Conciliar Popes - II
Conciliar Popes meant well, while causing
harm?
These
“Comments” keep coming back to the problem of subjectivism because they hold
that today’s Church and world cannot be understood without it. Subjectivism
means that rot of the mind whereby the person, or subject, has let his mind be
disconnected from reality, or the object, leaving the person free to remake
reality according to his own fantasy. Hence the fantasy-world in all its
madness surrounding us today, including the fantasy of the Newchurch (Church and world are reconcilable) and
the same fantasy of the Newsociety (Tradition
and the Newchurch are reconcilable).
To keep one’s
mental grip on reality and to keep one’s balance in the Faith, it is essential
to keep distinguishing the subjective from the objective. For instance, the
Conciliar Popes are gravely mistaken in the Faith, objectively speaking, but
subjectively speaking they have been convinced they were right, and they may
well have been at least partly (God knows) well-intentioned. But if I fail to
distinguish objective and subjective, then I easily fall into one of two
familiar errors. Either I say they are objectively wrong so they must be
subjectively wrong, therefore they cannot have been well-intentioned and they
must have known what they were doing, so they cannot have been Popes, and I
fall into dogmatic sedevacantism. Or I say they are convinced and they are
convincing, so they are subjectively and therefore must be objectively right,
so I must follow them, and I fall into liberalism (here is how Benedict XVI,
for instance, has – objectively – deceived many a good Catholic, whatever were
his intentions).
On the
contrary if I have a clear faith and can distinguish between objective reality
and today’s universal fantasy, then, measuring ultimately Rome by the Faith and
not the Faith by Rome, I can see that the Conciliar Popes may have been
convinced and they may at least in part – God knows – have meant well, but I
will never follow them away from the true Faith and the true Church. On the
other hand I will not exclude the possibility of a measure of good intentions
on their part, nor will I take upon myself to judge of that measure, but I will
wait for the Church to judge, after a hearing, of their pertinacity and heresy.
But today’s
churchmen are so universally infected with the fantasy of liberty, equality and
the rights of man as opposed to duty, hierarchy and the rights of God, that the
prospects of such a hearing taking place any time soon are slim indeed.
Therefore in my own mind I may have to leave in suspense the question of these
Popes. Such suspense is not comfortable, but I know that God in his own good
time will come to the rescue of his Papacy.
Meanwhile the
structure of his Church, whereby all authority derives from the Pope downwards,
has not changed. Therefore since Pope Francis is condemning Tradition whenever
he gets a chance, Tradition can only be struggling to survive. As for
Archbishop Lefebvre’s founding and on-going leadership of the Society of St
Pius X, the local diocesan bishop’s official approval of its Statutes was of
immense importance. That made of the SSPX the emergency lighting of the
mainstream Church, and the “Resistance” movement can only be an attempt to
repair that emergency lighting of the mainstream Church. The attempt is
hindered by both mainstream and emergency electricians? So be it. But somebody
has to keep at least a few lights on in the Church. However, against such
hindrance from fellow electricians, let nobody expect from the “Resistance”
wonders or marvels. Patience. God has everything under control.
Kyrie eleison.
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