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Editorial
Father Dominique
De Vriendt
This issue of Communicantes
now contains 32 pages. It hasn’t stopped growing since the beginning of
the new series two years ago. We went from 8 pages in December 1998 to
12 pages, then to 20, then to 28 and now to 32 pages. The year we have
just completed (2000) has been, one must admit, extraordinarily productive
in events for the life of the Church and the Society.
The Holy Year, which
every 25 years should normally bring joy and spiritual consolation and
which should be a renewing of the life of faith and of grace in the soul,
has seen the Holy Catholic Church, the exclusive Ark of Salvation, be
humiliated by the very authorities of the Vatican, no doubt more than
She has ever been before. What is worse, is that here it’s not a question
of a scandal given by some member of the hierarchy on a moral issue, as,
alas, the Church has often witnessed in the course of these 2000 years
of history. No, what is worse, what is truly serious and fatal for the
divine life in souls is the fact that it is Her unchanging doctrine that
has been attacked. The divine faith, the revealed doctrine, without which
it is impossible to please God, is being more and more scorned, undermined
in its foundations by those whose primary duty is to defend it and to
transmit it intact.
Thus, who could not
help but see that it is of the utmost importance, for anyone aspiring
to Salvation, to be capable of recognizing these errors and of rejecting
them, so as not to fall into the snares of the Enemy, the devil, a liar
from antiquity. But to elude these errors, one must study, one must read,
one must meditate and pray. If not there is the fatal risk that they will
penetrate even amongst traditionalists. It is with this main interest
that Communicantes offers you some analysis of the most pernicious
errors which poison so many souls today.
You will find in
this issue a commentary by Bishop Fellay, our General Superior, on the
document "Dominus Jesus" published last October by the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This document, though recalling
certain truths of tradition, conserves the principal falsehoods of ecumenism
which cause such destruction in the domain of the faith.
In another article,
Bishop Williamson makes an analysis of the fundamental errors of the famous
request for forgiveness pronounced by the Pope and diverse individuals
of the Vatican on Ash Wednesday of the year 2000.
We also invite you
to attentively read the profound analysis which Father Laisney has made
of the pernicious Common Declaration of the Catholic Church and the Lutheran
churches on the doctrine of Justification, a declaration which was signed
in October of 1999.
In a contrasting
mood you may also read with interest the article of Father Laroche on
the thirty years of the Society, and the article of Jean-Claude Dupuis
on the 10th anniversary of Holy Family School at Lévis. And
lastly, you will be surely consoled to read the different articles which
tell of our magnificent pilgrimage to Rome this last August. "
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