Some 1900 years ago God’s Providence had placed a guard, ‘an Angel with a flaming sword’, at the entrance of His Church, His glorious New Paradise, to protect Her decisively against any inroads that this evil doctrine, that the road to Hell no longer exists, was intended to make within Her walls. This doctrine, together with all who have taken it up, is kept strictly on the outside for those who wish to be damned. Even if preached in the Sanctuaries of the Holy Catholic Church, or in so-called ‘catholic schools’ and seminaries, it will never be part of that Church; it will never deceive those whose names are written in the Book of Life [Phil. 4:3; Rev. 3:5; 13:8; 17:8; 20:12, 13; 21: 27; 22:19].
For that ‘flaming sword’ is a priceless gift of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Discernment, which will in the minutest detail, always and everywhere, distinguish the true Catholic Church from any counterfeit ‘parallel’ system for those who possess this Gift and treasure it.
And it is precisely this heavenly Gift of discernment which reveals to those who still possess it when a Catholic bishop, or priest, or lay-person, or any non-Catholic is no longer in the possession of this love of Truth, or for whatever reason has allowed it to suffer some damage along the way.
Thus it came about in the early eighties that the then Archbishop of Melbourne, Sir Frank Little, enforced with a ‘pastoral’ on all the Catholic schools in his Archdiocese the 1980-81 issue of his Melbourne Guidelines for Religious Education, which contained - amongst a host of other falsehoods - the strong endorsement of a book, written by a non-Catholic, showing all teachers how to make the Catholic children under their care doubt their Catholic Faith. Right up to this day, Sir Frank has refused to undo the untold damage that this grave abuse of episcopal power has wrought in innocent souls.
And so it happened that, on the other side of this great continent, another Archbishop was severely reprimanded by Rome when he was denounced over there for being in agreement with the unholy recommendation that retarded children should be sterilised ...
Back in Sydney, we had to cope with an auxiliary bishop who did not care one bit - and even expressed that in print when moves were afoot to have these same Melbourne Guidelines adopted for use in NSW - that the above mentioned issue of the Melbourne Guidelines contained what we have just told our readers it contained.
It was for this reason, the total lack of concern in the Sydney episcopate, that the then Director of Education, and now a bishop himself, was determined to introduce the same issue of the Melbourne Guidelines into some 20-odd schools in Woy Woy (NSW), and on the night of the introduction was equally determined that the recommendation for apostasy it contained should not come out at the meeting of parents and teachers.
It is this same lack of discernment which makes bishops advocate that ‘science’ (a most fallible human endeavour) should sit in judgement on Sacred Scripture (the infallible Word of God) to ‘correct its errors’.
And so grows the list of ecclesiastical leaders in this country who, for whatever reason, have either totally lost or severely damaged the priceless gift of discernment. If ever this gift was needed, it is now - as we have seen. Now, especially, are bishops getting their advice from the wrong sources. They seem to believe the Modernist lies that the pre-Vatican II Church cannot be trusted as having handed down to their and our generation, wholly intact, the “Deposit of Faith”. They certainly seem to have set up camp in that no-man’s-land between the Modernists and the truly Catholic faithful, constantly ‘looking over their shoulders’ as if wondering how the stark doctrine of Our Lord can somehow be mitigated so as not to upset the Modernists or the false ecumenism of the WCC.