THE CROSS OF ANTICHRIST (No. 37)
THE GATES OF HELL
Introduction:
The Catholic Church barely survives. {...]* For though members of the Gnostic Sect sit in the Chair of Peter, even as they did in the Chair of Moses in Christ's time, these will not dare to pretend to teach error ex cathedra, that is, from that Holy Chair. Christ remains as the invisible Head of the Church. Catholic doctrine and the Laws of God remain, for "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words will not pass away." That is all presently remaining to us -- and it is enough. We need no 'Traditionalist' heretics to rescue Christ and His Church or us.
That the end is not far off is certain. [...]
It is plain this February 1979 that Catholic belief and practice have all but vanished, that the masonic-marxist false popes Roncalli and Montini have done well their evil works, to which program of destruction the present occupier of the papal chair has publicly committed himself.
Let us have a look at the nearest building which they still call a Catholic church, St. Edward's in Lebanon, Oregon. This building is not recognizable as such, either form outside or in, but comprises a conglomeration of sections not differing from Lutheran and Episcopalian churches I have known. [...]
It is not like the pre-Vatican II churches we were used to, where people could come and go without notice. Here they have an intimate little circle, into which, in the activist spirit of Vatican II, all are to be drawn. As Fr. Dulac points out in a passage I have several times quoted, the new reformers are psychological experts who know the uses of external "participation". [...]
A paper taken from the back of the church announces Saint Edward's Open House and in the effusive spirit of the New Dispensation extends to visitors "a hundred thousand welcomes." Under "Tabernacle" on this sheet the following: "To the right of the altar is a bronze safe, decorated with the heads of angels. The doors are adorned with Greek letters, JNS, the first three letters in Jesus' name. Within the safe is contained the most precious treasure of our church, the body of Christ. Jesus is truly present under the appearance of ordinary bread."
I hope the pastor who wrote that, and many others like him, are in good faith, although it seems impossible. The priest at the last parish church we regularly attended, before the New Order of Worship, used to walk in the front door and up the aisle past the altar and tabernacle without taking off his hat or genuflecting, and he came out the same way, a public profession of his unbelief. I noticed that a crucifix adorned the wall behind the table at St. Edward's, and that the priest genuflected before leaving for the back door, where he stood in his vestments, a curious new wrinkle I hadn't observed before. [...]
What about the Traditionalists? The more Catholic they look and sound the worse they are. From a "Traditionalist" publication the devil screams "SACRILEGE".
It is a waste of time to inquire of me whether this or that Traditionalist organization might be OK. My answer is that they are all bad; all are part of the Gnostic apparatus. To those who might reply that I should not condemn them all indiscriminately, I say that I am not condemning them indiscriminately but have closely scrutinized their works these past seven years and have found them all bad. To those who might suggest that this one or that seems to have a good argument, I reply that it is a necessary part of any deception to have what sounds like a good argument. It takes no great Catholic mind, but only one familiar with the method, to point out the trickery of "Trad" arguments. Their frauds and fallacies are as numerous as dead leaves in New England after the first heavy frost, so that no one man can possibly chase them all down. There is another consideration, too, so far as I am concerned. The kind of people who habitually run after charlatans and occultists will continue to do so, no matter how much these operators are exposed by those who have studied them carefully, and who have no organization to promote. One can find a 'moderate' or 'Traditionalist' trap for every state of mind and soul. As to the post-Vatican II "Seers", they are beneath the contempt of sane Catholics. I mean they all are; each and every one of them.
What we are dealing with and what I have tried to bring about in the selected papers I have called "The Gates of Hell," is the high and low church Gnosticism of which the Anglican church has been the model. It was with Anglican leaders and clergymen that Archbishop Montini, later Paul 6, met secretly for ten days at Milan. It has been my opinion that high and low church will come to terms, and that this is the business of the chief Traditionalist leader, as shown by his begging for an arrangement -- "a few churches" -- from Paul 6 and later the John Pauls. He is still at it but Pope Commissar the First might think it not worth bothering with -- that Commissar will get the whole Trad bag in time anyway.
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