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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

Well, if The Latin Church isn’t disbanded, it is going quickly to it.

It looks to me as though it already is disbanded.  In fact, I would date is disbanding to Vatican II and the accession of James Cone to a chair at The Union Theological Seminary, New York City.

This puts the disbanding of The Latin Church during the decade of the 1960s in Italy and The United States.

The central fact is that The Latin Church disbanded itself.  It self-destructed.

Now why would The Latin Church do that?  Why indeed?

And who would do that?  Always the question, “Who?”.

And in disbanding, has The Latin Church ceased to exist?

If so, will it be again?  Where?  When?  How?  Why”  Through whom?

It is a puzzlement.  Perhaps even a mystery.

(A puzzlement is no longer so once seen.  A mystery remains a mystery, and mysterious, even after seen.)

I do not know.

I do not see.

I do not hear.

It is a puzzlement!

Well, There is, perhaps, an observation.

The attack against The Latin Church, which is the attack against humane civilization, aims at extirpating structure: family, law, morality, government, religion, education, economics, medicine, industry, private and public association, privacy, independence, personality, heritage, deservedness, courage, honesty, thrift, compassion … you name, it, droogies such as Gnostics, Manicheans, New Agers, racialists, classists, religionists, statists, nominalists, scientific/positivistic humanists,  journalists, fight it.

They hate structure.  They want reality to comprise exactly what they want it to comprise and nothing more nor less.  They want power to determine what is and what is not.

To do that, they must attack the very notion and reality of structure.  They must deny its being.

The Protestant churches have been especially assiduous in this regard, virtually identifying themselves with structure-less-ness or, what is the same thing, serial faddism.

Now a reaction has set in against this pretentious nonsense.  Structure is being sought is every way imaginable.

In religion people seek Caliphism and Roman Catholicism even though the structure of Caliphism is artificial whereas the structure of Roman Catholicism, for the most part, is real.

In government people seek the structure of limitation and truthfulness.

In science people seek the structure of unconditioned and unattenuated inquiry.

In education people seek the structure of love and learning rather than the chaos of exploitation and examination.

In industry people seek the structure of regularity, invention, skill and wisdom.

In medicine people seek the structure of personality, theirs and their doctor’s.

 

And so it goes throughout the fields of human, civilizational endeavour.

Against the wishes of deconstructionists, people are fed up with their tripe, their efforts to deny reality, and are looking for reliables, which is to say, for structures.

The ontological search is on, and none to soon.

This search appears to be underway across generations.  It is rejecting the antinomianism of academe as well as the contrived legalism of the several representatives of legalism in the name of religion.

This means, by the way, that Caliphism is being rejected.

Update 1: Why The American Church Should Go Off The Grid.

Update 2: France’s Catholic Revolution

Update 3: But the churches are NOT ethical authorities: Of Money And Morals

Update 4: How Churches Die

Update 5: Back to Canossa, only now it is the Pope standing bare-headed in the snow begging forgiveness from the ChiComs.

Update 6: Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo: ‘China is the best implementer of Catholic social doctrine,’

Update 7: This British Vicar has figured it out: Christian Life In Exile

Update 8: How Far Should Churches Go to Appeal to Men?

Most successful way to appeal to both men and women: Male only church leadership.

Men love to belong to male dominated organizations.  On the other hand, women love to belong to male dominated organizations.  Don’t believe me?  Have you ever thought it was odd that women always want to belong to men’s business organizations, men’s career fields, men’s social clubs, men’s athletic clubs, etc., but men avoid women’s organizations.

I once attended a large and rapidly growing conservative Lutheran congregation which had a male-only leadership.  I was astounded by two things.  First, board and congregational meetings were more calm, to the point and productive than any church meetings I have ever been to.  In three years, I never heard someone said, “Well, I feel . . .”  Second, it had the strongest bunch of women I have ever known in any church I’ve ever attended.  Having men in visible, public leadership roles and the women in deeply influential, behind the scenes roles worked very well for that congregation.

I suspect the church’s acquiescence to feminism in the sixties and seventies badly damaged it.  As men fled the church, the church did not become larger.  It did not even get more women members because as the men left, the women follow them out the door.  The more women want to be in charge, the more men leave.  The more men leave, the more the women leave because an organization is only valuable to them if there are lots of men in it.  It’s deeply ironic, isn’t it?

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA