Official and Unofficial

There are some conservative Catholics who would say that while the abuses I have mentioned are certainly outrageous they are unofficial. None of them were mandated by Vatican II. None of them are authorized by the Vatican. This is true. But can those who authorize, condone, or initiate a revolution disclaim all responsibility for the excesses of the revolutionaries? The abuses I have mentioned are horrifying, they are repellent. They have, I am sure, scandalized you all. Thank God that you have been scandalized. What is truly scandalous is that they would not outrage most Catholics in the United States today-----that is what indicates the true extent and horror of the revolution, the turning upside down of what we knew before.

Before distinguishing between what is official and what is unofficial, I must make three other distinctions. We must consider firstly the Council, secondly the official conciliar reforms, and thirdly the unofficial abuses. What the liturgical bureaucrats, the commissars who are enforcing the liturgical revolution in your country and mine, have been successful in doing is to identify the post-conciliar reforms, with the Council itself. Thus, a complaint about any post- conciliar reform is considered as disobedience to the Council. I had often wondered what that mysterious sin against the Holy Ghost was, for which there is no forgiveness. I have discovered the answer and will share it with you. It is disobedience to the Council.