"I will return"

to quote General Macarthur on his ejection from the Philippines.

Above is a picture of Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP lecturing at the Angelicum in Rome. There are only two twentieth century theologians, Fr Garrigou-Lagrange and all the other theologians. By the time of the Second Vatican Council, he was too infirm to participate. His most famous pupil, on whose doctoral thesis he had written, "writes much, says very little" was there, opposing the condemnation of Communism in Gaudiem et Spes. Karol Wojtyla was his name. The Poles in exile took a rather different attitude.

Fr Garrigou-Lagrange's name was expunged from a dictionary of 20th century theologians of note. There was no charity in victory among the proponents of the so-called "new theology" whose work the Dominican had so eloquently warned about in his "New Theology Where is it going?" of 1947.

In the present circumstances, one is reminded of the Augustianian, Luis de Leon. He was arrested by the Inquisition during a lecture. Tradition has it that he began his lecture the first day after returning from four years' imprisonment with the words "As we were saying yesterday...."

Except since the 1965, forty long years have passed of penal servitude for the Church, imprisoned by the modern world, like Patty Hurst ever anxious to please their captors.

The day of liberation for the Latin Mass is at hand. But then the contest begins.

And Romano Amerio seems to have been rehabilitated before the great Dominican. But among the greats, there is no rivalry.