The timeless beauty of Rome, the Eternal City, enables the soul to contemplate the harmony of eternal truth. The Conciliar revolution, however, has tainted her greatness and she bears the scars. The modernist villainy, as a thousand-faced hydra, reigns in the bosom of this sacred shrine.
Cardinal Kasper embodies one of these faces. A German, he is frequently mentioned as candidate to the papal throne, a key figure of modernism and head of the Congregation for the Unity of Christians, he has made himself the champion of ecumenism. Accustomed for a long time to distilling the poison of errors that smack of heresy, he has used his Cardinal’s hat to acquire an additional aura. Thus, self-assured by his Roman responsibilities, he disseminates with authority and total impunity the worst, most insane errors, putting souls into the road to their eternal damnation.
Dear Friends and Benefactors,
The timeless beauty of Rome, the Eternal City, enables the soul to contemplate the harmony of eternal truth. The Conciliar revolution, however, has tainted her greatness and she bears the scars. The modernist villainy, as a thousand-faced hydra, reigns in the bosom of this sacred shrine.
Cardinal Kasper embodies one of these faces. A German, he is frequently mentioned as candidate to the papal throne, a key figure of modernism and head of the Congregation for the Unity of Christians, he has made himself the champion of ecumenism. Accustomed for a long time to distilling the poison of errors that smack of heresy, he has used his Cardinal’s hat to acquire an additional aura. Thus, self-assured by his Roman responsibilities, he disseminates with authority and total impunity the worst, most insane errors, putting souls into the road to their eternal damnation.
Last spring, at the invitation of some Anglican representatives, he gave a lecture glorifying the spirituality of ecumenism. We will leave to some other pen the care of rebuking the errors that proliferate in this lecture. Suffice to note here that, according to the text published by “The Tablet” of Saturday, May 24th of this year, his remarks undermine the Catholic Faith which, in his eyes, is no more than a vague sense of belonging to an amorphous group, a kind of super-Church federating the various ecclesiastical forms. He attacks, moreover, the very substance of the Church by denying the value of the apostolic succession and by reducing the Holy Eucharist to a friendly sharing, following different customs. Thus, the Church is, according to his own terminology, nothing else than the expression “of a fundamental signification for the concept of pluriformity within unity (sic!).”
Pedantry has always replaced the intellectual effort of submitting to reality. Alas, it has also opened the doors to heresy. This pretentious language is attractive to the conceited, and by flattering their self-importance enables them to introduce a heterodox thought into the sanctuary. Proud of his work, the Cardinal reduces the Church to a somber field of ruins above which rises the unbearable cry of the birds of prey, ominous sign of disaster.
Our design is not, at the present time, to dwell upon those vile comments that pollute the purity of doc-trine. We prefer to analyze, in a more general way, the subversive method of the modernist heresy which, like all diabolical errors, advances under disguise. Let us not be seduced by the snare set for us.
And yet Saint Pius X, with his eagle-like sight, living in the heights of Faith, had already detected it in his famous encyclical letter Pascendi. Seizing the very essence of this lethal thinking, he did not only masterfully denounce the perversity of the modernist heresy, but he also warned us against its revolutionary methods. Let us listen to this authoritative voice which enjoins us not to be seduced by a passage that may seem really Catholic, when the following one is heretical. In cauda venenum, as the ancients, in their wisdom, used to say!
Saint Pius X denounced an essential modernist principle of a profoundly revolutionary nature. We must know it, for it proves to be a powerful weapon in the hands of those who have set for themselves the mission of destroying the Church. Once we are acquainted with it, we can avoid falling into the subtle trap of modernist thought, which too often animates the Roman documents, and which clearly accounts for the last steps taken toward Tradition.
In view of these Roman maneuvers, some people seem to lean toward a benevolent interpretation. Accordingly, for these people, the recent multiplication of documents or gestures recalling Catholic doctrine and morals would prove that the thinking behind these Roman actions is still sound.
Unfortunately, this opinion is totally erroneous and devoid of any foundation. The reason is quite simple: a thing can only be good when all the elements that constitute it are completely good in themselves. We must, in fact, be on our guard, for a Catholic page written by modernist hands is a dangerous weapon.
