Guest Post: A Paradoxical Reversal - The Crisis in the Church

by Edward Kryn

As a theologian Pope Benedict XVI looking at the fruits of the SSPX (Matt. 7:15-20) and bearing in mind his preoccupation with the concept of the BRIDE FALLING AWAY from the institutional church, felt the need to lift any possible excommunication of the four SSPX bishops once he realized the SSPX had saved the Traditional Latin Mass and therefore the BRIDE represented as the church during 50 years of experimentation in the church of Vatican II. All this remembering that other traditional orders like the FSSP, ICKSP and Priestly Union of Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, sprang from the SSPX saving the Traditional Latin Mass that was protected by Pope Pius V bull Quo Primum with incurring the wrath of Almighty God should anyone try to counter Pius V.
A recent article I had sent you enunciates Pope Benedict XVI interest in studying the bipartite body of the Church (where one part belongs to Christ and another part that belongs to the devil). Essentially “two buildings in the church, one built upon rock, another upon sand, so there are some who seem to be in the church but in reality are outside (in essence the good are mixed with the evil in the church up to the end of time). All of us are familiar when Jesus alludes to it in his preaching, the weeds and the wheat or the fish collected some good and some bad, or the 10 virgins some foolish and some wise, or the sheep and the goats. 

An interesting observation of the crisis in the church with the historical and spiritual conflict outlined between the Lord’s body (the church) and the devil’s body (the anti-church because it masquerades as the church). This enemy body camouflages itself with the outward trappings of the Church (referenced as the “mystery of iniquity” and the "abomination of desolation”. The “apostasy will become evident or wholly laid bare and on full display as there are two parts in the church, one of the day and one of the night. So there is “false brethren” who appear to be part of the city of God BUT ACTUALLY belong to the devil. The church of the day will see the Bride of Christ PULLING AWAY from those within, in other words the true believers will “fall away”, will leave the evil within the Church.

This new Israel must depart on her new Exodus. The true Church herself will effect the great apostasy as a way of salvation from her enemies, in a real sense, the true Church will force the apostasy into the light, because the body of the devil present in the false ministers controlling the Church, is already and always has been apostate. The fact is merely concealed to our vision.

Apocalypse 18:4 can be understood to GO OUT FROM HER my people, so that you do not share in her sins and so that you are not stricken by her plagues. So the true Church EXTRICATES herself from the anti-church ("the mystery of iniquity”) so that the evil veiled within is exposed and subsequently defeated. The mystery of lawlessness will be enfleshed in the figure of the Antichrist which NOW is hidden in the church.

“Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves”. Here the hypocrisy of the bishops is referenced in the “second beast” in Apocalypse 13:11 with two horns similar to those of a lamb who speaks as a snake. Pretending to speak for God, the wolf turns those seeking God away from the way of truth.

Once the apostasy has been enacted, the BRIDE of Christ (the true Church) will then be battling the false brethren and the heathen world. So the Church like the head that suffered, goes through its suffering to rise again like Christ.

On a practical level when it comes to the sacraments we can see how the Church has provisions for this “PULLING AWAY” as we can listen to the recent comment by the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Gerhard Muller: “Yes, the sacraments are valid even if they are administered by a schismatic or heretical bishop - but only if he only intends to do what the Church understands by these sacraments.” Cardinal Muller made these comments in reference to the schismatic/heretical recent acts of the German bishops.

As many of you know we have confirmation of the validity of SSPX sacraments as a Raleigh diocesan priest who grew up in the SSPX BEFORE Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication of 4 of their bishops had all his sacraments conferred on him in the SSPX church and therefore were naturally fully recognized as authentic by the diocese upon his ordination.

*** Be sure to ATTEND a Catholic Traditional Latin Mass Easter Sunday Liturgy. Latin Mass Directory.