Comments on Athanasius Contra Mundum: Obamanation and the Notre Shame scandal

I also read on the Abbe de'Nantes website that 70 ...

2009-07-11T09:09:57.725-07:00

I also read on the Abbe de'Nantes website that 70 Bishops dissented from Vatican II, but were ignored by Pope Paul VI as he declared unanimous approval by the Council Fathers!

The Trads have other grievous sins which should pr...

2009-07-11T09:04:02.604-07:00

The Trads have other grievous sins which should prevent them from receiving too. I have read what you said about exorcisms and pornography.

This is one place where Trads need a lot of work. Ask any priest who hears confessions for Trad parishes, and they will tell you that the majority of sins confessed are against the 6th and 9th commandments. It brings demons into the home, and what some priests are finding now amongst Trad children is homosexuality, because of these generational curses which come in through effeminacy. Part of that is rooted in the gnostic attitude certain Trads take to the Church. "Everyone else is in apostasy, but I have the true faith, therefore it is not a big deal if I sin in this way, I'll go to confession but I know I'm more just than those NO catholics." Part of holiness is rooting out the sins. Committing them, especially as a recidivist brings generational curses and demons into the home. Trads often forget the effects of sin, and assume they're okay because they have the Traditional sacraments but it is not so. The spiritual writers whose life was rooted in the sacramental forms of Tradition tell us otherwise. If anything destroys the traditional movement it will not be the Pope, nor the Bishops, but Trads themselves. God has given us back the Mass against insurmountable odds, and if we are not Holy we will not maintain it, like the Israelites in the old testament.

The more I read your Blog Athanasius, the more I t...

2009-07-11T08:58:36.951-07:00

The more I read your Blog Athanasius, the more I think why on earth did you not become a priest?

Because I'm not called. Plain and simple. If, God forbid, anything should happen to my family I would probably seek entry into Monastic life as a brother.

I agree with Boniface's idea of the remnant. But ...

2009-07-11T04:43:09.799-07:00

I agree with Boniface's idea of the remnant. But it will take heavy persecution to whitle away those dead branches which drag down the vine that is Christ. And it is coming under this emperor. Watch for it! When everything continues to fail, they will shift the blame to the Jews and the Christians.

Perhaps one good thing that came out of this event...

2009-07-10T22:01:17.048-07:00

Perhaps one good thing that came out of this event is it helped "ordinary" catholics to see university Catholics can sometimes lack simple common sense and staying close to the sources of God's grace protect us from beoing fooled by moral relativism which is what the essence of the speech boiled down too. Fortunately we have a Pope who has the intellect to see through such hollow rhetoric.

If one reads the Old Testament and understands the...

2009-07-10T10:21:07.901-07:00

If one reads the Old Testament and understands the way God redeems and saves people collectively, we see there is what could be termed a theology of the "remnant"; that though times are evil, God preserves for Himself a special seed, a remnant, a rump that will remain faithful and pleasing to Him. Like that verse where Elijah is lamenting that everyone has worshipped Baal, and God tells him not to be downcast because He has "reserved" to Himself a remnant of several thousand who have not bowed to Baal. While the disaster is tremendous, there is always place for hope.

By thy Holy and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, del...

2009-07-10T08:46:51.079-07:00

By thy Holy and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, deliver us from evil!

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Well said Athanasius Contra Mundum. I have persona...

2009-07-09T18:01:01.828-07:00

Well said Athanasius Contra Mundum. I have personally made similar arguments. It appears to me that Sanctifying Grace is diminishing more and more every day. While the N. O. Catholics (I don't like that term )are in grievous sin from the pill and receive the Eucharist unworthily, The Trads have other grievous sins which should prevent them from receiving too. I have read what you said about exorcisms and pornography. We need the Consecration of Russia, we need all Catholics to say the rosary, we need to make little sacrifices in reparation, we need the first Saturday confession and communion, in short we need to conform to those things which Our Lady asked at Fatima. These times are stark and bleak, this si our last chance.

The more I read your Blog Athanasius, the more I t...

2009-07-09T12:03:48.473-07:00

The more I read your Blog Athanasius, the more I think why on earth did you not become a priest?