NICK writes:

I’ve emailed you in the past about certain topics you helped with. So, I thought I’d ask another if you have the time to answer.

On the recent Easter Vigil I was confirmed into the Catholic Church. For the past decade I’ve studied Thomistic philosophy, even uprooting myself from my rural home in North Carolina and moving to Houston to attend a Catholic University to further my education. Still, I went through RCIA, which was little more than deacons expressing their personal testimonials and religious experiences.

Anyways I’ve followed you, Lawrence Auster’s remaining works, and other traditional thinkers for some time. You’re one of the only Catholics that’s also socially very traditional.

I feel uneasy at Mass because many are bilingual. Something seems wrong about that. During the Christmas eve vigil, the Cardinal spoke (Cardinal De Nardo) about refugees and likened it to Mary and Joseph fleeing to Egypt.

I feel uneasy about these things but any time I speak about them my Catholic friends tell me I’m Catholic now so it’s time to stop thinking about those sorts of things. We’re all unified in Christ, they say.

Am I wrong to feel like something is amiss?

Laura writes:

Something is indeed amiss: You are not participating in Catholic worship and the Catholic religion.

The Vatican II Church is not the Catholic Church. Yes, it occupies the hierarchical positions and buildings of the Catholic Church, but it is not the same thing.

It differs substantially in liturgy, doctrine and laws. As Bishop Donald J. Sanborn recently wrote:

The central question for every Catholic since Vatican II is this: Is the religion which has come out of Vatican II and its changes the same religion as before Vatican II? If the answer is: “Yes, it is the same religion,” then there is no need to reject it or condemn it. It would be schismatic and even heretical to reject it. If, on the other hand, the answer to the question is “No, it is not the same religion,” then Catholics must uncompromisingly reject it, in the same way that the Church rejected and condemned all heresies in the past. Just as there is no middle ground between yes and no, so there is no middle ground between accepting the Vatican II reforms as the Catholic Faith or rejecting them as nonCatholic.

The social problems you allude to are a result, in great part, of Vatican II, which was both a religious and cultural revolution. The overwhelming influx of immigrants would not have been accepted by Americans living the Catholic Faith. If they had remained Catholic and had been having children, they never would have tolerated excessive mass immigration or such radical cultural change. Neurotic white guilt or the dismissal of the epidemic of violent crime would also not have been accepted by faithful Catholics. (I gather that by your discomfort with bilingual parishioners, you mean not the fact of bilingual people but the dramatic transformations in our culture due to excessive immigration.)

Leave the Vatican II Church and follow the true Catholic faith. Strive to live a holy life in this time of mass apostasy. The one and only solution to all the problems in our culture is the true Catholic religion.

Find a church that rejects Vatican II and the authority of the Vatican II antipopes, who cannot possess true authority over Catholics. Practice the Faith from afar if necessary, perhaps visiting distant churches when you can to receive the sacraments.

If you studied St. Thomas of Aquinas then you know that God is changeless and eternal. He cannot deceive. Therefore the Catholic Church cannot contradict itself in its doctrines, laws or liturgy.

 Here are some resources:

— Great Catholic books to help you enrich your understanding of the Faith

— Internet Masses

— Sermons on the the Church Revolution

— Daily reports and many important articles

— More on what you should do

— An interview with a priest who left the Vatican II Church

— Another good site and articles about the destructive effects of Vatican II can be found at Tradition in Action

Have confidence in God’s providence at this time and have confidence that if you follow the truth, God will grant you the graces to persevere and give you immense spiritual riches.

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