The struggle over the liturgy is taking place on the brink of the abyss of schism. Pope Francis wants to hurl his critics down there, but he himself risks sinking into the abyss if he insists on opposing the Church of the Council to that of Tradition.
‘The Ostpolitik that Cardinal Zen criticizes, is, in fact, fruit of the Second Vatican Council. This is historical evidence that does not admit denials.’
Why exclude that a day will come when the Second Vatican Council may be repudiated, in part or en bloc, as happened with the Council of Constance and its decrees?
Against the background of the coronavirus, two cities continue to fight in history, the Civitas Dei and the Civitas Diabuli: their aim is to annihilate each other.
Churchmen, by closing the churches and suspending Masses, seem to be bringing to its ultimate coherence a process of auto-demolition begun in the 1960s.