Dialogue Doesn’t Work but Tradition Does

Vatican II was all about shaking hands with other religions and the fruits have been rotten. Can we honestly say that the changes and ecumania of Vatican II produced even one conversion to Christ?

David Martin ——Bio and Archives--May 10, 2026

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On May 8, the first anniversary of Pope Leo’s election, Cardinal Raymond Burke who is the former head of the Vatican high court spoke on the present confusion and disunity in the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Burke is hinting that the Old Mass is "the perpetual and visible source and foundation" of our ecclesial unity

“In a time marked by confusion and division within the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, let us renew our prayers that the Holy Father persevere in the fulfillment of the Petrine Ministry in the service of the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity of the bishops and all the faithful.”

As a good and tradition-minded prelate, Cardinal Burke certainly realizes that change and ecumenical unity do not produce ecclesial unity but division. In this time of disunity and confusion Jesus Crucified simply needs to be lifted up in center view before the Church as a means of uniting the Church around him, and the way to effectively do this is by universally restoring the Latin Tridentine Mass. Without explicitly saying it Cardinal Burke is hinting that the Old Mass is "the perpetual and visible source and foundation" of........

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