Chapter 18. True and false obedience.

Indiscipline is everywhere in the church.

Committees of priests send demands to their bishops.

Bishops disregard pontifical exhortations.

Even the recommendations and decisions of the council are not respected, and yet one never

hears uttered the word disobedience, except as applied to Catholics who wish to remain faithful

to tradition, and just simply keep the faith.

Obedience is a serious matter, to remain united the church's magisterium and particularly to the

supreme pontiff is one of the conditions of salvation we are deeply aware of this and nobody is more

attached to the present reigning successor of peter or has been more attached to his predecessors than we are.

I am speaking here of myself and of the many faithful driven out of the churches and also of the

priests who are obliged to celebrate Mass in Barnes, as in the French Revolution, and to organize

alternative catechism classes in town and country.

We are attached to the Pope, for as long as he echoes the apostolic traditions and the teachings

of all his predecessors, it is the very definition of the successor of Peter that he is the

keeper of this deposit. Pius X. Pius X. T. Pius X.. Pius X. The Holy Ghost has not, in fact, been promised to

the successors of Peter to permit them to proclaim new doctrine, according to his revelations,

but to keep strictly and to expound faithfully, with his help, the revelations transmitted by the apostles,

in other words, the deposit of faith.

The authority delegated by our Lord to the Pope, the bishops, and the priesthood in general,

is for the service of the faith.

To make use of law, institutions, and authority to annihilate the

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