Anglicans Sick of Liberalism Looking to Rome

News that a meeting of 600 Anglicans (representing many more) met to discuss moving back to the 'Church of Rome' should be welcomed.

Right: Edward the Confessor. Arguably the last Saxon King of England, a good Catholic King beloved by his people, whose piety gave him his nomenclature. The Saxons of England were an especially devout people whose Catholicism was as English as it was deeply rooted; they were nonetheless still a fiercely warrior-like people who also believed in the freedoms of the people.

Whatever we have been conditioned to think of the Catholic Church since Elizabethan and Cromwellian times, we should remember that historically the English were more Catholic than even their continental counterparts.

When the Normans invaded [1066 and all that] they found that the Saxons of England celebrated the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary*. This wasn't made a dogma of the Church for another 900 years and so the Normans suppressed it. But isn't that fascinating to know that England - often called Mary's Dowry because of the English peoples' known piety to the Mother of God - was in that sense even more Catholic than the Normans, who built so many of the breathtaking stone churches and cathedrals that still stand in so many English and Welsh cities, towns and villages.

Now don't get me wrong, I know that as an institution made up of human beings the Catholic Church is very far from being perfect. If it were perfect Jerusalem would have been Christian for the last thousand years. In more recent years it has taken up political correctness as have many others. Anti-racism in its communistic guile is there as well as many other "right on" causes.

But it is also clear to many that the Catholic Church, even in its 1960s/70s rush to "modernity" and "relevance" -- with beardy clerics wearing "call me Ted" badges -- has been a bulwark against so much that is wrong in the world.

Just imagine if the Church weren't infiltrated by Masons and the faith of the early 20th Century, with the social teaching that was embraced by movements as diverse as the Falangists, the Rexists, the Fascists etc. in a huge tidal wave that swept Europe. were still a voice for the voiceless.

One thinks of the great Cardinal Newman, himself a convert from Anglicanism, who worked with and stood up for the dock workers in East London. Or of course 'our own' G.K.Chesterton, also a convert, who embraced the social teaching of the church.

It would be almost impossible to think of nationalism today without the great influence of G.K. Chersterton. Similarly, it would be impossible to think of the rise of the myriad of anti-Communist and anti-Capitalist movements in the 30s of Europe without the great Papal encyclical of 1931, Quadragesimo Anno. Without the input of the church we would still have "nationalism" as a state-centred imperialist, reactionary, antagonistic movement with Spaniards versus the French, versus the English, versus the Germans etc. ad nauseum.

It was the Catholic Church that injected the patriotic movements of Europe with the much needed social aspect of their cause, just as it is the Catholic Church which today pushes for the belief that every soul is created in the image of God, thus to oppose a social conscience as much as to oppose a pro-life stance is simply wrong.

Nationalism owes much to the Catholic Church. To think otherwise is prejudice and to ignore the simple facts. Every single nationalist grouping (happy to acknowledge any who haven't) in England, of every type/shade, has acknowledged the huge debt owed by nationalism in the 21st Century to Chesterton and the Distributists.

So the move by many "traditionalist" Anglicans back towards Rome should, I believe, be welcomed because it acknowledges that the home of true Anglicans is in reality in the Catholic Church. The Saxons are returning to their mother Church.

Of course many will point at great wrongs in the Catholic Church, just as they did at the time of Luther, not least the terrible scandal of a tiny minority of evil paedophile priests and the cover-up organised by terrible bishops concerned more for their reputation and their station in life than their flock and their duty. One thinks immediately of America.

The same is as true today as at the time of Luther. The church does need reforming; because weak, venal, position-grabbing careerists are putting their own ideologies or betterment before Christianity.

But you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater (you don't destroy the good structure to rid a few bad practices). The corrupt parts of the Catholic Church needed a kick up the breeches in the 16th Century, and eventually the Church organised the Council of Trent which codified much, organised the education of priests etc. etc.

The same is needed today. A return to the days when homosexuality was an outright sin** (and homosexuals banned from seminaries) must be sought for the sake of the Church, for the converts, for society and for the sanity of a Europe entering a Masonic EU controlled phase of history (with the "rights" of homosexuality enshrined in their Masonic laws).

The last Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster -- the man who scandalously took the war criminal Tony Blair into the Catholic Church without a public recantation of his pro-abortion, pro-homosexual regime/views and his role in an illegal, unjust war -- springs to mind as a typical cleric of higher office who needs ostracising/educating.

So the situation (as ever throughout history) is never straightforward.

In the bigger picture we should welcome an invigorated, English, Traditional, parish-based Catholicism. It would see many local parishes, with their traditional strong Norman and Saxon altars return to the Mass (remember that the founder of the Church of England, Henry VIII, believed in the sanctity of the Mass, of transubstantiation and of the sacraments of the church) as it was in England for hundreds of years (and in Wales for a thousand plus years). It will also remind people that Christianity was, is and always will be intrinsically for the family and against all the liberalising, politically correct trends.

It will also remind everyone, from Nick Griffin to Nick Cohen, from Gordon Brown to Elton John, that to be English is to be Christian, and that isn't a 500 year old thing or born of Cromwell, but that it goes back to the Saxon "Dark Ages," to the Roman Empire and to the days we remember when we sing "did those feet in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green".

The influx of people who question liberalism in religion may even help the Catholic Church clear out its own stables. After all a Church (as with any structure) which is seen as hypocritical in any way, and especially in matters such as the innocence of the children (better someone never have been born than to harm one of my little ones, to paraphrase Christ), cannot sincerely offer any answers to a hypocritical society and system.

The fact that the Catholic Church has retained, despite the efforts of internal and external Masons, homosexuals, humanists etc. some semblance of its age-old stance and belief-system has meant that the Anglicans who have been betrayed by a touchy-feely church with its vomit-inducing "anything goes" services, trendy vicars, homosexual-tolerant, morally ambivalent have somewhere to turn to, which will bring about a unity of Faith long sought for for 500 years.

Those who would have had the Catholic Church give up its ancient practices, structure, papacy, liturgy, dogmas etc. in totalis would have left an emaciated Anglican-like church which would have left nowhere for distraught Anglicans to turn to!

Not all is fine and dandy in the Catholic Church, but at least it is still standing firm on matters of morality in the public domain, despite its pitiful failings in a few tragic (but nonetheless devastating) cases. How much stronger would be its case for reunion with Rome if it kept its house spotlessly clean and kept a strong, determined line on defrocking degenerate priests and insisting on each one being immediately (albeit fairly) tried for their crimes?

You cannot disassociate public policy from private behaviour: by their fruits shall ye know them.

Therein lies the lesson for us all: especially for the nationalist movement.


Link:
QUADRAGESIMO ANNO




*Read William the Conqueror by Hilaire Belloc.
**Indeed, traditionally in the Catholic Church homosexuality is one of 'the four sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance.' Surely it is difficult to find a more dreadful form of sin! The full list is:

• The voluntary murder (Genesis 4:10)
• The sin of impurity against nature - sodomy (Genesis 18:20)
• Taking advantage of the poor (Exodus 2:23)
• Defrauding the workingman of his wages (James 5:4)