It was, apparently, an outrage that this country did not allow in Geert Wilders, the latest demagogic defender of the drugged-up, whore-ridden land - a sort of George Osborne expressed as a country - into which the Netherlands has been turned without reference to her population at large.
But the equally ludicrous and unpleasant Richard Williamson, understandably kicked out of Argentina, must, apparently, be extradited to Germany. To the best of my knowledge, it is not illegal there or anywhere else to deny, minimise or in any way question Stalin's massacre of the kulaks, or Pol Pot's killing fields, or the disappearances in Pinochet's Chile, or ... well, make your own list. It is simply an error in historical scholarship, to be corrected as such by historians. So is minimising the Holocaust.
No extradition.
Just excoriation and ridicule.
That would hit far, far harder.
But, of course, this is not really about the Holocaust. It is about ensuring that the recognition of Vatican II as in no sense a canonisation of mid-twentieth-century secular humanism (itself now a thing of the past), but instead comprehensible and implementable only by reference to its own specific texts as read within and under the Tradition of two thousand years, cannot come to pass.
It must come to pass if there is to be any reconciliation of the greater part of the Lefebvrist body (though probably not of Williamson). Indeed, it must come to pass anyway, and would have done so at this historical juncture anyway.
But the ageing, dwindling, Wildersite remnant of mid-twentieth-century secular humanism, both within and beyond the Church, is determined to stop it.
It is they who must be stopped.
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But, of course, this is not really about the Holocaust. It is about ensuring that the recognition of Vatican II as in no sense a canonisation of mid-twentieth-century secular humanism (itself now a thing of the past), but instead comprehensible and implementable only by reference to its own specific texts as read within and under the Tradition of two thousand years, cannot come to pass.
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For Williamson this really is going to be about the Holocaust - though of course the SSPX love to blame other things (heresy, Modernism, the Masons, etc.) when their own individuals get into trouble. (Remember the Cottard case?) It does them no good simply because in the end it only tarnishes the Society with the crimes of its members.
So let's look on the bright side! With Williamson banged up im Gefängnis the negotiations with Rome will be able to go ahead with out his bitchy little asides every other week.
Secular humanism, of course, poses no threat to Catholicism or any other religion, nor does some secular humanist interpretation of Vatican II. The big threat to the Church is still the Vatican's Secretariat of State, with its particular agenda of uniting all the world's religions in some broad coalition against some mythical boogeyman like "militant secularism". But whether or not Pope Benedict XVI has the inclination, patience and indeed the time to cleanse that particular Augean stable remains to be seen.
"And I thought I was a conspiracy theorist!"
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"The big threat to the Church is still the Vatican's Secretariat of State"