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Editor’s Note: I can honestly say that as a Franciscan brother, who until 2013, did not publish even a blog, let alone read the generic main-line Catholic media, I had no idea that Robert Mickens existed, or wrote a “Letter from Rome”, until today, though he has been doing it since 2005. — FromRome.Info, though it has an entirely different editorial stance, finds it refreshing to see an article like this from Mickens, which is so deeply integrated into the “Vatican II” narrative as to be positively out of touch with what has been going on in the Church in the last 40 years. — I say, “refreshing”, because, sometimes you do not realize the value of the truth, until you come face to face with someone who has an entirely backwards view of the truth. For Mickens, adherence to the dominant narrative is truth and fidelity, so much so, that he could be accused of having lived, not at Rome, but on Mars, since he seems never to have met Catholics who are spiritually abused or encountered any sort of liturgical outrages in the entire time he has been a Catholic. It is almost as if, for Mickens, there is no God, there is only the inexorable steamroller of progress programed by the elites who know better, so much so that even statistical comparisons of things like percentages of Catholics who go to Mass on Sunday, get married in the Church, or who still believe in Jesus Christ, have no meaning at all as yardsticks by which to measure before or after. — An article like the above will guarantee you invites to cocktail parties from Cardinals of the Roman Curia, but I cannot imagine that if you came back to the U.S,A. now and then, you would start a conversation among life-long Catholic friends on such a basis without provoking a strong reaction from those who have lived in the trenches and have tried to survive the bombardment of propaganda, instead of religion, for the last 60 years. — And as an Italian-American who can speak Italian, I would bet that Mickens in all the years he has been at Rome, has never had a conversation with a Roman, about what they think of Vatican II and the effects it has had on Rome. Indeed, I have had many such conversations, from the very first time I came to Rome and spoke with Romans, so it is incomprehensible to me that Mickens could have lived and worked in Rome for 30+ years and never had such an experience.
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“to the dominant narrative is truth and fidelity, so much so, that he could be accused of having lived, not at Rome, but on Mars, ” LOL
Well, you know what they say: “birds of a feather flock together” and Mickens is (based on decades old common knowledge) a notorious old faggot, so not surprising that he seems to have an inverted, not to say perverted, relationship with reality.
Comments there are not dated, so one cannot tell how many were added since you (and possibly other commentators supportive of Tradition) publicised this article.
However, of the 28 total comments,
16 generally supported the TLM / opposed Mickens’ article;
11 generally opposed the TLM / supported Mickens’ article;
and one highlighted the division between the two groups of commenters.
It would be interesting to know if UCA News received any US Federal funding – directly or indirectly (via Maryknoll Missioners or USCCB, for example) – under current or previous US administrations.
It does appear to be pushing a “human rights” and “social justice” agenda, more than a Catholic evangelisation agenda.