The Most Important Work in 2025 Is to See What Archbishop Lefebvre Saw in 1988

Quote:“A reading of ‘Peter, Lovest Thou Me?’ is enough to fill a faithful Catholic with despair, were it not that we have Our Lord’s promise that He will never desert His Church. He will truly be with us all days, but what trials we must endure, only He in His mercy knows. We can watch the world becoming more and more evil by the day, and we can watch the Princes of the Church doing nothing in its defense. More clearly can we see the warnings given by Our Blessed Lady at La Salette, at Lourdes, at Fatima. At La Salette she told us that ‘Rome will lose the truth and become the seat of the Antichrist.’ Our Lady gave to Sr. Lucia a third part to her message at Fatima, which was to be published in 1960. The world still waits, but it almost certainly spoke of a general apostasy. Is that not what we are witnessing today?”

Quote:“The churches and separated communities, although we once believed that they suffered from deficiencies, are not totally deprived of importance and value in the mystery of salvation. The Spirit of Christ does not refuse to use them as means of salvation, through the strength deriving from the fullness of grace and truth which has been conferred on the Catholic Church.” (p. 42)

“Nostalgia for the unity of Christians makes common cause with that of unity of the whole human race. The new concept of a ‘People of God’ has made us revise the old truth about the possibility of redemption outside the limits of the Catholic Church. This gives rise to the attitude of the Church towards the other religions, which is based on the recognition of their spiritual values, humans and Christians together, reaching out to such religions as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism . . .” (p. 45)

“In celebrating the Redemption we go beyond the historic misunderstandings and contingent controversies to find once more what is common to all Christians, that is to say, like the redeemed.” (p. 111)

“Christians and Moslems, we meet one another in faith in the one God, our creator, our guide, our just and merciful judge. We strive to put into practice in our daily lives the will of God, following the teaching of our respective holy books.” (p. 140)

“Christians and Moslems, we have many things in common as believers and as men . . . We believe in the same God, the only God, the living God. Respect and dialogue require mutual reciprocity in all areas, especially concerning fundamental liberties and more particularly religious liberty. Each man expects to be respected for what he is and what he believes.” (p. 141)

“Jerusalem must become the city of man, in which the believers of the three great monotheistic religions — Christianity, Judaism and Islam — live in full liberty and equality, as do the believers of other religious communities, in the recognized guarantee that this city is the sacred patrimony of all, and is destined for adoration of the One God, of mediation and the work of fraternity.” (p. 200)

Quote:“To read these lines presenting the true face of John Paul II is a terrifying experience for the faithful Catholic, it fills the soul with sadness and dread.”

Quote:“Also, it raises serious problems of faith for any true Catholic; problems that often have no solution, although they explain the perplexity and confusion which are now troubling even those whose faith is strongest. The Pope is Peter, the rock on which Christ founded His Church. He is the one whose faith must not fail; who is to confirm his brethren; feed his sheep; feed the lambs. It is he who, assisted by the Holy Ghost has, for almost twenty centuries in this manner given the Papacy a moral credibility unique in the history of the world. Is it conceivable that, since the 1960s, the Apostolic See has been occupied by Popes who have been the cause of the ‘auto-demolition of the Church,’ and are spreading within it ‘the smoke of Satan’? Leaving aside the pertinent question of what these Popes are, we are certainly obliged to ask ourselves questions about what they do, and we can observe with alarm and amazement that they are introducing the Revolution of ’89 into the Church, complete with its motto, its charter, which is fundamentally opposed to the principles of the Catholic Faith.”

Quote:“This book is very enlightening on the activities of John Paul II, a true follower of Paul VI. We have the facts before our eyes which, enlightened by the immutable Catholic Faith, are now, with increasing sorrow and grief, seeing the Church threatened with complete ruin.”

Quote:“Echoing the Popes before the 1960s, who foretold the disasters that would come upon the Church if their warnings were not listened to and their condemnations not heeded, and echoing the prophesies of Our Lady of La Salette and Fatima, let us strive to re-establish the Church upon the eternal principles taught by the Magisterium for nearly twenty centuries, rejecting the errors of the Liberal Modernist Revolution, even when these errors may be endorsed by those who occupy the See of Peter.”

Quote:“The Declaration we made on November 21, 1974 after the first visit to Rome is still relevant, and we were obliged to reaffirm it after our second visit in 1987. We must reject Modernist Rome as it pursues its course of destroying the Faith and Christianity. It is our daily duty to repudiate it by attaching ourselves to the eternal Rome, proclaiming more than ever the need for the Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother, Mary Our Queen. To bring about the coming of this Reign, we need Bishops, we need priests and religious who have but one name on their lips, and one love in their hearts: that of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”

I have written a short storybook for children. Under the guise of a fantasy, it is an allegory with Catholic references, such as Our Lady, the Rosary, the Scapular, and so on.

