In previous articles I tried to expose how Providence wanted participation in its authority to be for all men a source of benefits not only temporary but eternal. The family, the city, the Church, are truly gifts of God only to the extent that authority is the master key of these societies and perfectly fulfills its role, within the limits set by the particular purpose of each one of them. The three being of divine origin, they can only be complementary and all be ultimately oriented towards the highest good, the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Decreasing or restricting these authorities, limiting their exercise, contrary to the divine institution, immediately brings serious consequences in the life of these societies, and in a more or less long term, it involves their disintegration through anarchy or tyranny, which are the two deadly diseases for societies. In order to accurately judge the evils that societies have attained, especially since these last centuries, it is necessary to find in history this permanent tendency of man's rebellion against authority. The family and civil society have not truly found the perfect fulfillment of their end, their balance, true peace, through the teachings of the Church and the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.This permanent tendency of man's rebellion against authority must be found in history. The family and civil society have not truly found the perfect fulfillment of their end, their balance, true peace, through the teachings of the Church and the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.This permanent tendency of man's rebellion against authority must be found in history. The family and civil society have not truly found the perfect fulfillment of their end, their balance, true peace, through the teachings of the Church and the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is a fact of daily experience that when the
spouses no longer want to submit to the teaching of the Church, the family is
corrupted. The same happens when the authority of the head of the family is no
longer exercised over his wife and children, as in the case of socialist
societies. Instead, tyranny leads to polygamy and all the evils that flow from
it. The same principles can be applied to civil society. The supposed
"social contract", the separation of Church and State, the "new
law", as designated by Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical” Immortale
Dei" they have ruined societies that live between anarchy and tyranny
without rediscovering their normal equilibrium. If the Church allows itself to
be partially reached by these evils, that is, if men intend to reform the
divine constitution of the Church by calling on human reason, human science,
the Church will suffer a serious crisis in her teaching and in his ministry.
We must earnestly hope, then, that the
Church's teachings regarding authority and its exercise be honored again by the
three societies founded by God himself. Pope Leo XIII bequeathed us fundamental
documents in this field: "Immortale Dei”, or the Christian
constitution of the states;” Satis Cognitum”, or the divine constitution
of the Church. This is of particular importance, since it is nothing more than
the outline prepared by the First Vatican Council on the Church, the Pope and
the Bishops. For the family society, the encyclical of Pope Pius XI ”Casti
Connubii" summarizes all the doctrine of the Church. The
rebellion against the authority that governs is called disobedience, it pushes
to schism, to the rupture with the person invested with authority, and,
ultimately, to the rupture with God.
Have we thought about comparing this rebellion
that leads to schism with the rebellion of reason against faith, of human
intelligence against the wisdom and mercy of God, and then against the
authority of God, revealing his wisdom and the designs that did you like to
carry out to manifest it? This rebellion is none other than heresy.
It is very instructive, while we live in a
time that generates a new heresy more serious than all the preceding ones, to
ask ourselves how this rebellion began in the father of heresy and lies. Let us
ask the Angelic Doctor, and here is his answer: "The Angel
has desired to obtain his final beatitude by his own strength in what belongs
to God alone" (Part I, q. 63, a. 3). Saint Thomas explains the
two hypotheses of this perverse will: seeking only its natural end, despising
the supernatural beatitude that could only be obtained with the grace of God,
or pretending to acquire that supernatural beatitude by departing from the
divine help established by the providential provisions. In both cases it is the
rebellion of nature against faith, or in other words, the rejection of the Word
of God, the only way to supernatural beatitude. Educated with this reality, we
can easily conclude that the schismatic or heretic man acts exactly like the
first schismatic, which was Lucifer. The human will stands up against the will
of God. Reason is opposed to the authority of God, who reveals the ways of
salvation by which His eternal wisdom pleased us to walk. Just as the Hebrews
in the desert have often opposed their will to that of God and been severely
punished, so many to whom the Good News comes either totally reject it and
remain prisoners of their false ideologies and human inventions, or not it.
they accept but partially, rejecting a humble and total submission to the
authority of God revealed by the only Church that he has instituted to transmit
his truth and grace to us.rejecting a humble and total submission to the
authority of God revealed by the only Church that he has instituted to transmit
his truth and grace to us.rejecting a humble and total submission to the
authority of God revealed by the only Church that he has instituted to transmit
his truth and grace to us.
