Mosebach: We Must Long for the Apostasy of the Institutional German Church
In contrast to the past, those faithful people who used to forced a return to the faith, are missing today. The Catholic religion has become unknown even among its remaining followers.
The institutional Church has become "intimately amalgamated" with the overpowering, anti-religious forces in the economy and politics and is in Germany on the verge of collapse: "It is as hollow as a termite's burrow and, in the stupidity and tastelessness of its representatives, does not even appeal to modernist liberals."
Mosebach emphasises that a Catholic should not fear the apostasy of the institutional German Church, but rather long for it. There is no longer a basis for the much-vaunted "dialogue".
Mosebach finds a decline throughout the West, even in once quintessentially Catholic countries such as Ireland, Italy or France.
He points out that there has been a popular movement against the Novus Ordo, namely those many people who have abandoned the Church after it was introduced.
Francis' admitted goal was to eradicate the remaining Catholicism. He "has rightly recognised that his work will remain unfinished as long as it succeeds in passing on the ancient rite to future generations."
This rite contains everything a Catholic needs and is even capable of replacing for a while a Pope who does not recognise his tasks.
Francis "has understood this perfectly and this idea is unbearable for him.
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