Related to the Latin Mass Rosary Rally.
First comes the Faith, then the hierarchical Church. Not the other way around. That inversion leads to blind obedience to heterodox and gravely scandalous pastoral decisions by a Bishop to not lose the Latin Mass permission.
The doctrinal error of that inversion leads to the doctrinal error that obedience to one’s Bishop is absolute. That the Bishop’s authority is absolute. That any public questioning or even resistance to a Bishop violates the likewise doctrinally erroneous position that the Church absolutely forbids this as intrinsically violating the divine law.
This explains how the local critics of my recent reporting and call to action on this have fallen into clericalism and quietism. Both ideas are half truths that enable the Crisis we are in since 1965. And especially since 1970. This is why begging to talk to the bishop, petitions, public prayer vigils and rallies, public written criticism is treated as heretical or sacrilege.
The Church is not a democracy, but it is also not a totalitarian dictatorship or communist collective. Christ did not institute the Church to be either. What the contrarians, Karen’s, and clericalist enforcers want you to be is quiet and passive, more feminine traits of the home.
That’s why these critics tend to be manly women or effeminate men, in either case emasculating Catholic men who know their duty during times of attack, and that duty is to step up and defend the innocent, the good, the true, and the beautiful.
If you want your children when they grow up to still practice the Catholic Faith, to be wholesome, and to keep attending the Latin Mass, it won’t happen if you never go to battle for the truth, especially for the essentials of the Faith. If you act like you are unwilling to suffer for matters of faith, or even die for it, then that teaches the child that the Faith isn’t worth making it the center of their lives.
There is a white martyrdom to refusing to compromise to one Iota about the Faith, to bend the knee even slightly to one doctrinal error, such as religious liberty or the Protestantization of the Mass, or the idea of blind obedience. Essentially, the naysayers are saying “Accept religious liberty, ot ecumenism, or the “liturgical reform,” or blind obedience to keep the Latin Mass, otherwise you will be punished and it taken away, and then ostracized with a social death.”
This is the equivalent of “burn just one little grain of incense to the idol, and you will live. If not, you die.” Those who wanted the easy path in life burned that one little grain of incense, to physically live, but doing so destroyed a part of their soul or all of it. Those who refused died a glorious death, finding their way quickly to heaven.
Readers, do no burn that grain of incense, to anything in the Church today that is not in accord with the Catholic Faith, even if you suffer marginalization for it. Ask yourself this question, would you give your life to defend the Latin Mass? To defend true Catholic worship of God?
Imagine a scenario. Blue button, red button. You are sat down and told you have only two choices. A: push the blue button. If you push the blue button, the Latin Mass will permanently disappear from your local Church, but you will live a long and healthy life, surrounded by many friends and wealth. Or B: push the red button, Latin Masses appear in every parish permanently, for the greater glory of God and salvation of souls, but you will die an unimaginably slow and painful death.
Which button would you choose?