Vatican II Destroyed Western Civilization: the Proof

My friends, amici,

To write "Vatican II Destroyed Western Civilization" sounds hyperbolic in the extreme, perhaps, but it is true, and here's the proof.

Vatican II allowed unprincipled, depressed and a number of very, very stupid people to attack the Traditional Latin Mass, and indeed, do their best to erase it. The root of that destruction precede Vatican II, but the project was fully launched via individuals thereafter

Why the depression? 

• The Church's impotency to effect anything regarding World War I and World War II (I think it could have but the pope's involved took their own counsel, and chose caution when their martyrdom would have better served the Faith, and Europe) left a great many Catholic VIPs on the Continent of Europe depressed, morose. 
• They thought a Church Council would be a pick-me-up and a "new beginning", usher in a "new Pentecost" – an inherently blasphemous idea, that God's Pentecost had run out of spiritual steam! (I wish someone had told Pope John Paul II "This is blasphemy!" the minute he first uttered such nonsense).
  
• So, in their pride and unwisdom, these VIPs thought they'd make Catholicism attractive to Protestants by making its central rite Protestant-like, and together they would all march into a glorious new Pentecost sunrise singing Kumbaya.
  

What these desperate, fevered optimists didn't understand was that the entirety of Western Civilization was a superstructure built upon the hull of Catholic culture, and the very keel of Catholic culture, from time immemorial, was the Traditional Latin Mass. (Pope Gregory the Great, died 604, did not create it; it predates him: it comes from the "dream time" of the Church in Rome and Latium, and is actually the oldest liturgy any Church has.)

How the Mass Created Western Civ

Cult is always the root of culture, etymologically and anthropologically. Look at it this way: if your cult is the Twelve Olympians, you are going to have a different culture than if you worship the Aztec gods, with their demand for endless human sacrifice. Or if you adhere to the cults of Vishnu, or Brahma, or Shiva the Destroyer of Worlds (my fav Hindu character), you're going to have a very different culture than if you worship Allah via his "prophet" Muhammad. But when the central cult is gone, collapsed, or retired and replaced by a new cult, then the culture goes too. When NO cult replaces the old, however, then your civilization dies, as well.

A great example is Japan. They worshiped the emperor as a god. No one, and I mean NO ONE could be less "godlike" than Hirohito, but in Shinto, he was their god. After the war, he was allowed to stay as emperor but quickly ceased to be seen as a deity – not exactly hard to do! Now notice Japan today. Wealthy, yes, prosperous, certainly. Technologically very advanced, with their own space program. 

• But a depressed society of people who won't reproduce themselves. 
• The Japanese are going extinct. 
• Why? 
• Well, it is obvious! Their cult is gone, their culture has lost its focus, and neither Christianity – or anything else – has been able to gain their allegiance. (Buddhism has coexisted with Shinto for centuries but never replaced it as the national cult of Nippon. In fact, they kinda-sorta blended together.)

Now...

Compare Japan to Islam. Backward, violent, barbaric, completely misogynistic, the religion of the Prophet is the strongest retrograde force on Earth, according to Winston Churchill. Yet bomb them, slaughter them, do what you want to them, Muslims keep coming back. And back. And back. They're spreading throughout Europe and the world beyond. Move every Muslim Arab from Gaza to Egypt and voila! You've moved an intractable problem 25 miles away. Good luck with that. Islam will keep coming back and back and back, martyring you and martyring themselves in ever increasing numbers! 

Why?

• Because their central cult is still intact! 
• The black-draped Kaaba in Mecca (only women wear black in fully Muslim cultures), with its vulva-shaped silver orifice in which you can see the Moon Goddess' back rock will never cease having millions of Muslim men Haj pilgrims swirling and dancing around it in ecstasy. 
• As long at the cult is intact, that unstable lunar witchcrafty culture will remain. Forever. 

Catholic Church Destroyed Western Civilization

So, cult is the source of culture – with "civilization" being an intentional, planned superstructure built on top of culture, a construction that, unlike one's basic, inherited culture, you have to be educated into. (One has to be taught to like fine art, high literature, or classical music – something most of our current educators have no clue about.) Yet the unprincipled, depressed and ignorant people who created the Reformation 2.0 of the Catholic Church in the decades after 1962, knew none of this. Or they knew, and wrought evil intentionally. 

1. Destroying the Traditional Latin Mass cut the keel out of the hull of Western Civ. 
2. Think just of the great churches, the cathedrals and monastic churches that were built from the Dark Age on through the early Middle Ages and on into the High Middle Ages, right up till the Reformation put an abrupt halt to it in much of Europe. 
3. Or think of the Baroque gems created from the Counter-Reformation on. Magnificent. All "stage-sets" for the Traditional Latin Mass! 
4. And beyond the architecture, think of the exquisite music, the philosophy, the grand theology, the paintings and sculpture and carvings in stone and wood! 
5. ALL that, the very STUFF of a civilization, its heart, its soul created to house, adorn, honor, glorify that Traditional Latin Mass and the Real Presence of Christ within it, to defend it and promote His Presence.

