A weblog once dedicated to the exposure of the crackpots of the lunatic self-styled 'traditionalist' fringe who disingenuously pose as faithful Catholics.
It is now an inactive archive.
"Do not allow yourselves to be deceived by the cunning statements
of those who persistently claim to wish to be with the Church, to
love the Church, to fight so that people do not leave Her...But
judge them by their works. If they despise the shepherds of the
Church and even the Pope, if they attempt all means of evading their
authority in order to elude their directives and judgments..., then
about which Church do these men mean to speak? Certainly not about
that established on the foundations of the apostles and prophets,
with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone (Eph. 2:20)." [Pope St. Pius X: Allocution of May 10, 1909]
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to or which to the webmaster (i) are worth reading and (ii) characteri ze in their general outlook the preservation of
general Judeo-Christian morality and which are aimed at positively integrating these elements into society. (Such
sites need not even be Catholic ones.)
As society has grown more estranged from its founding principles, I wish to
note sites which share the same sentiments for the restoration of society even if the means advocated in this
endeavour differ. The Lidless Eye Inquisition does not necessarily endorse particulars with sites under
this heading.
Those who still stumble across this inactive weblog can go there to get a macro overview of how I view this matter. And of course this event will inexorably involve certain presumptions made by not a few apart from the issue of Bishop Williamson's whackjob views on the Holocaust. The SSPX seems to believe that they have been vindicated already on the issue of the previous legality of the old Roman Missal's usage by what Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his motu proprio of July 7, 2007. I did not want to suspend this weblog indefinitely without touching one final time on that subject so I refer to that treatment here{2} for those who either have forgotten or who have come across this weblog in an internet search and wondered how the statements of the SSPX and the Pope jive with what was written here previously on the matter. As those who peruse that thread will see, the essence of the SSPX's previous position on the matter was not tenable and that does not change even though the current pope changed the legal standing of the older liturgical form in the Catholic Church as of September 14, 2007 from what it was with few exceptions after November 30, 1969.{3}
There is also the issue of whether the excommunications were or were not valid and I have dealt in the past with them and the verdict there is unchanging.{4} But that point aside, the fact that the aforementioned excommunications were lifted makes this argument only important for historical reasons and certainly I nor anyone else who previously wrote for this weblog would question the authority of the pope to make the decision that he made on this matter. Reintegration will take time but this action by the Pope at the request of Bishop Fellay is an important step in that process.
Anyway, as the news of the lifting of the excommunications was in the context of "traditionalist" issues quite an unexpected and momentous circumstance, I judged it as necessary to update this weblog to both reflect this matter as it pertains to past materials posted here and also to note that I and I have no doubt the other former writers at this site are pleased to see this development and hope that it progresses to the point to where there is full communion between the SSPX and the Catholic Church. As for the Bishop Williamson controversy, I have gone over it in the aforementioned Rerum Novarum link from February 18, 2009 and I refer interested parties to it at this time.
But having made this notation to the archives of the Lidless Eye Inquisition for the sake of readers who run across it in online searches and the like -or for those who remembered this weblog and were curious to see how the latest news impacts what was covered here at sundry times and in divers manners in years gone by, I reiterate at this time that the archives remain for those who want to peruse them but this weblog once again is in its activity terminated in perpetuity all things to the contrary notwithstanding.
