Catholic Counterattack to Novus Ordo

Letter to Jenny dated on Wednesday, 01 April 2009

[Jenny is a Novus Ordo Catholic who posed some questions with regards to the Second Vatican Council, to Br. Lucas]

Answers to your questions in regards to VAT II

Dear Jenny,

Thank you so much for your comments and questions in regards to my previous mail about the Vat II Council. I am thanking our Lord for your love and interest in the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Our Lord Jesus Chris the God-Man who will judge everyone, and for Whom every knee SHALL bow. The Catholic Church Who is One, Apostolic, Holy and Catholic, The Catholic Church where prophesies and miracles happen. The Catholic Church who is the Light in the world and where people are obliged to join before they pass away to enjoy eternal happiness in Heaven. The Catholic Church, the ONLY way to eternal salvation.

"The Catholic Church firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within Her, not only pagans, but also Jews, heretics, and schismatics, cannot become participants in eternal life but will depart 'into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels' (Mt. 25:41), unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock..." (Council of Florence, Dz 714).

DOGMA

"Moreover, in order that we may perform satisfactorily the duty of embracing the true faith and of continuously persevering in it, God, through His only-begotten Son, has instituted the Church and provided it with clear signs of His institution, so that it can be recognized by all as the guardian and teacher of the revealed word." (Vatican I, Dz 1793).

"Moreover, what the Chief of pastors and the Great Pastor of sheep, the Lord Jesus, established in the blessed Apostle Peter for the perpetual salvation and perennial good of the Church, this by the same Author must endure always in the Church which was founded upon a rock and will endure firm until the end of the ages." (Vatican I, Dz 1824 [cf., Dz 1793 above]).

"The one Church of Christ is visible to all and will remain, according to the Will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it." (Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, §15).

One of your questions was if we want to create more division and I answer you that the Catholic Church CANNOT be divided. Every organization, council, philosophy, religion, etc what is NOT in accordance with the unfailable Magisterium of the One and true Divine Catholic Church is therefore false and does NOT come from God.

In my first lesson of the catechism I explained to you where we find the ultimate truth in times of confusions. These places, as St Vincencius of Lerins so masterly described in his Commoritorium are the Holy Bible and Tradition. The two big defense walls against false teachings, heresies and false religious systems.

The divine revelation, who was completed at the death of the last Apostle, Saint John, who is also most the Marian Apostle as he lived with Our Lady and therefore His gospel is also called ‘the Marian Gospel, around the end of the 1th century, has been taught by Our Lord who is God and therefore His teachings are Divine, to the Apostles, who spread the divine revelation to the whole world. Both the Holy Scripture and the Tradition are divine and have been transmitted unchangeable and complete until Pope Pius XII.

Since then, Our Mother the Holy church has been infiltrated by the freemasonry who altered the doctrine. The Vat II Council is NOT in line with tradition and therefore does not imply on the ONENESS of the Church. In my lessons you can see the differences between the teachings before the VAT II Councils with the ones after it.

Revelation, constituting the object of Catholic faith, was not completed with the apostles (Condemned by Saint Pius X, Lamentabili, Dz 2021).

"Further, by divine and Catholic faith, all those things must be believed which are contained in the written word of God and in Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church, either in a solemn pronouncement or in her ordinary and universal teaching power, to be believed as divinely revealed..."

"Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained, which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and there must never be recession from that meaning under the specious name of a deeper understanding... definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable" (Vatican I, Dz 1792; 1800; 1839).

Modernism penetrated the church and planted the three pillars of the freemasonry in the Church, such as:

1. Liberty

They translated it into the freedom of religion. Everyone can be saved in their own religion they say. This is a heresy and a MORTAL sin against the first commandment, and condemned by Our Lord Himself, the Apostles and all the church fathers as well as the 20 dogmatic Councils. (Please wait for the references until I finished my work ‘Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus’.

2. Collegiality

It is the application to the Church of the principles of liberal democracy, of the freemasonic principles of the French Revolution; namely, liberty, fraternity, and equality, and especially that of equality. It is the overturning of the divinely established order by which God governs the Church and directs souls to heaven from the top down, namely from Christ Himself to the pope, bishops, and priests, each taking personal responsibility for passing on to others the deposit of the Faith received from the Church.

This is henceforth replaced by the people, all of whom are equal and free in the exercise of their brotherhood. These principles are truly revolutionary, for they place mankind, humanity, the group, the mass of the people in the place of God. This is the divinization of man, humanism, according to which the spirit of God is henceforth supposedly manifested by the feelings, desires, sentiments of the majority.

This collegiality destroys all authority within the Church, and is directly responsible for the present disorder. The parish priest can no longer govern his parish, for he has to respect the wishes of the people, manifested through the parish council. Likewise the bishop can no longer govern his diocese, for he must accept the wishes of the priests, as expressed in his presbyteral council. He is likewise limited from above, since the episcopal conference has the moral authority of the majority to force individual bishops to comply.

