Since the opinions in most of these publications go against popular politics in the Catholic Church plus are after the Imprimatur was “in vogue,” (the Imprimatur was in vogue for about 400 years from about the time of the council of Trent to about 1968, though it existed to some extent even after that) only the last one, A Catechism of Modernism, carry an official approbation. For an encyclical on what is possibly the root of the crisis – modernism, seen by pope Pius X, see Pascendi Dominici Gregis on the Vatican website. Once before, in church history, during the Arian Heresy one man strongly disagreed with the proposition that Jesus Christ was not God, St. Athanasius, and his thesis that Jesus Christ was actually God eventually was accepted as Catholic, Christian Dogma. The first distinguished Prelate to recognize the damage being done to the Church (Pope Pius X first saw it coming, implemented the oath against modernism, and kick out as many heretics as he could justify but it had not succeeded yet in being implemented, i.e. no damage had yet been done), and why, was one Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Like St. Athanasius, for the longest time, he stood alone among bishops. He wrote a book entitled “An Open Letter to Confused Catholics,” highlighting the concerns he had based on the fact that the Church had seen a similar revolution, taking the same steps the conciliar church has tried to take, to unsuccessfully try to change the mass in the Catholic Church 400 years earlier with Father Martin Luther (yes once a Roman Catholic priest) in Germany and Bishop Cranmer (again also once a Roman Catholic Bishop) in England.
Publisher : Gracewing Ltd.; First Thus Used edition (January 1, 1986)
Paperback : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 0852440472
ISBN-13 : 978-0852440476
The next book is one that is helpful in understanding the causes, politics, theological leanings of those precipitating the crisis as well as those traditionalists resisting the novelties being introduced by those precipitating the crisis and the legality of the stance exhibited by the traditionalist resistors. The resistors stand, as I see it, on St. Paul’s words to the Hebrews in chapter 13 verses 8-9: “Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever. Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.” The title of the book is “The Catechism of the Crisis in the Church” by Father Matthias Gaudron, and its identifying information is as follows:
Publisher : Angelus Press; First Edition (January 1, 2010)
Hardcover : 230 pages
ISBN-10 : 1892331799
ISBN-13 : 978-1892331793
The next few books are showing possible infiltrators of the church, namely masons, communists and insiders (read here disgruntled priests and bishops who don’t like certain “hard to sell” dogmas and doctrines and are trying to change dogma, on paper, but the Truth now is the Truth forever and cannot be changed – the Truth of the Catholic Church which is Jesus Christ) to entice more people to “join the Catholic Church” (really the locally watered down easier to follow loosely interpreted conciliar church) to be able to get more money-contributing lay people. .
First are communist infiltrators, The key to understanding the way communists think and the way they think of their followers is reading the book “School of Darkness” by Bella V. Dodd..
Publisher : Angelico Press (September 25, 2017)
Paperback : 274 pages
ISBN-10 : 1621382923
ISBN-13 : 978-1621382928
A book by a French nurse who supposedly got a diary being kept by a communist “anti-apostle” priest, who was hurt in a car accident and wrote a book from it revealing how the communist planned on destroying the Church. The name of the book is “AA-1026: Memoirs of the Communist Infiltration Into the Church,” by Marie Carre.
Publisher : TAN Books; English ed. edition (May 1, 1972)
Paperback : 135 pages
ISBN-10 : 0895554496
ISBN-13 : 978-0895554499
The masons and the CIA are also suspected of infiltrating the Church. A book outlining evidence showing this is “Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between The Vatican, The CIA and the MAFIA” by Paul L. Williams.
Publisher : Prometheus (December 18, 2018)
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 1633884783
ISBN-13 : 978-1633884786
One of two books that infer secret society or masonic influences in the Catholic Church is The “Broken Cross: The Hidden Hand in the Vatican” by Piers Compton.
Publisher : Veritas Pub.,Australia; New ed of ” Broken Cross ” edition (January 1, 1984)
Paperback : 191 pages
ISBN-10 : 0949667668
ISBN-13 : 978-0949667663
Also a more recent, more specific book implicating the masons is “Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within” by Taylor Marshall
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press; Crisis Publications edition (May 31, 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 1622828461
ISBN-13 : 978-1622828463
The second to last book is also about a plot from within the Church apparently concocted by modernists prelates who want to push this heresy on the Church is “The St. Gallen Mafia: Exposing the Secret Reformist Group within the Church” by Julia Meloni.
