Please give yourselves several minutes in a quiet place to read this brilliant analysis. Understand that Saturday was the day the call to arms was raised to signal that this program will not go down without a fight. If they had real arms, we might have seen an old Soviet-style May Day parade.
EX MAGNA SILENTIUM or EX MAGNO SILENTIO
Latin For OUT OF GREAT SILENCE: An Orthodox Traditional Modern Catholic Layman's Perspective
This epitomizes how I feel so often when contemplating what goes on in the Church today.
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- The USCCB Resenting Faithful Catholics — Restore-DC-Catholicism
- I grew up with the Little Sisters of the Poor being close by in my old neighborhood. We collected canned goods every year and gave them to them. They always seemed full of joy. I was also taught by Dominican nuns who remained in their habits even though most nuns were tossing them away. I can’t say they were always joyful, since they had 40-50 kids in a class, but we never thought they were anything but real women. I recall my mother and her friend talking about her friend’s daughter who had begun first grade with a nun as her teacher. I never forgot hearing her tell my mother about the nun teacher and how her daughter told her how much she loved the nun and how beautiful she was. My mother’s friend told my mother that when she met her she was taken aback because she wasn’t a radiant beauty on the outside. Yet her six-year old saw her as so beautiful. I was not fortunate enough to have known that nun but I have known many who were indeed beautiful, radiating that certain something I guess we can call joy, happiness and faith shining through. I have also met many of these so-called new nuns and I am not impressed at all. I tell them real nuns were habits. I just don’t trust a nun who hides who she is or should be behind a short haircut and sensible shoes dressed like every other women around, and even some of the men with others. Finally, my present parish is not too far from my old one and the parish collects canned goods and money for the Little Sisters. I see those sisters and they radiate peace, serenity, confidence and joy, and I see that whether I am speaking with them or just passing them in the Church. Real nuns are indeed beautiful and their presence immediately changes everyone around them, even if they are just passing by. What have we truly lost when Vatican II inspired them to become what most orders have become. Sadly, it is best that these old orders shrivel up and whither away. When I read obituaries and come across a deceased sister’s announcement, so many of them give their name followed by “formerly known as Sister . . .”, the name they took as a traditional nun, and which they shed when they “modernized”, and I can’t express how sad I feel when I read that. Anyway, Ann’s site is well worth paying attention to, and she really struck a chord with me with these posts. I really wish we had real nuns all around us and part of our daily lives. Mailbag: Email From Father of a Novus Ordo Nun & Email From an Eyewitness to the Picture of the Scary Witch-nuns I posted — Barnhardt
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EX MAGNA SILENTIUM or EX MAGNO SILENTIO 
Br. Alexis Bugnolo’s analysis is compelling: many of us have noted the Bergoglio papacy’s tilt and its increasingly aggressive stance against traditional Catholicism. Bugnolo takes it to its logical and analytical conclusion.
Let me add this:
I find it especially noteworthy when this pontiff speaks repeatedly and pejoratively of “this type of religiosity” (obviously, traditional Catholic belief with its attachments to “prayers and devotional practices”—his words) and he expresses his view that the liturgy should be, in essence, a programming class to give the apparatchiks their marching orders to “take action”: action being now the singular virtue.
I also find Pope Francis’ inferential demonizing of traditional believers reminds me of former SF Archbp. John Raphael Quinn’s famous Oxford lecture (June 29th, 1996) in which he actually accused “ultraconservative” (his words) believers of betraying Ss. Peter and Paul and causing their execution (oh yes: he did. read it:)
At that lecture, Quinn said the following:
“The “new situation” for the primacy is indeed comparable to the situation which confronted the primitive Church when it abandoned the requirements of the Mosaic Law and embraced the mission to the gentiles. This action required immense courage, vision and sacrifice. It was an uncharted path, a major change. There were grave reasons for keeping the Mosaic Law, not least of which was the fact that Our Lord himself had observed it. Yet trusting in the Holy Spirit, the Apostles made that momentous decision. ”
“There was intense and bitter opposition to it so much so that some scholars believe that there is founded evidence to show that it was ultraconservative members of the Christian community at Rome, opposed to the changes Peter and Paul had introduced, who denounced them to the Roman authorities and brought about their arrest and execution.”
Quinn and Bergoglio are very close in mind and thought (Quinn has praised PF’s selection). One can see they share the same mind set as to “who is the enemy.”
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I will never forget reading Quinn’s Oxford lecture, and thinking: Wow: Lenin, Trotsky, Alinsky: nobody has it over on these people (the modernist progressive “catholics”) in regards to their capacity to revise history and to demonize their enemies.
I think we are entering a long, bitter, cold winter of the Church. It would be good for everyone who “covers themselves up with prayers and religious devotions” (Bergoglio’s mocking words in the Mar. 7th, 2015 homily) to take cover.
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Very helpful. Thanks for adding your insights to this and other posts. You’re right about taking cover.
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