Likewise, Roman congregations can no longer act authoritatively, on account of the overwhelming moral weight of the episcopal conferences in the modernist scheme of things. It is in this way that Rome has still not succeeded in forcing the German bishops and priests to stop administering Holy Communion to persons who have been divorced and remarried, and to stop issuing the letters of consultation that are required by law for abortions to be carried out. Many other examples could be given.

1) You asked: Why do you say that JPII preached anti Christ?

This pope arouses various sympathies, some Catholics lauding his stand on moral issues or that of women priests, others scandalized at the encouragement he gives all “religions” and his preaching based on the dignity of man. How are we to understand him?

In the opening address (Acta Apostolica Sedis; LXX, p. 920ff) of his pontificate, Pope John Paul II declared that his first aim would be to promote and implement the decrees of Vatican II and to bring to light all it contained implicitly. He says the 1983 Code of Canon Law is an effort to put Conciliar doctrine, and especially its new ecclesiology, into canonical language (Sacra Disciplinae Leges; Jan. 25, 1983).

The Catechism of the Catholic Church is likewise an effort to renew the life of the Church as desired and begun by Vatican II (Fidei Depositum; Oct. 11, 1992). Look at the references in any of his encyclicals; see the preponderance of the Second Vatican Council and its teachings. The gravity of this situation lies in the fact that Vatican II actually favors heresy.

Moreover, with the prolongation of his reign and the prolificacy of his writings and discourses, however, it has become ever more clear that Pope John Paul II is preaching a new religion, a humanism, a gospel of the intrinsic goodness of man, thanks to God’s becoming man, with the implied consequence of the salvation of all men. His starting point is Vatican II (Gaudium et Spes, §22):

Human nature, by the very fact that it was assumed, not absorbed, in him, has been raised in us also to a dignity beyond compare. For, by his incarnation, he, the son of God, has in a certain way united himself with each man.

The pope is constantly basing his teaching on these lines of Vatican II (by way of example:
· Redemptor Hominis, §§8, 13, 18;
· Evangelium Vitae, §§2, 104;
· Tertio Millennio Adveniente, §4;
· Sign of Contradiction, Karol Wojtyla, Geoffrey Chapman, p. 101ff) using them to illustrate this novel doctrine of universal salvation;
· Pope John Paul II's Theological Journey to the Prayer Meeting of Religions in Assisi: Part I, pp. 78-95

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS:

Pope John Paul II preached in a Lutheran church (December 11, 1983)

Recited psalms with Jews while visiting the synagogue of Rome (April 13, 1986)

Invited Catholics and Jews to prepare together for the coming of the Messiah (June 24, 1986)

Engaged in dialogues with the high priests and witch doctors of Voodoo (February 4, 1993)

Took part in Animist rites in the “Sacred Forest” in Togo (August 8, 1985)

Had the sacred Tilac put on his forehead by a priestess of Shiva in Bombay (February 2, 1986)

Invited representatives of the “main religions” (about 130 came) to Assisi to pray for peace (October 27, 1986).

Pope John Paul II also kissed the Koran, which refers to Christians as "pigs" for their belief in the Holy Trinity and which also says, that a Muslim goes to Heaven if he kills an infidel; i.e. a Christian.

Such false ecumenical actions on the part of the pope simply continue to multiply.

Everywhere and with all he praises the “values” of these false religions but fails to tell them that they and their people must convert if they want to be saved.Therefore, both in word and deed, he is preaching that all men of whatever creed are acceptable to God, which is contrary to Catholic dogma.

In this we cannot follow this pope’s ideas but must hold fast to the doctrine constantly taught by the Church of all time.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS DIVINE

"Moreover, in order that we may perform satisfactorily the duty of embracing the true faith and of continuously persevering in it, God, through His only-begotten Son, has instituted the Church and provided it with clear signs of His institution, so that it can be recognized by all as the guardian and teacher of the revealed word." (Vatican I, Dz 1793).

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE UNIQUE ARK OF SALVATION

"The Catholic Church firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within Her, not only pagans, but also Jews, heretics, and schismatics, cannot become participants in eternal life but will depart 'into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels' (Mt. 25:41), unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock..." (Council of Florence, Dz 714).

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS VISIBLE AND INDEFECTIBLE

"Moreover, what the Chief of pastors and the Great Pastor of sheep, the Lord Jesus, established in the blessed Apostle Peter for the perpetual salvation and perennial good of the Church, this by the same Author must endure always in the Church which was founded upon a rock and will endure firm until the end of the ages." (Vatican I, Dz 1824 [cf., Dz 1793 above]).

"The one Church of Christ is visible to all and will remain, according to the Will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it." (Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, §15).

