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PREVIEWS OF THE NEW PAPACY
By Atila Sinke Guimaraes & Marian Therese Horvat
Copyright 2001, 285 pages, ~500 photographs, paperback
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	Several publications have run tiresome debates that rival the famous 
condundrum “how many angels can stand on the head of a pin?”  Is the Novus Ordo 
worship service valid or not valid?  Is it “intrinsically” invalid or just 
practically invalid?  Does the omission of the <I>ut</I> in the Ordinal 
invalidate the Novus Ordo ordination rite?  And on it goes.

	Not that the subtleties of theological debate are pointless, but in these 
times one longs for the intellect of an Aquinas or Bonaventure to conduct them.  
No, what is tiresome about these debates is that the evidence of the eyes proves 
the point beyond any doubt:  the New Order is something different from Roman 
Catholicism.  It is not that the New Order is lacking a Ciceronian quality of 
Latin or some theological or liturgical nicety.  It isn’t even in the same 
genus, let alone species as Roman Catholicism.

	While all the sycophantic adults admired the regalia of the emperor 
prancing down the street, it was the little boy in Hans Christian Andersen's 
tale who had enough innocence and lack of guile to say:  “The emperor has no 
clothes!”

	This seems to be the common-sense premise that the authors of <I>Previews 
of the Papacy</I> start from:  a picture is worth a thousand words.  And here 
they are.  All those pictures that you thought you would never see.

	The pope, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, 
Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of 
Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State 
of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God, awash in a sea of semi-nudity, 
engaging in paganistic dance, abandoning the unmistakable symbols of the papacy, 
schmoozing, often in a religious context, with heretics, schismatics, 
Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hinduists, and yes, even Voodoists.

	Practically 500 photographs with a little explanatory text, for the 
photographs need little explanation.  They speak for themselves.

	Nor is there is any secret about any of this.  On the contrary, the 
Vatican takes pride in it.  The sources for the photographs are Vatican press 
material, and both religious and secular newspapers and magazines.  It just that 
hits you between the eyes when you see it all collected together.  “The 
objective of this book," write the authors, "is to show the Catholic, by means 
of photos, the unusual actions and attitudes taken by the Papacy from Vatican II 
until our days.  The conduct of the last four Popes should be, in our judgment, 
a matter of concern for the faithful."

	The authors conclude that “everything seems to indicate that many 
guidelines of the announced reform of the Papacy are already being applied:  ...  
a liberalization of morals, an adaptation to the principles of the modern world, 
the abandonment of the centuries-old symbols of the papal monarchy, and an 
openness to the errors of the false religions.”

	Moreover, they conclude:  “It seems that a new conception of the Papacy 
could soon be solemnly declared official.  This could represent an imprisonment 
of Peter."  And with the connivance of the current occupant of the chair, for 
was it not he who in his 1995 Encyclical <I>Ut Unum Sint</I> talked about 
changing the face of the papacy?

	If you have any doubts about what the New Order stands for, view these 500 
photographs, and you will have to agree with the authors that if the New Order 
has its way, the papacy in a short time will be gone, along with the true 
Catholic Mass, Sacraments, and Faith.  That is why the remnant of traditional 
Catholics must continue zealously their good fight under the banner of the Lamb.