All those who want to reach salvation, to
their final happiness by their own strength - and not by Our Lord Jesus Christ,
given by his Catholic and Roman Church - all the heresiarchs have rejected one
or another of the divine inventions of Jesus Christ to save us, and generally
they have begun by falsifying the fundamental postulates, the realities that
are at the very origin of redemption. One of the first facts that condition the
entire Christian economy is original sin. If it is possible, in the history of
humanity, to find reasons to conclude in an original disorder, however, it is
by faith, the revelation that this sin is known to us with its precise and serious
consequences, but also with the ineffable designs of God for his reparation,
the Incarnation of the Word, the redemption through his cross,the justification
of sinners by baptism and the sacraments or their incorporation into the
Mystical Body of Our Lord. This is what explains why most, if not all, of the
heretics began by distorting the notion of original sin or denying the
fact, “Where do the enemies of religion come from, says
Saint Pius X, to sow so many and so serious errors whose faith of such
a great number is weakened. They begin by denying the primitive fall of man and
his decay … it is the building of faith torn down from top to bottom” (“
Ad diem illum ”, February 2, 1904). The sin that introduces disorder into the
intelligence and will of man hurts the pride of reason that cannot admit its
weakness and ignorance and finds it unworthy to have to refer to faith to know
the essential truths regarding its eternal salvation. Another truth that
humbles reason is the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. How many solutions,
some more subtle than others, and often contradictory, have been invented in
the course of the last two centuries by Protestants, then by modernists and
today by neo-modernists, to evacuate the divinity of Our Lord!
Grandmaison's Father, in his work on Jesus
Christ, gives a surprising historical glimpse into the thinking of pagans, Jews
and Muslims about the person of Jesus Christ. There is already in substance the
doctrine of the antichrists of the Renaissance, after the liberal Protestants,
the freethinkers, the rationalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
and, finally, Teilhard de Chardin and contemporary neo-modernists. De Porfirio,
with his work ”Against Christians", from the thirteenth
century to our deniers of the miracles of Our Lord or those who deny the Gospel
of infancy, who question the virginal motherhood of Mary, is the same spirit of
rejection of the supernatural and of faith in the authority of God revealing
the works of his eternal wisdom. It can truly be said that if the presentation
of the error and the people who present it change in the course of history, the
error remains fundamentally the same. And yet, these rationalist thinkers and
writers tend to present their ideologies as a novelty that for some should
annihilate the Catholic Church, and for others should open new paths for the
salvation of the world. Neither for Jews nor for Muslims, Jesus Christ is God.
Jews admit that he is a distinguished moralist, Muslims say he is an apostle or
a prophet, but nothing more. Luther, Voltaire, Rousseau, will mold a Christ in
their own way, far removed from the true Christ. But his successors will be the
true precursors of modern heresy. The following page, written by Father de
Grandmaison forty years ago, is worth quoting in its entirety, for what he
writes uniquely illuminates the crisis the Church is undergoing today:
“The forms of disbelief and irreligion
that we have found within Christianity have been modeled to a certain extent on
scientific or literary movements that would seem first of another order, having
participated in the force of expansion that we have verified for humanism and
for the scientific renewal that, beginning in the sixteenth century, did it
reach with Leibnitz in 1716 and Isaac Newton in 1727 its maximum of
??? about the general public. The intellectual debauchery of the sixteenth
century and the deism of the eighteenth are, to a large extent, in solidarity
with these movements, as if any novelty tended to shake minds and make them
question their previous beliefs with concern. That law is verified once again
in the origins and success of liberal and modernist Christology. They are
closely linked to the destinies of the hypotheses that Lessing, Herder and
Goethe have applied to the history considered by them as that of a continuous,
progressive development: "The divine education of humanity." Did these
views, general and a bit vague, tend to replace the spontaneous action of
collectivities with individual influences, the first one ??? be an organ
more appropriate to the nature of the great. Divine, immanent, impersonal force
that moves humanity towards its end ...“Since it is admitted that the
total progress of the world - whose religious progress is only one of its
aspects - is operated through fatal advances and constantly oriented in the
same direction, the ground gained cannot be lost and the synthesis of today,
going beyond Every need and partially encompassing everything, that of the
vigil, cannot be manifestly recognized in Jesus, more than one link in an
immense chain. It is not possible to see in his career, more than one step, as
considerable as one wants, but one step at last towards the final realization
of "the idea", a "synthesis" that will become a
"thesis" in turn for be contradicted by an "antithesis" and
finally pierced. If the facts do not seem to agree with their philosophical
causes, that pure Hegelian will blame the facts, and every explanation will be
good to make the Master of Nazareth enter the great pantheistic stream, where
he will finally be leveled. “The essence of these visions is common
to all Hegel's disciples, but they are sometimes exposed in the writers of the
Hegelian right as a moderation, a tone of respect, a concern to put the matter
on the divine character of the total evolution. and in particular about the
incomparable realization of the Idea that was Jesus of Nazareth, which makes
many Christians excited” (“Jesus Christ”, T. II, c. 3).
How can we not think of Teilhard de Chardin
and all the Christians who today have their illusions reading his writings
poisoned by that rationalism and that pantheism? This page admirably
illustrates the continuity of the fundamental error that consists in wanting to
submit to reason all the data of faith. The tendencies that we see today in the
writings of the vogue theologians, clearly modernists, take their source there,
that of all heresies. Unfortunately these tendencies are manifested in modern
catechisms themselves and this is exceptionally serious. For one to dare to
misrepresent the most essential truths of the faith, or to question them, is to
place oneself outside the Catholic faith to the same degree as those who in the
course of history have acted in the same way and found themselves outside of
the true Church.