THE CHURCH IS FOUNDED UPON PETER AND HIS SUCCESSORS FOREVER

"If anyone then says that it is not from the institution of Christ the Lord Himself or by divine right that the blessed Peter has perpetual successors in the primacy over the universal Church...let him be anathema...."

"If anyone thus speaks, that the Roman Pontiff has only the office of inspection or direction but not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which pertain to faith and morals, but also in those which pertain to the discipline and government of the Church spread over the whole world...let him be anathema." (Vatican I, Dz 1825, 1831).

"But it is opposed to the truth and in evident contra-diction with the divine constitution of the Church to hold that, while each bishop is individually bound to obey the authority of the Roman Pontiffs, taken collectively the bishops are not so bound." (Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum).

THE POPE HAS POWER ONLY "UNTO EDIFICATION AND NOT UNTO DESTRUCTION" (II Cor 13:10) OF CHRIST'S CHURCH

“For, the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that by His revelation they might disclose new doctrine, but that by His help they might guard sacredly the revelation transmitted through the apostles and the deposit of faith, and might faithfully set it forth." (Vatican I, Dz 1836).

"And for these sacraments instituted by Christ the Lord, in the course of the ages the Church has not and could not substitute other sacraments, since, as the Council of Trent teaches, the seven sacraments of the New Law have all been instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord and the Church has no power over the “substance of the sacraments,” that is, over those things which, with the sources of divine revelation as witnesses, Christ the Lord Himself decreed to be preserved in a sacramental sign..." (Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis, Dz 2301).

"It is well known unto all men...with what great care and pastoral vigilance our predecessors the Roman Pontiffs have discharged the office entrusted by Christ Our Lord to them in the person of the most blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, have unremittingly discharged the duty of feeding the lambs and the sheep, and have diligently nourished the Lord’s entire flock with the words of faith, imbued it with salutary doctrine, and guarded it from poisoned pastures. And those our predecessors, who were the assertors and champions of the august Catholic religion, of truth and justice, being as they were chiefly solicitous for the salvation of souls, held nothing to be of so great importance as the duty of exposing and condemning, in their most wise Letters and Constitutions, all heresies and errors which are hostile to moral honesty and to the eternal salvation of mankind..." (Pius IX, Quanta Cura §1).

CHURCH TEACHING CANNOT CHANGE

Revelation, constituting the object of Catholic faith, was not completed with the apostles (Condemned by Saint Pius X, Lamentabili, Dz 2021).

"Further, by divine and Catholic faith, all those things must be believed which are contained in the written word of God and in Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church, either in a solemn pronouncement or in her ordinary and universal teaching power, to be believed as divinely revealed..."

"Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas must be perpetually retained, which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and there must never be recession from that meaning under the specious name of a deeper understanding... definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable" (Vatican I, Dz 1792; 1800; 1839).

PROTESTANTS AND OTHER NON-CATHOLICS DO NOT HAVE THE FAITH

"Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will... Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will" (Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II II, Q.5, A.3).

HUMAN LAW IS ORDAINED TO DIVINE LAW

"Likewise the liberty of those who are in authority does not consist in the power to lay unreasonable and capricious commands upon their subjects... but the binding force of human laws is in this, that they are to be regarded as applications of the eternal law, and incapable of sanctioning anything which is not contained in the eternal law, as in the principle of all law" (Leo XIII, Libertas §10).

2) You asked: Would you please share the specific quotes where the Catechism says that only Catholics will go to heaven?

Please find herewith the specific quotes of the Catechism where its stated that only Catholics will go to Heaven:

I have taken the references for the Catechism of St Pius X (Pope and Saint)

Q: What does the Ninth article: The Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, teach us?

A: The Ninth Article of the Creed teaches us that Jesus Christ founded a visible society on earth called the Catholic Church, and that all those who belong to this Church are in communion with one another.

Q: Why immediately after the article that treats of the Holy Ghost is mention made of the Catholic Church?

A: Immediately after the article that treats of the Holy Ghost mention is made of the Catholic Church to indicate that the Church's holiness comes from the Holy Ghost, who is the Author of all holiness.

Q: What does the word Church mean?

A: The word Church means a calling forth or assembly of many.

Q: Who has convoked or called us into the Church of Jesus Christ?

A: We have been called into the Church of Jesus Christ by a special grace of God, to the end, that by the light of faith and the observance of the divine law, we may render Him the worship due to Him, and attain eternal life.

Q: Where are the members of the Church to be found?

A: The members of the Church are found partly in heaven, forming the Church Triumphant; partly in purgatory, forming the Church Suffering; partly on earth, forming the Church Militant.

Q: Do these various parts of the Church constitute one sole Church?

A: Yes, these various parts of the Church constitute one sole Church and one sole body for they have the same Head, Jesus Christ, the same Spirit animating and uniting them, and the same end, eternal happiness, which some already enjoy and the rest hope for.

Q: To which part of the Church does this Ninth Article principally refer?

A: This Ninth Article of the Creed principally refers to the Church Militant, which is the Church we actually belong to.

The Church in Particular

Q: What is the Catholic Church?

A: The Catholic Church is the Union or Congregation of all the baptized who, still living on earth, profess the same Faith and the same Law of Jesus Christ, participate in the same Sacraments, and obey their lawful Pastors, particularly the Roman Pontiff.

Q: State distinctly what is necessary to be a member of the Church?

A: To be a member of the Church it is necessary to be baptized, to believe and profess the teaching of Jesus Christ, to participate in the same Sacraments, and to acknowledge the Pope and the other lawful pastors of the Church.

Q: How can the Church of Jesus Christ be distinguished from the numerous societies or sects founded by men, and calling themselves Christian?

A: From the numerous societies or sects founded by men and calling themselves Christian, the Church of Jesus Christ is easily distinguished by four marks: She is One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.

Q: Why is the Church called One?

A: The true Church is called One, because her children of all ages and places are united together in the same faith, in the same worship, in the same law; and in participation of the same Sacraments, under the same visible Head, the Roman Pontiff.

Q: Can there not be several Churches?

A: No, there cannot be more than one Church; for as there is but one God, one Faith and one Baptism, there is and can be but one true Church.

Q: But are not the faithful of a whole Nation or Diocese also called a Church?

A: The faithful of a whole Nation or Diocese are also called a Church, but they ever remain mere parts of the Universal Church and form but one Church with her.

Q: Why is the true Church called Holy?

A: The true church is called Holy because holy is her Invisible Head, Jesus Christ; holy are many of her members; holy are her faith, her laws, her Sacraments; and outside of her there is not and cannot be true holiness.

Q: Why is the Church called Catholic?

A: The true Church is called Catholic, or Universal, because she embraces the faithful of all times, of all places, of all ages and conditions; and all peoples are called to belong to her.

Q: Why is the Church also called Apostolic?

A: The true Church is also called Apostolic because she goes back without a break to the Apostles; because she believes and teaches all that the Apostles believed and taught; and because she is guided and governed by their lawful successors.

Q: And why is the true Church called Roman?

A: The true Church is called Roman, because the four marks of Unity, Sanctity, Catholicity and Apostolicity are found in that Church alone which acknowledges as Head the Bishop of Rome, the Successor of St. Peter.

Q: What is the constitution of the Church of Jesus Christ?

A: The Church of Jesus Christ has been constituted as a true and perfect Society; and in her we can distinguish a soul and a body.

Q: In what does the Soul of the Church consist?

A: The Soul of the Church consists in her internal and spiritual endowments, that is, faith, hope, charity, the gifts of grace and of the Holy Ghost, together with all the heavenly treasures which are hers through the merits of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, and of the Saints.

Q: In what does the Body of the Church consist?

A: The Body of the Church consists in her external and visible aspect, that is, in the association of her members, in her worship, in her teaching-power and in her external rule and government.

Q: To be saved, is it enough to be any sort of member of the Catholic Church?

A: No, to be saved it is not enough to be any sort of member of the Catholic Church; it is necessary to be a living member.

Q: Who are the living members of the Church?

A: The living members of the Church are the just, and the just alone, that is, those who are actually in the grace of God.

Q: And who are the dead members?

A: The dead members of the Church are the faithful in mortal sin.

Q: Can one be saved outside the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church?

A: No, no one can be saved outside the Catholic, Apostolic Roman Church, just as no one could be saved from the flood outside the Ark of Noah, which was a figure of the Church.

The Communion of Saints

Q: What are we taught by these words of the Ninth Article: The Communion of Saints?

A: In the words The Communion of Saints, the Ninth Article of the Creed teaches us that the Church's spiritual goods, both internal and external, are common to all her members because of the intimate union that exists between them.

Q: Which are the internal goods that are common in the Church?

A: The internal goods that are common in the Church are: the graces received through the Sacraments; faith, hope and charity; the infinite merits of Jesus Christ; the superabundant merits of the Blessed Virgin and of the Saints; and the fruit of all the good works done in the same Church.

Q: Which are the external goods that are common in the Church?

A: The external goods that are common in the Church are: the Sacraments, the Sacrifice of the Mass, public prayers, religious functions, and all the other outward practices that unite the faithful.

Q: Do all the children of the Church share in this communion of goods?

A: All Christians who are in the grace of God share in the communion of internal goods, while those who are in mortal sin do not participate in these goods.

Q: Why do not those who are in mortal sin participate in these goods?

