Vatican “War”
To Vatican Two will Catholics wake up ever?
They surely wake up better late than never!
In
today’s crisis of the Church, of an unprecedented gravity in all Church
history, it is most important that Catholics should give due importance both to
the Traditional movement and to the Catholic Church outside the Traditional
movement. Tradition in its broadest sense, meaning everything which Our Lord
entrusted to his Church to be handed down ( tradendum in Latin) to world’s end,
is indispensable to the Church, and the Traditional movement has played an
indispensable part in preserving Traditional doctrine and sacraments from their
destruction by the Conciliar Revolution over the last half-century. But to
survive, the Traditional movement had to place itself outside the normal
hierarchical structure of the Church, and that structure is very much part of
Tradition – “Peter, feed my sheep” (Jn XXI, 17). Therefore however deep is the
Conciliar corruption in Rome, Catholics must still be looking to Rome.
Hence
the interest of the following report from inside Rome by the Founder and
Director of an American Novus Ordo publication, LifeSiteNews. Steve Jalsevac
normally visits Rome twice a year with colleagues to talk with all kinds of
contacts in Rome, the better to be able to assess how the situation in the
Church is developing. From his late November visit he published on December 16
a “deeply worrying” report of his impressions of the situation in Rome today.
Extracts follow:
“Our
Nov. 16–23 visit to Rome was the most dramatic of many such twice-per-year work
trips we have taken there during the past 10 years. After meeting with
cardinals, bishops and other Vatican agency and dicastery staff, our new Rome
reporter John-Henry Westen, Jan Bentz, and I saw a consistent pattern of
widespread anxiety and very real fear among faithful Church servants. We have never
encountered this before. Many were afraid of being removed from their
positions, fired from their jobs in Vatican agencies or of encountering severe
public or private reprimands and personal accusations from those around the
Pope or even from Francis himself. They are also fearful and anxious about the
great damage being done to the Church and being helpless to stop it.
“.
. . Catholic universities in Rome are watched and professors’ lectures
screened to ensure they fall in line with a liberal interpretation of Amoris
Laetitia. Clerics are reported to Superiors if they are overheard expressing
concerns about Pope Francis. Many are afraid to speak openly, even though in
the past they were always very willing. Vatican reporters told us they were warned
numerous times not to report on the dubia (the questions raised by Cardinal
Burke and three other Cardinals as to doctrine contained in Amoris Laetitia). I
have heard reports that the Vatican is like an occupied state. Certain sources
I've spoken with have a fear that communications with Vatican officials are
being monitored; some have even reported suspicious anomalies in their
telephone conversations in which, after a dropped call, the audio of the last
moments of their conversation has played over and over again on a loop, as
though they are hearing a recording. Some individuals who work within the
Vatican are advising their contacts on the outside not to share sensitive
information via email or their Vatican-issued cell phones.
“We
have to wonder where all of this is going. It is deeply, deeply concerning. The
common phrase we kept hearing that week in Rome is that there is a “war” going
on in the Church – a war of the “The Spirit of Vatican II” progressives against
the orthodox Catholics. One person after another shockingly used the word
“war.” I have never experienced anything like this in my lifetime and I am sure
most, if not all regular LifeSite readers, can say the same thing.”
Traditionalists
may say that the four Cardinals and Mr Jalsevac are victims of Vatican II,
waking up a little late, but let nobody say that they do not mean or intend to
be Catholic. The Church will only be healed when true Doctrine and the true
Hierarchy come together again, so let Traditionalists pray urgently for these souls
waking up to the Conciliar war. May God give them light and strength.
Kyrie
eleison.
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