A Conservative Modernist Nominal Cardinal’s Ironic Pose
... the nominal cardinal’s condemnation lands on the very heart of the modernist project he himself cannot disown... A hollow lament: he warns of the smoke while refusing to look at the fire! Prologue For the observant, there are moments in the life of the modernist impostor church occupying Catholic buildings where the truth about its very essence is seen not by argument, but by the stark contrast between word and reality of its own agents. An instance of such a moment is when a conservative modernist nominal “cardinal”, Robert Sarah , solemnly declares: “ Widespread communion in the hand is part of Satan’s attack on the Eucharist” The statement is bold, dramatic, even stirring and edifying to the neo-conservatives to whom he is an icon of orthodoxy. But it is also—whether he intends it or not—profoundly ironic. Why? He condemns a practice that his own liturgical age, his own committees, his own theological milieu, and often his own prede...