A: Because that which unites the faithful with God, and with Jesus Christ as His living members, rendering them capable of performing meritorious works for life eternal, is the grace of God which is the supernatural life of the soul; and hence as those who are in mortal sin are without the grace of God, they are excluded from perfect communion in spiritual goods, nor can they accomplish works meritorious towards life eternal.

Q: Do Christians then, who are in mortal sin derive no advantage from the internal and spiritual goods of the Church?

A: Christians who are in mortal sin still continue to derive some advantage from the internal and spiritual goods of the Church, inasmuch as they still preserve the Christian character which is indelible, and the virtue of faith which is the basis of justification. They are aided, too, by the prayers and good works of the faithful towards obtaining the grace of conversion to God.

Q: Can those in mortal sin participate in the external goods of the Church?

A: Those in mortal sin can participate in the external goods of the Church, unless indeed they are cut off from the Church by excommunication.

Q: Why are the members of this Communion, taken together, called saints?

A: The members of this Communion are called saints because all are called to sanctity and have been sanctified by baptism, and because many of them have really attained perfect sanctity.

Q: Does the Communion of Saints extend also to heaven and purgatory?

A: Yes, the Communion of Saints also extends to heaven and purgatory, because charity unites the three Churches -- the Triumphant, the Suffering and the Militant; the Saints pray to God both for us and for the souls in purgatory; while we on our part give honor and glory to the Saints, and are able to relieve the suffering souls in purgatory by applying on their behalf indulgences and other good works.

Those Outside the Communion of Saints

Q: Who are they who do not belong to the Communion of Saints?

A: Those who are damned do not belong to the Communion of Saints in the other life; and in this life those who belong neither to the body nor to the soul of the Church, that is, those who are in mortal sin, and who are outside the true Church.

Q: Who are they who are outside the true Church?

A: Outside the true Church are: Infidels, Jews, heretics, apostates, schismatics, and the excommunicated.

Q: Who are infidels?

A: Infidels are those who have not been baptized and do not believe in Jesus Christ, because they either believe in and worship false gods as idolaters do, or though admitting one true God, they do not believe in the Messiah, neither as already come in the Person of Jesus Christ, nor as to come; for instance, Mohammedans and the like.

Q: Who are the Jews?

A: The Jews are those who profess the Law of Moses; have not received baptism; and do not believe in Jesus Christ.

Q: Who are heretics?

A: Heretics are those of the baptized who obstinately refuse to believe some truth revealed by God and taught as an article of faith by the Catholic Church; for example, the Arians, the Nestorians, and the various sects of Protestants.

Q: Who are apostates?

A: Apostates are those who abjure, or by some external act, deny the Catholic faith which they previously professed.

Q: Who are schismatics?

A: Schismatics are those Christians who, while not explicitly denying any dogma, yet voluntarily separate themselves from the Church of Jesus Christ, that is, from their lawful pastors.

Note that the Holy Scripture states in Genesis 3:15 that God has put enmity between the woman and the snake, between her seed and his seed. This means between the children of the Holy Virgin Mary (Catholics) and the children of Satan (all non-Catholics).

Psalm 95 states that the gods of the pagans are DEVILS. This means that all the non-Catholic religions are false and that their followers worship devils.

The Church fathers stated that those who do not have the Church as Mother do not have God as Father.

You wrote: I am one of those who thanks God for Vatican II.

As I have proved above and in my lessons, the chuch has been infiltrated by the enemy, the modernists. The VAT II Council has altered the unchangeable teachings of God. There are at least about 200 differences in the writings of the VAT II council with Tradition. See "Errors of Vatican II" for more info.

As the Second Vatican Council is NOT in line with the depositum fidei (H. Scripture and Tradition), it is NOT Catholic but a New religion and therefore they have put themselves Outside the True Catholic Church.

Just have a look at the fruits of Vat II Council:
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The Stark Fruits of Vatican II

By Michael Davies

(Taken from the Appendix of the Liturgical Time Bombs)

The Incredible Shrinking Church In England and Wales

The most evident characteristic of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is that it is shrinking at an incredible rate into what must be termed a state of terminal decline.

The official Catholic Directory documents a steady increase in every important aspect of Catholic life until the mid-sixties: then the decline sets in. The figures for marriages and baptisms are not simply alarming, but disastrous. In 1944 there were 30,946 marriages, by 1964 the figure had risen to 45,592-----but by 1999 it had plunged to 13,814, well under half the figure for 1944.

The figures for baptisms for the same years are 71,604 (1944), 137,673 (1964), and 63,158 (1999). With fewer children born to Catholic couples each year, the number of marriages must inevitably continue to decline, with even fewer children born-----and so on. Nor can it be presumed that even half the children who are baptized will be practicing their Faith by the time they reach their teens.

An examination of the figures for a typical diocese indicates that less than half the children who are baptized are confirmed, and a report in The Universe as long ago as 1990 gave an estimate of only 11% of young Catholics practicing their Faith when they leave high school.