I wrote this for my own children first of all. But I decided to publish it in the hopes that it will be interesting for Catholic children--they can 'decode' it. I also hope that nonCatholic children, who may read it and not understand the references, may be exposed to some Catholic elements. Perhaps this little exposure may blossom into something more in the future.

My goal is to contribute, in this very small way, to the reign of Christ the King on earth.

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Thank you very much.

For Christ the King and His Holy Mother!

A secular commentary but one that resonates:

The following is reprinted from Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre - Volume 1, chapter 9:

Quote:

Outside of Which Church?
by Jean Madiran

As a reaction to the papal allocution of 24 May 1976, Jean Madiran wrote the following article which first appeared in the Supplément-Voltigeur of Itinéraires of 15 June 1976. The following translation was made by Father Urban Synder and appeared in The Remnant of 21 July 1976.

"In his allocution to the Consistory of 24 May 1976, where he mentions Archbishop Lefebvre several times by name, Paul VI seems to cut him off and yet he doesn't. He accuses the Archbishop of 'putting himself outside the Church.' But which Church? There are two. And Paul VI has not renounced being the Pope of these two Churches sirnultaneously. Under such conditions, 'outside the Church' is equivocal and does not cut off anything.

That there are now two Churches, with one and the same Paul VI at the head of both, is not our doing, we are not making it up, but simply stating the way things are.

Many episcopates, which declare themselves to be in communion with the Pope, and whom the Pope does not reject from his communion, are objectively outside the Catholic communion.

The episcopate of Holland, in an official document, has explicitly called into doubt the virginal conception of Our Lord, but they have not been summoned by the Pope to retract or to resign. On the contrary-they have spread through-out the whole world their 'Dutch Catechism' which doesn't contain the things necessary to know for salvation, and which inspires all the new catechisms.

The French episcopate since 1969 subjects the faithful, 'as a reminder of faith,' to the false teaching that in the Mass 'there is question simply of a memorial.' None of our protestations or supplications has succeeded in bringing them to deny or even explain this. It is in the name of the Council, of the Pope, and of the bishops in communion with him that now, for ten years or more, and without any efficacious denial, there is imposed on us all the discourses and, decisions which install the immanent apostasy, the permanent auto-demolition, the capitulation before the world, the cult of man, the opening to Communism. There is no question here of some handful of marginal dissidents, as the Pope insinuates in his allocution. There is question of the greater part of the actual holders of the apostolic succession. Legitimate holders? Yes, but prevaricators, deserters, impostors. Paul VI remains at their head without either disavowing or correcting them. He keeps them in his communion, he presides over their Church also.

Archbishop Lefebvre is not in his present situation through any fault of his own. He didn't innovate anything, he didn't invent anything, he didn't overturn anything; he has simply preserved and transmitted the deposit which he received. He has kept the promises of his baptism, the doctrine of his catechism, the Mass of his ordination, the dogmas defined by Popes and Councils, the theology and the traditional ecclesiology of the Church of Rome. Just by his existence, by his very being, and without having willed it, he is thus the witness of a crisis which is not of his making, but that of an uncertain Pope at the head of two Churches at the same time.

Cardinal Suenens declared in 1969: 'We could draw up an impressive list of theses, taught in Rome yesterday and before yesterday as sole truths (seules valables), and which were eliminated by the Council Fathers.’ A formidable doctrinal revolution! Cardinal Suenens is happy about it. The greater part of the actual holders of the apostolic succession think and speak on this point like Cardinal Suenens. Neither he nor they are disavowed. Paul VI remains at their head and keeps them in his communion; a communion where they profess that the Church, yesterday and before yesterday, was mistaken. But on all these points where they teach that the Church was mistaken, who or what can guarantee to us that it is not they themselves who, today, are mistaken and are misleading us?

It doesn't help at all to reassure us that the Council is badly interpreted and the Pope badly understood. If the Council has been constantly interpreted the way it has, it is with the active or passive consent of the bishops in communion with the Pope. Thus there is established a Conciliar Church, different from the Catholic Church. And no bishop, however scandalous his post-conciliar excesses, has received from Paul VI the severe public rebukes which he has reserved for Archbishop Lefebvre alone, and for the sole reason that the Archbishop remains unshakeably faithful to the Catholic religion such as it was until 1958.

