Chapter 16

The Liberal Catholic Mentality

There are tyrannical weaknesses, evil deficiencies, and conquered ones deserving of being so.

Charles Maras

More than a confusion,

liberal Catholicism is a sickness of the mind,

the mind that does not manage to repose simply in the truth, the mind that does not dare to affirm

anything, without the counter-affirmation immediately presenting itself to it, which it feels obliged to

pose as well. Pope Paul VI was the type itself of this divided mind, of this double-faced being.

This could be read even physically on his face, perpetually tossed about between contradictory

things and enlivened by a pendulum movement oscillating regularly between tradition and novelty.

An intellectual schizophrenia, some people will say,

I believe that Father Clarisak has most profoundly perceived the nature of this sickness.

It is a lack of integrity of the mind, he writes,

of a mind that does not have enough confidence in the truth. He goes on to say,

this lack of integrity of the mind in the ages of liberalism is explained on the psychological side by two manifest traits.

Liberals are receptive and feverish, receptive, because they too easily assume the states of mind

of their contemporaries, feverish because out of fear of offending these varied states of mind, they are in a continual

apologetic uneasiness.

They seem to suffer themselves from the doubts that they are fighting.

They do not have enough confidence in the truth.

They want to justify too much, demonstrate too much, adapt too much, or even excuse too much.

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