Slippery Animal
People today are not normal or sane.
All history shows no comparable bane.
“Modernism is necessarily, by its very nature, a uniquely slippery
animal.” Modernism being the present deadly enemy of the Catholic Church, it
can never be analyzed enough. As enemy of the Church in particular, it can be
defined as that movement of thought and belief which holds that the Church must
be adapted to the modern world by the appearance of Catholicism being
maintained while its substance is changed. It has infected Catholics without
number since it gained official approval from the very top of the Church at
Vatican II, and it has set many cardinals, bishops and priests on the road to
eternal perdition, let alone laity, by undermining their Catholic faith. Let us
see again why it is slippery, and uniquely slippery.
It is a slippery animal because like all heresies it had to disguise
itself to seem acceptable to its target, believing Catholics. So it is
constantly using ambiguous formulae of words interpretable in a Catholic or
anti-catholic sense. The Catholics piously accept the Catholic sense and
swallow the words, only to have the modernists turn them to poison by exploiting
the anti-catholic sense. Vatican II is ambiguous from start to finish, choosing
formulae of words that can slip and slide between the Church and the modern
world, so as to hide the intrinsic mutual contradiction of these two. To Paul
VI, believing profoundly in both Church and world (as he conceived them), such
formulae came instinctively and abundantly. The documents of his Council,
Vatican II, are shot through with ambiguity. Yet by these ambiguities Paul VI
really thought he would save both Church and world, exactly as Bishop Fellay
now hopes that by talking out of both sides of his mouth he will save both
Catholic Tradition and the Council. Vain hope! God “detests the double tongue”
(Prov. VIII, 13). It has always served
to trick Catholics into abandoning their faith.
But more than just slippery, modernism is amongst all heresies uniquely
slippery, because as Pius X said in “Pascendi,” it is the heresy of heresies, like a main sewer collecting in
itself all the filth of all the minor sewers, or particular heresies. This is
because it is the product (and producer) of minds that have slipped anchor from
anchorage in any truth whatsoever, so that any counter-truth or heresy is
entirely at home in modernism. And this is because its fundamental principle is
philosophical, the human mind’s supposed inability to know anything whatsoever
beyond what appears to men’s five external senses. Such a mind is like a dirty
wine-bottle. It dirties anything poured into it, even the finest of wines or
the sublimest of truths. For while any other heresy attacks a particular truth
of the Faith, the philosophical error at the root of modernism undermines
universal truth, even while it can pretend that it is not attacking any truth
in particular. For instance Benedict XVI would no doubt be horrified if he were
accused of disbelieving any Article of the Creed, but that does not stop him
from being ready to “up-date” them all.
Now never have so many minds slipped all anchor in objective truth as
today, such slipping being man’s final liberation, whereby reality can no
longer impose itself on me, but I can impose myself on all reality. I have
taken the place of God. Thus too many Catholics were infected by today’s world
and welcomed modernism when it reared its head again at Vatican II, because
here was the Pope himself giving the apparent seal of Catholic approval to
their undermining of all Catholic Truth. They were free, and still Catholic.
Cry freedom throughout the Church!
Then how deal with this
“uniquely slippery animal?” Certainly not by going down to Rome to mix with its
main victims and perpetrators, the present officials at the top of the Church.
Satan himself might not have a long enough spoon to sup safely with these
(objective) foxes and sharks and wolves, all the more dangerous for their
possible (subjective) unawareness of their own condition. Pray the Rosary for
Our Lady to build around your heads and hearts her own protective armour.
Kyrie eleison.
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