A Response to Cardinal Sarah
The cardinal writes: “How many souls are at risk of being lost because of this new division?” One might rightly ask whether it is truly the souls of the faithful who attend the chapels of the Society that are in danger, or whether we should fear more for the salvation of those who follow the “prelates who renounce teaching the deposit of faith” or the “wolves in sheep’s clothing” — denunciations that come from the cardinal himself.
The remedy proposed by His Eminence to those who wish to “fight for the faith, Catholic morality, and liturgical Tradition” is attachment to the Successor of Peter. Every Catholic, therefore, should accept what comes from the pope without ever disobeying. However, this is not as simple as it seems, for it is precisely from Rome that we have recently witnessed:
– the opening of Eucharistic communion to remarried divorcees,
– the blessing of irregular couples,
– the assertion that God wills religious pluralism,
– the questioning of titles traditionally …