All to be replaced with a quasi-Methodist knock-off service having some Catholics prayers shoe-horned in.

Words fail.

One can go to that excellent website Canon212.com to read the many articles detailing the collapse of Catholicism. I see the Church is going comatose in Poland, with fewer and fewer seminarians for every year Bergoglio does his "Emperor's New Clothes" shtick. And via Canon212 I read a comment the other day in Fr Z's blog about how the Faith has fled "Atlantic Canada" and how the author expected it not to survive in the western Provinces much longer. Anyone reading this from Europe or the U.S.A. also can attest to the simply jaw-dropping fall-off in Mass attendance, and the growing imbecility of sermons in the Masses they do attend, and the general meretriciousness of the Novus Ordo "liturgy" and the bishops who promote it. (No one is more meretricious than Bergoglio.)

I do not counsel despair. Fr. Mawdsley has an excellent podcast titled Can you stand? Endure the Church's passion, enjoy the victory of the resurrection. Christus vincit! It isn't exactly easy right now to be Catholic, but it wasn't easy for the first 300 years of the Church, either, or for much of the rest of Church history. Wars, invasions, great heresies (Arianism, Islam itself, Protestantism) have afflicted us since the beginning. Think of the persecutions Christians are suffering today, in all manner of ways. "Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Matt 16:24-25) And "If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you." (John 15:18)

Fight Back Knowing this about the Mass

But at least we can fight back for the Traditional Latin Mass. Knowing its civilizational importance; we can demand it be returned to us and categorically refuse the false web of wizardry the "Lavender Mafia" has woven around it, and us, for 60 years. We don't just want our Mass back, we want to save what's left of our civilization, and everyone from your local parish priest to Bergoglio has to know that we know exactly just what the Traditional Latin Mass is, and how our civilized world depends on it. For just as the Church took the heart from Western Civilization, the Church can restore it, with God's help.

Not to mention our salvation. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi. The law of prayer is the law of belief. If we pray like Catholics, we'll believe like Catholics.

How hard can this be to understand, Tio Jorge?

          AnP

Coup d'état in the U.S.A.? – Part II Civilization and the Traditional Latin Mass

Amici,

After reading my essay Coup d'état in the U.S.A.?, a friend wrote to me, in part:

There is no longer any enforcement of laws in this country. Apparently we are subscribing to the George Soros method of prosecution - I will enforce only those laws that I want to. Uncle Joe continues to break the law at the southern border - surprisingly no one seems to care. Instead he lies that the border is closed, when clearly it is not. Prosecutors in New York, Chicago, San Francisco (all Soros funded), continue to release violent criminals. Illinois just eliminate all of its bail laws. The police are completely demoralized by defunding and lack of support from city governments. Criminals, see no consequences for their crimes - so they keep offending. Shoplifting is becoming the national pastime.

I thought about it and wrote:

They are trying – working assiduously – to turn the country into an insane asylum for unrestrained, berserk criminals. People are frantic! Even in California, where businesses are going on strike: Over 200 Oakland Businesses to Strike on Tuesday Over Crime as City Reports Over 10,000 Stolen Cars So Far This Year. Or how about this, the trial and verdict of those who killed teen Ethan Liming in Ohio. It makes you sick to read it.

And consider this bit of educational news (pun intended) about no children from 13 schools, zero, passing state math exams in Baltimore, Maryland.

A complete breakdown of education exists in the major cities, all Democrat controlled. This is intentional. (Or mostly so; I mean, there do exist the ontologically stupid and they do seem to tend to go into education, don't they?)

Of course, all this is intentional, a program that began running a long time ago, designed by the Frankfurter Schule, the German Communist program from back in the 1920s. When the Nazis put pressure on them, they came over there to the U.S.A. and were given top jobs in the big universities. Brilliant, that. Thanks to them and John Dewey, another Communist, U.S. schools have been teaching Marxism for decades now. Madness.

TLM

And in a larger context, all this has everything to do with the Traditional Latin Mass. Why? Am I just being crazy? No. Because "culture" is founded on "cult". We can't escape that. The Supreme Court can't escape that; the American Constiution can't escape that. A culture founded on the worship of Kali or Badhbh (but I repeat myself; one is the avatar of the other) is going to be quite different from one founded on the Buddha, which is different than one founded on Shinto, which is different from one founded on nothing at all (the U.S.A.), which is different from one founded on Christ. And the central institution of Western Christianity is, and has been since before Constantine, the Traditional Latin Mass. One could say, in all seriousness, that therefore Catholics built up Western Civilization around that Traditional Latin Mass: just as the great Romanesque cathedrals were built to stage it, or the Gothic cathedrals in their varied splendor, the Baroque, all that, were all created for that Mass. (I never thought I liked Baroque till I started attending the TLM in one; now I know why they were built the way they were.) Our civilization is just as much a product of that Mass as those church styles were.

