Another script from Michael Voris of Church Militant TV. churchmilitant.tv/daily/?today=2013-09-11 Have you ever heard this before? "The Church finds herself in an hour of anxiety, a disturbed period of self-criticism, or what would even better be called self-demolition [auto-destruction]. It is an interior upheaval, acute and complicated, which nobody expected after the Council. It is almost as if the Church were attacking itself. We looked forward to a flowering, a serene expansion of conceptions, which matured in the great sessions of the council. But ... one must notice above all the sorrowful aspect. It is as if the Church were destroying herself." We’ll tell you in a moment who said those words and when, but first – let’s just examine them from a straight-forward fashion. The first sentence is quite the statement – hour of anxiety, self-criticism, self-demolition. Phrasing like that means the damage is coming from within, not from outside. To underscore this – the second sentence begins with the pointed and direct phrase – “interior upheaval”. That is a massively important phrase because it not only say in two words the entire issue, but also points out the crisis of the moment – there is an upheaval in the Church based on the actions of some inside her. The Church attacking herself – yep, certainly looks that way. But for the Church to attack herself, what would she attack. It would have to be her past. There is nothing in the Church that members of the Church would be capable of attacking other than her past – her tradition. Granted, there are numerous, almost countless ways in which such attacks could be leveled – but the goal would be singular – the dismantling of all that went before. “It’s as if the Church were destroying herself.” That sad line exists nowhere in substance in 2000 years of sacred history other than in this speech – the Church destroying herself! A church committing suicide. This talk was given in 1968 by none other than Pope Paul VI himself. Yet today .. we have naïve Pollyannas, cowardly leaders and yes, enemies of Christ sitting in leadership positions of the Church quietly slipping patient Church more cyanide, more strychnine. “The Church” can’t commit suicide, but some of her members are more than happy to engage in homicide. Some are naïve yes. They don’t have the constitution of real men to stand up and call out what needs to be called out. So they profit, interiorly – in their own weak and damaged psyches by remaining in place where they perceive themselves to be popular and well liked. Others refuse to see the damage because to do so would mean effectively the end of their clerical careers and advancement. They are perhaps aware in a dim fashion of the murder of the faith going on, but like their counterpart priests in the parable of the good Samaritan, they just cross over lanes on the road and walk on by the victim. So they too profit. Then there are the real conspirators. These people HATE Christ and HATE the Church – they hate what She preaches, what she stands for and they are determined to destroy her from within. These leaders are .. as Bishop Sheen would say .. following in the line of apostolic succession from Judas. And so many lay people .. because of their indifference to truth and lukewarmness to faith are following these men right into Hell. Our Lord Himself says of he lukewarm in St. John’s Apocalypse “I will vomit them out of my mouth”. Where in any place in Catholic history do we read that most people go to Heaven? Where do we read anywhere in Catholic history that following Christ is easy – that my feelings matter, that what’s important is not offending our fellow man? Nowhere. Yet, these are the primary concerns of so many, too many leaders in the Church today – upheld by their pals and careerists in the rest of the Catholic Establishment, including many in the Catholic media – attack dogs who tear to pieces anyone who says the Emperor has no clothes. If it was the observation of Pope Paul VI back in 1968 .. 45 years ago .. that the Church was in self-demolition mode – what would he say today, when the effects of the demolition have come to their near fulfillment?
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:32:08 +0000
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