Vatican II
True “reform” always means a return to form.
—from the OnePeterFive article Why Vigano’s Critique of the Council Must Be Taken Seriously I used to hold, with conservatives, that we should “take what’s good in the Council and leave behind the rest.” The problem with this approach is captured by Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Satis Cognitum: The Arians, the Montanists, the Novatians, […]
There can be nothing more dangerous…
There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic Tradition. —from the Tractatus de Fide orthodoxa contra Arianos, cited by Leo […]
The Immortality of the Soul
—from the book AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle (also re-titled as: Memoirs of the Communist Infiltration Into the Church), Ch. 15 Do you believe that I alone am fighting against you? No, my prayers are heard and transmitted by the immense assembly of those who have already reached Heaven. Do not smile, because the […]
The Ghost of Christianity and the Task of Restating Obvious Things
—All of the quotes below are from the Crisis Magazine online article What in the World Is a “Worship Space”? by Fr. John A. Perricone These Imaginers of New Things left no stone unturned. One ironclad rule controlled their thinking: all that existed before 1970 must be held in the highest suspicion. + All of […]
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