And what the Greeks knew, and what the Medievals knew, and what we seem to have completely forgotten or never understood (thank you John Locke and Adam Smith and consumer culture), is that culture has to be built up, either from scratch or from the ruins of previous cultures – all via some new cult, as Western Civilization was via Christianity or the Middle Eastern was from Islam, or India from Hinduism. And cult remains essential in this, especially if one wants to build a civilization. 

1. A civilization is bequeathed us by our ancestors but we have to reinforce/restore it each generation. We have to train children into it. That's what EDUCATION, the "calling out" exists for. It doesn't exist to make people a lot of money to feed the consumer culture.
   
2. Like a taste for Classical Music or Fine Arts, great literature (epic poetry and high drama) and philosophy, we have to carefully cultivate this civilizational aspect of culture in each generation. It's truly another echo of Adam's task, to "tend and keep" the Garden.
   
3. We can't just "let it slide" and assume people are somehow by an undirected Darwinian osmosis 'civilized' into the civilized culture of their birth. A general culture, a traditional farming or hunting culture can do that, perhaps, indeed, but not a civilization. Civilizations take WORK.
   

I get most of this from reflecting on this excellent article here. An excerpt:

According to this conception, civilization, in its highest form, is made up of components that are the product of a conscious and deliberate effort to reach the highest level of human attainment, and that for the most part substantially succeed in reaching this level. Individual geniuses such as Homer may reach this level of achievement without belonging to a civilization; what makes a civilization is a collective resolve to reach this level as far as is possible, and to preserve what has reached it.

The Greeks knew, and various Romans too, over time, and what the late Medievals learned to their cost, as we ought to be learning now, is that one has to fight not for something abstract like Jeffersonian or French Revolution "Liberty", but for our actual inheritance, and that consists of Western Civilization. Because various forces try to destroy civilization one way or another (as did the French Revolution itself did), either trying to disintegrate it from within or be conquered from without, we must "keep and tend it". As for "Liberty", it seems basically to mean ignoring our civilizational roots, which are (shudder) religious, and allowing Islam to try to conquer us today from both outside and inside. Islam or hedonism, that's the choice. The moral degeneracy engulfing the Western World perhaps comes from Communism of a sort, or from Liberty gone libertine, but moral degeneracy in itself lies at the heart of the human race and Satan easily accesses it, all the time, screeching, "Liberty!" 

• Notice how Islam's civilization, which never separated from its religion, is strong although materially and intellectually weak (i.e. poor and backward), whereas we, who are materially bloated and choking to death on "education", are utterly morally weak and demented. Same with secularized Japan, Communist China, much of Europe, etc.

The Greeks fought off the Persians to preserve their cult/culture while their philosophers fought off moral degeneration from within. In that endeavor, they failed. Christianity came, however, and created a new Eastern Empire, the Byzantine, although, alas, the Muslims finally – after centuries of ceaseless warfare – brought it down. They tried the same in the European heartland. The late Medievals/early Renaissance version of Western Christian Civilization had to fight off the Turk in the East and the Moors in the West, and one day starting in 1519 suddenly they found themselves fighting off a new threat to their civilization, the Protestants, at their backs. Emperor Karl V couldn't deal with the Lutheran princes who supported Luther because the emperor had to fight off the Sultan, as well. Suleiman the Magnificent it was who crushed the Hungarians in August 1526, killing King Louis II of Hungary at the Battle of Mohács, and bounding onward into Austria, besieged Vienna in 1529. for two weeks. Failing this, and after 150 years of constant war (that left much of Central Europe and certainly Hungary a  depopulated wasteland), the Turks tried again in 1683, with a two-month siege of Vienna. (In 1565, the Turks besieged Malta for almost four months.) Obviously, this was a life and death struggle for the West. This was a CIVILIZATIONAL life and death struggle.

• If the Turk was fought off back then, at least until modern Islamic immigration into the West that of itself will destroy Western Civ, Protestantism wrought a destruction of a different type, resulting eventually in a desacralization of the West, secularizing it, removing the cult at its root by privatizing religion. Vatican II is the eventual fruit, a "Protestantization" of the Catholic Church, secularizing it, as we know only too well.
• Benighted Western intellectuals and "opinion makers" consider this secularization of the West a strength to boast about in comparison to Islam, an advance, not the stake through the cultural heart of Western Civilization that it is.
• But without its heart, what organism can survive? 

So, here we are in the Western world today, still besieged by Islam and still fighting off forces within our own civilization that seek to slaughter it. Now, however, the official Church has laid the axe of 'cult-ural' destruction at the root of the Tree of the Faith. "Pope Francis" and Company ceaselessly try to remove the very root, the Traditional Latin Mass that the entire civilization was built up around. That's what the suppression of the TLM truly signifies. If you didn't know that before, now you do. 

This will NOT turn out well, my friends.

           AnP