La société moderne veut vivre sans Dieu. Elle ne dit pas toujours qu'elle le nie ; elle prétend seulement pouvoir se passer de lui. C'est là son erreur fondamentale. Victor-Auguste Dechamps (1810-1883)

A Sign That Said It All Paul VI abolished the Anti-Modernist Oath because he no longer viewed Modernism as the grave threat that Pope Pius X had identified. His decision was consistent with his broader post-conciliar reforms and his desire for a Church more open to modern theological currents. This makes Paul VI responsible for the spread of Modernist ideas within the Catholic Church. By removing one of the principal safeguards established by Pope Pius X, Paul VI effectively lowered the Church's defenses at a time when many theologians previously suspected of Modernist tendencies had gained influence at Vatican II. The abolition of the oath was a sign that the anti-Modernist vigilance of earlier popes had been abandoned. Paul VI followed John XXIII's lead. Now Leo XIV is following Francis'.

Cœur Sacré de Jésus Ayez pitié de nous

Cardinal McElroy has banned the installation of new Altar rails and discourages temporary kneelers, citing "a disruption of the flow of the Communion line". As you can see here, there is no disruption. Just another garbage excuse to attack the Latin Mass.

On this day in 1936 GK Chesterton died at his home in Beaconsfield. The novelist, poet and essayist wrote the poem O God of Earth and Altar, which Vaughan Williams set to a tune he had heard sung by an old man in Norfolk. He called the hymn Kings Lynn.

Très Sainte Trinité Nous Vous adorons

Cover of a book by the highly influential liturgist Pius Parsch from 1952. The liturgy was an abstraction for them already represented by infantile art. #CatholicX The break came before the Council which gives an illusion of the hermeneutic of continuity.

It's a Catholic and Reformed church, and I think Mozart would have been fine with that, not least because of the masonic connection.