Over the years, the SSPX has assisted disenfranchised Catholics all over the world as they sought to keep the old faith and pursue holiness in a time of revolution in the Church, while fostering thousands of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. But you see this was all dead wrong according to the Caped Crusaders of CMTV, whose job description includes sermonizing the entire known world on the “right and proper” way to be “real Catholics”.
Good for them! But my question is this: Who cares! Who died and left these guys in charge of right thinking, and where were they ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years ago when a small band of traditional Catholics, armed with pens, paper, rosaries and the old Latin Mass, changed the course of history? I mean, we’re talking about Internet videos and a bunch of techy nerds going up against giants such as Von Hildebrand, Davies, Fraser, Senior, Capponi, a whole society of traditional Catholic priests, theologians and an Archbishop whose courageous stand in defense of holy Tradition ultimately led to the establishment of two priestly fraternities and two motu proprio that saved the Roman Rite from certain destruction.
Apples and oranges? More like a worldwide apple orchard vs. a bowl of plastic fruit on a TV set.
Archbishop Lefebvre spent his entire life in service of the Bride of Christ, while the poor Bishop of CMTV spent most of his life struggling against paganism and personal apostasy. While I commend him for his eventual return to the practice of the faith a few years back, I do question the prudence of any recent revert who would set himself up as judge and jury of one of the most successful missionaries Africa ever knew, the head of the Holy Ghost Fathers, a man beloved by Pope Pius XII and a prince of the Church who forgot more about theology and canon law than Michael Voris will ever know.
I have tried to be patient with these newcomers, but they really have worn out their welcome with their incessant calumniation of good people along with a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, self promotion and Internet stardom. Yes, I said it because to me that’s what it looks like.
A case in point: A few months ago, someone sent me a whole slew of videos that had been posted on the Facebook page of one of CMTV’s current superstars before she’d “made it big” at CMTV. There she is strumming her guitar and singing a whole playlist of pop tunes into her webcam. A grown woman, mind you, with a gaggle of cute little kids running around in the background, she’d shoot close-up videos of herself really hamming up ‘Yellow’ by Coldplay, for example, or ‘The Call’ by Regina Spektor and then post them on Facebook.
We’ve all got our little foibles and proclivities, of course, and I don’t begrudge this woman’s efforts to make it as a Facebook popstar. But I do think about this when I consider the gross injustice of CMTV blasting away at good and holy priests who, well, working in the Lord’s vineyard as they’ve been doing these past decades, just didn’t have the time to sit around doing Coldplay covers on Facebook.
Bottom line is this: When I see CMTV’s wannabe pop stars calumniating the memory and legacy of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and his spiritual sons I get a little peeved, and I wonder why people can’t see through the ruse. The hubris of CMTV is positively palpable, and it might actually be amusing were it not so obscenely divisive and counterproductive.
Whatever! CMTV is what it is. We’re content to let their hatred of traditional Catholics define them as they spin round and round inside of their own little vortex, shouting: “Look at me, look at me, look at me now.” CMTV has become the quintessential citadel of neo-Catholic orthodoxy, which is why I can’t take it seriously anymore.
And, in their defense, they were never traditional Catholics in the first place, never even claimed to be, which is why they labor like scholars attempting to assassinate the memory of a certain Archbishop who in life shunned the limelight (and the world’s TV cameras) in order to follow the light of Christ, the lumen Christi, out of conciliar darkness and into the annals of authentic Catholic counterrevolution and glorious Catholic restoration.
A hundred years from now, assuming the world is still here, Catholics will be telling their children the story of the great St. Marcel, the heroic bishop who, like Fisher before him, stood strong against the heresy and apostasy of his day and won the heavenly crown.
And Michael Voris? God love him, whoever he was.
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