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This is a detailed criticism of the relatio (introduction) to the Fathers of the Second Vatican council of the original schema which became the Declaration on Religious Liberty. more

PROPHETS OF OUR TIME

When, in the years to come, the Church raises up bishops and popes who recognise the shortcomings of the Second Vatican Council, and acknowledge the great evils which it has produced among the faithful, two men will be recognised for their devotion to the task of its unmasking in the face of overwhelming opposition from the Church’s intelligentia. They are the Italian theologian (and layman), Romano Amerio, and the English layman, Michael Davies, both now deceased. Amerio’s work, Iota Unum, published in Italian in 1985, and translated into many languages since[1] , and Davies’ many books, but especially his The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty[2], have been standards for those troubled by the theological problems precipitated by the Council.

We are pleased to refer the reader to an article which has just appeared on the chiesa website, the rather clumsily expressed The Defenders of Tradition Want the Infallible Church back, access to which he may obtain via the following link—

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1344019?eng=y

It may mark a significant step in the growth in disenchantment with the Second Vatican Council and its determinations.

Michael Baker
13th July 2010

[1] See Iota Unum, A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the XXth Century, trans. from the Second Italian Edition by Rev. Fr John P Parsons, Kansas City, 1996.

[2] Long Prairie, Minnesota (The Neumann Press), 1992.

LIFE UNDER THE BANE OF SUBJECTIVISM - CONCLUSION

This is the third and concluding item in this series. The tide of subjectivism can be reversed. Here we suggest how it is to be done. more

THE ETHICS OF ELFLAND

An extract from a chapter of Chesterton's marvellous little book, Orthodoxy. more

LIFE UNDER THE BANE OF SUBJECTIVISM - PART II

We list here the chief effects today of an evil which began almost five centuries ago. more

LIFE UNDER THE BANE OF SUBJECTIVISM

The people of the twenty-first century are victims of a long standing evil - subjectivism. We set out here its history. Later we will relate its evil effects, and suggest how the Church can go about combatting them. more

SUICIDE

Thanks to subjectivism and materialism, the public attitude to suicide today is, at best, ambivalent and, at worst, indulgent. more

THE WINDHOVER

The little falcon that reminds us of Christ Our Lord. more

ANOTHER LEO XIII

It can only be a matter of time before Almighty God endows His Church with another pope of the calibre of Leo XIII. more

EVOLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE

There have been endeavours to prove the falsity of Darwin's theory from facts. Here is a proof from principle. more

GENESIS & LITERALISM

Fr Peter Joseph has published a commentary on the issue addressed on this website in the paper 'The Schismatic Tendency in Creation Science'. We attach a link to Fr Joseph's paper on the Servants of St Michael website - http://www.servantsofstmichael.org/index.php?view=article&catid=41%3Aarticles-by-fr-peter-joseph-pp-st-dominics-syd&id=63%3Agenesis-and-literalism&option=com_content&Itemid=65

JOHN XXIII AND VETERUM SAPIENTIA

On 22nd February 1962, in the Apostolic Constitution, Veterum Sapientia, Bl. John XXIII wrote as follows: "[I]t is necessary that the language the Church employs be not only universal but immutable. For if the truths of the Catholic Church were to be handed on via one or other of more recent and malleable languages, no one of which is superior to another, the meaning of these truths, varied as they are, would not be manifest to everyone with sufficient clarity and precision. There would, moreover, be no language which could serve as a common and constant norm by which to gauge the exact meaning of other renderings. But Latin is indeed such a language. It is set and unchanging. It has long since ceased to be affected by the alteration in meaning of words which is the inevitable concomitant of daily, popular use... [T]he Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular."

The wisdom of these observations and the directives the Apostolic Constitution contained were swamped by the indulgence in novelty which followed upon the Second Vatican Council. Pope Benedict has stirred the Church's members to recognise the critical place that Latin plays in the Church's mission and liturgy. It is timely, then, to resurrect this important Church document. more

THE SCHISMATIC TENDENCY IN ‘CREATION SCIENCE’

'Creation Science', the naive assertion that the universe was created only 6,000 years ago, is a Protestant thing. Its adoption by Catholics presents real dangers to their faith. more

FAILURE OF THE EXECUTIVE POWER

It belongs to the father of a household to exercise discipline in his family. This is true not only of the family, but of the household of the Church. The Pope and each of the bishops of the Church, indeed, each priest, is a father in charge of a household. Each has duties to rule and govern his household with authority given him by God. If he fails in those duties the harm that results is as extensive as is the reach of his authority. In this paper we argue that the failure of respect for discipline so characteristic of the modern world began in the Catholic Church in 1962 and has continued unabated ever since. We argue that it is this failure which has permitted the folly of Feminism to flourish in the Church, and in the world. more

THE LOSS OF METAPHYSICS

John of Salisbury, 12th Century philosopher, says in his Metalogicon: 'Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more... because they raise us up...' In the century that followed John of Salisbury, the greatest of the intellectual giants appeared, Thomas Aquinas. His philosophy, metaphysics, is the only ultimately satisfying explanation of reality, the only philosophy which leads us inevitably to the Author of all reality, Almighty God. Thomas's philosophy was adopted by the Catholic Church as her own to assist in formulating doctrine and in solving the great problems of morals. Yet, in the last 40 years that philosophy has been abandoned and the Church and the world have suffered. If the Church is to be returned to her rightful position of influence in the world, her bishops and teachers must return to St Thomas's metaphysics. more