Is Tradition Excommunicated? (Angelus Press 1993)

This book comes with two different covers depending upon when it was printed.
I am borrowing this book from a friend/parishioner.

The opening pages have been highly revealing yet also succinct, so I thought I would type them out in hopes that some may read this and really begin to ask themselves what has been going on in the Church for the last fifty years. God Bless.

NEITHER SCHISMATIC NOR EXCOMMUNICATED

Catholics on the Rack

     It seems that since Vatican II, a Catholic is constantly compelled, by necessity, to have to choose

between Truth and "obedience," or in other words, between being a heretic or a schismatic.

     Thus, to take a few examples, he has to choose between St. Pius X's encyclical Pascendi which condemns modernism as a "collection of all heresies" and the present openly modernist ecclesiastical orientation which, through the voice of the Holy See, never ceases to laud modernism and modernists and to disparage St. Pius X. His encyclical was even described, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his death, as "a disclosure...without respect for historical points of view."

     He has to choose between the monitum from the Holy Office in 1962, condemning the works of Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin in that they are "alive with ambiguities, and even errors, so serious that they offend Catholic doctrine," and the present ecclesiastical trend. Ecclesiastics do not hesitate to quote these works, even in papal speeches. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the "apostate" Jesuit, a letter from Cardinal Casaroli, Secretary of State of His Holiness, praised the "wealth of his thought" and the "unequaled religious fervor," thus giving rise to the reaction of a group of Cardinals.

     He has to choose between the already defined invalidity of Anglican ordinations and the present-day ecclesiastical orientation in pursuance of which, in 1982, a Roman Pontiff, for the first time, took part in an Anglican rite in the Canterbury Cathedral and jointly blessed the crowd with the lay primate of this heretical and schismatic sect, a primate who in his welcoming speech, arrogated to himself, and without being contradicted, the title of Successor of St. Augustine, the Catholic evangelist of Catholic England.

     He has to choose between the ex cathedra condemnation of Martin Luther and the present ecclesiastical trend which, "celebrating" the fifth centenary of the birth of the German heretic, declared in a letter signed by His Holiness, John Paul II, that today, thanks to the "common researches made by Catholic and Protestant scholars...has appeared the deep religiosity of Luther." (sic!)

     He has to choose between the historical truth of the Gospels, which "Holy Mother Church has affirmed and affirms in a definite and absolutely constant manner...and certifies without hesitation " and the present ecclesiastical orientations which denies loudly these historical truths in the document published on June 24, 1985 by the Pontifical Commission on Religions Relations with Judaism.

     He has to choose between the Holy Scripture which declares Jews unbelievers "by hatred of God," according to the Gospel, and the present ecclesiastical orientation which, in the speech of the first pope to visit the synagogue in Rome, discovers in the Jews, still unbelievers, "the older brothers" of ignorant Catholics.

Buddha Statue on top of the Tabernacle in Assisi

     He has to choose between the First Commandment "Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me," which Buddhists adoring their living idol, who sat with his back to the tabernacle where the flickering light attested to the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

corresponds to the duty which, since the Redemption, obliges all men to render to God the worship we owe Him "in spirit and in truth," and the present-day ecclesiastical orientation according to which, at the invitation of a Roman Pontiff, were practices in the Catholic churches of Assisi all the forms, even the worst, of superstition  the false worship of the Jews, which in this era of grace pretend to worship God while denying His Christ; the idolatry of the

     He has to choose between the Catholic dogma "outside the Church there is no salvation" and the present ecclesiastical orientation which sees in non-Christian religions "channels to God" and declares even polytheist religions "are also venerable!" (sic)

     He has to choose between immemorial teachings of the Church according to which heretics and/or schismatics are "outside the Catholic Church" and the present ecclesiastical orientation whereby between the "various Christian denominations" exists only a difference "in depth" and "in fullness of communion" and for which consequently the different heretical and/or schismatic sects must be "respected as churches and ecclesiastical communities."

     Let us stop there as it would be materially impossible to enumerate all the choices that have been imposed and are being imposed all the time on Catholics. Our newsletter (Sì Sì No No) has pointed them out for the last 14 years and Romano Amerio has made an incomplete list in the 636 pages of his book Iota Unum: A study of the Changes in the Catholic Church in the 20th Century.