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To read this encyclical [Mortalium Animos] is to read a point-by-point condemnation of Assisi, and one gets the eerie feeling that Pope Pius XI was prophesying and simultaneously condemning with remarkable accuracy... One supreme pontiff engaged in an act that was explicitly and in all points condemned by a previous supreme pontiff...Pope Pius XI condemned Assisi before it even happened - and why did he condemn it? Because Assisi is one of those events that is "founded... on that false opinion," namely, the false opinion that all religions are "more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different...

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,...

A Strange Obsession Why is the neo-Catholic establishment so concerned about traditionalists? Christopher A. Ferrara REMNANT COLUMNIST, New Jersey This newspaper has provided a forum for the exploration of that great epiphenomenon of the post-conciliar epoch: the emergence of what is rightly described as neo-Catholicism (otherwise known as “conservative” Catholicism). A number of articles in The Remnant have been devoted to fleshing out this term with examples. For present purposes it suffices to say that a neo-Catholic is one who seriously defends and embraces—as "developments" of apostolic and ecclesiastical tradition—the entire panoply of unprecedented post-conciliar novelties, even though the mere...

A Reign of Terror in the Civilization of Love Michael J. Matt Editor, The Remnant Question: What do Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz, Father Peter Stravinskas, Karl Keating, Patrick Madrid, Scott Hahn, Dr. Arthur Sippo, Steve Ray, Father George Rutler and William Marshner all have in common? Give up? All of these men are prominent neo-Catholics who, back in 1997, provided glowing endorsements of Mr. Robert Sungenis’ book, Not By Faith Alone. And when I say “endorsements,” I don’t mean little blurb lines; I mean entire paragraphs, even page-long forewords and epilogues. To read their enthusiastic accolades, one would think that...