Our Lady of La Salette took it up a notch: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the antichrist.” So, if that could happen theoretically, what do we do if it happens today?
It gets pretty murky, which is why the sheep tend to scatter when the shepherd is struck.
But this gets to the heart of the current debate over the SSPX. And in my new Underground, I ask critics of the SSPX:
- Do you believe the “state of necessity” is a theoretical impossibility (in which case the SSPX has no case)?
- Do you accept that, although it is possible, we are simply not there yet?
How you answer this determines war or peace in your family. Because if you believe #2, then this is a prudential debate over which good Catholics can disagree. The circular firing squad collapses into a perfectly legitimate discussion over the severity of the crisis in the Church.
In my new Underground, I do not presume to answer this question for you. But I do ask you to help me answer it for all of us. Why? Because it is the most important question of our time: If Peter’s faith should fail him (as Our Lord warned it could), what do we do?
So, rather than anathematizing each other over this (as the woke Vatican would like), let’s pray for each other, pray for the pope, and debate this like brothers in Christ during the worst revolution in the Church we all love more than life itself.
Unite the clans and like and share this important Underground.
In Christo Rege,
Michael J. Matt
