CATHOLICISM IS FOR EVERYONE - Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent

Of Hildebrand’s thirty books surely one of the most interesting for our generation is Trojan Horse in the City of God: The Catholic Crisis Explained (1967). An early post-Vatican II book written more than fifty years ago, Hildebrand proved once again, as he did in the 1920s when he was among the first to warn about the coming disaster of Nazism, that he was prophetic in detecting the ominous storm clouds gathering over the Catholic Church. His wife Alice reported that on his deathbed Hildebrand referred to himself as having the soul of a lion. It could be said that in this book he roared like a lion at the herd of Trojan horses galloping toward the vaulted halls of the Vatican. John Cardinal O’Connor in his introduction to The Trojan Horse remarked that the glorious achievements of Vatican II were undermined and sabotaged by those who sought to remake the Church in their own image. Hildebrand saw this happening, and Cardinal O’Connor believed there is reason to believe that what Hildebrand saw in 1967, and warned us against with all his powers of persuasion, is even more worthy of being opposed and defeated today by those who see clearly the secularist invasion of the Church. In his own introduction to the book, Hildebrand makes clear his thesis: “We shall try to shed some light on the confusions, the apostasies, and the disclosures of loss of faith that are to be found among those who trumpet forth the claim that they are the true interpreters of the Council…. we shall try to examine all the horrible errors that are being propagated now by the so-called progressives.”   -- Carl Sundell, 2018