Traditional Catholics believe in structure and form. The Pre-Vatican II liturgies, Councils, and beliefs are of vital importance to them. They are outraged at the “watering down” of Catholic beliefs.
Modern Catholics say they are more concerned with faith. “The ‘old’ Church simply doesn’t meet the needs of the people. To be truly saved, one has but to “try to be good”. The Sacraments are not as important as our inner feelings of ‘goodness’.”
Traditional Catholics analyze the changes in The Church since Vatican II. “If what you on the Left think is working, then why are our Churches emptier, our birth rates declining, the number of priests, nuns, monks, and brothers diminishing, our Churches and schools closing?”
Modern Catholics are driven to reply, “Such things are not as important as developing an ‘inner spirituality’ that is sensitive to the needs of others.”
Some point to an older division in The Church between the Dominicans and the Franciscans and use it to justify their attacks on structure and tradition. It’s true that the former were more rigorous; the latter, less so. But, it’s a false analogy. The most liberal Franciscan was far more traditional than today’s leftist Catholics. It’s hard to face the fact that, as Pope Paul VI said, “The smoke of satan has entered The Church.”. Hard to argue with him about what he saw happening first hand.
While few of us are in a position to change, or, better yet, eliminate Vatican II, we can consider it as an important step to Catholic Fundamentalism. Rather than focusing on problems caused by lost souls whose desire is to eliminate the presence of The Church, we may wish to better spend our time contemplating and understanding that God’s power is so great that He can program energies and particles, compile them into systems and beings, and download them in the Creation Program. In a week!
When we see that each of us free will programs, the most complicated components of the Creation Program, are lovingly programmed and downloaded within the greater Creation Program, we begin to see a little of His power. Then, we see that The Church, and it’s Sacrament-providing structure, is the most important thing on earth.
We also begin to see that theories like evolution are just plain silly in light of God’s power to program and download The Creation Program in a week, out of what we may visualize as 3-D pixels compiled into 3-D fractals. As we focus on Him and how we fit into His Creation Program, we avoid the nonsensical theories designed to separate our souls from The Loving Programmer. Then, each of us can focus on getting our own souls into His presence forever.
Catholic Fundamentalism is a way to put the false world of Conventional Reality behind us, and move towards the Kingdom of the Loving God Who Programmed All. We either move forward into Catholic Fundamentalism, or remain mired in confusion and argument with those who have chosen to neither understand nor respect truth, logic, and consequences.
