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You are right. He knows what's going on. And it is my belief He wants us to oppose the Pharisaic forces in our midst. His own ministry was all about this--chastizing the hypocrisy of religious leadership. This is why he told his disciples to "Beware the leaven of the Pharisees." They thought he was talking about bread. He was talking about the danger of religious power to become slowly corrupt.

The truth is, we're in a war for the soul of the Catholic Church. Its identity has been so effaced and protestantized that it is safe to say that almost every single outward expression of the faith has been changed radically in a short span of forty years. Not a sacramental remains as it was; even the Rosary has been altered. Pick up a book published before Vatican II and it reads like the text of a different religion. The new theology is totally unlike anything that had preceded it. Nothing remains as it was. This threatens the salvation of many souls and MUST be resisted.

Remember, it is not change per se that traditionalists oppose, it is revolutionary change that is not only unwarranted and foolish, but deeply pernicious as well.

But ultimately, you're right. I wish there were a way to argue without arousing anger and vindictiveness.