The Church
as Battered Bride
The institutional
Church, it seems, has divorced Christ, married the world, and now suffers
from "Battered Woman Syndrome." When the world beats her, abuses her, and
slanders her, she apologizes and acts as though it is all her own fault.
The world never listens to her or takes her seriously, and she simply shuts
up or speaks only words that won't result in another beating. When she does
speak, the world twists her words and tries to make her look foolish, but
she never fights to defend her own dignity. Though she began life as a perfectly
healthy woman, she now walks the earth with her eyes to the ground, filled
with neurotic shame at the ignorant and malicious way her new husband sees
her.
How far we've fallen.
In a recent news article from Zenit News Agency, we are told by Father de
Fiores, a member of the International Pontifical Marian Academy that advises
His Holiness on all things Marian, that the Church dare not proclaim any
dogma pertaining to Mary as "Co-Redemptrix" because the heretics might not
approve. He says, "From the conciliar and ecumenical point of view, it is
certainly not opportune to proclaim this dogma at this time. The separated
brethren, Protestants and Orthodox, reproach us for not consulting them in
regard to the last dogmas on Mary. This is why I think that a dogma of this
type would have to include their participation."
The Protestants "reproach" us, and the battered woman slinks aways in the
shadows.
The Petrine Ministry gave away to "collegiality" which has further degenerated
into needing the permission of heretics to proclaim Catholic belief.
There are no words for this kind of masochism, people. Do the
Protestants "consult" with us when they go about formulating their doctrine?
Do they get a papal permission slip before they carry on with their bogus
"Foxe's Book of Martyrs" or lies concerning Constantine and the early Church?
If we're so into making nice with heretics, why don't we go all the way in
pleasing the Protestants and un-declare our belief in Purgatory, the Communion
of Saints, and the Sacrifice of the Mass? Better yet, why don't Catholics
just become Southern Baptists (hey, they're a LOT more 'Catholic' than most
'Catholics!)? What's the difference to the post-Conciliar Church?
Oh, that's right; that's what Vatican II was about -- the Council that led
to a re-vamp of the ancient Mass by a Commission that included six Protestants
and a Freemason. We can see the glorious results of kowtowing to non-Catholics
in that instance; look at the good it's done us! We've got a Protestantized
worship service with no emphasis on Sacrifice and sin, no kneeling, a bare
mention of the Communion of Saints, and a manhandling of "the bread" (ahem)
-- all celebrated in "churches-in-the-round," on Altars with no relics! The
'Church' is, to all appearances, Protestant with the thinnest
coat of Catholic paint, and we'll get that paint off yet...
But, why stop at playing "Mother, May I?" with Protestants? What about the
Jews?
Oh, yeah, that's what our US Bishops' document, "Reflections on Covenant
and Mission," was about... The Southern Baptists, who have it all over most
so-called "Catholics" in at least knowing that without Christ there is no
salvation, didn't like that move very much! It's so hard to please
everyone, non?
OK, then what about the Wiccans? Surely something we true Christians have
believed in for the past two millennia gets their boxers in a bunch. What
can we strip away from our doctrine to please them? Is it time for monotheism
to go?
And what about the Satanists? We do say some pretty nasty things about their
god (well, we used to, anyway)... I imagine their wittle feelings are awfully
hurt.
And just how does Fr. de Fiores perceive the phrase "separated brethren"?
Does he forget who separated from whom? Does he believe that half of the
Church's authority was given to Peter and his successors and the other half
given to Benny Hinn, et al, and it's just a simple matter of our "getting
together again" in some mish-mash of the two religions, with the Catholic
side going out of its way to avoid offending the other's sensibilities? Do
our hierarchs really expect serious Protestants to respect that sort
of weasely cowardice?
Where does this heretical version of "ecumenism" end? When will the battered
wife remember who she really is and save herself? And when will her sincere
children -- the "neo-conservatives" -- rise up and stop with the enabling,
the making of excuses for madness of those who run their Mother's affairs?
When will they realize there will be no healing until Catholics face the
Truth and refuse to enable this disease?
We must stop supporting the that which reeks of "the spirit of Vatican II,"
i.e., modernism -- the heterodox seminaries, the sterile Masses, the actively
homosexual Bishops and priests, the hierarchs who are afraid to speak the
Truth to politicians, the pseudo-Catholics in power who seem to be out to
destroy the Church, the incessant novelties and selling-out of Tradition,
the watering down of Truth. We must support the true Catholic Faith
-- the Faith of the Fathers -- with its traditional Latin Mass, traditional
Sacraments, and traditional teaching.
Catholics, look at the human element of the Church before the Council, and
then look at if after the Council. Compare that which was presented as Catholic
teaching before the Council to what is being presented as such now, especially
when it comes to ecumenism, the Kingship of Christ, religious liberty,
collegiality, and Tradition. When you do, don't tie yourself into knots trying
to make things line up; accept what you see and know that Apostasy was foretold
-- and that it necessarily means Apostasy from the true
Faith.
Then study history -- especially the history of revolutions, Jewish-Christian
relations, and the abuses of Vatican II.
Finally, attend the ancient traditional Mass and contrast it with what you
see at your typical parish.
Study. Think. Pray. Decide. Act. Speak out! Don't lie to yourself
any longer; "be not afraid" of the Truth! |
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