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A publication of Traditional Catholics America t Editor: Francis E. Fenton, STL
Volume V, No. 1 t January 15,

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Fr. Francis Fenton

I t was back in the middle and late '1940's that I first
became aware of the diabollcal nature of Commu-
nism and its objective world conquest at whatever
years of its deliberations! In fact, in the written transcript
of those Council sessions the word is mentioned but
once-and that, as I recall, by way of a footnote.
cost in human life and suffering-an objective from Today's Conciliar "Catholic" Church, of course, is one
which it has never wavered. While the USA was, l knew, of the Reds' cherished allies on the world scene.
the prize target of Communism, it was not until some Incidentally, in his many speeches and statements
years later-say, around the middle i950's-that I around the world over the past five years, has John Paul
gan to realize the extent, even then, of the Communist II ever so much as mentioned the word Communism, to
penetration of the American government. How well I re- say nothing of condemning it? Not to my knowledge.
call giving sermons and speeches on the evils of Com-
munism at that time-and that was some 30 years ago. And then there is Freemasonry, every bit as much the
My efforts met with little popular support though. Even enemy of Church and civil government as is Commu-
among the scores of priests in the diocese to which l nism-however ignorant of this stark fact may be its
belonged, only one gave me any show of support while rank and file members. The top echelon of international
the powers that be in the diocese looked upon my anti- Masonry is well aware of it though. Not without very
Communism crusade with something less than enthusi- grave reason has the Roman Catholic Church con-
asm. In fact, I'm sure that they considered me to be, at demned this secret order and attached the penalty of
best, a troublemaker-at worst, slightly unbalanced. excommunication to those of her members who have
joined it. At least 10 popes have expressly denounced
Another few years were to transpire, however, before I Freemasonry over the past two and a half centuries.
would gradually arrive at the conviction that Commu- That the Conciliar Church now permits its members to
nism had not only deeply penetrated the American gov- become Masons is but one more powerful indictment
ernment but had made significant inroads into the against that Church. This evil organization is today what
Roman Catholic Church as well. True, I was well aware it has ever been, as declared by Pope Leo XIII, "a deadly
that the abolition of ail belief in God and all standards of poison circulating … in the veins of human society." In
morality was a prime goal of Communism and that, that same pontiff's words, " … Christianity and Freema-
among religious bodies, the Roman Catholic Church sonry are, by their nature, irreconcilable." Isn't it strange
was foremost on its list for destruction. Yet because of that the wiles and deceits and objectives of this nefari-
the nature of the Church and knowing it to have been for ous society are all but unkown by the generality of peo-
so long the greatest bastion in the world against Com- ple, even by many Roman Catholics and even though it
munism, I just knew that, though all else might fall victim is "the central enemy of the Catholic Church"?
to it, the Roman Catholic Church would stand firm and
impregnable. How wrong I was! Although, as I later It is the conviction of many traditional Roman Catholics,
learned, the Reds were in the woodwork of the Church including the author of these lines, that extensive Com-
long before Vatican Council II, the first unquestionable munist and Masonic infiltration into the Roman Catholic
proof to me that Communism must have deeply infil- Church is the fundamental cause, in human terms, of the
trated the Church was the fact that that Council never sorrowful deterioration of that Church over the past two
once condemned Communism throughout the four decades as well as the basic reason for the existence of
the current Conciliar Church. One may cite other contri- haustible source of divine grace for the living of the
buting factors but the prime villains are those inveterate supernatural lite. "In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Cath-
and relentless enemies of Catholicism-Communism olic Church possesses the sun of her divine worship, as
and Freemasonry. The destruction of the Roman Catho- well as the heart of her life of grace and virtue, her
lic Church has ever been one of their principal goals and supreme good, her greatest wealth and her most pre-
Vatican Council II provided them with a signal opportuni- cious treasure." (The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by
