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There is another moving scene in the Lord of the Rings trilogy when King Theoden of Rohan is faced with the reality that the evil Saruman's vast and foul army of Uruk-hai and Orcs is advancing on his kingdom.
Against advice that he should ride out and meet this army in order to protect the women and children in his lands, King Theoden states that he would not risk open war.
At this point he receives a firm reminder from Aragorn, son of Arathorn, who utters the unforgettable phrase: ''Open war is upon you, whether you would risk it or not.''
Too Risky?
In the days, and now weeks, following from the release of Amoris Laetitia, it has at times seemed that those good and orthodox bishops who remain around the world have not wished to risk ''open war'' in the Church.
To some extent this is understandable. After all, what faithful Catholic wants to seem to resist a Pontiff, to cause scandal among the faithful, or confusion before the eyes of the outside world?
However, it is past time for us all to take a reality check and notice that open war is indeed upon us, whether we would risk it or not.
I speak, of course, of the open war that now rages with increasing boldness against all that is good and holy in this world.
Events are ramping up in intensity with every passing day. During our wedding anniversary celebrations a couple of days ago, we learned that the ultra-Modernist Hans Kung - sorry, still no umlauts - has been boasting to the National Catholic Reporter (often nicknamed the ''Distorter'' in the USA!) that he has publicly confirmed his reception of a letter from Pope Francis, responding to his request to ''give room to a free, unprejudiced and open-ended discussion on the problem of infallibility.''
This can be seen as a further advancement of Pope Francis' now accustomed style of advancing radical agendas with plausible deniability, by allowing other people to issue shocking statements to the media and leaving these undenied and uncorrected.
This has been seen numerous times through the non-interviews with Eugenio Scalfari, the widespread reports of the content of telephone calls to various lay-people and the release of staged photographs/video-clips at opportune moments.
Too Much!
At the same time, this particular example takes this technique to an altogether new level. As the agenda of Pope Francis, Cardinal Kasper et al meets with less and less resistance, so too does their boldness increase in proportion.
Events are now accelerating.Â
For example, did you see what the dissident Hans Kung just did in that statement above?
He described the dogma of papal infallibility as a problem! And he then suggested that Pope Francis has given him the full freedom to deal with this ''problem'' through an open-ended discussion.
Anyone who is still alert and intact after the opening skirmishes, or rather the full-frontal assault, of Synods '14 and '15 should have some grasp of what this portends for the Church.
I've been saying here, off and on at least, since November 2014 that the real issue to be fought here, important though it was, is not marriage and family per se, but the very fact that those attacking in that area need to be exposed as the Modernists that they are. If this were a war, and in the spiritual sense it certainly is, then the attack on marriage would represent a front in a battle. To win the overall war, it is necessary to strike at the lines of supply and the ideologies of those fomenting war. In November 2014, I described the attack on marriage as a poisonous fruit; but I also pointed out that Modernism was the evil root. Indeed, I said that we ought not to waste too much energy grappling with the fruits, when we needed first to deracinate these grubby roots.
The dissident Hans Kung's attack on Papal Infallibility, and pretty much all that is Catholic, is nothing new. He wrote his vile book Infallibility a whole year before I was even born.
What is new, is that instead of now being censured by the Popes, as he was in former times, he is now apparently being welcomed by Pope Francis with open arms. Instead of digging out the roots of Modernism, Pope Francis thus looks to be setting the axe to the very tree upon which he, and all of us, sit.
In recent years, as well as disgracefully suggesting that he wanted to be euthanised himself, Hans Kung has been forwarding the agenda of globalists who want to use religion, and religions, to construct a new paradigm of globalist ethics.
It is worth noting that numerous sources stated in 2007 that he had been awarded the Kulturpreis Deutscher Freimaurer (Culture Award of German Freemasons) for a ''lifetime of service to the Craft''...
It is a known fact that Kung has not only been a long-term denier of Papal Infallibility - like, does Kung think that he is infallible himself then?!! - but also denies the Resurrection, plays down the divinity of Christ, argues that bishops do not receive their authority from Christ and suggests that any baptised person can consecrate the Holy Eucharist.
As I write this, news is breaking that Madrid's Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra has forbidden the CDF's Prefect Cardinal Gerhard Muller from presenting his new book State of Hope at the local university, because the text is described as being ''against the Pope''!
To Battle!
As things seem to fall apart, and to quote W.B.Yeats' poem The Second Coming, ''the centre cannot hold,'' it seems that the words of Aragorn to King Theoden of Rohan must be urgently conveyed to the remaining orthodox bishops who clearly do not wish to risk open war.
My Lords: War is upon you, whether you would risk it or not!
Our Lady, who warned of these times, with the promise of Christ's final victory, at Akita, Fatima, La Salette and Quito - Pray for us!     Â
