Apparently the United States is now East Germany under the U.S.S.R., like the KGB targeting Catholic churches for surveillance. Big Brother then—and Big Brother now—clamped down on Catholics opposed to the policies of a One Party system.
My own mother spent part of her childhood under the Communists in East Germany. She says “I remember going to Mass and seeing Russian KGB police often sitting in the back pew. They were making sure no one was speaking out against the Communists.” Her impression was of a state of mind control and oppression.
Likewise, I recall Fr. Robert Dobrowski, OFM, one of my childhood pastors showing us altar boys his forearm tattoo from the Polish, Soviet concentration camp he was sent to for being a Catholic priest. He and several Polish Capuchin priests would later flee communist Poland to establish a Franciscan parish here in Oklahoma. During a time at least in which communist tactics were not being actively employed on orthodox Catholics here in the US.
Until now. We are reading reports of special law enforcement sitting in the back pews of our Catholic churches, especially those dedicated to Catholic Tradition, and by extension the political order of what the Church calls the “Social Kingship of Christ.”
Traditionalist Catholics are now one of the strongest voices against the Deep State and their woke ideology coming out of D.C. Case in point, Archbishop Vigano’s declarations.
Yet on one hand we must proclaim the Truth in the town square, which de facto means today online, especially through blogs; and on the other hand, we must be smart what we say and how we say it. We don’t want to come across mistakenly as nutters, or mistakenly anything less than law-abiding citizens. We must protect ourselves.
These are the best of times, and the worst of times, all rolled up into one. I firmly believe we are in the End Times, which means, per past Saints, the greatest saints in history will be during the latter times, simply for keeping and proclaiming the Faith while also persecuted.
Soviets in the back pew. If any of them happen to read this locally, know that us traditional Catholics generally speaking are the greatest of patriots and law-abiding citizens. You have no reason to fear. When you come to the Latin Mass to survey the scene, observe all the happy, large families, the priest, the beauty of the Mass, and sometime yourself explore the treasures of traditional Catholicism, the doctrines of which are peace-promoting and benevolent. Not how Leftist social justice warriors portray us as dangerous hate criminals.
As we say here in the South, “that dog don’t hunt.”
And that’s all I have to say about that…