Admiring the Ruins at the Synod
October 12, 2015
DR. THOMAS DROLESKEY made a prediction last week regarding the Family Synod taking place in anti-Catholic Rome:
Here is a prediction, perhaps erroneous, about the farce at the Aula Paolo Sicko that is ending its first full week of melodrama: there will be no schism. The “conservative” “bishops” and their false opposites in the Jacobin/Bolshevik camp will go home to put their own “spin” on the developments, agreeing to coexist with each other in a spirit of the miserable Anglican sect.
That is, countless have been the times when “Anglo-Catholic” non-bishops have huffed and puffed about the descent into abject moral relativism on the part of their “low church” compatriots in schism, heresy and theological relativism. In the end, however, the “Anglo-Catholic” non-bishops have, at least for the most part, stayed in the so-called “Worldwide Anglican Communion” despite their temper tantrums. No one among the corps of Girondist/Menshevik conciliar revolutionaries is going to “break communion” with their currently reigning false “pontiff.” There will be strong words of protest, to be sure. In the end, however, the “conservative” conciliar revolutionaries are just as feckless as are those who constitute the organized crime family of the false opposite of the naturalist “right” in the Republican Party.
This calls to mind once again Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s observation about the respective jobs of progressives and conservatives:
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types—the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, London Illustrated Review, April 24, 1924.)