ty to pursue their iniquitous aims with a vengeance. The Father Nicholas Gihr). Countless volumes have been
years since that disastrous Council have manifested written on the Mass (the one book cited above is nearly
with ever increasing clarity how successful has been the 800 pages in length) and every properly instructed Cath-
Communist and Masonic penetration and subversion of olic knows well the preeminent place of the Mass in the
the Church from the Vatican on down-indeed, so strik- Roman Catholic Church. As the Church teaches, the
ingly successful that at some indeterminate point along Mass is the perfect act of worship given to God on this
the way a new Church, the Conciliar Church, came into earth, the prayer "par exellence" of man to his Creator.
existence. And so again, while other forces were also in-
strumental (Modernism, secular humanism, liberalism, In the words of Saint Leonard of Port Maurice (The
for example}-and there is much overlapping among Hidden Treasure: Holy Mass), " … were it not for holy
these various factors-yet Communism and Freema- Mass, at this moment the world would be in the abyss,
sonry were and are, I submit, the major causes for the unable to bear up under the mighty load of its iniquities."
massive destruction wrought upon the Church during Although those words were written some two and a half
and since Vatican Council IL centuries ago, how strikingly applicable they are to the
present time! The condition predicted by Saint Leonard,
As for the present state of moral decadence in America, if there were no Mass, is today becoming more and
is there a parallel between this situation and the tragic more a stark reality. And if this nation and the world are
history of the Roman Catholic Church over the past 20 not here and now totally "in the abyss" because of their
years or so? In other words, is there a relationship be- "iniquities", could this be because the True Mass is still
tween the overwhelming godlessness and immorality in preserved and offered by traditional priests, however
this nation today and the decline and fall of the Church pitifully few in number those priests may be? Yes, it
from the powerful position of influence for good it for- could very well be indeed. Over the past i 5 years or so
merly occupied on the American scene? I, for one, have we have seen both the widespread destruction of the
no doubt but that there is a close connection between True Mass by the Conciliar Church on the one hand and
the two. While the was hardly a model of sinless- the massive spiritual and moral disintegration of our na-
ness and righteousness for the world back, say, in the tion on the other hand. Is there, I wonder, a direct con-
30's, 40's and 50's, yet, in retrospect, spirituality and nection between the two? Although I am unable to prove
morality among the generality of the American people it, I strongly believe that there is.
might be said to have flourished In those days by com-
parison to the present time. Multitudes of Americans to- it is a doctrine of our Faith that the Roman Catholic
day do not even possess a sense of sin. And it is, I con- Church will last forever, that "the gates of hell shall not
tend, no mere coincidence that the gradual descent of prevail against it." Nor shall the powers of hell as mani-
the USA in recent years into its current state of moral tur- fested in Freemasonry, Communism, Modernism, liber-
pitude parallels, and is in large part the consequence of, alism, secular humanism, etc. Today that Church is
the decline of the Roman Catholic Church during that found and exists in traditional Catholicism which alone
same period of time. As the spiritual and moral power preserves the totality of divine truth as revealed by God
and influence of the Church deteriorated, so did our na- and taught by the Church throughout the Christian cen-
tion degenerate to become a twentieth century version turies. And, among all of the inestimable possessions of
of Sodom and Gomorrah. our God-given Faith, the treasures supreme are the Hoiy
Sacrifice of the Mass and the Blessed Sacrament of the
But is it possible to specify another cause, even beyond Eucharist. At the present time those treasures are, if
Freemasonry and Communism, for the present lament- possible, more precious than ever because the world is
able state of both Church and country? There are many largely without them. The world, of course, is not aware
traditional Roman Catholics who would unhesitatingly of its loss although that loss could well be the root cause
give an unqualified "yes" to that question, namely, the of its abysmally degenerate condition. t
near total cessation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
And surely a strong case can be made in support of that
contention. The Mass and Holy Eucharist are the heart
and center of the Roman Catholic Faith and the inex-
The Athanasian 2 15, 1984
]ohn Kenneth Weiskittel

