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In his latest video, about the destruction of statues of Bl. Junipero Serra in California at the hands of howling mobs of satanic tools, Taylor Marshall asks a good question: where are the bishops while all this is going on? Why aren’t they out there denouncing this destruction? Why don’t they do something substantive about it?
What we are seeing now is the chickens of aggiornamento coming home to roost. The point of aggiornamento was never to open the modern world up to the influence of the Church, but to open the Church up to the influence of the modern world. And the defining characteristic of modernity is the rejection of God, and therefore the rejection also of man as a creature made in His image and likeness, possessing a high dignity that is worthy of respect. What could possibly go wrong?
The modernist experiment has created churchmen who are not champions of Jesus Christ and His Church, but little men who occupy themselves with vain and worldly pursuits like global warming, women’s ordination and the accumulation of vast wealth, and leave the flocks to be picked over by the wolves. Since modernism teaches us to place the city of man ahead of the City of God, it has left us, not only with men who have made themselves irrelevant, but also with men who are entirely in the tank for the Church’s secularist persecutors.
When the Church is full of enemies and weaklings from within, she is defenseless against attacks from without. We saw this graphically illustrated during the coronapanic, when Catholics all over the world were deprived of Mass and the Sacraments during the holiest time of the year, while secular pursuits were allowed to continue. We are seeing it graphically illustrated now, when the enemies of Christian civilization are trying to overthrow governments here and abroad by force of violence. We are seeing that the iconoclasm aimed at monuments to civic figures was never going to stop there, but ultimately has as its goal the destruction of the Catholic Church. And we are seeing that decades of modernism within the Church has left the gates of the sheepfold wide open to the wolves.
Continued below.
V for Victory!: Why the Bishops Are Letting the Mobs Destroy Statues
What we are seeing now is the chickens of aggiornamento coming home to roost. The point of aggiornamento was never to open the modern world up to the influence of the Church, but to open the Church up to the influence of the modern world. And the defining characteristic of modernity is the rejection of God, and therefore the rejection also of man as a creature made in His image and likeness, possessing a high dignity that is worthy of respect. What could possibly go wrong?
The modernist experiment has created churchmen who are not champions of Jesus Christ and His Church, but little men who occupy themselves with vain and worldly pursuits like global warming, women’s ordination and the accumulation of vast wealth, and leave the flocks to be picked over by the wolves. Since modernism teaches us to place the city of man ahead of the City of God, it has left us, not only with men who have made themselves irrelevant, but also with men who are entirely in the tank for the Church’s secularist persecutors.
When the Church is full of enemies and weaklings from within, she is defenseless against attacks from without. We saw this graphically illustrated during the coronapanic, when Catholics all over the world were deprived of Mass and the Sacraments during the holiest time of the year, while secular pursuits were allowed to continue. We are seeing it graphically illustrated now, when the enemies of Christian civilization are trying to overthrow governments here and abroad by force of violence. We are seeing that the iconoclasm aimed at monuments to civic figures was never going to stop there, but ultimately has as its goal the destruction of the Catholic Church. And we are seeing that decades of modernism within the Church has left the gates of the sheepfold wide open to the wolves.
Continued below.
V for Victory!: Why the Bishops Are Letting the Mobs Destroy Statues
