Newsociety Thinking
– II
Dear Newsociety
followers all – beware!
The poison is
running deep, so take deep care.
Some 650 words of a
single “Eleison Comments” are by no means enough to make clear the enormous
problem posed by the interview given by the Newsociety’s First Assistant to a
Newsociety magazine in Germany towards the end of last year (cf. last week’s
EC). Fr. Pfluger’s thinking springs from the poisonous modern mentality, so
that it is not surprising if Archbishop Lefebvre’s Society of St Pius X (SSPX)
is being poisoned from top to bottom and changed into Bishop Fellay’s
Newsociety (XSPX). The poison consists in the move from God to man; from the
religion of God to the religion of man; from the truths of God to the liberties
of man; from the doctrine of Christ (“Going, TEACH all nations” – Mt.XXVIII,
19) to the uniting of mankind.
Like millions upon
millions of modern men, thousands upon thousands of churchmen in high office
and all too many priests and layfolk of what was once the SSPX, Fr Pfluger does
not understand the crucial importance to the Church of Catholic doctrine.
“INDOCTRINATE all nations,” Our Lord could have said. Why? Because all men are
created by God to go to Heaven (I Tim. II, 4). This they can only do by Jesus
Christ (Acts IV, 12), by firstly believing in Jesus Christ (Jn. I, 12), which
they can only do by hearing about the Faith (Rom. X, 17), in other words by
hearing Catholic DOCTRINE. For someone to be disinterested in Catholic doctrine
means that he is not interested in going to Heaven. Good luck to him, wherever
he will spend his eternity!
Now from start to
finish Fr Pfluger’s German interview betrays his relative disinterest in
Catholic doctrine, but as last week’s “Comments” declared, that disinterest is
most clearly betrayed by his implicit disparaging (not too strong a word) of
the great anti-liberal, anti-Masonic, anti-modernist documents, notably Papal
Encyclicals, of the 19th and 20th centuries, let us say from Mirari Vos of
1831 to Humani Generis of 1950. To Fr Pfluger’s way of thinking, probably these
“anti” documents seem merely negative, whereas Catholic doctrine is essentially
positive. One might as well think that medicine is merely negative, while
health is essentially positive. But medicine can be essential to preserving
health, for goodness’ sake! However, why are the Encyclicals such necessary
medicine for the health of the Church today?
Because man is not
made to live alone (Rousseau’s noble savage), he is by nature a social animal
(Aristotle) – observe the thousand ways in which men get together. Now the
French Revolution of 1789, by spurning Aristotle and following Rousseau,
overthrew the natural basis of society and placed it on merely man-made
foundations instead, hostile to human nature as designed by God, and therefore
hostile to God. Therefore as the Revolutionary ideas advanced, through France,
Europe and the world, so the Catholic Church found itself in a more and more
hostile social environment, because the profound influence that any society has
upon the individuals belonging to it has been working more and more against God
and against the salvation of souls.
For a long time the
Catholic Popes were not deceived, and they revived the medicine of the Church’s
true social doctrine to apply it through their Encyclicals to the sickness of
Revolutionary mankind. Thus the Encyclicals teach nothing but the Church’s age-old
doctrine on the nature of human society between man and God, that social
doctrine which it had not been necessary to repeat for as long as it had gone
without saying. Thus the Encyclicals are not an unfortunate accident of
unfortunate times in the past. They are central to the defense of the Faith in
the present, as Archbishop Lefebvre so well learned from Fr Le Floch. But then
came “good” Pope John to declare that modern man is no longer sick, and now
comes
Fr. Pfluger. More next week.
Kyrie eleison.
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