Requiem for a country church, and for the larger Novus Ordo Church

Friends,

I have been reading about Columbus, Ohio diocese parish closings. So much for the new bishop. He's keeping the previous bishop's plan of closing up the diocese, and dioceses are closing up and withering away across the country. And the world. One of those Columbus diocese closings is St. Bernards, a very rural, down-in-the-hills church. I write of it more below.

So, naturally, I ask:

Why don't they close up the entire Church? I'm serious. Close it up and let it blow away. They tried that during the Covid fraud, after all. Finish the job, then. Go on, go on. Close it down. That would, after all, please a lot of people.

It goes back before the Covid scamdemic, of course. The Modernists in the Church during the 1950s staged Vatican II to implement their destruction schemes, schemes they were cooking up in secret since St. Pius X tried to squash them in the early 1900s. The Modernists had merely "gone to ground"  and laid their plans. By post-WWII, they were ready. At Vatican II they took a very healthy Church: wealthy in liturgy and money, strong in its piety and its financials, timeless in dogma, filled to the brim with parishioners, and they utterly trashed it out in what, 50 years? 

Except for the TLM sector, the Church is bankrupt liturgically, with the Novus Ordo driving people out – or more precisely, boring them out of their wits – and bankrupt financially. And you know of course that's why Bergoglio sold the Chinese Catholics to the CCP, for a lot of cashola. And I assume the Church is also in hock to important Jews, who still collectively have extraordinary influence and control of the much of the banking sector most everywhere, as they do the Entertainment world and Academia and the Law (and I'm not talking about Orthodox Jews, whom the more secular types marginalize – Jews are as factionlized as Protestants). Something Trad Catholic apologists never mention is this angle. No one wants automatically be labeled an antisemite.

So sure, Communists/Socialists/sexual deviants galore, you name them, hate the Church. But then Jews as well loathe the Traditional Latin Mass because it is uncompromising about fully using Scripture, and (what today would be deemed) the "antisemitism" of St. John and St. Paul. For an example of the latter, see 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16; I guarantee you'll not find that in the Novus Order three-year cycle! It is not in the interest of any of these powerful players to see all that come back. The Catholic Church dying out and Protestantized into pieces and factions is no threat to anyone but a Catholic Church returning to its glory days is anathema to them all.  

In requiem: I always loved St. Bernard's. It is chock-full of statues! Just chock-full. It was so lovely and "exotic" a church, down there in Corning. Built by Italian immigrants who bent over backwards to make it a gem. I used to drive my mother down to Athens for lunch and then we'd come back through the hills, and always stopped at St. Bernard's and it was always unlocked. It was built for the TLM and had that liturgy been offered there for the last 50 years, Corning would be full of Catholics and producing Catholic vocations. That's just what the TLM inspires, true Catholicism. And lot of important civilizational players do not what to see that Church return.

What are they going to do with all the statues? The windows? Have a bonfire?

Here's a list of Columbus diocese closings:

https://catholicreview.org/columbus-diocese-closes-15-parishes-amid-initiative-to-move-from-maintenance-to-mission/

Slated to close in the city of Columbus are St. Anthony of Padua, Corpus Christi, Holy Rosary/St. John, Parroquia Santa Cruz, St. Ladislas, St. Matthias, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and St. Philip the Apostle.

Also closing will be St. Bernard Church in Corning, the Church of Atonement in Crooksville, St. Francis de Sales in Newcomerstown, St. Mark Church in Lancaster, St. Mary Church in Groveport, St. Mary Church in Bremen and SS. Peter and Paul Church in Glenmont.

St. Anthony of Padua School in Columbus Grove and SS. Peter and Paul School in Wellston also will close.

Meself again:

Honestly, why don't they just close up the whole Vatican II Church. Put the dying carcass out of its misery. Or give these churches to the various Latin Mass groups – oh, wait, can't do that because of the anti-pope Bergoglio and his peeps and Modernist minions.

Bergoglio is working overtime to destroy the Catholic Faith. If anyone can't see that, what else can be said? What does "Bergi" have to do? Declare a Holy Duality instead of a Trinity? Add Muhammad to the calendar of saints? What? So, just close it all up now and save him the trouble.

I can testify to St. Mark's in Lancaster. Cement block building (unless they replaced that structure at some point) where the Masses were hyper (for the area) Novus Ordo fiascos. I remember the "sign of peace" taking 10 minutes as they shouting across the room, walked about shaking hands, all that. Just a joke. But the congregation were the poorer types, as well, or working folk at what remained of Anchor Hocking glass, the town's big factory. St. Bernadette's across town on the eastern side (and very hard to get to roadwise if you didn't live nearby) was for the doctors and lawyers in town. The elites. Brutally Novus Ordo in expensive design and material, it offered Masses but with all that money around, it ain't gonna get closed. We know where the bread is buttered, do we not?

Such is the ecclesiastical world in 2023.

         AnP