Infiltration by Taylor Marshall

Author:Taylor Marshall [Marshall, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781622828470
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 2019-05-23T07:00:00+00:00

1971: Paul VI excludes cardinals over eighty years from voting in papal elections.

1972: Clerical tonsure, minor orders of porter, exorcist, acolyte, and subdeacon are abolished by Pope Paul VI in Ministeria quaedam.

1973: Extraordinary Lay Ministers of Holy Communion are allowed.

1977: The indult to receive Communion in the hand is granted to the United States.

The suppression of clerical tonsure, minor orders (porter, lector, exorcist, acolyte), and subdeacon went against the clear teaching of the Council of Trent that stated:

From the very beginning of the church, the names of the following orders, and the ministrations proper to each one of them, are known to have been in use; to wit, those of subdeacon, acolyte, exorcist, lector, and porter; though these were not of equal rank: for the subdiaconate is classed amongst the greater orders by the Fathers and sacred Councils, wherein also we very often read of the other inferior orders.109

And, their rejection carried an anathema:

Can. 2. If anyone says that besides the priesthood there are in the Catholic Church no other orders, both major and minor, by which as by certain grades, there is an advance to the priesthood: let him be anathema.110

Pope Paul VI’s decision to authorize laymen as Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion broke with Western and Eastern tradition, which absolutely forbade anyone but a priest from administering Holy Communion. In the Roman Rite, only a deacon or a subdeacon could touch the sacred Eucharistic vessels. The Church Fathers confirm this tradition. Paul VI set it aside.

Paul VI also extended to the laity the permission to receive Holy Communion in the hand. These changes had two negative consequences. One was that they reduced belief in transubstantiation. The Protestant Reformers Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Bucer, and Thomas Cranmer had each insisted that people receive Communion in the hand because it signified that the Eucharist was ordinary bread and not Christ Himself. The other negative consequence of Communion in the hand is that it allowed for Hosts to be dropped on the floor more easily or, worse, for people to steal Hosts for desecration and occult potions. It is difficult to understand how Pope Paul VI would lament the demonic infiltration of the Church while he promoted reforms that encouraged it: “We would say that, through some mysterious crack — no, it’s not mysterious; through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the Church of God. There is doubt, uncertainty, problems, unrest, dissatisfaction, confrontation.”111

The liturgical, theological, and philosophical changes of Vatican II and Pope Paul VI were detrimental to the laity. In 2003, Kenneth C. Jones published his Index of Leading Catholic Indicators: The Church Since Vatican II, documenting the collapse of Catholic practice since the close of the Council in 1965 (these numbers are limited to America):112

Sunday Mass Attendance

1958: 74 percent of Catholics went to Sunday Mass.

2000: 25 percent of Catholics went to Sunday Mass.

Infant Baptisms

1965: There were 1.3 million infant baptisms.

2002: There were 1 million infant baptisms, despite the population rise.

Adult Baptisms (Converts)

1965: There were 126,000 adult baptisms.

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