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    This document discusses appropriate responses to the "devastation of the vineyard of the Lord" - the changes within the Catholic Church. It argues against three false responses: resignation/despair, denial that any devastation has occurred, and unconditional loyalty to bishops. The appropriate response, it claims, is obedience but not necessarily agreement with practical decisions and ordinances from popes or bishops, which have sometimes later been retracted. It encourages respectfully expressing opposition and appealing to the Pope when ordinances seem unfortunate.

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    This document discusses appropriate responses to the "devastation of the vineyard of the Lord" - the changes within the Catholic Church. It argues against three false responses: resignation/despair, denial that any devastation has occurred, and unconditional loyalty to bishops. The appropriate response, it claims, is obedience but not necessarily agreement with practical decisions and ordinances from popes or bishops, which have sometimes later been retracted. It encourages respectfully expressing opposition and appealing to the Pope when ordinances seem unfortunate.

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    This document discusses appropriate responses to the "devastation of the vineyard of the Lord" - the changes within the Catholic Church. It argues against three false responses: resignation/despair, denial that any devastation has occurred, and unconditional loyalty to bishops. The appropriate response, it claims, is obedience but not necessarily agreement with practical decisions and ordinances from popes or bishops, which have sometimes later been retracted. It encourages respectfully expressing opposition and appealing to the Pope when ordinances seem unfortunate.

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    Dietrich Von Hildebrand - The Devastated Vineyard

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    This document discusses appropriate responses to the "devastation of the vineyard of the Lord" - the changes within the Catholic Church. It argues against three false responses: resignation/despair, denial that any devastation has occurred, and unconditional loyalty to bishops. The appropriate response, it claims, is obedience but not necessarily agreement with practical decisions and ordinances from popes or bishops, which have sometimes later been retracted. It encourages respectfully expressing opposition and appealing to the Pope when ordinances seem unfortunate.

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    The passage discusses how Catholics should respond to changes and issues in the Church, giving examples of things that require obedience versus those that one can disagree with or oppose.

    The author says the attitude of resignation or despair is not correct, and neither is pretending there are no issues. Catholics should obey bishops but are allowed to pass judgement on and protest issues like liturgical changes.

    The author says Catholics must accept the teaching of Humanae Vitae on birth control, even if it's not an infallible dogma, because it's based on Church tradition.

    246 The Devastated Vineyard How God Wants Us to Respond 247

    Mass. For instance, we must not forget the Tridentine Con­ has always taught - then we should humbly accept its
    /iteor in which we accuse ourselves before God and before the teaching. This is the case with the encyclical Humanae Vitae:
    whole court of heaven, since objectively our sins offend God although we do not have here the strict infallibility of a de­
    and not the parish community, and objectively the important fined dogma, the content of the encyclical nevertheless be­
    thing is to enter into the invisible world of heaven.18 longs to that sphere of the Church's magisterium which we
    Padre Pio told a friend of mine who was deploring many must accept as true.
    of the liturgical changes, "You are right - but Christ has But there are many encyclicals which deal with very dif­
    not abandoned us. He is still present in the tabernacle, and the ferent (e.g., sociological) questions and which express a re­
    Holy Sacrifice still takes place objectively!" And so it is clear sponse of the Church to certain new conditions. Thus the
    that the attitude of resignation: of despair over the Church, encyclical of the great Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno,
    is not the right response. with its idea of a corporate state, differs on sociological ques­
    A third false response, and perhaps the most dangerous one, tions with encyclicals of Paul VI. But when it is a question
    would be to imagine that there is no devastation of the of practical ordinances such as concordats, or the suppression
    vineyard of the Lord, that it only seems so to us - our task as of the Jesuit order by Pope Clement XIV, or the introduc­
    laymen is simply to adhere with complete loyalty to what­ tion of the new missal, or the rearrangement of the Church
    ever our bishop says and not to dare to pass judgment on all calendar, or the new rubrics for the liturgy, then our obedi­
    those things which I have referred to in this book as elements ence (as Vatican I declares'°), but by no means our agree­
    of the devastation of the vineyard of the Lord. This is the ment is required (I made this distinction in my article in
    attitude which, as mentioned above, is demanded precisely Triumph, March, 1970). ·In the history of the Church there
    by the bishops who pursue an ostrich-policy of willful blind­ have been many unfortunate ordinances and practical deci­
    ness and who as a result regard as annoying disturbers of sions by popes, which have then been retracted by other popes.
    the peace all those who protest against heresies and the devas· In such matters we may, while obeying an ordinance, with
    tation of the Church. all due respect express opposition to it, pray for its elimina­
    At the basis of this attitude is a false idea of loyalty to tion, and address many appeals to the pope.
    the hierarchy. When the pope speaks ex cathedra on faith or This holds even more for the ordinances of a bishop, espe­
    morals, then unconditional acceptance and submission is re­ cially in a time when there are bishops who belong to a kind
    quired of every Catholic. But it is false to extend this loyalty of "fifth column" in the Church, and when there are many
    to encyclicals in which new theses are proposed. This is not other bishops who, while not belonging to it, nevertheless fear
    to deny that the magisterium of the Church extends much public opinion more than God, and thus always swim with
    farther than the dogmas. If an encyclical deals with a ques­ the tide of the times, or at least do not dare to take up the
    tion of faith or morals and is based on the tradition of the fight against the prevailing tendencies.
    holy Church - that is, expresses something which the Church No, none of these responses is the one which God expects

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