07-02-2024, 08:13 AM
FSSPX on Linz Obscenity: "Please Don't Mindlessly Attack the Bishop"
gloria.tv | July 1, 2024
The depiction of "Mary giving birth" in the cathedral of Linz deeply offends every devout Catholic, writes Father Johannes Regele, superior of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X for Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.
His statement is an open letter to priests and the Catholic faithful (Fsspx.at, 20 June). Father Regele, who was a molecular biologist before entering the priesthood, was born in the diocese of Linz.
"This sculpture is a testimony to the dissolution of the Catholic faith, the disrespect of our time for the sacred, a profanation of the cathedral, and it also shows very clearly how little idea even the cathedral chapter and those responsible apparently still have of Catholic theology, how much the faith has shrunk".
Several diocesan and religious priests have asked Father Regele how they should respond to the blasphemy.
He replied that they should "pray and atone". They could gather regularly for prayer in the cathedral's votive chapel or at the tomb of the great Monsignor Franz Joseph Rudigier, who was Bishop of Linz (1852-1884).
Regele advises against "worldly actionism": "Please don't just mindlessly attack the bishop".
In an aside, Regele mentions that Holy Mass is strictly forbidden in the cathedral and churches of the diocese of Linz: "Some people treat you like a leper".
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre