The elephant in the room which both Saint Pope Paul VI highlighted in a smoky way and Pope Benedict XIV explicitly pointed out is the spirit of Vatican II that has corrupted the actual implementation of Vatican II and thus corrupted everything prior to Vatican II by negating the actual Council of Vatican II and putting forward a non-Catholic expression of the Church.
This is what Sileri non possum says about that Trojan Horse:
The Council is not the problem: its application is
The substantial rejection of the Second Vatican Council that emerges line after line from the Declaration of Menzingen is, in itself, extremely grave. An ecumenical council, convened by the Pope and with the Pope, is an act of the Church’s magisterium, not one opinion among many which a Catholic may accept or reject according to conscience. Yet this is precisely where the Society of Saint Pius X reveals the fundamental flaw in its position: it confuses the Council with its application, indeed with its distorted applications.
On these pages too, on many occasions, we have expressed precise concerns and criticisms regarding choices made during the pontificate of Pope Francis - from Fiducia supplicans to the ambiguities of Amoris laetitia, and this synodal process - as well as the conduct of bishops and episcopal conferences which, even today, seem to interpret pastorality as a dispensation from doctrine.
But these, it must be said just as clearly, are not the Council. They are - to use the clear formulation Joseph Ratzinger gave to the Curia in his celebrated address of 22 December 2005 - the poisoned fruits of a “hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture”, set against that “hermeneutic of reform in continuity” which is the only Catholic key for reading Vatican II.
Ratzinger said it without circumlocution: the damage of the post-conciliar period does not come from the conciliar texts, but from an ideological reading of them, from a “spirit of the Council” manufactured at a desk against the letter of the documents. Lefebvre responded to one deviation with another deviation, equal and opposite: instead of calling for the correct interpretation of the texts, he challenged their legitimacy at the root. Instead of fighting those who apply them badly, he fought what - if applied properly - belongs to the binding patrimony of the whole Church. It is a shortcut that solves nothing and, indeed, provides an alibi for precisely those abuses denounced by the Society: because as long as someone rejects the Council in toto, it will always be easier for those who betray it from within to present themselves as the only “moderate” alternative. The Catholic wounded by the confusion of recent years does not need to choose between two ruptures. He needs Peter, the conciliar texts read in continuity with Tradition, and pastors who apply them as they are - not as someone has rewritten them, and not as someone else has rejected them.
My concluding comments:
This hermeneutic of rupture has led to logical conclusions by factions in the Church. First we have the ultra-traditional movement, like the FSSPX and even the Sedevacantists, who in the most reactionary way say they are preserving the True Church, not the Pope and his bishops.
The other reaction, much more dastardly and corrupt, are those associated with the hermeneutic of rupture and epitomized by the German Schismatic Way and those the likes of Fr. James Martin and his lobbying for a post-Catholic sexual ethic and morality, really unethical and amoral if not downright immoral.
The use of Pope Francis’ form of synodality turns the Church into a political system with lobbies that aim to change the Church and make her something else. The FSSPX aren’t doing this, there schism is more disciplinary than heretical.
But Fr. James Martin and the German Bishops are using the synodal way to create a heretical sect or cult. Their LGBTQ+++ lobbying is actually a Trojan Horse though.
The goal is to change entirely the anthropology of all the Sacraments of the Church and in doing so change doctrines and dogmas.
What they want is an asexual Sacramental system where only spouses are spoken of, not male/female, bride/groom.
It is about same sex Sacramental Marriage, polygamy, and whatever gender one claims and how they live that out in their love life being eligible for Holy Orders.
That’s what the Germans and Fr. James Martin really want to accomplish. They will fail of course. For it isn’t of God. But they will create a lot of damage to the unity of the Church and schismatic sects will evolve from it all.
