New World Order

Do “Leftys” incline Good?

March 2, 2019 By FrM

Being Left inclined does not make a person evil; in many cases it is precisely because they would like a better world and want increased “good”. But what “good”/Good do they seek? What is the authority of the “good”? Can we really reason that Marx and Alinsky are better examples of “good” than Jesus Christ? Really?

The Good of the Will of God is often different than the “good” that is defined by most of the world.

There are soft-core Lefties who just want a decent world for everyone (good motive, bad means) and you have hard-core Lefties who actually understand what they believe and its consequences.

So what to look at when pondering “foundational Good”?

Current Rome?: No. Our political leaders? No.

My suggestion is that we return to classic reason. Aristotle being perhaps the most accessible religiously neutral figure that pursued Good.

From there we may rediscover the best of Christianity which under-gird the whole civilization. You may no more eradicate it from the West with a good outcome than you can remove the spine from a healthy person. How do you discover the best of Christianity as it is applied and lived in the world? Through the lives and writings of the Saints.

Church Teaching On Socialism and Communism

February 25, 2019 By FrM

“Christian Socialists” are frauds
“Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”
– Pius XI, Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931

Socialism like other sins corrupt what is good in man
“…communism, socialism, nihilism, hideous deformities of the civil society of men and almost its ruin.”
– Leo XIII, Encyclical Diuturnum, June 29, 1881

Socialists oppose the Will of the One True God
“…We speak of that sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists, and who, spread over all the world, and bound together by the closest ties in a wicked confederacy, no longer seek the shelter of secret meetings, but, openly and boldly marching forth in the light of day, strive to bring to a head what they have long been planning – the overthrow of all civil society whatsoever. Surely, these are they who, as the sacred Scriptures testify, ‘Defile the flesh, despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.’ (Jude 8).”
– Leo XIII Encyclical Quod Apostolici Muneris, December 28, 1878

Socialism is a false utopia, another fraud.
“The dream of re-shaping society will bring socialism but stranger still, alarming and saddening at the same time, are the audacity and frivolity of men who call themselves Catholics and dream of re-shaping society under such conditions, and of establishing on earth, over and beyond the pale of the Catholic Church, ‘the reign of love and justice’ … What are they going to produce? … A mere verbal and chimerical construction in which we shall see, glowing in a jumble, and in seductive confusion, the words Liberty, Justice, Fraternity, Love, Equality, and human exultation, all resting upon an ill-understood human dignity. It will be a tumultuous agitation, sterile for the end proposed, but which will benefit the less Utopian exploiters of the people.
– St. Pius X, Apostolic Letter Notre Charge Apostolique, August 25, 1910

Socialism is opposed to Christian truth
“… For Socialism, which could then be termed almost a single system and which maintained definite teachings reduced into one body of doctrine, has since then split chiefly into two sections, often opposing each other and even bitterly hostile, without either one however abandoning a position fundamentally contrary to Christian truth that was characteristic of Socialism.” -Pius XI, Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931

Socialism delivers the opposite to its stated intention.

“The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person − every person − needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need.”
-Benedict XVI, Encyclical Deus Caritas Est, December 25, 2005

The fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature.

“Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism. Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil. Man is thus reduced to a series of social relationships, and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision disappears, the very subject whose decisions build the social order. From this mistaken conception of the person there arise both a distortion of law, which defines the sphere of the exercise of freedom, and an opposition to private property.” – John Paul II, Encyclical Centesimus Annus, May 1, 1991

Globalism and the “New World Order”

June 28, 2017 By FrM

Traditionally, the Church recognizes the right of individuals to band together and form nations. While It holds a monolithic notion of one true doctrine and one correct morality for all the world, it recognizes that the worldly affairs of people may differ from one region of the globe to another. Political rule is best left to the lowest organizational level possible, so that the rulers are personally familiar with the conditions about which they are legislating. Localized rule also gives people who don’t like the way things are done in one place the freedom to move somewhere else — global rule implies a requirement for everyone to think alike. At the end of the First World War, Pope Benedict XV put it this way:

The coming of a world state is longed for and confidently expected by all the worst and most disordered elements…. The state based on an absolute equality of men and a community of possessions, would banish all national loyalties…. In it no acknowledgement would be made of a father over his children — or of God over human society…. If these ideas are put into practice there will inevitably follow a reign of terror.¹

Yet in spite of this, several documents point to the Vatican II popes as globalists. Gaudium et spes, the Vatican II document on the Church in the modern world, is long winded but deserves a reading. It points out a lot of things in the world that “ought to be.” Now, it is hard to argue with “ought-to-be”s. Everyone should have a good standard of living, and education, and health insurance, and safety from crime, and the benefits of music and art, and so on – – very few would disagree. However, aa problem arises when, after lots of well publicized discussion, no one has any real world solutions for how the “ought-to-be”s might be made realities. More and bigger government is usually the final answer, despite calls for something called “subsidiarity.” In this case, bigger government means world government — a very frightening prospect for any but those in favor with that government. For those who disagree with its policies, world government means nowhere to hide.

Among the global utopian socialist ideas of the postconciliar church we find: International re-distribution of income, and a world bank;² the elimination of nationalism;³ the desirability of an armed world-force to allow the disarmament of nations, and the government control of privately owned weapons.⁴ The inability of any but a world organization to protect the rights of each individual.⁵

In his 1964 speech to the United Nations, Pope Paul VI referred to that body as the “last great hope for mankind.” Not the Catholic Church, or the Blessed Virgin, or Christ the King — but the United Nations.

1. Pope Benedict XV, 25 July 1920. Bonum sane

2. Pope Paul VI; Populorum progressio #49, #51.

3. Populorum progressio #62.

4. CCC #1308, #1316.

5. Pope John XXIII, Pacem in terris #137, #145

[Fr Brusca]