Our modern Popes and Prelates think themselves superior to every single Catholic born before them. Theirs is a monumental self-righteousness and one sign of it is all of the apologies delivered to our enemies for the putative sins committed against them by long dead Catholics; that is, it is a formal attack on those no longer able to defend themselves while at the same time formal praise for heretics.
O, and then there is this…
Text of Pope Paul VI’s Address Closing Council’s Second Session
by Jim Lackey
Following is the council press office translation of the Latin address delivered Dec. 4, 1963 by Pope Paul VI at the closing meeting of the second session of the ecumenical council.
We have now reached the end of the second session of this great ecumenical council.
You have already been long absent from your Sees, in which the sacred ministry requires your presence, your guidance and your zealous pastoral labors. Your work here has been heavy, and assiduous and protracted by reason of the ceremonies, studies and meetings of this period of the council…
Before concluding our labors, it would be fitting to sum up and to consider together the course of the session and its results. But to do that would make this address too long, nor indeed could it be done adequately since so many aspects of this council belong to the domain of grace and the inner kingdom of the soul into which it is not always easy to enter, and since so many of the council’s results have not yet come to maturity, but are as grains of wheat cast into the furrows, awaiting their effective and fruitful development, which will be granted only in the future through new mysterious manifestations of the divine goodness…
Nevertheless, lest we seem to leave this holy council hall without gratitude for the blessings of God, from whom this council has here taken its origin, we will remind ourselves above all that some of the goals that the council set itself to achieve have already been at least partially reached.
The Church wished to grow in her consciousness and understanding of herself. See how, on the very level of her pastors and teachers, she has begun a profound meditation on that mystery from which she draws her origin and form. The meditation is not finished, but the very difficulty of concluding it reminds us of the depth and breadth of this doctrine, and stimulates each of us to strive to understand and to express the doctrine in a way which, on the one hand, cannot fail to lead our minds, and certainly those of the faithful who are attentively following our labors, to Christ Himself from whom all gifts come to us and to whom we wish to return all, “reconciling everything in Him” (Col. 1, 20)…
On the other hand, our efforts cannot fail to increase both our happiness in being personally called to form part of this holy Mystical Body of Christ, and our mutual charity, the principle and law of the life of the Church…
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Let us rejoice, my brothers, for when was the Church ever so aware of herself, so in love with Christ, so blessed, so united, so willing to imitate Him, so ready to fulfill His mission?
Has any prior Pope ever publicly expressed such unrestrained egoistic enthusiasm?
These self-righteous words are absolutely embarrassing to read considering the soaring holy geniuses – Athanasius, Ambrose, Augustine, Aquinas (That’s just the As) – that preceded the Fathers of this curious pastoral council; and considering their inflated sense of holiness and fidelity and the destruction they wrought, it is crystal clear that they were not the best and the brightest; rather, they were the worst and most wretched.
And of you don’t think the Bishop of Rome – Our Pope and Our Cross – doesn’t hold his own self in similar high esteem, then you don’t know modern Prelates.
Bob Dylan has his Rolling Thunder Review Tour and our rock star Bishop of Rome has a permanent Tour- The Humility and Apology Tour - in which he castigates Traditionalists and Holy Mass, denigrates the faithful Catholics of the past, and apologies to our enemies as he turns a blind eye to the true nature of evil. The Bishop of Rome is a destroyer; he is not building upon that which came prior to the crummy council; no he is its ineluctable conclusion of a revolution within the form of Catholicism. He is a revolutionary man
Lord have mercy on us for we now have the leaders a Just God has delivered unto us as punishment for our sins
