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Entry: The Addams Family Chapel Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_addams_family_chapel#11042 Post contents: “Well, for one thing, Sid, our clergy seem to do a much better job keeping their paws off of young kids.” Yes, that was a low blow; and the pot should be cautious of calling the kettle black. But it was somewhat understandable given (its open season) the lot of putrid imposters we have posing as priests and Bishops who give scandal to the world - and not to the Church only. Nor is there an excuse for the scandalous cover-up - and we shall not offer one; except to say that Church, by her relaxation of her ancient strictures, “opened the windows” to the world and allowed to the smoke of Satan, under the cover of modernism, a grand entry. The Catholic Church is both human and divine and what we are witnessing is its fallible human dimension in all of its insidious glory; for men who attempt to remake the Church in their own image have fallen, quite hard, and are, as St. Augustine said, a “mass of perdition”. And as G.K. Chesterton said, "There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands" - and we are witnessing a shocking fall at an infinity of angles. But on a much more profound level, we are witnessing a second Gethsemane and second Calvary - our Lord, in His Mystical Body (the Catholic Church), is being scourged and crucified again - as prophesy has foretold; with much of the scourging (again) at the hands of those given charge of her care. Are we in the Agony of the Garden or are the nails being hammered into bone and sinew as we speak? It is hard to say - but whether we are in the days pre-figuring the last days or are in fact in the final tribulations, we have been forewarned that these days would come. Now is not the time to abandon the One Ark of Salvation; for she is still there in all of her resplendent beauty beneath the barnacles of human corruption; eclipsed, but her divine light shineth still - and cannot be extinguished. “Turn away from the Catholic Church, and to whom will you go? It is your only chance of peace and assurance in this turbulent, changing world. There is nothing between it and skepticism, when men exert their reason freely. Private creeds, fancy religions, may be showy and imposing to the many in their day; national religions may lie huge and lifeless, and cumber the ground for centuries, and distract the attention or confuse the judgement of the learned; but in the long run it will be found that either the Catholic Religion is verily and indeed the coming in of the unseen world into this, or that there is nothing positive, nothing dogmatic, nothing real in any one of our notions as to whence we come and whither we are going. Unlearn Catholicism, and you become Protestant, Unitarian, Deist, Pantheist, Skeptic, in a dreadful, but infallible succession…” (John Cardinal Newmanm, Discourses to Mixed Congregations {cf. A Tolkien Celebration, Joseph Pearce, ed.}) And so, barnacles and all, and in all humility, we would be negligent in our duties if we failed to invite all of our separated friends back to the unity of their Father’s house, outside of which there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins. Come, join us; the cross is heavy, the persecution is only beginning, but the burden is light - and filled with the foolish joy of Christianity. “We wish that they, each and every one of them…may be zealous and eager to tear themselves out of that state in which it is not possible for them to be without fear regarding their eternal salvation. For, even though they may be ordained toward the mystic Body of the Redeemer by a certain unknowing desire and resolution, they still remain deprived of so many precious gifts and helps from heaven, which one can enjoy only in the Catholic Church. Let them, therefore, come back to Catholic unity, and united with us in the organic oneness of the Body of Jesus Christ may they hasten to the one Head in the society of glorious love…We wait for them with open arms to return, not to a stranger’s house, but to their own, their Father’s house.” (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi) Sent at: 2008 10 07