T wo New York City detectives sit in their parked
squad car munching hot dogs. Suddenly, they spot
a man and accost him. Within two hours, the man has
has had a colorful history, proving the truth of the words
of the showman P. T. Barnum, "There's a sucker born
every minute." Today's list of swindles would have to in-
been identified and placed in the custody of FBI agents. clude mail-order fraud, chain-letter chicanery, pyramid
schemes, phony charities, loan sharks with their (not so)
Frank Abagnale-alias Frank Williams, alias Robert easy credit, false advertising, counterfeiting (since our
Conrad, Frank Adams and Robert Monjo-was, at the currency is today backed only by the empty promises of
time the law finally caught up with him in 1971 , one of politicians, and not by gold, this may be said to be a con
the world's most successful and most hunted impostors. upon a con!), bogus land deeds and numerous other
He parlayed his ability to convince people that he was a swindles performetj by flim-flam operators and fly-by-
Pan Am airlines pilot, an assistant state attorney, ape- night businesses.
diatrician, a college professor, an agent, (to name a
few of his postures) into "earnings" of over two and a A more pervasive con, and one that goes beyond the
half million dollars and, in so doing, became the object of mere theft of money, is the anti-Christian conspiracy that
hunts by police in 26 foreign countries and all 50 states. has taken root in our land and that boasts as its mem-
Abagnale was, in short. a con man extraordinaire. bers politicians, educators, social activists, bankers, in-
dustrialists, entertainers and people in nearly every walk
His remarkably successful career in crime was based on of life. One can hardly turn on the evening television
his ability to act, speak and move in precisely the ways news or read a mass-circulation magazine without con-
that the victims would associate with the actions, fronting journalists who, by and large, are more sympa-
speech and movements of the mimicked vocation. This, thetic to promoting dishonestly the programs of the con-
in turn, enabled him to gain their faith in his honesty. spiracy than they are to a truthful presentation of the
Abagnale, in hls confession-memoirs, Catch Me If You news.
Can, says the one trait necessary in all victims is blind
trust. Most disturbing of all, for Catholics, must be the fact that
agents of this same conspiracy, having succeeded in
The term "con", then, in such phrases as "con game", penetrating to the highest positions of the Church, have
"con man" and "con artist", is short for confidence. Un- either indoctrinated or neutralized into silence other
like the ordinary thief, who makes no pretense regarding leaders, and have taken the world's three-quarters of a
his aim, the adept con artist is able to extract money or billion Catholics into a sort of spiritual captivity in which
other valuables from his victims by having them willingly the prisoners are scarcely, if at all, aware that they are
-or even happily-hand them over to him. enslaved. The remainder of this article focuses on this
spiritual con game: how its practitioners operate, why
Researchers on the subject have found that untold thou- people are taken in by it and how to help its victims see
sands of people are bilked out of billions of dollars each through it so they'll stop playing the game. Hopefully,
year, but add that truly accurate figures can't be given some encouragement may also be derived from the
because many victims of such crimes are too embar- article.
rassed to admit to law enforcement authorities that
they've been "taken". Beware)

