"TRADITION WILL TRIUMPH!" ~Fr. Roger Calmel, O.P. (1914-75)
"TRADITION WILL TRIUMPH!" ~Fr. Roger Calmel, O.P. (1914-75)
"We are at peace on this point. Whatever may be the hypocritical arms
placed by modernism in the hands of the episcopal collegialities and
even of the vicar of Christ, tradition will indeed triumph: solemn
baptism, for example, which includes the anathemas against the accursed
devil will not be excluded for long; the tradition of not absolving
sins except after individual confession will not be excluded for long;
the tradition of the traditional Catholic Mass, Latin and Gregorian,
with the language, Canon, and gestures in conformity with the Roman
Missal of St. Pius V, will soon be restored to honor; the tradition of
the Catechism of Trent, or of a manual exactly in conformity with it,
will be restored without delay.
On the major points of dogma,
morals, the sacraments, the states of life, the perfection to which we
are called, the tradition of the Church is known by the members of the
Church whatever their rank. They hold fast to it without a bad
conscience, even if the hierarchical guardians of this tradition try to
intimidate them or throw them into confusion; even if they persecute
them with the bitter refinements of modernist inquisitors. They are very
assured that by keeping the tradition they do not cut themselves off
from the visible vicar of Christ. For the visible vicar of Christ is
governed by Christ in such wise that he cannot transmute the tradition
of the Church, nor make it fall into oblivion. If by misfortune he
should try to do it, either he or his immediate successors will be
obliged to proclaim from on high what remains forever living in the
Church’s memory: the Apostolic tradition. The Spouse of Christ stands no
chance of losing her memory."