Apart from marriages and baptisms, Mass attendance is the most accurate guide to the vitality of the Catholic community. The figure has plunged from 2,114,219 in 1966 to 1,041,728 in 1999 and is still falling at a rate of about 32,000 a year.

In 1944, 178 priests were ordained; in 1964, 230; and in 1999 only 43-----and in the same year 121 priests died.

In 1985, twenty years after the Second Vatican Council, bishops from all over the world assembled in Rome to assess the impact of the Council. This gave them the opportunity to admit that their implementation of it had been disastrous, and that drastic measures must be taken to give the Faith a viable future in First World countries.

Cardinal Basil Hume of Westminster insisted, on behalf of the bishops of England and Wales, that there must be no turning back from the policies they had adopted to implement the Council. A report in The Universe of December 13, 1985 informed us that the Synod had adopted Cardinal Hume's position without a single dissenting voice.

The final sentence of this report must be described as ironically prophetic: "In the meantime the people of God have a firm mandate to further Exodus along the route mapped out by the Second Vatican Council." Change the upper case "E" of Exodus to a lower case "e," exodus, and this is precisely what has happened-----and the exodus will continue until Catholicism in England and Wales vanishes into oblivion within thirty years, if not sooner. Without a Divine intervention, the "Second Spring" of the Catholic Faith in England predicted by Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) will end in the bleakest of winters.

The Incredible Shrinking Church In the United States

In March 2003 there was published in St. Louis what is certainly the most important statistical survey of the Church in the United States since Vatican II: Index of Leading Catholic Indicators:

The Church Since Vatican II, by Kenneth C. Jones. 1

It provides meticulously documented statistics on every aspect of Catholic life subject to statistical verification, and it is illustrated with graphs which depict in a dramatic visual manner the catastrophic collapse of Catholic life in the United States since the Council. With the publication of this book, no rational person could disagree with Father Louis Bouyer that, "Unless we are blind, we must even state bluntly that what we see looks less like the hoped-for regeneration of Catholicism than its accelerated decomposition."

Mr. Jones has given me his permission to quote from the introduction to his book, but before doing so, I must quote: from a news story in the March 23, 2003 issue of the London Universe. Under the headline "En Suite Monastery," it reports: "A former Irish Carmelite monastery is expected to be turned into a country-club style hotel after its sale to a property developer. The Carmelite order had shut their house in Castle Martyr, Cork, last year after 73 years because of the downfall in vocations." This is but one of thousands of similar examples of the actual, as opposed to the fantasy, fruits of Vatican II.

On page 100 of Mr. Jones' book there is a graph revealing that the number of Carmelite seminarians in the United States has decreased from 545 in 1965 to 46 in 2000-----a decline of 92 percent. This figure seems positively healthy when compared with the graph on page 99, relating to the La Salette Fathers, which reveals a decline in the number of seminarians for the same period from 552 to just 1.

Figures and graphs for every major religious order are set out in the book, and it would be hard to disagree with Mr. Jones that "The religious orders will soon be virtually non-existent in the United States." In the introduction to his book he writes:

When Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council in 1962, the Catholic Church in America was in the midst of an unprecedented period of growth. Bishops were ordaining record numbers of priests and building scores of seminaries to handle the surge in vocations. Young women by the thousands gave up lives of comfort for the austerity of the convent. These nuns taught millions of students in the huge system of parochial and private schools.

The ranks of Catholics swelled as parents brought in their babies for Baptism and adult converts flocked to the Church. Lines outside the confessionals were long, and by some estimates three quarters of the faithful went to Mass every Sunday. Given this favorable state of affairs, some Catholics wondered at the time whether an ecumenical council was opportune-----don't rock the boat, they said.

The Holy Father chided these people in his opening speech to the Council: "We feel we must disagree with those prophets of gloom who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world were at hand." Forty years later the end has not arrived. But we are now facing the disaster.

Even some in the Vatican have recognized it. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said: "Certainly the results [of Vatican II] seem cruelly opposed to the expectations of everyone, beginning with those of Pope John XXIII and then of Pope Paul VI . . . "

Since Cardinal Ratzinger made these remarks in 1984, the crisis in the Church has accelerated. In every area that is statistically verifiable-----for example, the number of priests, seminarians, priestless parishes, nuns, Mass attendance, converts and annulments-----the "process of decadence" is apparent.

I have gathered these statistics in the Index of Leading Catholic Indicators (2) because the magnitude of the emergency is unknown to many. Beyond a vague understanding of a "vocations crisis," both the faithful and the general public have no idea how bad things have been since the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Here are some of the stark facts:

Priests. After skyrocketing from about 27,000 in 1930 to 58,000 in 1965, the number of priests in the United States dropped to 45,000 in 2002. By 2020,3 there will be about 31,000 priests-----and only 15,000 will be under the age of 70. Right now there are more priests aged 80 to 84 than there 1 are aged 30 to 34.

