How Will This Crisis End,

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They then explain away any and all "apparent" contradictions as actually new and insightful "developments" of the Traditional doctrine. The Neo-Catholic apologists are like evolutionists in this regard, as they expect us to believe that one species of thing simply "developed" into another, entirely different, species of thing over time, and that these two entirely different things are really the same. When you ask them where the missing link is that proves their theory, the answer you get sounds like a malfunctioning random word generator of obfuscating jargon.

The irony is that both the Neo-Catholic and the Liberal are fine with the hermeneutic of continuity "solution" to the crisis. For the Liberal keeps changing teaching and discipline on the de facto, practical, every day level while slipping in some wiggle words of plausible deniability on the legal, official documentary level. The Liberal knows exactly what destructive thing he is trying to accomplish with his changes and so does the Traditionalist. But the Neo-Catholic uses the hermeneutic of continuity to unwittingly give the Liberal cover by convincing otherwise conservative Catholic faithful why the documents put out by the Liberal are not problematic at all when understood in the strained orthodox manner the Neo-Catholic interprets it to mean.

This is a symbiotic "win/ win" relationship for the Liberal and the Neo-Catholic, as the Liberal gets to keep undermining the Church through implementing terrible policies, refusing to enforce orthodoxy, and issuing contradictory and confusing statements, while the Neo-Catholic apologists continue to make a living privately interpreting the ambiguous and contradictory Liberal shell game as orthodoxy. The Neo-Catholic apologists then sell their interpretation to the conservative Catholic masses so they will not start becoming irate and demanding changes, as they would if they truly realized what was happening.

To Be Continued Next Issue

So far I have presented what I believe to be the sedevacantist and the Neo-Catholic proposed solutions to the current crisis in the Church and why these solutions are unworkable and do not truly resolve the crisis. In the next installment I will propose what I believe to be the true solution to the crisis, which is consistent with the approach The Remnant has taken all along. ■