Thirty years after his death, the words of a Marine-turned-priest still read like battlefield orders for Catholics under siege.
Yesterday, August 10, marked thirty years since the death of Fr. Denis Chicoine. His life was a lived resistance1 to Vatican II. Although Fr. Chicoine was a sedevacantist Catholic, you don’t have to be a sedevacantist to appreciate his contributions to the resistance. When he spoke, you didn’t get gauzy pastoral language about “dialogue” or “building bridges.” You got a Catholic Marine barking orders from the trenches.
In two recorded conferences, preserved now as historical artifacts of the early traditional Catholic resistance, Chicoine diagnosed the sickness, named the culprits, and told Catholics how to stay Catholic when their shepherds had defected. He had no time for the illusion that the post-conciliar Church could be rescued by waiting politely. His words remain a field manual for anyone still navigating the wreckage of Vatican II.
Yesterday, August 10, marked thirty years since the death of Fr. Denis Chicoine. His life was a lived resistance1 to Vatican II. Although Fr. Chicoine was a sedevacantist Catholic, you don’t have to be a sedevacantist to appreciate his contributions to the resistance. When he spoke, you didn’t get gauzy pastoral language about “dialogue” or “building bridges.” You got a Catholic Marine barking orders from the trenches.
In two recorded conferences, preserved now as historical artifacts of the early traditional Catholic resistance, Chicoine diagnosed the sickness, named the culprits, and told Catholics how to stay Catholic when their shepherds had defected. He had no time for the illusion that the post-conciliar Church could be rescued by waiting politely. His words remain a field manual for anyone still navigating the wreckage of Vatican II.
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