Chapter 12. Comrades and fellow travelers. Let us take up where we left off.

Christian common sense is offended in every way by this new religion. Catholics are exposed to desacralization

on all sides. Everything has been changed. They are told that all religions bring salvation.

The church welcomes without distinction separated Christians, and in fact all believers,

whether they bow to Buddha or to Krishna. They are told that clergy and laity are equal members of the

people of God, so that laypeople,

designated for particular functions, take over the clergy's tasks.

We see them conducting funerals and taking viaticum to the sick.

While the clergy take up the functions of the laity, dress like them, work in factories, join trade unions,

and engage in politics. The new canon law supports all of this. It confers unheard-of prerogatives on the

laity, blurring the distinctions between them and priests and creating so-called rites.

Lay theologians hold chairs of theology in Catholic universities.

The faithful take over roles in divine worship, which were once reserved to those in clerical orders.

They administer some of the sacraments. They distribute Holy Communion

and serve as witnesses at weddings. We also read that the Church of God subsists in the Catholic

Church. A suspicious formula because immemorial doctrine has always said that the Church of God

is the Catholic Church.

If we accept this recent formula, it would seem that Protestant and Orthodox communions

form equal parts of the church, which cannot be, since they have separated themselves

from the one church founded by Jesus Christ, Credredo in Unam-Sangtam

Ecclesium. The new canon law was drawn up in such haste and confusion that although promulgated

in January of 1983, 114 modifications had been added by November of the same year. This too is disconcerting to Christians

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