Publisher : TAN Books (October 26, 2021)
Hardcover : 168 pages
ISBN-10 : 1505122872
ISBN-13 : 978-1505122879
A series of three books on the Liturgical Revolution, seeking the origins of the changes to the Tridentines Latin mass beginning with a book that shows that the same method was used about 400 years before by Bishop Cranmer to inculcate new dogma into Catholicism to start the Anglican religion. Basically, he moved the church of England away from the idea of sacrifice and apostolic Church to one of celebration and one secularly run by kings.
The first book is “Cranmer’s Godly Order” by Michael Davies
Publisher : Angelus Press (January 1, 1995)
Hardcover : 372 pages
ISBN-10 : 1937843890
ISBN-13 : 978-1937843892
The second book (Volume two) describes how the Second Vatican Council was systematically taken over by a predominately German cabal to guide the council to putting in vague phraseology along with solid dogma to later use in a preplanned way to subvert the order of the new mass. It also talks about how in part ”. . . the liturgical reform had for one of its principal aims the abolition of actions and formulas of mystical signification,. . .” it also acknowledges the fact that “it is a logical consequence that its authors had to vindicate the use of the vernacular in divine worship. This isn the eyes of the sectarians a most important item.” (page 299 in Pope John’s Council by Michael Davies).. The book [GB1] is entitled “Pope John’s Council” by Michael Davies.
Publisher : Angelus Press; 2nd edition (June 1, 2008)
Hardcover : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 1892331365
ISBN-13 : 978-1892331366
The third book is on “Pope Paul’s New Mass,” the book being of the same name again by Michael Davies. The book is about the changes in the new mass and how some ot them have no parallel in the 2000 year history of the Roman Catholic Church and a comparison with other protestant liturgies.
Publisher : Angelus Press (December 1, 2009)
Hardcover : 752 pages
ISBN-10 : 189233173X
ISBN-13 : 978-1892331731
A different perspective on what happened to the Church after Vatican II is given in “The Truth about what Really Happened to the Catholic Church after Vatican II” by Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Peter Dimond.
Publisher : Most Holy Family Monastery (February 1, 2007)
Perfect Paperback : 658 pages
ISBN-10 : 0975551418
ISBN-13 : 978-0975551417
A book on the bishop that was at the center of exposing the novelties of the Novus Ordo Mass before the destruction it caused was fully realized and observed is “The Horn of the Unicorn” by David Allen White.
Publisher : Angelus Press (August 1, 2006)
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 189233139X
ISBN-13 : 978-1892331397
Much of the crisis the church faces today are because of the great reliance of the words of the pope as “infallible.” The doctrine of infallibility of the pope only applies in certain narrow instances when they pope declares he’s speaking infallibly from the seat of Peter “ex cathedra.” Pope’s have opinions but the New Testament tells us we must believe only what is given to us in the Old Testament unless modified by the New Testament as well as all of the New Testament (Galatians 1:8). The best way I like to sum up this line of scripture is: if someone says something opposite from what is in scripture, not necessarily if neutral or borderline, then he or she is not speaking for God. A 2 volume set that can help the average lay person sort out what we need to know in these confusing times which I can only assume is God’s chastisement of mankind for, at least in the United States, things like the uptick in abortions, allowing so much license to criminals, allowing sex trafficking due to border laxity, allowing the poisoning of American children from fentanyl, again due to boarder laxity, increase in divorce and single parent households leading to the neglect and abuse of children etc., is “The Road from Hyperpapalism to Catholicism” by Peter A. Kwasniewski.
The Road to Hyperpapalism to Catholicism, Volume 1: (Theological Reflections on the Rock of the Church)
Publisher : Arouca Press (May 12, 2022)
Paperback : 200 pages
ISBN-10 : 1990685102
ISBN-13 : 978-1990685101
The Road to Hyperpapalism to Catholicism, Volume 1: (Chronological Responses to an Unfolding Pontificate)
Publisher : Arouca Press (May 12, 2022)
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1990685137
ISBN-13 : 978-1990685132
There is one book which I have read which covers one perspective of the crisis and has official approbations is “Trojan Horse in the City of God: The Catholic Crisis Explained” by
Publisher : Sophia Inst Pr (January 1, 1967)
Hardcover : 303 pages
ISBN-10 : 0918477182
ISBN-13 : 978-0918477187
Nihil Obstat: Marrion A Habig O.F.M.
Censor Deputatus
Imprimatur: Most Rev. Cletus F. O’Donnell, D.D.
Vicar General, Archdiocese of Chicago
March 8, 1967 Revised Edition
Traditional Thomistic Catholic 