el abejorro

On the SSPX and the Situation of the Church Carlos A. Casanova “May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I forget you, if I do not make you the beginning of my joy, O Jerusalem!” (Psalm 136:6, Septuagint) The announcement of episcopal ordinations by the Society of St. Pius X without a papal mandate has sparked a storm of debate within the Church. I wish to offer some preliminary observations for perplexed Catholics. The Church is undergoing a harsh Babylonian captivity. External enemies have breached the walls of the Beloved City and are striving to subject it to harsh servitude. Under the guise of “the development of doctrine,” they seek to imperceptibly alter elements of the Revelation that culminated in Christ, with the death of the last Apostle, in order to sow confusion in souls and to make them accept the tyranny of the devil and the antichrist. They also seek to deprive souls of the precious treasures of grace contained chiefly in the sacraments, and in the Holy Mass above …