p/c Mary’s Secretary.
On this feast of St. Michael, let’s look at one of the only passages in the New Testament about the Archangel and and those who oppose him:
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ… just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”—Jude 1:4,7-9.
Notice above that we see the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah as living in direct opposition to the Archangel Michael, precisely because they reject divine authority.
As most of you know by now, the most outrageous line in regard to the Catholic Church’s opposition to sodomy in the recent Crux interview is this: “I find it highly unlikely, certainly in the near future, that the Church’s doctrine in terms of what the Church teaches about sexuality, what the Church teaches about marriage [will change…] We have to change attitudes before we even think about changing what the Church says about any given question.”
Traditional Catholics (those whom I call Apostolic Catholics) are often accused of being arrogant for thinking they know better on dogma and liturgy than the current hierarchy. But what could be more arrogant than a man believing he could change Christ’s own teaching? Again, the key sentence from the first paragraph is: We have to change attitudes before we even think about changing what the Church says about any given question.
In that last sentence, who does that first we refer to? He obviously means conservative Catholics. He means the “bad attitude” of traditional Catholics needs to change on same-sex actions before he “changes what the Church says,” lest a schism happen. (As I wrote in this article, it’s precisely satan who does not want a schism, lest the faithful remnant be freed from the heretics to reproduce both spiritually and biologically in the true Catholic Church.)
Then, who does the second use of we refer to in the bold above? It obviously refers to himself, as no one else would dare think he could change the Church’s teaching on unnatural deeds and possibly get away with it on a global scale.
Yes, he knows no living man on earth can change past statements of Divine Revelation on sodomy. Thus, even if he doesn’t believe in Divine Revelation, he knows he can’t change the writers of the Bible, the old school Magisterium or the “dead” Saints (who he obviously doesn’t know are fully alive in heaven, or he would never place his own penchant for unnatural actions above them.)
But again: How can he be thinking about “changing the Church” on sodomy if the agents of Revelation are dead in his eyes?
Simply put, it’s the height of diabolical arrogance. It’s pure evil for any clergy member (anywhere at anytime) to think he can place himself above Jesus Christ and His teachings, especially on something as clear as sodomy. Or, if you are still tempted to “give the most charitable interpretation” to the recent Crux interview, go listen to my friend the Catholic Esquire debunk all attempts to project orthodoxy onto the above statements of heresy.
In the Apostle Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians, we read this: Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.—2 Thess 2:3-4.
To play God is exactly what it means to attempt to change Church teaching. For a man to sit in the most important temple of God on earth claiming he may change the Church’s teaching on the 6th commandment (once his opponents’ stuffy attitudes have changed) is nothing but rebellion.
So, who are the arrogant ones in the Catholic Church now? The last few real traditionalists who hold to the perennial teachings of Jesus Christ or the semi-trad modernists doing damage control for a man now claiming he has haughtily deemed it merely “unlikely” he will soon overturn the Bible’s teaching on sodomy? All Catholics need to now look to St. Michael who supersonically bellowed before time across supernovas to another angel claiming to be supremely important in heaven: Who is like God?
The answer is obviously: Nobody.