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Sean Johnson's avatar

What a great article!

The whole thing can be condensed down to this excerpt:

"Thus, if post-conciliar churchmen have knowingly upheld liberal errors, their sincerity does not exempt them from the charge of pertinacity, if they are aware—and how could they not be?—that their liberal ideas are contrary to truths proposed by the Church. A metaphorical “mental sickness” cannot excuse their actions if they retain the natural use of reason, and a disposition contrary to submission to the Church."

And of course, by their own admissions, many of the conciliar fathers HAVE knowingly upheld liberal errors. I'm thinking of von Balthasaar saying "We must raze the bastions," or Congar admitting certain provisions of Dignitatis Humanae "say materially the opposite" of the Syllabus of Pius IX, or saying that "the Church has had peacefully its October Revolution," and on, and on, and on.

This is the kind of stuff that makes WM Review worth paying for!

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Hans Gruber Central Banker's avatar

"Henricus Institoris & Jacobus Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum, 490. 1486, published in English as The Hammer of Witches, ed. Christopher S. Mackay, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009." Well, what an excellent Father's Day gift this will be to myself.

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