The Gypsies, who are also known for having brought In law, there is a saying that neatly sums up the respon-
their own brand of witchcraft and fortune-telling with sibility of the buyer to check any item for flaws before
them when they entered Europe centuries ago, are purchasing it: caveat emptor (let the buyer take care).
widely thought to be the originators of the con game.
(The slang expression "gyp", meaning "to cheat", is de- Even so, consumers are protected by truth-in-adver-
rived from "gypsy".) In America, the "art" of conning tising laws; and hospital patients, by safeguards against

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medical malpractice. Similar statutes defend citizens in In the same article, Dr. Coomaraswamy elaborated on
nearly every area of human conduct. the use of deceitful communications:

Unfortunately, one of those areas not covered is reli- Ambiguity has always been the ploy of the heretic
gion. Catholics can't file suit against a clergyman for and was rightly called in Medieval times "Verba du-
liturgical malpractice. Nor can they invoke the laws guar- plicita et maligna" -an evil and duplicitous use of
anteeing truth in advertising when Modernists in the language. Pope Leo XIII was to teach that, when
Conciliar Church decide to place a sign in front of their ambiguity was used in such situations, it was al-
church, proclaiming it a "Catholic Church" or a "Roman ways to be understood in the heretical sense.
Catholic Church".
In other words, the heretic will speak in a manner that
For the Catholic, then, the rule is strictly caveat credens does not conform to what he really believes.
-let the believer take care; believer, beware!
By the time the Protestant Revolution rolled around,
In a sense, the entire history of the human race has been some one thousand years later, its leaders had refined
the story of the battle between the conned and those this defrauding of Catholics even further. Martin Luther,
who refused to be conned. The outcome of the first such though he no longer believed in the Mass as understood
encounter finds Eve answering God: "The serpent de- by the Church, made every effort to hide that fact from
ceived me, and I did eat." This would later cause Christ the average churchgoer: "in indifferent matters our
to call Satan the father of lies. In truth, he can also be churches are so arranged that a layman … seeing our
called the father of con artists. Mass, choir, organ, bells, chantries, etc., would surely
say that it was a regular papist church." (Summary of
It has been a continual struggle for the Church to turn Catholic History, Vol. II, p. i 54). Other "Reformers",
away one attack after another from spiritual con artists of such as England's Thomas Cranmer, would follow
all different sorts-united only in their hatred of the Luther's lead and offer what appeared on the surface to
Church. These children of the devil have tried to devise be Catholic rites.
heresies in ways best suited to deceive the faithful.
All of these errors through the centuries have merely
They have been anathematized in the Scriptures: "Woe been precursors of that "synthesis of all heresies" –
to you that call evil good and good evil: that put darkness Modernism. Conceived by freethinking priests at the
for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, turn of the century, but courageously suppressed by
and sweet for bitter." (Isaias 5:20) In the very first heresy Pope St. Pius X, the plague of Modernism remained dor-
of the Christian era-Gnosticism-the tricksters delib- mant for most of this century until its agents at the
erately sought to "employ traditional Catholic terminol- Second Vatican Coucil allowed it "legally" to subvert the
ogy in a secret, perverted sense that threatened to trap Church.
the unwary pious soul." (Fr. Newman Eberhart, Sum-
mary of Catholic History, Vol. I, p. 9i ). St. Pius makes it clear in his encyclical Pascendi that the
Modernists, like their brother heretics, "make a pretense
In the fourth century the Church faced a new threat with of bowing their heads, (yet) their minds and hands are
the rise of Arianism. While the doctrines of the Arians more baldy intent than ever on carrying out their pur-
were different than those of the Gnostics, both shared poses." To achieve their goals, the Holy Father con-
the common trait of appearing to be orthodox Christians tinues, they find it "necessary … to remain within the
while actually being something far removed from the ranks of the Church in order that they may gradually
Church. transform the collective conscience (i.e., the way the
Church thinks as an institution)."
When finally challenged to profess the Catholics truths
defined by the Council of Nicaea, the Arians claimed The method for bringing about this "transformation"?
they had been misunderstood and, as Dr. Rama Cooma- The same method used with great success in Eden …
raswamy wrote in the April i 982 issue of The Roman deceit. Abbe Alfred Loisy, the French priest who came
Catholic, they presented Emperor Constantine a state- to be known as "the Father of Modernism", mastered
ment of their beliefs which "by the use of ambiguous lan- the con game. Michael Davies, in his short study, Parti-
guage gave the appearance of their being reconciled to sans of Error: St. Pius X Against the Modernists, reveals
Nicaea." ("St. Athanasius, Part I: The Rise of the Loisy's insincerity:
Heretics").

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. Thus, in a letter to The Times he wrote: ''I was a So, why do they stay? Why aren't they fleeing in droves
Catholic, I remain a Catholic. I was a critic, I remain to the nearest traditional priest, and dragging with them
one." In a letter to (Vatican Secretary of State) Car- anyone who will listen to reason and, more importantly,
dinal Merry del Val on 24 January, 1904, he states: who will listen to the teaching of the Church? What is it
"I accept all the dogmas of the Church." He wrote that keeps them going back week after week, when their
this after consultation with (fellow Modernist) Baron best instinct should tell them something's wrong … dras-
von Hugel, but his real thoughts were set down in tically wrong? The answer: the con artist's biggest ally-
his diary: "I have not been a Catholic in the official blind trust.
sense of the word for a long time … Roman Catholi-
cism as such is destined to perish, and it will de- One example stands out, before all others, in my mind. I
serve no regrets." (pp. 70-71 )1 often visit the local Conciliar church in search of periodi-
cals useful in my research. One evening, upon entering
Conciliar commitment to the Loisy "ideal" of a de- it, I was surprised to hear a voice over the public ad-
stroyed Church continues unabated, even as these dress system, at a time when I knew no services were
words are put to paper. scheduled.

