The True Church vs. the Antichurch

David Martin | The Daily Knight

Since Vatican II, we have seen the emergence of a new parallel church that works against the True Church—the Mystical Body of Christ. And while today’s counter-church operates within the framework of the Church its ideologies and activities have their origin outside the Catholic Church.

That is to say, this new parallel church is not 1 truly part of the Mystical Body. The fact is that we have two churches running side by side today—the new conciliar church of man and the One True Church instituted by Christ.

Cardinal Wojtyla (later John Paul II) prophesied this very crisis in late summer 1976, when he said:

“We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, between the Gospel and the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine Providence; it is trial which the whole Church… must take up.”

Unlike the true Church, the anti-Church has inherited all the ambiguous mumbo-jumbo of Vatican II. In the spirit of the Council, priests often make ambiguous statements that are misleading and detrimental. They’ll say things like:

“People who think they can follow Christ 'in their own way' without being part of the Body, are living a distortion.”      

People indeed are “living a distortion” if they think they can worship “their own way” outside of tradition, but is this what these priests really mean?

What they really mean is that not following the modernist flow since Vatican II is what places one outside the Body of Christ. This is an error, since the embrace of modernist heresy is what separates one from the Body. Belonging to Christ is not about flowing with the crowd but about standing apart from it and holding to tradition (2 Thess. 2:14), even if no one else does it.

In the words of St. Augustine:

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”

In his encyclical Mystici Corporis, Pope Pius XII clearly defined who are and who are not the members of Christ’s Mystical Body.

“Only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed.” (Mystici Corporis, 1943)

Hence, to be part of Christ’s Mystical Body one must reject doctrinal change and “profess the true faith.” Millions of Catholics today have apostatized and are flowing with the times, yet they are called Catholic, while those who reject modernism and hold to tradition are labelled “schismatic.” Loyal bishops and priests have received the ax for their fidelity to tradition.

Belonging to Christ is not about flowing with the crowd

In a true spirit of obedience, these clergy have stood their ground against the modernist flow and have set the stage as to what all of us should be doing. We indeed are called to expose and combat the errors of the new counter-church. These errors are endorsed by many bishops and priests despite the fact that they contravene the magisterial teaching of the Church. Listed below are some of these errors.

• The Mass is only a memorial

• The Mass is a community meal

• The Mass is an assembly or community gathering

• The Eucharist is blessed bread

• The Catholic faithful are part of a “common priesthood”

• Communion in the hand is blessed by God

• Lay Eucharistic ministers are blessed by God

• The Holy Spirit guided the changes since Vatican II

• The Holy Spirit guides the Charismatic Movement

• Unity with the world is the work of God

• Modern ecumenism is the work of God

• DEI inclusion is the work of God

• God wants to empower women to help lead the Church

• Christ did not exclusively found the Roman Catholic Church

• Luther was a “witness to the Gospel” who corrected abuses in the Church

• Other religions can provide a means to salvation

• The Church should never correct homosexuals but should welcome them

• Priests should bless homosexual couples

These and other like errors are spiritual germs that infect the Mystical Body so that many of its members eventually fall away from the Church. This is what DEI inclusion has brought into the Church—the lethal germs of sodomy, adultery, and heresy.

The clergy have a responsibility to guard Christ’s Spouse against these ills and to promote her health with sound doctrine and practice, because her members will always be in danger of falling as long as priests continue to infect the Church with the germs of heresy and change.

1. This is not to say that all who are caught up in the new church are necessarily outside the Mystical Body since some are naïve and at least hold to the Creed and some basic elements of true faith that make them part of the Body. But the agenda of the new church definitely exists outside of Christ.