January 2006

Evolving Into Atheism

THE EDITOR

Last October, to mark the 40th anniversary of Dei Verbum, the Vatican II discourse on Holy Scripture, the British episcopates released a joint offering titled The Gift of Scripture [TGS].

At the press conference launch, Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow described it as a “teaching document [which] will both inform and encourage all those who wish to make scripture more central to the faith and devotional life of the Church.”

If only!

Strewn with liberal biblical presumptions, errors and clichés from start to finish, His Grace should rather have depicted this outrageous production as ‘a teaching document on how to deconstruct Holy Scripture according to the textbook tenets of Modernism, which will both misinform the faithful and corrupt the faith and devotional life of the Church.’

However, since the “diabolic disorientation” of our day prevents the Archbishop and his episcopal brethren from seeing this monumental betrayal for what it is, and since we can be sure that the open-and-shut Catholic case against their Modernist exegesis will be studiously ignored by the dilettantes (so-called biblical “experts”) who advise them, we urge readers to utilise the damning critiques which follow to alert unsuspecting Catholics to the truth about TGS at every opportunity. (Our March 2002 edition examining the postconciliar assault against traditional biblica