Being Catholic today

THE LEAGUE

DURING our May 23 – 25, Pentecost session the young Phalangists listened as Father de Nantes demonstrated that the surest way to remain Catholic today, at a time when those in authority teach heresy and many exasperated faithful are tempted by schism, is the Catholic Counter-Reformation way: that is to say, to be a Catholic of the Counter-Reformation movement; to be a member of the Counter-Reformation movement while remaining in the Catholic Church. These lectures were given during the 1986 Breton Days. Our Father was then studying the latest documents from Rome: Cardinal Ratzinger’s Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation, as well as John Paul II’s encyclical Dominum et vivificantem on the Holy Spirit. Yet, as the diabolical disorientation unfolding within the Church follows consistent principles that have long been identified, our Father’s analysis from forty years ago – based on the teachings of Saint Pius X in his Letter on the Sillon, written over a century ago – remains strikingly relevant today. The continuity of the struggle between the two cities, from Lamennais to Leo XIV, from Saint Pius X to Father de Nantes, confirms our opposition to the conciliar Reformation.

The young participants therefore attended theological lectures intended for adults, but the speaker’s pedagogical talents – even forty years later, he has a tremendous screen presence – ensured that everyone grasped the essentials. Regarding Christian freedom and liberation, they recognised Ratzinger’s duplicity as he oscillated between the Gospel and the Revolution, creating a calculated confusion. Revolution, yes, but a Christian one, marching to the revolutionary hymn of the Magnificat, stripped of its supernatural meaning.

Saint Pius X had already denounced these “blasphemous comparisons”. He contrasted the Christian-Democratic chimera with the millennial Christian tradition, which had brought about the greatest temporal progress for humanity by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.

As for John Paul II’s encyclical, it heralded the advent of “the Spirit” for the year 2000, that would seize hold of all mankind to establish a new religion more universal than the Church – a charismatic Masdu! Our Father pointed out how this Pope constantly falsified Bible quotations in order to attribute to all mankind the supernatural gifts promised solely to Christians. Yet, at the beginning of the 20^th century, Saint Pius X demonstrated that superseding the Church in favour of humanity inevitably leads to apostasy.

In the two texts studied, but also, more broadly, from Vatican II right up to Leo XIV’s Magnifica humanitas, religion no longer measures man’s merit; rather, it is human dignity that has become the measure of religion. This represents an abominable inversion, the worship of God becoming the worship of man.

After receiving a complete doctrinal arsenal and a few supplementary lectures on the Lefebvrist schism, on current events and on the life of our beloved Father, a dozen young people advanced to the foot of the altar during the Pentecost Mass and pledged allegiance to the Phalange of the Immaculate.

In his Current events lecture, Brother Michel had, in particular, commented on the Pope’s catechesis of May 13, devoted to Chapter 8 of Lumen Gentium: Mary, model of the Church. For Leo XIV, Mary is a disciple of Christ, a humble member of the Church Whom we need only imitate, especially by being obedient to the shepherds whom God gives us. However, there is no question of having devotion for Her or asking Her for graces, let alone submitting to Her will. She is neither Mediatrix nor Co-Redemptrix.

On June 12 and13, in Fatima itself, Bishop Pereira the ordinary of Guarda expanded upon the Holy Father’s teaching and scorned Our Lady’s mediation by likening the prayers and sacrifices offered to Her to dishonest favour-seeking and repugnant corruption.

Yet, whilst some shepherds of the flock ignore Her or blaspheme against Her with a laugh, our divine Mother laments with pain and anguish: “Pray, pray much and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to Hell because they have no one to sacrifice themselves and pray for them.” (August 19, 1917)

Recognition of the urgency of reparation prompted many of our friends to join our June processions in honour of the Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady of Fatima and the Sacred Heart in all of our hermitages. Participation exceeded capacity so not all could be received. Our Lady must have been greatly consoled to see so many children waving torches and banners in Her honour and scattering handfuls of flower petals while reciting prayers that our sisters had taught them.

Brother Guy of Mercy.