The Synod Gnomes have been very busy....

....in the past months.  I wonder how busy we have been?  I must ask myself how busy I have been.

They - meaning the Modernist Radicals - have been keeping their eye on the ball and doing Herculean work preparing for the October catastrophe-in-waiting, for it will be a catastrophe if they are successful.  Do not fault these people for lack of candor; they are quite bold about saying what they want even if at times they have to be a bit secretive. Do not fault them for lack of industry. They prepare well and follow through. They are not amateurs. They have realized that what worked so brilliantly in the past to advance Modernism will work well once more.  The fabled "pastoral approach" worked wonders at the pastoral Vatican II Council. The Kaspers, Bonnys, Marxes et all are not slow to learn.  No doctrines were changed at that unnecessary Council, but it was eminently pastoral and, as such, has been a disaster for the Faith..

 It was the masterstroke of "pastoralism": while not directly denying any dogmas nevertheless the liberals pastoralized whatever dogmatic touches the Council documents had pretty much out of existence.

Here is a short list of the pastoral initiatives that emerged after Pastoral Vatican II (and I do hope to be spared the efforts to explain that the Council was badly interpreted.  It's documents were deliberately shrouded in ambiguous phrases so that it could be interpreted any way at all, depending upon the temperament of who was doing the interpreting).

1.  Public Eucharistic devotion has more or less disappeared.
2.  Catholics accept contraception, abortion and sodomy in large numbers.
3.  Passing along the Faith has vanished almost overnight.
4.  The exquisite Ancient Rite Mass was virtually abolished and replaced with an unfunny parody of it.
5.  Mass attendance has plummeted (who can blame them?)
6.  Catholics aren't having large families anymore.  Some aren't having any families.  Some aren't even bothering with matrimony.
7.  Confessionals are covered in dust.
8.  Catholic schools are closing.
9.  Catholic churches are closing, being sold and/or demolished.
10. A homosexual infestation has been bankrupting the Church, bringing in its wake ruined lives, opprobrium and ridicule upon the True Faith, and has been instrumental in advancing the destruction of nations.

I needn't go on.  Those are some of the fruits of Vatican II and its pastoral approach.  This is the approach being touted by the Synod Villains.

Having been so successful in bringing corruption to a vibrant Faith the Synod radical Modernists are using that same approach again.  If it worked once it will work again.

Some blogs and websites have been doing valiant, yeomen work on the Synod, pounding away at the actors who are working diligently to bring their twisted views into the mainstream of the Church. I commend these sites, like The War Against Being (see their call to action at the sidebar), Vox Cantoris, Restore-DC- Catholicism, The Deus Ex Machina Blog and many, many others.  God bless them for their efforts.  They are an inspiration.

They have inspired the editor of this blog, too.  Taking a leaf from the book of the gnomes who are busy preparing for the next disaster for Catholicism we will do what we can do, such as it is.  We will laud and encourage the good Bishops and priests who are fighting the noble fight, like the Athanasius Schneiders, the Bechara Rais and others who have shown they still have backbones. And we will continue to speak out, name names and dissect the clerical traitors and nincompoops who are preparing the final shipwreck.

We still have time.

Bishop John Noonan, Defender of the Faith

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