THE HERESY OF NICENESS (With acknowledgement to Mundabor for the inspiration)

Some readers have asked whether I might be hurting the cause by being so outspoken.  This I acknowledge to be a legitimate concern.  The short answer is that we have tried being nice for forty years, yet we are now in a far worse situation than when we started.  So, there is not a scrap of evidence that being nice works.

The longer answer is that I believe one should tell the truth even if, in the short term, this would appear to be counter productive.  One could legitimately say to Christ, "Apologise for flogging the money changers from the temple, show more sensitivity to animal lovers, and stop insulting the self-serving cabal within the leadership of your church, and you may do more good."  Superficially you would be right: Christ could have avoided crucifixion and carried on preaching for another decade or two.  But in the long-term would it have been good advice?  Absolutely not!  I believe that telling the truth will always, in the end, prove the better option, however distasteful some find it.

This self-serving Modernist cabal infesting our hierarchy are not just a bunch of funny clerics with a philistine penchant for pop-hymns, or socially awkward shepherds who always manage to embarrass us by making the wrong joke at the wrong time. Their role as our shepherds gives them enormous power; this, in turn, has empowered them to cause immense damage to Catholicism, and this they most certainly have done. We cannot refuse to talk about them simply because the only things we could say would not be “nice”.  We can’t allow these post-Conciliar Judases to go on spewing their traitorous rubbish, and assist them in their destruction of the faith of Christ's little ones with our silence.

The duty of a Christian to Christ comes before the worldly, yet understandable, desire to be nice. Silent niceness does not save souls, the works that come from faith do. We can’t just say: “I refuse to talk openly about clerics who are destroying the Church, because it would conflict with my duty to be nice”.  Niceness is not a religion!  When heresy invades our chanceries, niceness should go out the window.   If you wake up to find an intruder in your house, your first duty is not to be nice!  Your first duty is to defend your wife and children from harm and remove the intruder from your home, violently if needs be.

Those who criticise me usually see all the problems as clearly as I see them.  They see the sabotage and lament the devastation of the Lord's Vineyard as deeply as I do.  They see the open treason.  They see the anti-Catholic poison spewing openly from our chanceries.  Well, then, this is clearly not the time to be silent, or nice. This is the time to be militant and for calling a spade a spade.

The way we comment on blogs and in magazines matters, as well as our conversations with colleagues in the office, likewise our conversations with fellow Catholics after Mass.  Those who hear us may go home and remark to their wives or husbands or children, about what they heard said of these wolves in sheep's clothing.  So the next time your bishop says something stupid (the day after reading this, probably), the statement of the good Catholic guy at the office or on the church porch will immediately be recalled.

The way we talk with our friends and acquaintances, and with our relatives matters.  It matters because, if enough of us take the gloves off and demand our Church back it will, in time, shift the perception of Catholic of these post-Conciliar Judases away from indifference or even that some of them are “the best thing since sliced bread” to the far more truthful “These men are the Sons of Satan!”.  Furthermore, it will also help your soul, because to fall silent in the face of evil in the name of niceness will not earn you any brownie points on the Day of Judgement!

Many of our bishops are openly in bed with the enemy; if your bishop is in bed with the enemy, he is a traitor, and he is the enemy.  You can’t just sit around and say nothing.  If your bishop is in bed with the enemy for the sake of his own self-aggrandizement, he must be called out for what he is: a worldly attention whore, a faithless idiot, and an enemy of Christ and His Church. 
  
Forget niceness. When your mum told you that, “If you don’t have anything nice to say it’s better not to say anything at all”, she did not mean you to be silent in the face of great evil.

In summary, there are only three options in the face of this evil: 

1. Silence, which would be a sin against charity, both to our fellow sheep and to the wayward shepherds themselves. How can the sheep guard themselves against being led into error by errant pastors? How can the errant pastors come to the realisation they have betrayed their own flock and are in dreadful danger unless they repent and return to the straight path?

2.Lying, which would be climbing onto the descending escalator to Satan’s reception desk to stand alongside the enemies of the Church, the clerical charlatans and Episcopal Judases themselves.

3. Telling the truth.  Telling the truth in the face of the massive silent (and not so silent) apostasy of so many of our shepherds at this hour will inevitably and unavoidably mean being brutal, there just is no nice way to tell a man he is a faithless traitor.  

I choose to tell the truth.

P.S. Just as at the time of the Arian crisis, God will ensure that the faithful remnant are not left orphans, there will always be some good men, some St John Fishers in the hierarchy.  We must seek out these men and give them our unwavering support, and remember them in our prayers and daily Rosary.