The ucon" Conciliar The sight I saw was amazing for, scattered throughout a
church with seating for over 1,000 people, I saw no
As pet peeves go, I suppose I'd have to place high on more than 50 individuals, all listening, I presume, to the
my list the way the television networks like to tout their source of the voice. There it was at the foot of the altar: a
news anchors as being "the most trusted" or as having reel-to-reel tape recorder, broadcasting for all present
"integrity" while, in reality, the reverse is shown by night an explanation of why the "New Mass" is really the True
after night of biased "news" coverage. More disturbing, Mass, even if it doesn't seem to be!
however, is the manner in which millions of Americans
do trust these untrustworthy sources. That's just my experience. I'm certain the reader can
supply incidences from his or her own life that would
The condition contracted by said millions ought to be confirm the nature of the New Church just as well. All of
studied by clinical psychologists. After all, there is a clin- them get back to the same point, however, and that is
ical name for those who blindly fear and distrust without that the Conciliar Church leaders are obliged now to do
reason-paranoia. For the opposite of paranoia, that is, something that no true Catholic leader ever did-or ever
the illogical trust in others, a term is needed. Until a more needed to do. They are attempting to "sell" a bad bill of
precise word is found, why not call it Barnum Syndrome, goods to their people-and the sorrow of it all is, they're
after the nineteenth century showman and trickster who succeeding at it. The real Catholic Church has never
first noted the disorder? needed to defend its Sacraments to the faithful.

One place where an epidemic of Barnum Syndrome Modernism is like a wounded serpent that still lives be-
runs rampant is the Conciliar "Catholic" Church. The cause no one bothered to make certain it was dead. In
most flagrant deviations from Catholic teaching; the Donald Attwater's Catholic Dictionary (1942) as in so
wildest, most unrestrained incidents of "liturgical ex- many books published after Pascendi, it was taken for
pressiveness"; the "updatedness-at-any-cost" mentali- granted that Modernism "was destroyed by the energet-
ty: all of these attacks on the True Church are accepted ic action of Pope Pius X." In reality, of course, it crawled
by churchgoers in the name of Vatican II. away to hide, until it healed. Later, in authentic con-man
style, it returned on the scene with cosmetic surgery and
This tactic is carried out in one of two ways, depending a new name.
on the susceptibility of the victim. The method used
against the majority of parishoners is simply to say that To con the faithful, the new-look Modernists schemed, it
what is being done was mandated by the Council and, if would first be necessary to con the shepherds of the
you don't like it, leave. If the more studious members flock ("the innovators and destroyers within the Church
complain about the outrages being staged in many are using the obedience of the faithful as a weapon to de-
churches, they're apt to hear the typical "Well, what stroy the Church"). A retired priest I know told me that,
you're talking about are abuses." when he was pastor of a parish in the Northeast, the Oath
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Against Modernism (that St. Plus required of clerics) was
Quoting Michael Davies in pages should not be
no longer obligatory, since Modernism no longer repre-
construed as any endorsement of his position relating to
sents a threat. And yet, a snake is a snake is a snake.
the Conciliar Church.
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"All right", I can hear some readers asking, "I can see never again be asked to offer the Conciliar service, the
how the average lay person would fall for the kinds of legate added, but it would be helpful if he would show
deception you've outlined, but how could a bishop with his willingness to cooperate with Paul VI. His Excellency
all his background in theology ever be duped into allow- declined. It was a good thing he did since he had just
ing such a wholesale seliout of the Catholic faith? I just been propositioned in a way not unlike the dope peddler
don't feel that that could happen to one bishop, much who offers his wares free the first time, conning his vic-
less, nearly all of them. After all, they're supposed to be tim with the line, "just try it once."
experts."
When bishops, in turn, put their imprimaturs on books
Yes, to an extent that's true. It ought to be remembered, that are defective in Catholic teaching; when they permit
however, that the Modernists did not simply disappear Modernists to write articles for diocesan newspapers.
after St Pius X swept them out of the Church wlth en- preach in their churches and teach at their schools;
cyclicals and excommunications. They learned a les- when they allow doubtful sacraments to flourish in their
son: if they wanted to refashion the Church in their own dioceses; and when they gather together and make pro-
image, they would have to go about it quietly, injecting nouncements that have a distinctly un-Catholic cast-
their venom in articles, books and seminary lectures in then it must be said that the level of mystification of
the subtlest, most disarming way they could. In a word, today's Modernists is complete. In the words of Isaias
they would have to give it the most convincing Catholic the prophet, "Woe to you that call evil good and good
look possible. If asked why they were rephrasing the evil."
teaching of the Church, they were to reply that they
sought only to put ancient truths in a language more pal- John II: Con Artist?
atable to the modern mind.
Many semi-traditional Catholics and conservative Con-
This, again, is a device of the skilled con artist: to con- ciliarists will agree in large part with what I've written so
vince the potential victims of the authenticity of the far. Many priests and bishops are conning the laity, they
bogus goods. Frank Abagnale quickly disappeared from say; but, thank heavens, we have a strong Pope who
his role as lawyer after he learned that a Harvard-edu- puts his foot down on any nonsense.
cated attorney would be sharing the same office. He
knew his limits when faced with the prospect of being The clear indication that Pope John Paul II is "on our
confronted by someone with real expertise in the field. side", they claim, is his action against Hans Kung, the
radical German theologian. What more proof do you
Some frauds are so convincing, though, that even the want? Well, to begin with, a little consistency on John
experts are fooled. Two art forgers come to mind whose Paul's part would help. These fans of his don't like to ex-
talents were so refined that they succeeded in conning amine the other side of the ledger but doing so puts
the experts from around the world. Not a single art critic things in a clearer perspective. Such entries as the fol-
on either side of the Atlantic dissented from the prevail- lowing should be included:
ing opinion when a painting appeared in Europe in the
1940's and was immediately deemed the "greatest • Kung, though technically suspended from his
work ever done" by the master, Vermeer. Only later did teaching facilities, continues both to teach and
the real artist come forward, an artist named Hansvan preach his brand of Modernism. And, despite the
Meegeren, who was unhappy that his own work had "penalty" meted out to Kung, Notre Dame theolo-
been ignored. Another painter of fakes, Elmyr de Hory, gy professor Richard McBrien introduced Kung
has imitated Renoirs, Picassos and Matisses so well that as a "fellow Catholic theologian". Yet, McBrien still
unsuspecting experts estimated the value of his copies holds his seat.
in excess of sixty million dollars. Experts can be, and
are, fooled. • The modernistic Dominican, Edward Schillbeeckx,
is "reinstated" as a theologian acceptable to the
Many bishops, no doubt, have had experiences similar New Rome, after he "clarified" his position on vari-
to one that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre had during the ous teachings.
years of Pope Paul Vi's reign. He had a visit paid to him
by one of Paul IV's legates, while he was at his seminary • The Jesuit Henri Lubac, whose book, The Su-
in Econe, Switzerland. It was to convey a "compromise" pernatural, was banned by Rome in the 1950's and
offered by Rome: if the good archbishop would say the who was suspected of heresy, is made a cardinal.
"New Mass" just once, he would be permitted to cele-
brate the Tridentine Rite to his heart's content. He would • Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, who imprimatured