If the Catholic religion, such as it was in 1958 at the death of Pius XII, contained some things optional, variable, which (let us suppose) have become anachronistic in 1976, to remain attached to them does not, all the same, constitute a crime. Anachronism is not necessarily in itself something which puts you 'outside the Church.' If we are going to talk about anachronisms, pure, simple, and unlimited, they are in the new catechisms from which the things necessary for salvation have been excised; they are in the vernacular Masses, accompanied by Marxist chants and erotic dances; they are in the falsification of Scripture imposed by the episcopate, such as where a (French) liturgical reading proclaims that 'to live holily it is necessary to marry'; they are in all the other infamous things of like kind of which none, for the past ten years, has been either retracted by those guilty , or condemned by higher authority. There are indeed crimes really going on in the Church, those just mentioned, but they are considered less criminal than preserving the Catholic religion such as it was in 1958 at the death of Pius XII.

All this presupposes a new religion, another ecclesial community, which nevertheless is installed in the posts of command of Church administration, and boasts of communion with Pope Paul, having at the same time, to put it mildly, the consent of Pope Paul.

Archbishop Lefebvre 'outside the Church'? Out of the one just mentioned, certainly. But it surpasses belief that a person 'puts himself outside' the Catholic Church, without budging, or by simply remaining in the Catholic religion such as it was at the death of Pius XII in 1958.

There are two Churches under Paul VI. Not to see that there are two, or not to see that they are strangers the one to the other, or not to see that Paul VI thus far is presiding over both, partakes of blindness and in some cases perhaps of invincible blindness. But when one has once seen it, not to say it would be to add complicity by silence to an enormous monstrosity.

Gustave Corcao in the review Itineraires for November, 1975, and then Father Bruckberger in L' Aurore for 18 March 1976, remarked in print:

Quote:The religious crisis is not like that in the 14th century, when you had, for one single Church, two or three Popes simultaneously; today, rather, there is question of one single Pope for two Churches, the Catholic and the post-conciliar.

But to belong simultaneously to two such contrary Churches is impossible. It is impossible even for a Pope, by the very definition of his office. If Paul VI doesn't disengage himself, there is going to be an inevitable blow-up (choc en retour) as a result."

The following is part of a larger article published by The Catholic Trumpet which examines yet another abandonment by the SSPX of their previously strong stance on the errors of Vatican II and on upholding traditional Catholic teaching.

More Evidence of Convergence Between the SSPX and Ecclesia Dei Communities




The 2007 Angelus Press Revised/Expanded Edition of Michael Davies’ “Pope John’s Council”

Sean Johnson As We Are 8-25-14

https://www.therecusant.com/michael-davi...elus-press

Quote:“As a result, the document does not wish to repeat, firmly and univocally, that there is only one way of salvation, i.e., that established by Christ in His Church. Instead it gives us to understand, through its equivocations, that we must admit that “historical figures and positive elements of these [other] religions may fall within the divine plan of salvation,” and that, according to Vatican II, the false religions can be seen to exercise “a manifold cooperation” and even “participated mediation” in the one mediatorship of Christ. There is one reservation, however: these “participated forms of mediation…cannot be understood as parallel or complementary to his.” In fact, the concept of parallel [equal] complementarity is very different from that of participated [subordinate] mediation.

This concept of participated, subordinate mediation has always been intrinsic to the Catholic religion. What is new in the Declaration, and what is unheard-of in the Catholic religion, is that this participated mediation is now no longer reserved to the Most Blessed Virgin, the Saints and the members of the Mystical Body, but extended to all the false religions (the sects and the pagan religions). This is in harmony with the “new theology,” which no longer understand the Mystical Body to be coextensive with the visible Church (plus the individual exceptions in the case of souls united to the Church “in voto,” by implicit and explicit desire), but broadens and expands Christ’s Mystical Body to embrace all humanity with all its false religious beliefs.

The fundamental concept of ecumenism can be reduced to this: “All religions are orientated to salvation, which is one, and is of Christ. These religions are ranked according to each one’s degree of participation in the fullness of truth and salvation which is found in its highest degree in Christ and his Church.” This is the basis supporting the superstructure of the Declaration Dominus Iesus, and we cannot see in what way it differs from the thesis of Modernism, namely, that God reveals Himself “in the life of all the religions, individually and collectively, but most of all in the life of Christianity” (George Tyrell, Per la sincerità in Rinnovamento) [For Sincerity in the Renewal] July-Aug. 1907 ”

Quote:“On September 8, 1868, the pope wrote an Apostolic Letter, Arcano divinae Providentiae consilio, to the Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, which demanded fidelity to the commitment they made to reunion at the Council of Lyons in 1274 and again at the Council of Florence in 1439.”

Quote:“The Holy Roman Church possesses the supreme and full primacy and principality over the whole Catholic Church. She truly and humbly acknowledges that she received this from the Lord himself in blessed Peter, the prince and chief of the apostles, whose successor the Roman Pontiff is, together with the fullness of power. And since before all others she has the duty of defending the truth of the faith, so if any questions arise concerning the faith, it is by her judgment that they must be settled.”