What ridicule to hear or read from those who
believe in the necessary and fatal progress of humanity, that the men of our
time and even more so their children are incapable of understanding words such
as virginity, angels, hell, devotion, holiness, etc. … Let's say it, the world
of today would not be able to understand the Catholic faith, even that of the
Gospel! What a confession! But it is more likely to say that those who affirm
these things have lost their faith and that from now on they feel incapable of
communicating it: "nobody gives what they don't
have." We should not hesitate to proclaim in season and out of
season that there is only one faith, only one baptism, that faith is a whole of
which no article can be denied without being outside the Church and the way of
salvation. Who opposes his reason to the revelation transmitted by the Catholic
and Roman Church, even only on an essential point such as the substantial
presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist, or the virginity of the Virgin Mary, or
the existence of original sin committed by our first parents that makes us all
guilty and deprives us of eternal life, separates from the Catholic Church and
must be treated as a heretic, that is, excommunicated. (These points and many
others like the existence of the devil or hell are constantly attacked by the
new modernists, It is sad to hear that this or that priest does not believe in
the presence of Satan in the modern world or that he doubts the Virginity of
the Virgin Mary, even more so that they deny it directly)
Pope Leo XIII affirms this truth in a very
eloquent way in the encyclical” Satis Cognitum”: it is then necessary that
in a permanent way the constant and immutable mission of teaching everything
that Jesus Christ himself teaches, on the other hand, must subsist in a
permanent way. part, the constant and unchanging obligation to accept and
profess all the doctrine thus taught. It is what Saint Cyprian expresses
excellently in these terms:
“When Our Lord Jesus Christ in his
Gospel declares that those who are not with him are his enemies, he does not
designate a particular heresy, but rather denounces as his adversaries all
those who are not totally with him and by not gathering with him they put
dispersion in the flock: "He who is not with me is against me, he who does
not gather with me scatters."
“Deeply penetrated by these principles
and concerned with her duty, the Church has always had the greatest interest
and has pursued with her greatest effort to preserve the faith in the most
perfect way, the integrity of the faith. For this reason, she has regarded as
declared rebels and has expelled away from her all those who did not think like
her, on any point of doctrine. The Arians, the Montanists, the Novacians, the
Quartodecimans, the Eutychians had surely not abandoned the entire Catholic
doctrine, but only this or that part, and yet who does not know that they have
been declared heretics and were rejected from the bosom of the world. Church?
And a similar trial condemned all those guilty of erroneous doctrines that have
appeared later in the different periods of history. Nothing could be more
dangerous than these heretics than,preserving in all the rest the integrity of
the doctrine, by a single word,Like a drop of poison, they corrupt the purity
and simplicity of the faith that we have received from Tradition, from the
Lord, then from the Apostles … “ Such has always been
the custom of the Church, supported by the unanimous judgment of the Holy
Fathers , who have always regarded as excluded from the Catholic communion and
outside the Church whoever separated the least from the world of the doctrine
taught by the authentic magisterium " (Pontifical
Teachings, Solesmes. " The Church ", vol. I.
1, p. 370). Now, it is now evident that we live in a time when the Magisterium
of the Church, in the face of manifest errors, in the face of true heresies, in
the face of scandalous moral deviations, does not act with the vigor and
precision that we have previously known. It is enough to have been aware of the
debates of the Synod (meeting in Rome in 1967) regarding the dangers to faith,
to be unfortunately convinced that a good number of pastors do not want to
condemn error or heresy any more. They have explicitly stated it. There is one
of the certain causes of the recklessness with which errors still propagate in and through the
Catholic press. There is an inexplicable attitude and contrary not only to the
whole tradition of the Church, but to simple common sense: to condemn error is
to proclaim the truth that opposes such error, and is above all to prevent it
from spreading and losing souls. It is more than evident that the most
elementary of duties is to protect his flock from the wolves that surround him
and hunt down the mercenaries who abandon them, according to the teachings of
the Good Shepherd par excellence. Let us keep the integrity of our faith in the
dispositions of humility and submission towards the divine authority that has
been transmitted to us immutable through the centuries until today. Let us not
be seduced by the artifices of the rationalists, successors of the heresiarchs
of all times. Let us adhere to the certainly orthodox catechisms of the Council
of Trent, of Saint Pius X, of Cardinal Gasparri. Let us flee from news contrary
to the tradition of the Church. (like the Pacha Mama promoted by Francisco)
“Novitates devita”, Saint Paul was already
saying.
"The heresiarchs, says Bossuet in
his discourse on universal history (Part II, c. 30) have been
able to dazzle men by their eloquence and under a guise of piety, stir them up
by their passions, compromise them for their interests, attract them by the
novelty and debauchery be for that of the spirit, be it even for that of the
senses; in a word, they have been able to easily make mistakes or make
others mistake, since there is nothing more human, but besides that they have
not been able to either boast of having performed any miracle in public or
reduce their religion to positive facts of which their followers they were
witnesses, there is always an unfortunate fact for them, which they have never
been able to hide: it is the fact of their novelty ”.
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