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The following article (with the university class reference documents) was written with the motive to help my sister and her husband, with seven children, to leave the traditionalist groups SSPX, SSPV and CMRI and to return to the one, true Catholic Church. If you want the reference documents (Ecclesiology.doc, Religious-Freedom.doc, Psy-Cult.doc and Subsists.doc), send an email to: josephdwight@hotmail.com; please specify if you want the documents in plain text format or MSWord format with the footnotes incorporated, or in one document all together in either format. A SIMPLE, COMMON SENSE REBUTTAL to SSPX, SSPV and CMRI When I was younger my...

On this Quasimodo (Dominica in albis, Low, and Divine Mercy) Sunday, I am shocked at the pusillanimity of some of the so-called traditionalists in the Church. A great gift has been given to the whole of the Church with Saints John XXIII and John Paul II and yet, some traditionalists foment an attitude of ”hunkering down” and the “enduring” the authentic joy of the Church on this day. Likewise, other traditionalist types ask why Blessed Pius IX or Ven. Pius XII has not been canonized. It is one thing to ask questions such as the latter which are legitimate;...

  Last week, I chronicled something of the bafflement that ensued as I was confronted with the weirdly malleable term "neo-Catholic." Judging from the combox discussion that followed, many readers share the tremendous confusion surrounding the term. Did it denote converts or those who loathe converts? Was it code for "neocon" or for non-neocon? Was it meant to denote a political or theological group? Was it a floor cleaner or a dessert topping? So many questions!   In response to my bafflement over the meaning of the term, one of my readers finally replied:   In the past, when...

A response to Father Joseph O'Leary's The Rise of the Neocaths. Continued from part I. Fr. O'Leary was saying: John Paul II thus bypassed and reached over the heads of the educated baby boomers, influenced by Vatican II, in order to address an audience who were a tabula rasa, and to communicate to them a world view that the Vatican II generation would find problematic on many points. His tactic recalls that of Mao in China. At the same time critical theology was ruthlessly discouraged and suppressed throughout the Catholic world. Fr Chia's article tells how this was done in...

Return to Wanderer Home Page Issue Date May 10, 2003 Rhetoric, Manipulation, And Ferrawood’s "Neo-Catholic"By OMAR F.A. GUTIÉRREZ   Editor’s note: About three years ago, The Wanderer published a monograph by Stephen Hand titled, Traditionalists, Tradition, and Private Judgment which addressed a radical statement by self-anointed Catholic traditionalists titled "We Resist You to the Face" in which its authors "declare themselves in a state of resistance relative to the teachings of Vatican Council II, Popes John XXIII and Paul VI and to your teachings [of John Paul II] that are objectively opposed to the prior ordinary and extraordinary Papal Magisterium."  Now,...

Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome <p>Body {Margin:1em 1em 1em 1em} p {FONT-family: Arial, Geneva, Sans-serif;margin:1em 1em;font-size:10pt} p.dinky {FONT-family: Arial, Geneva, Sans-serif;margin:0em 1em;font-size:8pt} p.topline {font-size:11pt;margin: 0em 1em} h4 {font-family:Impact, Sans-serif;font-size:large} p.link {font-family:Arial, Geneva, Sans-serif;margin: 0em 1em 0em 1em;font-size:9pt} p.text {FONT-family: Arial, Geneva, Sans-serif;margin:1em 1em;font-size:11pt} <p>div.linkElement {font-family:Arial, Geneva, Sans-serif;margin: 0em 2em 0em 2em;font-size:9pt} <p> ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome Code: ZE04010120 Date: 2004-01-01 What Is Happening in Fatima? Building Project Raises Eyebrows By Delia Gallagher ROME, JAN. 1, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Controversy has broken out over the construction of a new building near the Shrine of Our...

THE "LIVING TRADITION" OF THE NEO-MODERNISTS What about the evolutionary concept of the so-called "living tradition" of the Conciliar Church. What do the modernists mean by this term? —They mean a non-homogeneous evolution, hence, a change. By the term "living tradition," the Conciliar Church does not mean an inviolate transmission of a deposit which one lives and which progresses in a homogeneous fashion through explanation. It is not that at all! What is it then? —It is an evolutive tradition! —evolutive via a twofold process: 1. The assimilation of elements foreign to the revealed deposit. (One is going to add...

The Neo-Catholic Dead-End by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Ph.D. The Wanderer, a periodical that has done some good work over the years chronicling the antics of an American hierarchy almost too contemptible to be worth discussing, is attacking traditionalists again. Many readers will remember the attacks of Stephen Hand two years ago, inanely comparing traditionalists with modernists because both criticize some of the actions of the hierarchy. Chris Ferrara and I responded to each of his articles with essays of our own, and we were gratified to find that quite a few people became traditionalists as a direct result of...