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Fake Emotional Drama & Psychological Reality
Fake Emotional Drama
Re: Choosing between Pharisees & Sadducees
After reading this among other things, for me, I now have peace. It’s important to understand the Church’s mind and her past. No one is saying Rome hasn’t entered a great apostasy.
Revolution is chaos and once you find out how to ride the storm in the Ark no need to fear anything except your own sin.
The distinctions are important and unless a person does due diligence in reading he will get caught up in the revolution which includes a false either/or.
Thank you. After reading more Church History I find your conclusions to bring most peace to my soul. They make very much sense to me.
It delivers me out of the fake emotional drama being created, which is very similar to the dialectic propaganda of Dems & Republicans.
The power that causes people to believe there are only 2 choices, either/or is human & demonic.
G.S., Facebook
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Psychological Reality
Re: Choosing between Pharisees & Sadducees
Thank you for the thorough analysis.
I will never leave the Church, but I do realize that without the SSPX – with all its flaws, which you have so clearly exposed and whose distorted sense of “preserving tradition” I fully acknowledge – even the last drop of blood of Catholic tradition would have long since been drained.
The 1962 version, the baby of the N.O. Mass architects, is draped in the garments of tradition, but beneath the costume it stands as a rite that has already severed itself from the very tradition it pretends to preserve.
On the other hand, and with no intention to encourage schism, simply contemplating the psychological reality of the situation, it’s an extremely difficult position to be in. When you look at it strictly through how the human brain works, staying inside a totally corrupt institution is like trying to cure a highly contagious disease while standing in the middle of the outbreak.
An institution that has lost almost everything Catholic in it can feel like a cathedral whose walls still stand, but whose light, echo, and heartbeat have long since slipped through the cracks.
Fighting from the inside with not a single prelate even remotely conservative – not even among the so called “arch conservatives,” laughable were it not heartbreaking – is like trying to span the distance between the Novus Ordo and Tradition, two realities now as far apart as a candle guttering in a drafty hall from the steady flame once guarded on the altars of the saints. Even if your intentions are pure, the environment infects you, isolates you, or shuts you down long before you can heal anything.
“Leaving” gives you the distance you need to stay healthy, think clearly, and actually treat the disease.
Why “leaving” (fighting from the outside) may be right in a fully corrupt system:
When corruption has been the norm for decades, the institution behaves like a closed ecosystem:
- It infects anyone who stays too long – through pressure, fear, or slow moral erosion.
- It rejects anything that threatens its survival, including reformers.
- It protects the corrupt structure, not the mission it was meant to serve.
Outside, you regain all three.
What fighting from the outside makes possible:
- You stay uncontaminated, credible, and free to speak.
- You can expose the system without being silenced.
- You can build pressure, alliances, and alternatives the institution cannot control.
- You can support the few honest insiders without being trapped with them.
Trying to reform a fully corrupt institution from within is like trying to disinfect a room filled with toxic gas while breathing it.
Stepping outside lets you bring fresh air, tools, and help.
The core idea: You can’t free an institution you can’t breathe in.
Distance is not abandonment – it’s the only way to stay strong enough to liberate it.
Pro Ecclesia Militante, traditionem servantes et pugnam bonam certantes.
Prof. V.S.N., Cambridge, Facebook
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The Editor responds:
Dear Prof. V.S.N.,
Thank you for your amiable words regarding my article. Thank you also for your clear psychological analysis “strictly through how the human brain works.”
I offered you two metaphors, one natural, another supernatural, to depict the hard situation wherein we live by staying inside of the Church, and confirm the efficacy of our position.
The first metaphor is that of a country occupied by its enemy’s army – France occupied by the Nazis in WWII, for example, or Spain occupied by Napoleon troops, 1808-1813. Should real patriots leave the country to fight from over its borders to recover the terrain gained by the enemy? Or should they stay inside, resist the enemy in every corner, every new situation or initiative so that its stability is shaken and its prestige denigrated?
Those who leave the country are certainly able to stay away from the oppression and the persecution of the usurper regime – they can breathe fresh air, to employ your words. However, those who stay, although suffering these and other obstructions, are the ones who actually prepare the field for the usurper to fall.
An army cannot stay in a conquered country without the support of the people. About Napoleon's conquest of Spain, Talleyrand told him: “Sire, a King cannot sit on bayonets for a long time.” Indeed, from every balcony in Spain, the French soldiers received buckets of filthy water or pots of flowers thrown on their heads, in every corner an insult, in every new initiative a sabotage. It was this untamable resistance that prepared the field for the Duke of Wellington to come and shoo away an army whose prestige had already been eroded entirely.
Professor, humanly speaking, we chose to remain inside.
The second metaphor is supernatural, sublime: It is the Passion of Our Lord. He passed through all the sufferings upon which we are meditating this Lent. No one could hear His divine voice, His lofty speech, His impeccable logic – He became silent. He lost His majestic bearing after scourgings, beatings, slaps and spittle, after carrying the Cross and finally being crucified. He became unrecognizable, He was described by the Prophet: “I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.” (Ps 21:7)
Whoever would touch Him would be stained with Blood, would be polluted with filth, would have his clothing and hands tainted with grime. Almost all left Him. The Virgin Mary and a few others remained despite His miserable appearance. He bought our Redemption. They were part of it.
Today, the same applies to His Mystical Body.
Professor, supernaturally speaking, we chose to stay with Him, inside His Mystical Body.
Cordially,
Atila S. Guimarães
Posted March 3, 2026
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Atila’s analysis of the SSPX’s current negotiations with Rome was exceptionally good.
I loved his ’62 Missal exposé and his novel conclusions that Leo is cleaning the Conciliar house of Tradition.
Salve Maria!
F.G.