Ordinations. In 1965 there were 1,575 ordinations to the priesthood, in 2002 there were 450, a decline of 350 percent. Taking into account ordinations, deaths and departures, in 1965 there was a net gain of 725 priests. In 1998, there was a net loss of 810.

Priestless parishes. About 1 percent of parishes, 549, were without a resident priest in 1965. In 2002 there were 2,928 priestless parishes, about 15 percent of U.S. parishes. By 2020, a quarter of all parishes, 4,656, will have no priest.

Seminarians. Between 1965 and 2002, the number of seminarians dropped from 49,000 to 4,700-----a 90 percent decrease. Without any students, seminaries across the country have been sold or shuttered. There were 596 seminaries in 1965, and only 200 in 2002.

Sisters. 180,000 sisters were the backbone of the Catholic education and health systems in 1965. In 2002, there were 75,000 sisters, with an average age of 68. By 2020, the number of sisters will drop to 40,000-----and of these, only 21,000 will be aged 70 or under. In 1965, 104,000 sisters were teaching, while in 2002 there were only 8,200 teachers.

Brothers. The number of professed brothers decreased from about 12,000 in 1965 to 5,700 in 2002, with a further drop to 3,100 projected for 2020.

Religious Orders. The religious orders will soon be virtually non-existent in the United States. For example, in 1965 there were 5,277 Jesuit priests and 3,559 seminarians; in 2000 there were 3,172 priests and 38 seminarians.

There were 2,534 OFM Franciscan priests and 2,251 seminarians in 1965; in 2000 there were 1,492 priests and 60 seminarians. There were 2,434 Christian Brothers in 1965 and 912 seminarians; in 2000 there were 959 Brothers and 7 seminarians. There were 1,148 Redemptorist priests in 1965 and 1,128 seminarians; in 2000 there were 349 priests and 24 seminarians. Every major religious order in the United States mirrors these statistics.

High Schools. Between 1965 and 2002 the number of diocesan high schools fell from 1,566 to 786. At the same time the number of students dropped from almost 700,000 to 386,000.

Parochial Grade Schools. There were 10,503 parochial grade schools in 1965 and 6,623 in 2002. The number of students went from 4.5 million to 1.9 million.

Sacramental Life. In 1965 there were 1.3 million infant baptisms; in 2002 there were 1 million. (In the same period the number of Catholics in the United States rose from 45 million to 65 million.) In 1965 there were 126,000 adult baptisms-----converts-----in 2002 there were 80,000. In 1965 there were 352,000 Catholic marriages, in 2002 there were 256,000. In 1965 there were 338 annulments, in 2002 there were 50,000.

Mass attendance. A 1958 Gallup poll reported that 74 percent of Catholics went to Sunday Mass in 1958. A 1994 University of Notre Dame study found that the attendance rate was 26.6 percent. A more recent study by Fordham University professor James Lothian concluded that 65 percent of Catholics went to Sunday Mass in 1965, while the rate dropped to 25 percent in 2000.

The decline in Mass attendance highlights another significant fact; fewer and fewer people who call themselves Catholic actually follow Church rules or accept Church doctrine. For example, a 1999 poll by the National Catholic Reporter shows that 77 percent believe a person can be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, 65 percent believe good Catholics can divorce and remarry, and 53 percent believe Catholics can have abortions and remain in good standing. Only 10 percent of lay religion teachers accept Church teaching on artificial birth control, according to a 2000 University of Notre Dame poll. And a New York Times/CBS poll revealed that 70 percent of Catholics age 18-44 believe the Eucharist is merely a "symbolic reminder" of Jesus.

Given these alarming statistics and surveys, one wonders why the American bishops ignore the profound crisis that threatens the very existence of the Church in America. After all, there can be no Church without priests, no Church without a laity that has children and practices the Catholic Faith.

Yet at their annual conferences, the bishops gather to issue weighty statements about nuclear weapons and the economy. Then they return home to "consolidate" parishes and close down schools.

As Cardinal Ratzinger said, the post-Vatican II period "has definitely been unfavorable for the Catholic Church." This Index of Leading Catholic Indicators is an attempt to chronicle the continuing crisis, in the hope that a compilation of the grim statistics-----in a clear, objective, easy to understand manner-----will spur action before it is too late. -----Kenneth C. Jones, January 2003

Mr. Jones, I fear, is far too optimistic in hoping that the statistics in his book "will spur action before it is too late." In the post-conciliar Church today it appears that there is one, and just one, absolute, and this is-----to repeat the words of Pope John Paul II-----that the little seed planted by Pope John XXIII has become "a tree which has spread its majestic and mighty branches over the vineyard of the Lord," and that "It has given us many fruits in these 35 years of life, and it will give us many more in the years to come."

