Chapter 23

Building up versus pulling down

Twenty years have gone by, and one would have thought that the reactions raised by the

Council reforms would have calmed down, that the Catholic people would have buried the

religion in which they had been brought up, or that the younger ones, not

having known it, would have accepted the new one. That at least was the wager made by the modernists.

They were not unduly disturbed by the uproar, sure of themselves as they were in the early days.

They were less so later on. The frequent and necessary concessions

made to the spirit of the world did not produce the expected results. Nobody any longer

wanted to be a priest of the new religion and the faithful turned away from their religious

practice.

The church which tried to become a church of the poor became a poor church,

obliged to resort to advertising to collect Peter's Pence

and to sell off its properties.

During this time, those faithful to tradition drew together in all the Christian lands,

and particularly in France, Switzerland, the United States, and Latin America.

The fabricator of the new mass, Monsignor Anibal Bunini, was himself obliged to recognize

this worldwide resistance in his posthumous book,

a resistance which is growing and organizing itself unceasingly and drying support.

No, the traditionalist movement is not slowing down, as the progressivist journalist write

from time to time to reassure themselves.

Where else are there as many people at Mass as at St. Nicholas D'Chardinay, and also as many

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