Posted on 06/03/2025 9:59:54 AM PDT by ebb tide
IT IS COMMON nowadays for diocesan clergy to gather annually or more frequently as a presbyterate, with their bishop, for fellowship, prayer and study. Several years ago, the featured speaker at one such clergy gathering was a diocesan liturgist, who also taught in the diocesan seminary. Midway through his talk, he departed from his notes and spontaneously said, “The Protestant Reformation failed the first time, as it was done from without. This time we will succeed, as we will do it from within!” We were all amazed.
We priests were not amazed over the fact that this perfidious liturgist believed this, as we knew he was a modernist. We were just amazed that this usually cunning modernist was so reckless as to say it publicly. The bishop soon after removed him from his position as liturgist for the diocese and the seminary, not so much for his modernist theology but more for the fact of the scandal and outrage expressed by the clergy.
The outcry from traditional and conservative Catholic clergy and the faithful was such that it appears to have occasioned a pause by the Charlotte Charlatan in promulgating his copious screed. But know this, Remnant readers: what this imprudent modernist bishop recklessly put into print is precisely what other modernist bishops are already doing or intending, more discreetly, in their own dioceses. In his mind and in their estimation, his sin was not disdain for traditional and conservative liturgies, it was getting caught!
The repressed memory of this modernist liturgist and his reckless revelation came to mind recently, with the public cloud of stink and scandal surrounding the Charlotte Charlatan of North Carolina. The bishop of that NC diocese, appointed only one year ago as the ordinary, wasted no time drafting a pastoral letter to diocesan priests on the “Celebration of the Liturgy.” This Charlotte Charlatan screed is 8,000 words.
Fortunately, a draft of the screed was leaked, and published by a traditional Catholic website. The outcry was immediate, and not limited to purely traditional Catholics. For the broad scope of the screed targets not only Tridentine liturgies in the diocese but also Novus Ordo liturgies that are done with reverence and a deference to tradition. As such, the Charlotte Charlatan is gunning for conservative Catholics as well.
We will not quote extensively from the wordy screed but selectively, to provide just a whiff of the stench:
The outcry from traditional and conservative Catholic clergy and the faithful was such that it appears to have occasioned a pause by the Charlotte Charlatan in promulgating his copious screed. But know this, Remnant readers: what this imprudent modernist bishop recklessly put into print is precisely what other modernist bishops are already doing or intending, more discreetly, in their own dioceses. In his mind and in their estimation, his sin was not disdain for traditional and conservative liturgies, it was getting caught!
The Last Word: thanks to the Charlotte Charlatan, conservative Catholics have even more reason to ally themselves with traditional Catholics. First, they went after Tridentine, and now they are coming for you!
Cdl. Medina Estévez warned that bishops cannot exclude men or boys ‘from service at the altar, nor require that priests of the diocese would make use of female altar servers.’
Ping
I hope that the Bishop appointed someone else to write the draft and only looked at it closely after he realized that he had already ticked people off.
Hope is very distinct from believe.
Emperor Constantine’s regulatory and financial capture of the Christian Church at the council of Nicaea set up this mess. The emperor (Pontifix Maximus) was made “Head of the Church” (Vicarius Christi). For the first 300 years dispersed Bishoprics held each other accountable to the Word of God and Apostle’s Doctrine. After this it was accountable to a Roman Pontiff.
Our ancestors “heard” the Mass in Latin every Sunday but never understood it.
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A lie. Pre-VII here, and I understood it.
Same here. Born in 1955. I knew exactly what was going on. Even as an 8 year old when I made my first Holy Communion, I had my little Missal book with the Latin to English translation.
Agreed. And I’d put a lot of blame on Leo in the 5th century (commonly called Leo the Great). While Patrick was in Ireland advancing Christianity, Leo was pushing the western church to treat the bishop of Rome as more of a Greater Among Equals than before.
Yes, I had my missal, too, some years before your time, and excellent catechesis from Franciscan sisters.
I guess these jerks think nobody will call them on their lies.
Oddly, absolutely none of that made it into the official records of the council.
The emperor (Pontifix Maximus) was made “Head of the Church” (Vicarius Christi).
Sorry, but Constantine wasn't even baptized until he was on his deathbed. He was never the "head" of any church.
The Pope of Rome at the time of the First Council of Nicaea was St. Sylvester I, who took office in AD 314 and ruled until AD 335. His successor was Pope St Mark, who ruled for less than a year. His successor was Pope St Julius I, who ruled from February, AD 337, to AD 352. (Constantine the Great died in May, AD 337.)
As you can see, there is no room in the succession for Constantine to have claimed the Papacy, and he never did so.
The title pontifex maximus wasn't routinely applied to the Popes of Rome until the 11th Century.
Oh but that would ruin that Protestants narrative on why they broke from the one true church!
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