{"id":13541,"date":"2025-10-18T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13541"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:01:47","slug":"no-ammo-to-the-enemy-defund-the-left-and-the-rcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/no-ammo-to-the-enemy-defund-the-left-and-the-rcc\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ammo to the Enemy: Defund the Left — and the RCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cFor fostering a true consciousness in liturgical matters, it is also important that the proscription against the form of liturgy in valid use up to 1970 [the older Latin Mass]\u00a0should be lifted.<\/strong>\u00a0Anyone who nowadays advocates the continuing existence of this liturgy or takes part in it is treated\u00a0like a leper<\/strong>; all tolerance ends here. There has never been anything like this in history; in doing this we are\u00a0despising and proscribing the Church\u2019s whole past<\/strong>. How can one trust her at present if things are that way?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Joseph Ratzinger<\/a>,\u00a0God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002), p. 416.<\/p>\n

This is precisely right.<\/p>\n

However, there are bishops\u00a0who\u00a0<\/strong>do despise the Church\u2019s whole past<\/strong><\/em>. They want the past\u00a0erased and buried<\/strong>. They want a new morality, especially.\u00a0That way they can be popular.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bowman also quotes Edward Feser:<\/span><\/p>\n

Preference for the Traditional Latin Mass is massively correlated with\u00a0orthodoxy<\/strong>. This is precisely why certain people want it suppressed. They call the TLM \u201cdivisive\u201d but the reality is, it\u2019s TLM \u2018s opponents who want to divide the Church from her liturgical and doctrinal past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unlike my friend Feser, I have serious reservations about elements of traditional RCC doctrine. But I have far stronger reservations and outright objections to the destructive Left, in particular, to their trademark erasure of the historical record<\/em>. Pedant that I am, I will point out once again that the past cannot be erased or\u00a0 buried, for it remains, tenselessly, what it was.\u00a0 But the past can be sent into oblivion<\/a> which is, practically<\/em> speaking, the same thing: what has been sent down the memory hole can no longer inform or guide our action in the present.<\/span><\/p>\n

The RCC should stand as a bulwark against the leftist insanity all around us.\u00a0 So, to the extent that it becomes just another piece of leftist cultural junk, the RCC must be defunded. You are therefore a fool complicit with the forces of the anti-civilizational Left to the extent that you contribute to the RCC monetarily, in the same way that you are complicit fool and a useful idiot if you continue to contribute to those of your alma maters who refuse to\u00a0 renounce publicly the destructive DEI agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what if the particular church you attend needs repairs, a new roof say, and a collection is taken up within that church for the funds needed. Go ahead, make a contribution despite the theological ignorance of the priests, their homosexual vibe, and the defective Novus Ordo liturgy.\u00a0 If you need services on Sundays, Novus Ordo is better than nothing. If you take a harder line, and shun Novus Ordo, you may convince me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: \u201cFor fostering a true consciousness in liturgical matters, it is also important that the proscription against the form of liturgy in valid use up to 1970 [the older Latin Mass]\u00a0should be lifted.\u00a0Anyone who nowadays advocates the continuing existence of this liturgy or takes part in it is treated\u00a0like a leper; all tolerance ends here. … Continue reading “No Ammo to the Enemy: Defund the Left — and the RCC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13542,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions\/13542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}