THE GREAT SACRILEGE By Fr. James F. Wathen

The Inside Story of Vatican II: A Firsthand Account of the Council's Inner Workings

Rev. Fr. Ralph M. Wiltgen, S.V.D.

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Only two years after the Second Vatican Council concluded in 1965, Catholics around the world welcomed the publication ofThe Rhine Flows Into the Tiber, a history of the Council published worldwide in four languages. Widely hailed for its balanced, factual reporting, this eye-opening insider’s account was written by Fr. Ralph M. Wiltgen, a priest and professional journalist who was an eyewitness with unparalleled access to the principal figures and events of the Council.
The Inside Story of Vatican II is a revised, updated edition of that ground-breaking contemporary account, which details in particular the crucial influence on the Council’s proceedings exerted by its German-speaking bishops. As Catholics continue to debate the meaning and impact of Vatican II, they will find this book an indispensable guide for understanding what actually took place there behind the scenes.

In 1971, amidst the chaos and confusion wrought by the Second Vatican Council and the advent of the Novus Ordo Missae, well-meaning Catholics craved clarity and direction. A voice of clarity was found in the late Father James Wathen and his book The Great Sacrilege. Father's love of the true, the good, the beautiful, and the holy shone forth from every page, and he minced no words in his criticism of his fellow clergy or in his analysis of what was at the heart of the New Mass.

In recent years, this great Catholic treatise of monumental significance has become nearly impossible to find, so the Fr. James F. Wathen Foundation is please to announce The Great Sacrilege is finally back in print, with an easier-to-read font and layout. Father's insights into the crisis in the Church and the evil which is at the heart of the New Mass are just as relevant today as they were in 1971. Order today and rediscover the wit and wisdom of Fr. Wathen.

The Great Chastisement
Isaias - 13:4. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war. - 13:5. To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land. - 13:6. Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord. (Note: The day of the Lord... That is, the time when he will execute justice upon sinners.) - 13:7. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt, - 13:8. And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt. - 13:9. Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. - 13:10. For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light. - 13:11. And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty. - 13:12. A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold. - 13:13. For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day of his fierce wrath. - 24:1. Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. - 24:3. With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. - 24:19. With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved. - 24:20. With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. - 26:21. For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more. - 50:3. I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering. - 63:2. Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that tread in the winepress- - 63:3. I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel. - 63:4. For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption is come. - 63:5. I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and there was none to give aid: and my own arm hath saved for me, and my indignation itself hath helped me. - 63:6. And I have trodden down the people in my wrath, and have made them drunk in my indignation, and have brought down their strength to the earth. - 66:15. For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke with flames of fire. - 66:16. For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

The Comet by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing much want and many plagues. [After the] great Comet, the great nation will be devastated by earthquakes, storms, and great waves of water, causing much want and plagues. The ocean will also flood many other countries, so that all coastal cities will live in fear, with many destroyed. All sea coast cities will be fearful and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed and even those who escape will die from a horrible disease.