By Natalio A. Yaria - Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Catholic Church is facing now not a particular heresy as were the Arian, the Manichean, and the Albigensian in the past; or it is in front of the controversies that separated the Roman Catholic Church with the Eastern Orthodox Church; neither is it struggling today with a generalized division within the Church as it was when it had to meet the Protestant reform around five hundred years ago; nor does it stand in front to anything of the size and violence of the Germanic, Hun or Islamic invasions from the fall of the Roman Empire in the V century to the end of the XVII century.
From the end of the XVIII century, either the Terror of the French Revolution, and its by-product, or the Napoleonic Era and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution experimented and failed to destryed the Catholic Church. During 70 years, Soviet Communism was also determined to destroy the Church and Christendom and establishe under "the leading role" of the Comunist Party the "socialist paradise" on earth; but close to the end of the XX century the USSR suffered a strategic defeat.
We must admit, however, that after the end of WWII in 1946, we did not know the extent of the area over which the Church would have to survive; our enemies had doubts on the Catholic Church power of revival. We could not identify what was precisely the capacity and power of "dialectical materialism" to push our Church to its last defenses, and sometimes it appeared as though it had come to the final battle.
Throughout many centuries all of Satan's emissaries have attempted to destroy the Catholic Church and all of them have failed. Their worst elements have already been disposed into the cesspool of history.
During all those aggressions, the Catholic Church resisted and confronted its adversaries and during those experiences that lasted for centuries, The Church purified itself from elements even inside the Church. As St. Peter tells us, we must “Stay sober and alert. Your opponent the devil is prowling like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him solid in your faith, realizing that the brotherhood of believers is undergoing the same suffering throughout the world.” 1 St. Peter 5
We know, of course, as was promised by our Lord Jesus Christ, that as in the many attempts of the past, the present and future efforts of Satan’s emissaries to destroy the Catholic Church shall not prevail. But make no mistake; Satan’s moral depravity is still around. His emissaries have not given up; they just changed their tactics. We are engaged on a definite line of cleavages, involving the survival of Christendom and Western Civilization - and all of what the Church stands for - not just a portion of its teaching. The enemy of the Faith, camouflaged today in "modern relativism," has launched a wholesale assault upon the fundamentals of the Faith and Christendom and upon the very existence of Western Civilization.
The enemy has already presented and has already begun to implement their “plan of battle” against us. We must agree, however, they have a well thought out plan; they developed highly provocative and no necessarily original perspectives on contemporary society and culture.Their approach is what we shall call here the "gentle seduction strategy" which we will present in Part II of these Notes. Yet, the emissaries are increasingly conscious of the fact that there can be no question of neutrality on our part on their programs on eugenics, population control, birth control, sexual and family law reforms, sex and health education.
This is their battle objective: changing “the subjective conditions of the masses” for a final assault which is already underway. So far they seem to be successful. But, time will prove them wrong; what we are witnessing is a set of very rough skirmishes that eventually they will lose. The final battle is ours because they have made two fatal miscalculations: first, they have underestimated the powerful role of Faith in the development and permanence of order and peace in society; and, second, they have overestimated the role of historical economic determinism in the cultural transformation of societies.
Before we advance any further, here are few Words of Caution:
To those who have no sympathy with Catholicism, who inherit the old doctrinal animosity to the Church and who may think that any attack on the Catholic Church must somehow or other be a good thing, the present attack is on Christendom which includes the Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches and the lineal or collateral descendants of former members of the Catholic Church that today call themselves "Christians.” There can be no neutrality in these skirmishes; the lines are drawn, the enemy is facing Christendom.
Now, a few words must be said about the present and future relationship between Christendom and Islam. First of all, we predict that, contrary to the current belief, the clash will not be between these two powerful civilizations; it will be between the joint forces of those who believe in one God’s teachings against those trying to impose Satan’s to the world. Secondly, after the emissaries of Satan are defeated, a new quiet period will arrive and a new world must be rebuilt. Thirdly, it might very well be then that, as Satan regroups new forces, Christendom and Islam may have to guide jointly the process of upgrading human affairs into a new world of order and peace.
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