Destroyer of Heresies


"Meanwhile, Venerable Brethren, fully confident in your zeal and work, we beseech for you with our whole heart and soul the abundance of heavenly light, so that in the midst of this great perturbation of men's minds from the insidious invasions of error from every side, you may see clearly what you ought to do and may perform the task with all your strength and courage. May Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, be with you by His power; and may the Immaculate Virgin, the destroyer of all heresies, be with you by her prayers and aid."
Pope St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis

Monday, June 29, 2015

Happiness over Tradition?

I am posting this here because it instructive of our current situation. So-called "progressives" are the evolutionists among us, who hold that anything old (tradition) is bad, and that everything new (latest manifestation of natural selection or Hegel's synthesis) is good, and must be preferred over the 'old.' Here, Coca Cola is juxtaposing tradition and happiness, to say that it is better to be perverted and happy (something yet to be proven possible) than to keep traditional morality. Coke dares to feature the loser in this ad's false dichotomy as the prize - the little child, the ultimate target of indoctrination in the new hedonism.
This is what we are up against, and if you consider yourself an evolutionist, you are part of the problem. This is why Evolutionism is condemned so forcefully by St. Pius X in Pascendi Gregis: it swallows all of reality and introduces the evolution of dogma, here prefigured by the suggestion of the evolution of morals by Coca Cola. So tradition is the enemy for our progressive friends, because it stands in the way of "happiness" for the new Epicureans, and anyone who defends it is defending what 'nature' has already rejected in its perpetual dialectic.
We feel this acutely in the Church where Tradition is openly despised in favor the "New Pentecost" of Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Missae preferred to the old stodgy missal of St. Pius V. Perhaps this is why Pope Francis can now openly refer to the false prophet of Evolution Teilhard de Chardin in his encyclical Laudato Si: he wants us to be happy.

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