Friday, May 19, 2006

Diseased Legion

It seems certain that accusations against the founder of the Legion of Christ have been substantiated.

Truly traditional Catholics have never really liked the Legion. We smelled a rat. Much of the outward show of a traditional religious order was present, but there was something not quite right about it all. There was the wooden nature of their characters, the obvious brainwashing, the annoying, deliberately naif attitude to the internal problems of the Church today. Modernist lacunas gaped in the midst of orthodox teaching; stiff and formal liturgies embraced novelties, albeit it stiffly and formally.

In my limited contact with them, I noticed a distinct lack of fervor towards Pope Benedict, and on ongoing, enthusiastic veneration for his predecessor.

Thank God for the shrewdness of our Pope.

Whither the Legion now? One would hope that an enlightened superior would lead them along a more solidly traditional path. But how is an enlightened leader to emerge from such brainwashed ranks? Still, it is an intention worth praying for. We cannot ignore that much good has been done by the Legion, and it would be a pity to see that wasted. Tantus labor non sit cassus.

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