The Remnant has reprinted a beautiful letter by the French champion of Catholic Action, Jean Ousset: To Fly from the Cross. It is a remedy to the disease of sedevacantism, as well as to any of the other forms of despair that Catholics might find themselves tempted to in our day.
This paragraph gives a taste of the letter:
You speak of the present “Dark disorder.” Even if this were true, it is a weak argument, because it limits itself exclusively to the present “dark disorder”, for, in a sense, the history of the Church is the history of an almost uninterrupted “dark disorder”. So much so, that if one must lose one’s Faith exclusively as a result of the present disorder, it would be to sin by default, not by excess, in invoking only the darkness of today.
Too many, confused by a whitewashed telling of the Church’s history, forget that there are both wheat and chaff in the mystical body, or as yesterday’s gospel put it, both the good and the bad are in the wedding banquet of the king’s son.
