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Luther paved the way for Calvin and other Protestants who said the the separation of the Christian from the citizen is acceptable in certain circumstances. But, according to our divinely-inspired faith, one's necessary faith in Jesus Christ must manifest itself in good works. As St. James' Epistle says: “Faith without works is dead.” Once we start talking about works, we cease talking about merely private aspects of man's life. His works in public immediately make his religious dimension public, insofar as those works are subject to being judged by the light of faith. Then we come right back to the connection between a personal religious life and a publicly-manifested, social, religious life.
Just imagine that tomorrow morning we had a miraculous revival in the Catholic Church: a Catholic pope, the hierarchy is all Catholic, the old Mass and sacraments are back, there is an abundance of vocations, and everything else besides.
It doesn't change the fact that outside the Catholic Church society is still rotten. The banking system is still usurious; the economic system is either money-grubbing Capitalism or a Socialistic bureaucracy; we have a medical ethic which is fundamentally pro-death; we have an educational system which is dumbing people down and turning them into moronic consumers, and so on. In other words, we could have the old Mass and everything back tomorrow morning, but it isn't going to immediately change the fact that the society around the Church is rotten.
While society remains rotten, the people's habits and thoughts and customs remain contaminated with anti-Catholicism, whether they know it or not, and they become much more exposed to mortal sin. So, the society around them affects both their contribution to the social order as well as to their own chances for salvation.
At one time the Church, directly and indirectly, determined the direction of Europe and, in broad lines, allowing for Original Sin, it was a very good direction. But, after the Reformation, we started to cede too many areas of society, more or less without a fight. For instance, the universities were a creation of the Catholic Church but today there probably aren't five Catholic universities left on the planet. People think universities are concerned with imparting a secular education. But, of course, it wasn't originally about that. It was about a rounded education, spiritual and temporal. But we gave away that ground almost without a fight, and doing that in every other area as well brought the enemies of the Church right up against her doors. In the same way that the Turks were up against the Gates of Vienna, the Modernists and their allies – who are fundamentally Satanic in spirit whether they know it or not – were up against the doors of the Church. When the people inside the Church opened up the doors from the inside, they flooded in.
Now, the whole point about Catholic tradition is that we are trying to kick them back out of the Church, but even if we get them out and then bar the doors so they cannot get back in, all around the Church are the same people. Let us not forget that the whole point of saying the prayer to St. Michael at the end of Low Mass wasn't just to invoke Michael in a nice theological way, honouring the archangel who cast Lucifer out of Heaven and thrust him down to Hell. We called, and call, upon him because he is our leader in the temporal order, in the fight to establish the rights of God. So, after Mass, we are supposed to go out there into battle and fight to take back what rightfully belongs to God. That's hard and it's unpleasant, and it's not 'respectable', and a lot of people won't do it, not because they haven't got the aptitude for it, but because they're frightened and they are frightened fundamentally because they fear the media. But, at the end of the day, what is the media? The media is simply the Sanhedrin writ large.
Who is going to change the organisation of the world? Who is going to carry on this fight under the banner of St. Michael? The priests? What do you expect the priests t
Luther paved the way for Calvin and other Protestants who said the the separation of the Christian from the citizen is acceptable in certain circumstances. But, according to our divinely-inspired faith, one's necessary faith in Jesus Christ must manifest itself in good works. As St. James' Epistle says: “Faith without works is dead.” Once we start talking about works, we cease talking about merely private aspects of man's life. His works in public immediately make his religious dimension public, insofar as those works are subject to being judged by the light of faith. Then we come right back to the connection between a personal religious life and a publicly-manifested, social, religious life.
Just imagine that tomorrow morning we had a miraculous revival in the Catholic Church: a Catholic pope, the hierarchy is all Catholic, the old Mass and sacraments are back, there is an abundance of vocations, and everything else besides.
It doesn't change the fact that outside the Catholic Church society is still rotten. The banking system is still usurious; the economic system is either money-grubbing Capitalism or a Socialistic bureaucracy; we have a medical ethic which is fundamentally pro-death; we have an educational system which is dumbing people down and turning them into moronic consumers, and so on. In other words, we could have the old Mass and everything back tomorrow morning, but it isn't going to immediately change the fact that the society around the Church is rotten.
While society remains rotten, the people's habits and thoughts and customs remain contaminated with anti-Catholicism, whether they know it or not, and they become much more exposed to mortal sin. So, the society around them affects both their contribution to the social order as well as to their own chances for salvation.
At one time the Church, directly and indirectly, determined the direction of Europe and, in broad lines, allowing for Original Sin, it was a very good direction. But, after the Reformation, we started to cede too many areas of society, more or less without a fight. For instance, the universities were a creation of the Catholic Church but today there probably aren't five Catholic universities left on the planet. People think universities are concerned with imparting a secular education. But, of course, it wasn't originally about that. It was about a rounded education, spiritual and temporal. But we gave away that ground almost without a fight, and doing that in every other area as well brought the enemies of the Church right up against her doors. In the same way that the Turks were up against the Gates of Vienna, the Modernists and their allies – who are fundamentally Satanic in spirit whether they know it or not – were up against the doors of the Church. When the people inside the Church opened up the doors from the inside, they flooded in.
Now, the whole point about Catholic tradition is that we are trying to kick them back out of the Church, but even if we get them out and then bar the doors so they cannot get back in, all around the Church are the same people. Let us not forget that the whole point of saying the prayer to St. Michael at the end of Low Mass wasn't just to invoke Michael in a nice theological way, honouring the archangel who cast Lucifer out of Heaven and thrust him down to Hell. We called, and call, upon him because he is our leader in the temporal order, in the fight to establish the rights of God. So, after Mass, we are supposed to go out there into battle and fight to take back what rightfully belongs to God. That's hard and it's unpleasant, and it's not 'respectable', and a lot of people won't do it, not because they haven't got the aptitude for it, but because they're frightened and they are frightened fundamentally because they fear the media. But, at the end of the day, what is the media? The media is simply the Sanhedrin writ large.
Who is going to change the organisation of the world? Who is going to carry on this fight under the banner of St. Michael? The priests? What do you expect the priests t