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Part 3 of My Commentary on Archbishop Viganò’s September 2020 Letter

This is the third part of an analysis I wrote on a recent letter from Archbishop Viganò to a layman. Archbishop Viganò's words are in italics.  My words are in bold orange font below. AB. Viganò's full letter without my additions can be found here.  Dear Mr. Kokx, 1 Sept 2020 ...continued from part 2... It is therefore not a question of working from within the Church or outside it: the winemakers are called to work in the Lord’s Vineyard, and it is there that they must remain even at the cost of their lives; the pastors are called to pastor the Lord’s Flock, to keep the ravenous wolves at bay and to drive away the mercenaries who are not concerned with the salvation of the sheep and lambs. Indeed, there are some bishops who are concerned with the salvation [...]

By |September 14th, 2020|

Part 2 of My Commentary on Archbishop Viganò’s September 2020 Letter

Below is a continued analysis I wrote on a recent letter from Archbishop Viganò to a layman.  His words are in black italics or bold.  My words are in bold orange font below. AB. Viganò's full letter without my additions can be found here.  Dear Mr. Kokx,                                      1 Sept 2020 ...continued from part 1... Therefore let us not give in to the temptation to abandon – albeit with justified indignation – the Catholic Church, on the pretext that it has been invaded by heretics and fornicators: it is they who must be expelled from the sacred enclosure, in a work of purification and penance that must begin with each one of us. Archbishop Viganò is correct that the purification and the penance [...]

By |September 11th, 2020|

Part 1 of My Commentary on Archbishop Viganò’s September 2020 Letter

Below is a detailed analysis I wrote on a recent letter from Archbishop Viganò to a layman. This is Part 1 of a several part commentary. Archbishop Viganò's letter is in italics below.  My words are in an orange bold font below. AB. Viganò's original letter without any commentary is here.  Dear Mr. Kokx,                                   1 Sept 2020 I read with lively interest your article “Questions for Viganò: His Excellency is Right about Vatican II, But What Does He Think Catholic Should Do Now?” which was published by Catholic Family News on August 22.  I am happy to respond to your questions, which address matters that are very important for the faithful. You ask: “What would ‘separating’ from the Conciliar Church look like in [...]

By |September 9th, 2020|

The French Revolution and the American-Catholic Today

Art by Gloria Thomas. I'm 98% sure my history text book in Catholic grade school portrayed the French Revolution as a good thing. We learned the aristocrats were against “fraternity, equality and liberty" and that is apparently all we needed to know as 7th graders in a Catholic grade school in Denver.  But the reality is that the French Revolution was a mass martyrdom of Catholics. Though done in the name of dis-empowering aristocrats (only 30 of the 1400 executed in the initial “Terror” in Paris were aristocrats) this bloody revolution was nothing short of a revolt against God and an overturning of all social order. There is a Catholic historian named Warren Carrol who founded Christendom College (not far from where I write this blog post) who wrote a book called The Guillotine and the Cross about the real [...]

By |September 7th, 2020|
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