The very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean.—Wis 2:14-16a RSVCE.
At the end of my last article, The Recent Battle of the SSPX, I asked a question that pertains to the traditionalist movement at-large: Why do modernist heresiarchs publicly honor Anglicans, homosexuals, satanic American rock stars, abortion-promoters, Buddhist monks, Muslims, Jews, liberal Catholics, prisoners and even animals before they will publicly honor traditional Catholics?
But this is bigger than the SSPX vs. the Vatican. If you are a Catholic who attends the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) you have probably heard something like this from a mainstream Catholic: “Do you reject Vatican II? While there’s nothing schismatic about attending the TLM, you might have schismatic spirit if you attend it.”
These self-righteous lines of passive-aggression usually come from mainstream Catholics who have read one-book on recent Church history. Times hominem unius libri.
Sometimes, your salvation might even get challenged by people who claim you reject modern Popes, even if you don’t! But this is ironic since Vatican II insisted the Eastern Orthodox (formerly called schismatics) and Protestants (formerly called heretics) are indeed already saved without any need to come into the Catholic Church (just read the documents if you don’t believe me!) How then can anyone charge a traditionalist with “schism”?
Once again, this is bigger than the SSPX. We could also ask this question: How can threats of “schism” come from an allegedly-Christian entity that just blessed Muslims approaching Ramadan with no call for them to accept Jesus Christ to begin the pathway to salvation?
Or: How can your local chancery refuse to “accompany” all of you lost traditionalists if they really believe you are all “crypto-schismatics” in danger of losing our salvation? Yet, they’ll happily pray with Lutherans in their own communities? Remind me again: Whose salvation is in danger?
Answer: They really don’t believe any of us are heretical or schismatic. They’re just weaponizing language to scare us into not leaving a cult-like grip held on the quivering psyche of the few Catholics still paying attention. The bad guys know their time is fast-approaching.
Now we can switch from psychology to theology: The fact is that “liberal Catholics” don’t believe anyone in the world is in currently in danger of hell. Why? Because the heresy of religious indifferentism has turned their minds into oatmeal which has collapsed into narcissism. If it’s not about God anymore, then it’s now about man. That’s the very definition of the heresy of modernism.
Deep down inside, even liberals know true Catholicism can’t change. So, they aren’t comfortable with traditionalists because they know we believe that.
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