POPE ST. PIUS X

A MESSAGE FOR THE FEAST OF ST. PIUS X

We commemorate today the feast of Pope St. Pius X.  This saintly pope's motto was to "Restore all things in Christ," thus making him an excellent patron for us as we try to preserve and restore the traditions of the Church.  At a time when the modernists had already made strong headway in their infiltration of the Church, St. Pius X was a strong defender of the true faith.  Notable amongst his many actions to defend and protect the Church's true teachings was his encyclical Pascendi, which accurately described modernism as the "synthesis of all heresies."  We would all benefit greatly from reading the whole encyclical, or, if you are already familiar with it, making sure the rest of your family understand the terrible premises and even worse consequences of modernism, as well as its influence at Vatican II and the Church ever since.

Sadly, the death of St. Pius X brought to an end the Church's solid resilience against these errors, and his successor, Pope Benedict XV, was less than vigorous in upholding the protections St. Pius had put in place. We saw the modernist infiltration grow to the point where in the 1950s, Pope Pius XII saw fit to accept the advice of the masonic priest Annibale Bugnini to begin the systematic destruction of the Church's liturgy with the abolition of the Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday, and the complete overhaul of the Church's two-thousand-year-old traditional ceremonies of Holy Week.  The differences between Pius X and Pius XII were highlighted again when the latter promoted openly modernist enemies of the Church such as Angelo Roncalli and Giovanni Montini to important ecclesiastical positions where they were able to use their influence to further darken the Church's good name.  Roncalli was made Patriarch of Venice, and Montini became the Archbishop of Milan, before becoming John XXIII and Paul VI respectively, bringing us in turn the Second Vatican Council and the new Mass.

Without Pope St. Pius X, it is likely that we would have had both Vatican II and the new Mass several decades earlier, but thanks to his stalwart defense of the true faith, things were postponed for a while.  However, three years after the failure of the College of Cardinals to elect an equally anti-modernist successor to Pius X, God sent his holy Mother to the three children of Fatima to warn us of the terrible things to come.  Of course, the masonic pope John XXIII refused our Lady's command that the exact words of her warning should be divulged to the faithful in 1960.  Instead, the faithful were successfully betrayed, and most of them accepted almost without murmur all the devastating reforms that followed.

It is inconceivable that Pope St. Pius X would be anything but distraught at what has happened to the Church since Vatican II.  The new Mass of Paul VI would certainly disgust him, and he must surely now be praying in heaven for its abolition.  Pope Bergoglio recently declared, with all the weight of his non-existent "magisterial authority" that the liturgical reforms are "irreversible." Let us redouble our prayers that God will prove him wrong, and that St. Pius X's hope that all things may be restored in Christ will one day be fulfilled.