attest For this reason, to what we have echoing the just said. They show in what teachings of the At a family home in Houilles, in the outskirts of Paris, a priest in Magisterium, civil attire consecrates common bread and wine on a table where a sense the meal will be served shortly afterward. This is the desacralized way resistance arose innovators to celebrate Mass advocated by “prophetic groups” in the New understand the among the faithful Church. Catolicismo, no. 220-221 – April-May 1969 – Hidden Groups Plot Subversion in the Church 4 prophetic role of the people of God mentioned intentions and pointing out the propaganda by the Council. In fact, like the Modernists, organs of those who have set out on this the prophetic groups swarming throughout the foolhardy enterprise (fortunately doomed to Church seek to establish a new religion: the failure) to build a new religion on the ruins of religion of self-deified man who dispenses the traditional Church, the One Church that with the Creator. For its part, IDO-C, an Jesus Christ bequeathed to men as a means to infrastructure setup to support and spread the honor God and save their souls. ideas of the “prophetic groups” throughout We deem it a meritorious work of the the world, extends its tentacles over the five apostolate to spread as widely as possible the continents like a huge octopus. studies that Catolicismo now presents to the Since in war it is of paramount Brazilian public. And We warmly recommend importance to know the enemy's plans, their reading. Catolicismo renders an immense service to the salvation of souls by publishing the Catolicismo, no. 220-221 – April-May 1969 – Hidden Groups Plot Subversion in the Church 5 The reason for this double issue Catholic Church Infiltrated by Veiled Adversaries Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Catolicismo publishes today a double “Dossier on IDO-C,” was published in the issue corresponding to the months of April Catholic bulletin Approaches, of London (no. and May to present to its readers a couple of 10-11, January 1968) and can be found on genuine bombshell documents on the present page 10 of this issue. The second came to crisis in Holy Church. The first, titled light under the title, “Small Groups and the Prophetic Current” in the Madrid-based magazine Ecclesia, no. 1423, January 11, 1969; a translation is found on page 14. To facilitate our readers’ understanding, each document is preceded by an introduction (with a substantial summary of its text) by the staff of this journal. IDO-C and the “International Catholic Establishment” The Approaches document reveals the existence of a somewhat enigmatic organization called “International Catholic Establishment.” It is officially independent from any religious or state institution and commands a gigantic propaganda machine, the IDO-C, that is, Center for International Documentation on the Contemporary Church. This machine has been set up to inoculate in Catholic circles, in a more or less veiled fashion through the press, radio, television and public lectures a doctrine that is the opposite of the Catholic Religion. The document shows that this machine is like an immense octopus whose tentacles spread The “bread” in the basket and the “wine” the groom sips are no less than the Holy Eucharist. In throughout Europe and the United States, in France, this is a new way to receive communion at addition to its ramifications in South America a wedding Mass. Another photo shows that the and other regions of the earth. It commands bride is wearing a miniskirt. The “prophetic groups” deem all this a still timid step toward the bulk of Catholic publications in Europe desacralization and the new morals they want to and North America, which makes its power implant. Catolicismo, no. 220-221 – April-May 1969 – Hidden Groups Plot Subversion in the Church 6 inside the Church appear to be – humanly reader to wonder what points of similarity and speaking, of course – indisputable. contrast actually exist between IDO-C and the This fact creates for the Church a “prophetic groups.” To this, we answer: situation very similar to a country at war in 1. The points of similarity are primarily which the vast majority of television and doctrinal. What the Approaches article says radio stations and the press have sold out to about the doctrines propagated by IDO-C are the enemy. And this is not just any enemy so to speak genuine fragments of the doctrine but, as the readers will see, it is a radical and that Ecclesia shows to be the one held by the implacably destructive adversary extremely “prophetic groups;” adept in employing highly subtle and effective means of action and endowed with 2. IDO-C and the "prophetic groups" also practically inexhaustible material resources. share the same concrete attitude and agenda regarding the Church: a) destroy her through a “Prophetic groups” quasi-clandestine infiltration; b) employ The Ecclesia article strongly ecclesiastics, militant Catholics, Catholic reinforces the tragic impression that today the works and institutions to accomplish this Church is like a country undermined by the work of destruction; enemy. It tells us about the systematic efforts of a movement that is becoming increasingly 3. The least one can say is that both the widespread in Catholic circles in many “prophetic groups” and IDO-C have the same countries: the “prophetic groups.” friendly attitude toward communism. In fact, Very similar in its quasi-clandestine structure and methods of initiation to some organizations of Masonic agitation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such as the Carbonari, this movement is made up of myriads of small, scattered groups.