Thursday, April 01, 2010

Lock and Load: Defending Benedict

Fr. Z, in "Lutheran Clarity about the attacks on Pope Benedict" (WDTPRS, April 1, 2010), relates "a spectacular examination of the recent attacks on Pope Benedict – the Pope of Christian Unity – and on the Church by a LUTHERAN theologian on a Lutheran site, Logia, a Lutheran theological journal" -- a piece by John Stephenson entitled "The dictatorship of relativism strikes back—and goes nuclear." A must-read, including the appendices by Fr. Z.

Related: "Editorial note: For Christ and His Vicar" (Rorate Caeli, March 31, 2010):
It had to come to this. The leading daily of the culture of death (let us call it "The Abortion Times"), certainly encouraged by the instruments of Satan within the Church, dig up ancient "news" which, if accurately viewed, only highlight the unrelenting seriousness of the Vicar of Christ regarding all matters. All as part of a campaign which - they think! - will destabilize this rock-solid Pontificate and demoralize Peter in the properly-timed last weeks of Lent and during Holy Week.

Since when does The Abortion Times care about children?! Its editorial tone for the past several decades has been one of hatred for life: the life of all the weakest members of the human family. Their editorials, once and again, repeatedly defended even the most abhorrent "medical intervention" certainly ever invented, partial-birth abortion.

2 comments:

Lutheran said...

Like enjoying a fine wine.

And it's good to know that I haven't been too far off in assuming the Modernists or Marxists in and outside of the church universal are working under a fairly rigid timeframe. I had estimated about a 40 year full-out onslaught on the Vatican itself from as many angles as could be BSed and stretched.

Still, dirty pool is just that. Recall that these folks are revolutionaries who seek a new totalitarian state--this time with the inmates running the show.

Geez, I hope everybody is taking furious notes. This brand of revolutionary is, mercifully, predictable in that they lack imagination. Anticipate and do not simply defend but advance.

JFM said...

The Lutheran thing is probably the most precise description I have read of theological trajectories since V2. Nice.