First off, Mr. Auster never once (as has Brother Nathanael Kapner, of ‘www.realjewnews.com’) repudiated his jewishness, upon adoption of a confession of Christianity. Without that repudiation and renouncing of ‘jewish error,’ his conversion is not valid, nor is it efficacious; for, as the fathers tell us, a Jew must repudiate his very jewishness, in order to be embraced in the bosom of Holy Mother Church. [cf. Br. Kapner, and Israel [Adam] Shamir, both Jews, both converts to Orthodoxy] Therefore, as he has not ceased being a Jew, Mr. Auster is ipso facto, not a Christian, for his primary allegiance is not to the race of the Second Adam, i.e., Christ, but to the Deicides, for whom the curse of God remains. [Matt. 27:25] I have read of that ‘first love’ often, the times I have read his columns.

Secondly, McNutt’s book (as a manual of valid prayer), is nothing less a smokescreen treatise on the graceless Novus Ordo Vatican II heresy, and not much more. While intercessory prayer is valid, (and God can use the prayers of unrighteous men and women as much as he can those of ‘the household of Faith,’) it is better to be united with the Vine, than severed apart from it. Both the Orthodox, as well as every single Reformer, has noted, and continues to note, that ‘Rome is no true Church.’

Thirdly, while the traditionalist Anglicanism that Auster joined has much to recommend it, the recent ‘invitation’ for said communions to join to apostate Rome, (and the resultant eagerness of many deluded ‘Anglicans’ to ‘pope over’) clearly indicated that the Anglicans- even the most traditionalist among them- clearly had not learned the lessons the Caroline Divines had pointed out some two hundred- plus years before; that the “Greek” Church (i.e., the Orthodox Christian religion from before the Schism of 1054) was more ‘truth-giving’ for the Anglican’s understanding of the Faith, than the Rome the Reformers had broken away from.

Lastly, if Mr. Auster has turned many people to ‘traditionalism.’ it is only toward his own aberrant form of it, and not Truth itself. For the which, as a: 1) Jew, and 2) sectarian Protestant cultist, he stands not much higher than Arius or Nestorius, in the panoply of ‘Christians’ which the Church’s history has given us. I will say this in his favor- at least he is not a Judas.

It would be better, thus, to pray for Mr. Auster’s true conversion to the ‘faith once delivered unto the saints’ prior to his foreordained end, that for the ‘cleansing fire’ of the Holy Spirit to fall on one not even regenerate is a horrible thing, [Heb. 10:31] if the belief, writings, and actions of such a man are any indication of his ‘traditionalism.’

There are those who will call such truth-telling, insensitive, or even ‘hateful.’ But my standards are much higher than the platitudes of false piety so often on display today, among the many so-called ‘Christians.’ I have to answer to the same God as St. Paul, who said to the clueless of his day, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” [Gal. 4:16] Which is, (of course) the very definition of what a true Christian is all about, anyway. [John 14:6, John 17:17]

- Fr. John+