Bishop Williamson hands over the bulk of the conference to a seminarian who discusses the problems of American Catholicism before Vatican II, Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” the contraception mentality, Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind.” and American jurisprudence.
Bishop Williamson digresses into a discussion on the TWA Airliner disaster, then goes on to discuss the modernist interpretation of the Bible, the democratization of the Church, and the Hegelian dialectic.
Bishop Williamson explains that the study of St. Thomas is crucial, how Pius X wants the bishops and priests to be vigilant, and how Pius X exemplifies the clear headed and strong Pope.
Bishop Williamson mentions that more and more Novus Ordo priests want to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass, the “money question,” lies of evolution and the Kennedy assassination, the modernist as apologist, and Malachi Martin.
Bishop Williamson discusses the modernist as the historian, Vatican I teaching on “evolving truth,” a Catholic definition of history, mentions Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, and the effects of homosexuality on the mind.
His Excellency makes mention of the novel Brideshead Revisited, the concept that faith has nothing to do with feelings, the idea of “triumphalism,” and the modernist dialectic.
