THE LATTER DAY CHURCH
by
François Lagenos
The catholic Church is to start growing again after escaping from the snares of the antichristian sham reformers; but who is to govern Her with Saint Peter's power in Jesus name? This is the question that is now and again put to the scattered flock looking for the good shepherd across woods and mountains. One of the different ways pointed out to the roving sheep is described in the last issue of FORTS DANS LA FOI*)in which Father Barbara, a well-known French priest of Algerian extraction, gives his answer to the anguished request of those that he has led through the wilderness.
Of course, for already three lustres we have become conversant with Lefèbvre's pretended attempt at conquering the Roman citadel back from the enemies occupying forces. He has steafastly maintained that the sham popes were mere liberals that would allow him to enjoy a foothold in the now well-defended, antichristian stonghold. For, he still asserts that 'the holy Father' will enable him to prove that the rejected and despised apostolic Tradition is the cure for the dwindling, famished flock: he will receive from K.(arol) W.(ojtyla) and the heretical (or: pseudo-)bishops some room for experimenting the effects of the century-old, discarded, superseded Christian religion.
There is also the school of thought of really-tough catholics who are not so easily deceived as the so-called traditionalists, and are labelled "sedisvacantists" by the more feeble and beguiled 'papists'. Their motto is: "Sede vacante, nihil innovetur". So they say it is only God's responsibility to provide us with a pope. He has prophesied the quandary into which we fell when we welcomed Roncalli's aggiornamento, therefore He will lead us out of it into His own sheepfold. Nobody, they argue, is empowered to consecrate a bishop without "dimissory letters" (papal mandatum) from the pope or at least his sure consent: and, behold! the Roman See is vacant!
Father Barbara's long-expected solution combines some features of the above-mentioned theses with some traits of his own. His originality is that he wants The Roman clergy to elect the pope everybody is hoping for. This is quite congruent with the most ancient catholic tradition, since the college of cardinals was created in the middleages to represent the Roman clergy. A part of it, as Father Barbara IMAGINES, will revolt against the ruling Antichrist and choose a really catholic bishop to govern the true Church, urbi and, ipso facto, orbi. This pope will really be heaven-sent according to the sedisvacantists' expectation, for two further miracles will support this wondrous rebellion:
a) The college of heretics will elect a catholic-minded cardinal to take place on St. Peter's Chair. This will happen by God's grace and the providential blinding of the anti-christian majority.
b) At the very moment when the abused heretics hail him as the late Antichrist successor, the new pseudo-pope will abjure and condemn the apostates' false doctrine, be converted to Jesus, and publicly embrace the catholic religion. These stupendous happenings will allow the rebellious Roman priests to hail him as the bishop of Rome, which choice will grant him the legitimacy the pseudo-cardinals could not provide him with.
It is not indifferent to not that card. Siri (Genova) is the Pope in Fr. Barbaras denouement. Fr. Barbara does not say that this cardinal is now the only papabile available. But among the bishops consecrated before Roncalli's imposture, Siri is the sole survivor that has been given a red hat by Pius XII. Does it mean that implicitly Fr. Barbara acknowledges that Roncalli is the first of the series of impostors that we have seen on St. Peter's Chair? Anyhow, despite this decent precaution Fr. Barbara's cardinal-bishop, even after his hoped for conversion cannot be made a pope. There is a spiritual abyss between him and the Holy See: this is obvious according to what the Holy Spirit revealed in 1559 to pope Paul IV. His famous constitution "Cum ex apostolatus officio" made plain, and explicitly for ever, that no former heretic could be elected pope, even if his election had been voted by all the cardinals. If the cardinal is now reputed to be a reluctant member of the antichristian sect, he is nevertheless a renegade and since 1969 he has gone on distributing mock sacraments and ordaining sham priests. Therefore he has been officially the impostor's accomplice by partaking in their sacrileges and countenancing their heresy. So it is wrong of Fr. Barbara to point him out as a possible elect to the supreme pontificate.
Fr. Barbara's unravelling of the freemasons plot appears all the more as a selfdelusion as old age generally does not turn cowards into brave men ready to face persecutions. Unless we be saints, the weakening of our bodies makes us look for peace and comfort. Those that were not valiant in their hey-days are likely to prove great cowards when winter comes. Another point of evidence is that if some vicars or curates have seen the Light and found enough courage to break loose from the sham hierarchy, no bishop, not even Mgr. Castro Meyer has done so. And it is no wonder, for they should have reacted at the first scandalous fraud: later they had to condemn others and themselves as well. They were kept in bondage by their first errors and fits of cowardice. And, their being conscious of their guilt made them blind to evidence. Fr. Barbara himself has vainly travelled round the world to make a bishop repent: he knows how unlikely, from a human point of view, card. Siri's conversion will be.
From a mystical point of view this conversion, the very concept of it, sounds nonsensical. Fr. Barbara eggs us on to admit that a renegade such as card. Siri can be another Saul of Tarsus. But Saul had not for 25 years been a dumb watch-dog; he had not suffered sacrileges to be declared agreeable to God. As he went to Damascus to persecute Jesus, he was a sincere Jew, a mistaken but zealous Pharisee. He had never refused to be the witness of truth. Indeed God has never promoted apostates: He will not change and has precisely taken care to tell us so. He effectively used Paul IV as His mouth-piece to warn us. He will not make a 'Sirian'-miracle, in Rome nowadays.
It is capital to note that Fr. Barbara's day-dreaming pictures what practically the whole catholic clergy and laity has been expecting since Roncalli turned Rome into the Scarlet Woman: conquering back the sacred precincts. Wandering through our modern Babylone, every exile longs for the hallowed ground where his forefathers have worshipped God. Fr. Barbara remarkably stages the fulfilling of that universal longing. (Concupiscit et deficit anima mea in atria Domini.) This is the utopia of the sedisvacantists as well as the lure Lefèbvre has kept dangling in front of the traditionalists: tomorrow the apostate church will turn back to Jesus the Lord, the exiles will at once be back in Jerusalem! Fr. Barbara contributes to their fostering this harmful delusion. Naive christians are encouraged to believe that God is prone to converting a false church, 'en messe'! He has never done so, even with Luther and the protestant sects. His grace has simply saved the repentant heretics individually. Once again we must assert that God always remains unchanged.
All this means that the surviving Church has to fight on, in the wilderness. Fr. Barbara has been opposing Mgr. Ngo-dinh-Thuc who started the only possible resistance i.e. continuing the catholic Church by providing fresh successors to the Apostles who were appointed to bring Jesus' sheep into His one fold. Now Fr. Barbara is compelled to follow in Lefèbvre's wake and to hope for a treble miracle and God undergoing some evolution... For this marvellous victory of orthodoxy cannot affect the realm where Antichrist Karol Wojtyla reigns unimpeded: Rome will be the Apocalyptic Babylon.
Should some Roman priests revolt, they would choose a man who could preserve the uninterrupted apostolic succession; they would also look for catholic bishops where they can be found now e.g. in Acapulco, Houston, Rochester etc. They would consult those whom God's Providence has retrieved in time from the danger of condoning apostasy, and caused to follow the archbishop of Hué. The Latter Day Church can now thrive without the cowardly, ensclaved Roman clergy, whatever may happen.
*) Nr.16 of the 2nd series - last term, December of 1983.
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