INFORMATIONS OF THE EDITOR
Munich, September 29th, 1983
Feast of the Holy Archangel Michael
Dear Reader,
one sometimes is astonished to realise how little the faithful, who confess (or want to confess) to belong to the Tradition, to the Catholic orthodoxy, are aware of the dreadful extention of our religious and ecclesiastical catastrophe. One knows in fact, that the new rites for the sacraments are invalid or doubtful, that the hierarchy has fallen into heresy and that John Paul II cannot be Pope, when he teaches that everything has to be brought into line with the human being... But there must still exist the Church, of which Christ has foretold that the gates of hell will not prevail against her. In the eyes of many this 'Church' is a kind of invisible greatness in the background, a sort of "Deus ex machina", which will intervene when the time of "the great change" comes. This spontaneous church-conception is then intellectually hidden by a stupid legalism: the 'Church' (?) has not spoken yet: therefore Mgr. Wojtyla is Pope, whom one asks to condemn the errors, knowing that he himself spreads most of them. (One would just like to take the intentional arsonists as firemen, because they wear beautiful helmets!!!) This 'Church' will then, one day, decide... whether Mgr. Wojtyla was or was not a legal Pope, one cannot decide it just now.. One should imagine: Mr. X. draws the attention of his neighbour to the fact that it is pouring with rain, and suggests he should clothe himself accordingly and take an umbrella when going out. And as a reply to this well-meant advice Mr. X. gets the following answer: you have no right to make such a declaration concerning the weather, only the weatherbureau may say so, and would give informations by wirless that it has been raining in Munich some time ago.
This legalism, with reference to our religious reality, is pure cynicism. Bishop Musey / U.S.A. has told us the following example at his visit last year, to lash out this attitude: a father dies and leaves behind wife and minor children. But there is no qualified doctor to write out the death certificate. Therefore the dead man is not dead, therefore the corpse cannot be buried, mother and children cannot get a certificate of heirship, cannot touch the money, must go hungry... because the death certificate of a qualified doctor cannot be obtained. Everyone knows that no such doctor exists. Meanwhile the corpse decomposes... but officially one cannot talk of a dead man, because the paper is missing!
Everybody can depict the story for himself. We are in the same situation: the qualified doctor, say: the congregation which should normally express the condemnation of Wojtyla and his followers, does not exist!!! They are all in league, respectively have all been heaved in their starting holes by this Wojtyla. May the modern 'theological' play "Waiting on Godot", (according to Samuel Becket: a programmed, absolute hopeless waiting) be as interesting and apparently as 'humble', it is of no help and proves to those who are acting only (clerical) arrogance, which 'thelogically' runs over the true misery.
I ask you once more to imagine the following: if, during the war, one had called for a doctor to write out a death certificate each time after the terrible bombing attacks, after the murdering battles, where thousands and over thousands fell on the battlefields, the mutilated bodies would still be lying around! One has buried them without death certificate, because everyone saw that they were dead, and has done to them a work of mercy by burying them.
N.B. Many should think about this example, because it contains in itself the key for the solution of our muddled-up situation - by this I mean the conditions within the groups committed to the traditionalist spirit.
May the Holy Archangel Michael assist us and defend the Church. Let us pray daily the Rosary, the only weapon we can use in this battle against this decline.
To all those who support our work, the Seminaries and the poor priests and bishops, my heartfelt "Thanks".
Yours E. Heller
(translated by Gladys Resch.) |