I cannot imagine any bishop in the world, no matter how orthodox in his personal belief, no matter how generous to traditional Catholics in authorizing the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, who would have the courage to dissent from the insistence of Cardinal Basil Hume that there must be no turning back from the policies adopted to implement the Council.

As Mr. Jones has proved, we are witnessing not the renewal but the "accelerated decomposition of Catholicism." This is a fact and it remains a fact no matter how often and how insistently those in authority in the Church claim that we are basking in the sunshine of a new Pentecost. One cannot help recollecting how, in the years following the Russian Revolution, when the enforced collectivization of the land had brought Russia to the edge of starvation, official bulletins assured the Russian people week after week, month after month, year after year, that never before in their history had they enjoyed so high a standard of living.

In Liturgical Time Bombs I have alleged no more than was alleged by Cardinal Ratzinger when he wrote: "I am convinced that the crisis in the Church that we are experiencing is to a large extent due to the disintegration of the liturgy . . . " (See p. 37.)

In his address to the bishops of Chile on July 13, 1988, the Cardinal explained:

The second Vatican Council has not been treated as a part of the entire living Tradition of the Church, but as an end of Tradition, a new start from zero. The truth is that this particular Council defined no dogma at all, and deliberately chose to remain on a modest level, as a merely pastoral council; and yet many treat it as though it had made itself into a sort of superdogma which takes away the importance of all the rest. This idea is made stronger by things that are now happening. That which previously was considered most holy-----the form in which the liturgy was handed down-----suddenly appears as the most forbidden of all things, the one thing that can safely be prohibited.

Every Catholic devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass must pray each day for our Holy Father, and pray that he will remove every restriction from the celebration of the rite of Mass which Cardinal Newman stated (in Loss and Gain) that he could attend forever and not be tired, and which Father Faber described as "the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven."

1. K. Jones, Index of Leading Catholic Indicators. Mailing address of Kenneth Jones: 11939 Manchester Rd., #217, St. Louis, MO 63131. www.catholicindicators.com

2. L. Bouyer, The Decomposition of Catholicism (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press. 1970), p. 1.

3. Projections for the numbers of priests, priestless parishes, brothers and nuns in 2020 are provided by Dr. James R. Lothian, Distinguished Professor of Finance at Fordham University, and are based on historic figures plus current average ages and trends.

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Conclusion:

Dear Jenny. I would like to advise you to go over this material and study it with an open mind. Pray for enlightment and insight in this difficult matter. When you are ready or need more info please ask as the decision you make might have an enormous impact on your eternal destiny.

Saint Paul writes in Galatians 1:8-9 that whoever, even an angel of God changes the gospel, he will be accursed forever and ever. Well,…the Vat Ii Council has changed the gospel as you can see from the different quotes.

The Council of Nicea II states in the Declaration: Those, therefore, who dare to think or to teach otherwise or to spurn according to wretched heretics the ecclesiastical traditions and to invent anything novel, or to reject anything from these things which have been consecrated by the Church: either the Gospel or the figure of the Cross, or the imaginal picture, or the sacred relics of the martyr; or to invent perversely and cunningly for the overthrow of anyone of the legitimate traditions of the Catholic Church; or even, as it were, to use the sacred vessels or the venerable monasteries as common things; if indeed they are bishops, or clerics, we order (them) to be deposed; monks, however, or laymen, to be excommunicated. (Denz. 304)

As the post-conciliar church is NOT Catholic, and as God promised that His Church will never disappear, He called Mgr. Lefebvre as the one to continue the One, Apostolic, Holy, and Catholic Church which is SSPX. Note that throughout history many attacks have been launched at the Mystical Body of Christ and each time God used particular people to save the Church. At the time of the heretic Luther, who cut of millions of people from the true Church, God gave us Saint Ignatius of Loyola who received from Our Lady the Spiritual exercises.

Remember that there are about 7 billion people living on earth with an average age of 70. So every 70 yrs 7 billion souls are judge by Our Lord. And as you know that the road to heaven is very narrow and the road to hell very wide, we can sadly conclude that every 70 yrs at least 51% of 7 billion people are being condemned to the eternal sufferings of HELL.

In all honesty and humility I hereby state, and can prove that the SSPX is the remnant of the True Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Our Lord through Mary, the Queen of whole creation.

Out of love, dear Jenny, I would advise you to review your opinion about the VAT II Council, to quit going to the New Mass as it is not Catholic and an insult to God Almighty, to get in touch with a priest of SSPX, and to return to the true Catholic Church. This for the glory of God, the salvation of the souls and for yourself and your beloved ones.


Yours in Christ through Mary,

Brother Lucas Cyprianus Feliers
Third Order SSPX