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a book incompatible with Catholic moral teachings ii -15-83 issue) "perplexing". What is really perplexing
and who has promoted what sounds much like pro- is the credulity of many Catholics.
cess theology (a cousin of Modernism}, is made
cardinal of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

• A letter praising the work of banned priest-scientist The situation I've presented has, as it were, been fore-
Teilhard de Chardin is sent to the Catholic Institute told. The Blessed Virgin Mary, at La Sallette, warned that
in Paris on the centennial celebration of that cleric's Satan would penetrate to the highest positions in the
birthday. Later, a public statement, to the effect that Church. The Masonic enemies of the Church have
Teilhard's writings were still forbidden, was issued boasted that they would groom a Pope of their own lik-
for the apparent purpose of lulling the more tradi- ing so that many would do their bidding, mistakenly
tionally-minded into a false security. thinking they were following the Church. And a general
falling away of the faithful through deception is prophe-
• No move has been made to halt distribution or cen- sied in the Scriptures. Like Esau, they will sell their birth-
sure The American Catholic Catalog, despite the right for a bowl of pottage.
fact that it comes out squarely for Modernism and
against the Church with statements such as: "That Some seem to be coming out of this twenty-year decep-
Council (Trent} called forth anathema on certain tion. New Jersey Catholic News carried an article in
propositions that we consider, in light of our superi- its January 1982 issue, "The Scandal of Our Seminary",
or historical research, to be reasonable and justi- in which traditional-minded seminarians expose the
fied." (Pope St. Pius X condemned the Modernist modernistic Rector, a Fr. Edward Ciuba, whom they de-
beiief that "Scientific progress demands that the scribe as "what you'd get if you called Central Casting to
concepts of Christian doctrine concerning God, send over a bland Lutheran minister … looking updated
creation, revelation, the Person of the Incarnate and relevant." They say he seems like such a nice guy,
Word, and the Redemption be readjusted.") but he is a "nice guy" who has "tampered with voca-
tions sent from Almighty God" and caused "the in-
• In Pope John II: The Ute of Karol Wojty/a, Mieczy- tellectual corruption of seminarians."
slaw Malinski, lifelong friend and fellow priest of
John Paul, recalls that Wojtyla once told him that On another front, Father Paul A. Wickens, a Conciliar
"in my life I've had two great philosophical revela- priest, has publicly accused Archbishop Gerety (Newark,
tions- Thomism and Scheler." The "Scheler" re- New Jersey) of being heretical and modernistic, after he
ferred to here is Max Scheler, whose philosophy is was suspended for refusing to allow pornographic sex
called "phenomenology". Without going into de- education in his parish.
tails, it is enough to note that phenomenology is
very similar to Modernism in its emphasis on "ex- Sadly, Father Wickens and the above mentioned semi-
perience". Scheler argued that traditional proofs by narians are exceptions to the rule, and there is no indica-
St. Thomas and others for the existence of God tion that they comprehend that John Paul II is a large part
were unsatisfactory because it couldn't be proven of the problem.
through experience, but only by mental abstrac-
tion. This approach is seen in the use of new cate- In this year of our Lord, 1984, let us redouble our prayers
chisms, stressing "experiencing Jesus", by Con- and missionary efforts on behalf of our "separated breth-
ciliar schools. ren" Conciliar Church Catholics. And, let us do all in
our power to expose the con artists ever more and more. t
No matter, however, to John Paul's conservative boost-
ers. They mention that he studies with a true traditional
Catholic theologian, Garrigou-Lagrange. Again, they
don't check; were they to do so, they would discover
that, of all he has written, it is the doctoral thesis Wojtyla
Pray
wrote for that saintly theologian which the Vatican states
to be "no longer reflecting his current views."

If a bishop were to preach in a Lutheran church, many
semi-traditional publications would be up in arms. When
John Paul II does the same thing, the opinion switches to
that of The Remnant, which called the action (in its

The Athanasian 7 1984
.—–TCA TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS SCHEDULE—–.

COLORADO MINNESOTA
AURORA (Denver area) ROCHESTER
OUR LADY OF VICTORY CHAPEL OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CHAPEL
2566 Sable Boulevard 5820 Viola Road, NE
(303) 364-8040 (507) 282-5163 or 289-8522
Masses at 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. Mass at 10:00 a.m. Jan. 29, Feb. 12
(every Sunday)
Occasional weekday Masses MONTANA
GREAT FALLS
COLORADO SPRINGS IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CHAPEL
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY 2020 Second Avenue North
(303) 636-1575 (406) 452-8826
Mass at 10:00 a.m. Jan. 15, Feb. 5, Feb. 19 Mass at 11:00 a.m. Jan. 22, Feb. 5, Feb. 26
Mass every Friday at 9:00 a.m.

DURANGO
NEW YORK
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY BUFFALO
Centennial Savings and Loan OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CHAPEL
1101 E. Second Ave. 231 McKinley Parkway
(303) 884-2526 (716) 537-9533
Mass at 10:00 a.m. Feb. 19 Mass at 10:00 a.m.
on first and third Sundays
STRATTON
OUR LADY OF FATIMA CHAPEL PENNSYLVANIA
(303) 348-5454 EDDYSTONE (Philadelphia area)
Mass on Jan. 22, Feb. 26 (215) 876-873 7

LOUISIANA UTAH
OPELOUSAS (Lafayette area) SALT LAKE CITY
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Route 1, Box 195 Hilton Inn
(318) 942-9053 154 West 600 South
Mass at 11:00 a.m. Jan. 22, Feb. 12 (801) 278-7501
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In December, 1982, we were forced to close our Christ up on the Masses to which I am already committed, I
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some sacrifice on their part. Thank you kindly! t The coming of a world state is longed for, and confi-
dently expected, by all the worst and most distorted
elements. This state, based on the principles of ab-
solute equality of men and a community of posses-
sions, would banish all national loyalties. In it no
ttt acknowledgement would be made of the authority
'ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM!' of a father over his children, or of God over human
(Eph. 4:5) Hold firmly that your faith is identical society. If these ideas are put into practice, there will
with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dis- inevitably follow a reign of unheard-of terror.
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Pope Benedict XV (July 25, 1920)
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
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