Don’t Let Your Enemies Sit In Judgement On You
February 4, 2009 – 7:42 pmThe usual suspects are calling for Pope Benedict XVI to step down over the restoration to grace of an excommunicate bishop who is a Holocaust denier. I am not now, never have been, and have no intention of ever being Catholic. I raise the issue because of it’s critical significance to the continuation of any hope that we might have of restoring Western Christendom.
The bishops recently restored, including the Holocaust denier, were excommunicated over their differences concerning Vatican II, culminating in their unauthorized consecration of clerics. Their restoration has nothing to do with their views on other topics. Nevertheless, it is a serious mistake, in the administrative, do-your-homework realm, to restore the bishop in question, given his beyond-the-pale views. That said, should an error of this kind cost the Pope his job? I think not.
First, those criticizing him and calling for him to step down ( http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/02/04/pope-brother-georg-ratzinger-critcises-angela-merkel/over-bishop-williamson-holocaust-rehabilitation-scandal-criticism.html ) are not those he answers to. Ultimately, we all, the Pope included, answer to God. On this earth, the Pope answers to the College of Cardinals and to the wider catholic laity, to the extent that he answers to anyone at all. Secularists, often bitterly anti-Catholic, wait for moment like this to pounce. They never wish Catholics well, regardless of what is done or not done, and are only about pushing their agenda. Since the Vatican often stands in their way, on issues like homosexuality, abortion, and the like, they are being opportunist, not objective, in whipping up a crisis over this issue. Those nominal Catholics who have disloyally joined the Pope’s assailants are playing to the outside – seeking good favor with the world at the expense of the institution that they profess their faith to. The Pope’s visit to Auschwitz, his outreach to the Jewish community, and his past statements on the Holocaust make it impossible for an objective mind to accept that Benedict XVI is an anti-semite.
The issue is larger than just the Pope’s fate. Benedict XVI is the most prominent conservative figure in the world. He heads the largest organization that can be called, in an y way, shape, or form, conservative, in the usual sense of the term. Think about it: Who would be Number Two? Rush Limbaugh? Some politician? aside from the questionableness of their conservatism, they represent either themselves, or a political party, or some other empheral organization. If he can be toppled by outsiders, enemies all, then no one is safe. If the Catholic Church, to which the majority of Christians belong, can be co-opted by outsiders, then no institution is safe. If an organization that claims that the gates of hell will n ot prevail against it cannot withstand some heat from politicians, press flacks, and the like, is there any hope left in the institutions of men? [I realize that the Catholic Church traces it's origin to Peter, and thus claims to be instituted divinely; for the sake of rhetorical, if not theological clarity, I'll refer to institutions staffed by men - and women - as the 'institutions of men.']
Thus, this opportunistic attack on Pope must be seen as a key, if not the key step in the secular Left’s strategy to win the world. Outside of the House of Islam, the situation is this: All major governments are governments of the left – from Obama to the eurosocialist to russia to China and the southern hemisphere, conservative governments are a rarity. (One could argue that Putin is more conservative, in terms of cultural and national security issues, than any other major political leader.) There are no latter-day McCormics or Henry Fords in industry who will stand up for conservative values; academia and the arts do not let conservatives flourish; where, then, if not in the churches, are we to find leadership and inspiration for the struggle for our freedom and for the West’s soul?
Stalin was right: The Pope has no divisions. Stalin was wrong: The Pope’s divisions, like those of the rest of Christendom, are not of this world, even though they be in this world. We cannot afford to stand idly by and watch the greatest bastion of classical, conservative, Western Christanity fall to the infidels. It will be 1453 all over again – a civilization in twilight for centuries, and we’ll find our masters to be more ruthless than the janissaries of Sultan Mechmet II.
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By dudeguy on Feb 5, 2009
Putin may be ex-KGB, with all that imp[lies – thuggery, killing, etc. Mentioning him is hardly the main point of my writing. But, since it is taken note of, consider: Putin, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, Sarkozy, and Obama are all socialists of one stripe or another. Unlike Obama, Putin is not an effete, self-loathing pseudo-intellectual who does not care for his country’s border, language or culture. Boris Six-Pack may be regulated, without our Bill Of Rights, and living in near poverty, but ke knows that putin has his, and Russia’s back. If you were a Russian, with Islam on the march to the south, NATO on your western border, and China expanding eastward, would you want Obama or Putin in charge? By the standard of who would defend hearth and home, which is about as conservative as you can get, the KGB guy wins. (The Godfather had his good points, too, though it’s sad when things degenerate to the point where considering such things has merit…)
By ssgconway on Feb 6, 2009