By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
The widening ripples continue to spread throughout the Catholic world resulting from a simple series of splashes in the Tiber one October day in Rome. The effect of one young man’s courage to stand up against desecration, confusion, and sacrilege has had a profound effect, encouraging and galvanizing loyal and faithful Catholics the world over.
Many watching, helpless to do more than pray in their homes and churches far from the Eternal City, were overjoyed to see the answer to so many calls to Heaven lifted so often and by so many asking for divine intervention against the spreading confusion of revolution and heresy. That revolution is fomented in the name of the Church and on the part of so many ordained for the purpose of defending and spreading the true faith for the salvation of souls.
“Splash” is no longer just the name of silly movie about a mermaid. Now it has become also a watchword of counterrevolution in the days after the wooden idols were cast into the waters flowing timelessly through Roma at the foot of the Via della Conciliazione, the boulevard revealing the view of St. Peter’s to those who approach it thus.
Though not without controversy even among those who are faithful, it was a completely justified act of condemnation, not a “conciliation” with error, but, rather, a resounding rallying cry for all of the faithful watching, praying, and witnessing, each in his or her own small way around the globe.
The mere mention of the word “splash” around Vatican City in the days following the throwing of the idols into the river elicited peals of laughter, so resounding was its effect upon the oppressed faithful also within its walls in this time of mercy.
This heroic act teaches us a timeless lesson in the perennial need to defend the faith and to make reparation for so many outrages against the Immaculate and Sacred Hearts.
Alexander Tschugguel is the man behind the courageous act to cast the wooden Amazonian idols — which Pope Francis himself affirmed are properly termed pagan “Pachamama” images — out of the church in Rome located very close to the Vatican.
Alexander has been making a “splash” in the Catholic world ever since he cast those desecrating totems into the storied river coursing past Vatican City as it wends its way to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
I traveled with parishioners to see Alexander in person and to hear him speak as he appeared at a Tradition, Family and Property venue in northern Virginia on the Feast of St. Martin, Pope and martyr. Catholics crowded into a home fit for only a third of their number. Conversation and refreshments began the evening, before the chairs — arranged in the lower level of the home for the talk sufficient for but a portion of the overflow crowd — began to fill.
There is no small irony in the act of a member of the lay faithful intervening, as did Alexander Tschugguel, in true fulfillment of the renewed call by Vatican II for lay leadership in the defense of the faith, in renunciation of and in reparation for an outrageous sacrilege in a Catholic church, itself perpetrated in the name of a distorted interpretation of Vatican II teaching on interreligious dialogue.
The video Alexander released, which records him and another man tossing the wooden images of a naked, pregnant woman representing mother earth into the river, was replayed thousands of times. This gives evidence that these heroic young men stood up to the political subjugation of the Church perpetrated in the name of a synod. The video carefully concealed the identities of those involved and thus created curiosity, while forcing the media and pundits to focus on the act the men took, rather than distract from it by reporting on their persons.
This tactic was intentionally taken by Alexander. He did not reveal himself because he wanted the focus not on himself but on what he did. He only later revealed his name to stand up for what he did and finish the fight as a faithful Catholic in loyal support of the hierarchy.
Commenting further, Alexander reminded those listening: “We are all called to the work first within the family,” the first “missionary field.”
Drawing laughter, he reminded us of the fates of the apostles, their bloody martyrdoms far greater than any sacrifices God has yet asked of us in these dark times. “God’s plan is that we must go through this fight. The first apostles were all killed. You are not killed. You are alive.”
A native of Vienna, Tschugguel is a convert from Lutheranism. He says the Amazon Synod was a cover for promoting a UN agenda of attacking the West as bad, with the Amazon indigenous liberation theology as a substitute ideal.
Traditionalism, not conservatism, is the answer, Alexander urged. So-called hate speech is punished regularly and forcefully when Catholics in Europe speak out with the simple truth. American voices and media are needed to advance the cause of Tradition in Europe. “Modernists can come and destroy every building but will never destroy the faith.”
Alexander urged his listeners to pray first before taking action in similar situations and to always seek the counsel of a priest. “Do not act out of emotion but through reason.” He supports and prays for Pope Francis and the hierarchy and urges all Catholics to do the same.
His wife at first told him he must not take the action against the sacrilege of the Pachamamas at Santa Maria in Traspontina. Only after he prayed and spoke to a priest did she then change her mind. The priest told him that it should be a priest who takes action against such a desecration of a holy place consecrated to the true God. But in these strange and dangerous times if a priest were to make such a corrective move, he would jeopardize his people and his parish. For this reason, he said, a layman should do it. In that case, said Alexander’s wife, “Now you must do it.”
I was pleased to be able to introduce one of our young Traditional Latin Mass altar boys to Alexander, the two making quite a disparity in height as Alexander is a tall man, over six feet. Our young men are very blessed to have in him, and in so many Catholic men today, strong examples of faithful husbands, fathers, and priests.
May more young men follow in the footsteps of Alexander, and all those defending the true faith and the sacred honor of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Mother Mary in the face of blasphemy and outrageous sacrilege in deed and in word!
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