Servile Obedience
Thank you, dear friend Bill, for sending me examples of servile obedience in science and modernist music.
Science
If you want to read what a truly evil man had to say, read this excerpt:
“War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
“There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.”
Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1952
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Science_on_Society
Music
Catholics in the 1960s were vulnerable to a cultural revolution, the incursion of the “Guitar Mass”, because they had lost control of their own culture, at home, out in society and even in Church. They had ceased the culturally normal practice, in all aspects of their lives, of singing their own songs, unlike their grandparents and all generations before them, a minimally necessary condition for the continuation of cultural normality.
The Hootenanny Mass made an incursion into a cultural vacuum, a starvation of vitality because we had inadvertently allowed radio, talkies, t.v. and stereo hi-fi to technologically co-opt our musical culture.
Now many Catholics want to return to the influence of fine, devotional liturgical music; but in the recreational lives of many Catholics, even the traditional, they’re stuck in a time-warp from the 1960s, still passively consuming a culture substitute, when they themselves should be deciding what music to actively exercise in all aspects of their lives, by singing it themselves, as was the habit of all previous generations, cultures, and civilizations prior to end-stage.
https://www.sing-prayer.org/how-the-hootenanny-mass-invaded-the-church
St. Louis Abbey
The Beginning of the End
The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) was held from October 11, 1962, to December 8, 1965. Convened by John XXIII and continued by Paul VI, the council met in four separate autumn sessions to modernize the Church.
At the same time, this was going on.
Science
If you want to read what a truly evil man had to say, read this excerpt:
“War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
“There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.”
Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1952
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Science_on_Society
Music
Catholics in the 1960s were vulnerable to a cultural revolution, the incursion of the “Guitar Mass”, because they had lost control of their own culture, at home, out in society and even in Church. They had ceased the culturally normal practice, in all aspects of their lives, of singing their own songs, unlike their grandparents and all generations before them, a minimally necessary condition for the continuation of cultural normality.
The Hootenanny Mass made an incursion into a cultural vacuum, a starvation of vitality because we had inadvertently allowed radio, talkies, t.v. and stereo hi-fi to technologically co-opt our musical culture.
Now many Catholics want to return to the influence of fine, devotional liturgical music; but in the recreational lives of many Catholics, even the traditional, they’re stuck in a time-warp from the 1960s, still passively consuming a culture substitute, when they themselves should be deciding what music to actively exercise in all aspects of their lives, by singing it themselves, as was the habit of all previous generations, cultures, and civilizations prior to end-stage.
https://www.sing-prayer.org/how-the-hootenanny-mass-invaded-the-church
St. Louis Abbey
The Beginning of the End
The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) was held from October 11, 1962, to December 8, 1965. Convened by John XXIII and continued by Paul VI, the council met in four separate autumn sessions to modernize the Church.
At the same time, this was going on.
Saint Louis Abbey and its associated St. Louis Priory School have faced public incidents involving faculty members, including the 2018 removal of a junior school director and the 2019 arrest of a teacher.
2018 Laptop Incident
- Inappropriate images: School IT staff found suspicious images on a school-owned laptop used by Father Maximilian Toczylowski, the junior school director.
- Immediate removal: The school notified police, removed him from his roles, and the archbishop stripped his priestly faculties.
- School response: Officials stated that the images appeared downloaded from the internet with no student involvement or direct local allegations.
2019 Arrest
- Stalking charge: Father John McCusker (Michael McCusker), a teacher and monk at the school, was arrested and charged with second-degree stalking and resisting arrest.
- Police report: Law enforcement found him hiding in bushes outside a female co-worker's home after reports of a man looking through windows.
- Abbot's action: The abbey immediately removed him from campus and relieved him of all school duties.
The Novus Ordo overtook the monastery and school, but even before that happened, one could see the beginning of the end.