Amici, a Chairde,
Confusion seems to be the perpetual state of Catholics since the advent of Covid, and that is by design.
But we shouldn't be. St. John the Baptist wasn't confused about Herod committing adultery, even though John's preaching cost him his life. Our Lord wasn't confused, though it led to the Cross, nor were St. Paul or St. Peter, nor the saints and theologians of the Church for two millennia. Or not, at least, until Modernists seized the Church and our technological handiwork rivaled those who built the Tower of Babel.
So, 60 years after Vatican II, we're confused, all right. That is not good. Had the Church been a clarion call of HEROIC morality for the past 60 years, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place, having a "Catholic" president so pro-choice as Biden is, and who has married gay couples. Nor would we have an entire "Big Pharma" using murdered baby parts. Or a pope like Jorge Mario Bergoglio with so many bishops openly clamoring to "bless" "same-sex" unions.
We SO resemble the Anglican Church, which is not just confused, but brain dead. In 1930 they allowed contraception, but hedged it with so many IFs, ANDs, and BUTs, a boat-load of caveats, but of course contraception thereafter swept through the Protestant world. Can any common-sense person be blamed for seeing the same thing happening now, with the vaccines?
I'd just add that God didn't intend for us to be confused. He didn't intend for us to be hopeless sheeple. And being confused, while concurrently being obligated to obey the Magisterium as it deconstructed the Faith (and is now clearly literally deconstructing the Church) since the end of Vatican II, is THE hallmark of the Vatican II Church. The Reformers, the Modernists, callously took (and take!) orthodox Catholics' desire to obey the Church as a "Führerprinzip" they can remorselessly take advantage of.
This is not good.
About Bishop Athanasius Schneider, he's not the Magisterium per se, but then, neither was his namesake, St. Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria. The parallel is striking. It's like the old Russian proverb: "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
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