Sub Fideli Custodia
Churches burn, tabernacles are forced, statues smashed, and every time we blame the arsonist. He is guilty. But who left the door open? The Church’s own law binds her custodians to guard what is holy, and punishes grave negligence. Bishops who leave cathedrals without cameras or fire detection are not unlucky. In the Church’s own terms, they are criminally negligent. Someone has to say it aloud.
MIND THE LIMOGES
SSPX vs. Holy See: There is a word the English keep for a certain genre of marital combat: the domestic. It is the row the neighbours hear through the partition wall — the raised voices, the slammed door, and, at the climax, the unmistakable timpani of crockery making contact with plaster. Nobody calls the police. Everybody listens. And the next morning, over the fence, the verdict is delivered: Did you hear them last night?😁
