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Solitudinem Faciunt, Pacem Appellant
(They make a wilderness and call it peace.)

How has this come about?

How is it that in a matter of a couple of decades the British episcopacy has plummeted from the courageous Catholic intellectual and spiritual giants of the pre-Vatican II days to the present cartel of bog-standard Modernists?  The answer is surprisingly simple.  Vatican II provided a catalyst which unleashed a Modernists hegemony like viper venom into the main bloodstream of the Church.  The consequence of this poison spreading through the system is that  unless one is prepared to publicly bow down and worship the Golden Calf of Vatican II you have no future.  On the other hand, if one is prepared to worship this Golden Calf, there is no sin nor heresy that cannot be overlooked.  This is the underlying reason why in the topsy-turvy world of the post-Conciliar church, excellent holy Catholic priests can find themselves censored and suspended, while incompetents, dissenters and predatory sodomites are cosseted and promoted to high office.

The devastation of the Lord's vineyard caused to the Church by Vatican II is now so profound and widespread that it is no longer possible to hide it, except from the most simple of the faithful.  Consequently, the only sort of person able or willing to continue to deny the post-Conciliar debacle and worship this Golden Calf are either the cerebrally challenged or the sort of rogues who are prepared to lie to advance their careers.  Thus to continue to maintain the Modernist hegemony, Rome is forced to promote either fools or knaves. Our own Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connell is a prime example of the former, and Scotland provides a prime example of the latter.  The problem is further exacerbated by the fact that Modernists are manifestly unable to produce vocations, consequently, to maintain their power, they are being forced to promote from an ever decreasing pool of fools and knaves.

Background Information

For the last thirty or forty years the faithful have have been bombarded with propaganda from prelates and their spin doctors telling us that a wonderful renewal of the Church is taking place.  This propaganda has been so successful that 95% of those Catholic still practising have been taken in by it.

This page is for those 5% of Catholics who are not taken in and who have the spiritual courage to face the truth, even when the truth is unpleasant.  Here are the truths about the English Church since Vatican II, truths that the hirelings who sit on English sees would rather were swept under the carpet while they prattle on about their marvelous renewal:

A short time ago I asked a good priest his thoughts on yet another insider appointment to the episcopacy. He chewed on it for a moment and then replied, "Well, he's not a Catholic," and then after further reflection added, "but at least he is pleasant and efficient, which is more than can be said for many of them."  That the British episcopacy in general and the English episcopacy in particular is corrupt is a fact now so evident that one would need to be the editor of a Catholic paper, a paid ecclesiastical spin doctor or a worldly and ambitious priest to even attempt to deny it.

When I writes of corruption, I'm not thinking of scandals, such as Rodney of the Isles and his Irish precursor, Casey, serial fornicators who financed their "sport" from the widow's mite and the offerings of the faithful.  One is not even thinking of their episcopal club chums who cover up for them and seek to trivialize their infidelity.  How many Catholics for example know that Cardinal Winning was aware of Rodney's hanky-panky for four years before the secular press made it public knowledge and he was forced to act, and appeared on national television feigning that he had just found out?

No the corruption goes much deeper and is more sinister than such ordinary sins of Adam.  This corruption is more akin to the deep corruption of an Anthony Blunt or a Kim Philby, the sort of treachery which is comfortable and at ease spending a lifetime taking the King's shilling (and the accolades of the faithful) while all the time surreptitiously working for a private Modernist agenda as opposed to a Catholic agenda.

They are also corrupt in the sense that they are no longer capable of reforming themselves.  A body can reach a point in the process of a disease when its own defence mechanisms are so overwhelmed that only outside help can save it.  If what is left of the Church in England is to be saved then it will need the sort of radical surgery which can only come from outside.

The gullible enjoy a vision in which the Holy Spirit selects the best bishop for a vacant see and then whispers his selection, Jiminy Cricket like, into the ear of the pope.  They further believe that the pope is so holy, that he can neither fail to hear this whispering of the Spirit, nor fail to act upon it - and corrupt bishops are naturally more than happy to foster belief in such pious claptrap.

The truth however is much more pedestrian.  There being no way that the pope can have intimate knowledge of the world's 4000 or so bishops, let alone the 30,000 or so would-be bishops, he relies on the system.  And the system is that when a see becomes vacant, the national hierarchy puts forward three names to Rome - the first of which is usually selected.  If the national hierarchy has fallen into the hands of Modernists and small men, can anyone seriously expect a strong courageous orthodox figure to head their list?  One merely has to state the proposition to realize that it is preposterous.

What small men always do, whether in Church or state, is seek to clone themselves.  The last thing that such men want is to unleash something that they will regret, like putting a man in charge of a see who will show the rest of them up.  We do not want the sort of men who can (and indeed have) turned the fortunes of their diocese round in a remarkably short time on English sees, thank you very much - they may be pygmies, but they are not entirely devoid of self-serving cunning.

No-one, once the scales have fallen from their eyes, can spend time with any of the current members of the English episcopacy without coming away with the depressing certitude that his lordship has about as much chance of stemming the present haemorrhaging away of Christ's body as a man with a Kleenex tissue would have had of stemming the flow of water through the gash in the side of the Titanic.  Under the collective force of their betrayal, dissent and incompetence, the Church in the British Isles has simply imploded.

Had the bishops been selling widgets instead of eternal life, within a few months of the downturn starting there would have been a urgent board meeting called and those responsible for bringing this devastation upon us would have resigned and a new board would have been appointed.  But to find that sort of personal integrity and accountability nowadays, one must look outside the Church.

There is a spirit in the hierarchy of this country that goes beyond arrogance or cowardice - it is a spirit hostile and alien to the faith, it is organized and it is focused. It has constructed a local Church in which orthodoxy, i.e. truth, is considered extreme and Modernism i.e. heresy, is considered mainstream; a Church in which a priest or layman can claim to be a Catholic while denying with impunity what it is that makes one one; where the de-facto schismatics who have in essence separated themselves from the Church claim not to be so separated - and this includes our bishops, who protect, foster and promote dissent and schism.  If you want to understand why this disaster has overtaken us, just ask yourself whether any army in history that went into battle with such men for officers could have carried the day?