Very often people will ask, as I myself asked for years: “Why in the world would the Church’s leaders persecute some of the most faithful Catholics—those who form the TLM [Traditional Latin Mass] communities?”
They are penalized, to be sure, their venues taken away, promoters disciplined.
Why indeed?
The answer is not an agreeable one, but sometimes we must take bitter medicine in order to get well. Truth can be the bitterest of medicines. [Uh-oh. Look out.]
. . . of all the sicknesses in the Church, denial of reality is one of the most widespread and most unacknowledged. When this sickness is not diagnosed, the sufferer cannot take the steps he needs to take in regard to spiritual diet and exercise.
That last is a grabber. He’s means to prescribe or begin to uncover what’s needed for the pew-sitters of the world for them to stay (a) interested and (b) devout.
The Church’s leaders persecute the most faithful Catholics . . . a leadership . . . at this time dominated by a network of active homosexuals and theological modernists.
Oh.
They are not always the same people, but they rely on, and receive, one another’s support.
We all know individual good bishops or cardinals, but such exceptions [!] are a controlled opposition, with very limited mobility.
Exceptions?
The more [these bishops and cardinals] act or speak out, the more ostracized they are, and sometimes they can even be canceled, as priests are canceled lower down.
In the ranks, where non-conformers pay for their sins.
What then of “the enormity of the evil represented by each of these forces”?
Homosexuals reject the first principles of natural law.
Modernists reject the first principles of divine revelation.
Together, they reject the foundations not only of Christianity but of religion as such, and therefore of morality.
Hard words, hard to take. He warned us.
Their “religion,” if such it can be called, is one of self-actualization and self-regard—a secularized inversion of the Christian mission to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
Condemnation, you have a target.
Theirs is the fashionable subjectivism and flexible relativism of the postmodern West, where “anything goes”—except, of course, traditional faith and morals, for this faith and these morals would eliminate them, possibly even in the old-fashioned method prescribed by pre-modern popes who did not think the death penalty “inadmissible.” [?!]
This false religion, combined with unlimited vanity and lust for power, explains why much of our senior leadership is hell-bent on erasing the TLM from the Church and uprooting the communities that grow around it.
Whom they see as their enemy.
Thus, when people exclaim—baffled by Traditionis Custodes and its ongoing implementation —“But look at how the TLM attracts young people! Look at the large families and numerous vocations!” they are . . . missing the point.
It’s precisely because of this fruitfulness, not in spite of it, that its enemies want to crush it. The more fruitful it is, the more furious they will be.
Whole thing is a mess. Modernists and same-sex-attracted join forces to shoot down opponents, run-of-mill purveyers of every-day Catholicism who know what side their butter’s on.
They see people every day dying for help and have bosses with eye out for non-conformity and ready to slap him down. Conformity, otherwise called unity, actually uniformity, is the never-ready explanation.
Blithe Spirit 