“They may seem Catholic to you,” wrote Saint Pius X about such apparently orthodox pages. Yes, they seem Catholic! Reality is altogether different, and we must, in the light of this holy Pope’s teaching in his decisive encyclical letter, denounce this appealing bait.
The stratagem is powerful. Indeed, is there any Catholic soul not waiting, with legitimate impatience, for Rome to retrieve the accents of truth?
We know too well how painful is the long agony of Holy Mother Church. Knowing that the Immaculate Spouse of Christ must go through the ignominy of the Cross, our hope remains intact and waits God’s own time, but our love for the Church and souls makes us yearn for the hour of the Resurrection. However, it would be dangerous to confuse the splendor of Easter’s glorious morning with another light that does not come from above and that might deceive us like the bait deceives the fish. Is it not Satan’s old trick to disguise himself as an angel of light?
And indeed, he cannot but be the ape of God: his works all bear a striking, not to say luminous, similarity with reality. Let us recall his first temptation, model for all the others: “If ye eat of this fruit, ye shall be as gods,” at least so it seemed to Adam and Eve… This resemblance with reality is a seal whose signature is recognizable beyond doubt.
Unfortunately, in forgetting this diabolical artifice, many people fall into the trap that is laid for them as soon as some documents have, at least to them, a Catholic flavor. They do not realize this flavor is only pretence.
Therefore, we must read these documents with precaution, for the thinking underlying them is not Catholic; it takes root in different principles, as shown by Cardinal Kasper, who leans on a subjectivist and relativist philosophy. Consequently, we cannot adhere to it, and we have the duty to uncover the subjacent philosophical and doctrinal errors. Let us be wary of words; they are only a surface, and thus can easily make us believe that the thought underlying them is genuinely Catholic. The letter is perhaps so, but the spirit which animates it is certainly not: a wolf clad with the shepherd’s clothing remains a predator, even if it no longer appears to be so.
The trap is terribly deceptive and appears to be particularly effective when, as the struggle becomes tougher and comparable to trench warfare, weariness and lack of vigilance (the daughter of intellectual laziness, which does not make the effort to examine what lies behind words) settle within our ranks.
Our choice is made. In order to stay Catholic, we have the duty to take up the fight uncompromisingly. God’s honor is at stake. This honor was entrusted to us the day of our baptismal consecration and at the time of our dubbing through confirmation: “Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust!”
To those who seek agreement at all costs – which, because of the great divergence of principles, would only be another Fools’ Day or a new Canossa – we reply that it is impossible to come to an agreement with devious minds that use words which they empty of their original substance as their ideology dictates. The appearance may be Catholic, but the core is not. An evil is more dangerous when it takes on shreds of truth, as it must retain some fragments of it for it cannot live by itself.
We cannot and will not participate in the self-destruction of the Church, which leads to the evident disasters of our society. We refuse all compromise, for we know that anything constructed to the detriment of the whole truth is bound to disintegrate.
In this month of October, dedicated to the Rosary, let us recall this Marian prayer’s great and proud victories whose prestigious names are Lepanto and Vienna. There were more; there will be more to come. The one which looms in the horizon will give us the happiness to see the Immaculate Virgin triumph over the modernist heresy. The faithful and simple recitation of the Rosary, especially by the family, is a powerful weapon against the enemies of the Church and the unwavering token of our Hope.
There are now 80 men at the Seminary, of which 68 are seminarians. Among them, we have had the joy of receiving two Benedictine monks, entrusted to us by Rev. Fr. Cyprian O.S.B. to give them the indispensable formation which will lead them to the priesthood. In turn, we entrust all these candidates to your prayers so that in their souls may develop the virtues which will make them holy priests at the service of God, the Church and souls.
We also include our traditional card for your prayer intentions for the souls of the faithful departed. As you well know, the month of November is dedicated by the Church to the prayer for the Souls in Purgatory. We invite you to send us your prayer intentions, so these souls may soon enter into the heavenly beatitude.
In Christo Sacerdote et Maria.
Fr. Yves le Roux