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Like the rest of the world Great Britain is presently in the midst of one of the most tumultous periods of her rich history. We do not speak chiefly here of terrorism, environmental damage or economic collapse. These are merely symptoms of a deeper malaise. We refer rather to the intensity of the spiritual warfare for souls which is being raged all about us.
A key battle line in this overall war is the issue of human identity and sexuality. The outcome of this conflagration will determine the future of this nation for good or ill...for liberty or totalitarianism.
Two key teachings of the Catholic Church are that :-
1. Humans are made in the image and likeness of God.
2. God became human in Jesus Christ to redeem us. This means that we look to Him to understand both God and man. It also follows that we have great dignity and the hope of eternal life.
Secular atheism on the other hand contends that :-
1. Humanity is the result of mere biological chance.
2. Humans must therefore 'redeem' themselves through assertion and self-determination.
It is not too hard to see how the latter, with its low view of human worth and denial of an afterlife, can only end in a State where the will of the powerful supplants the will of the weak.
Indeed the history of the 20th Century was peppered with examples which illustrate this point. The Catholic Church has historically stood as the bulwark against such negative destruction. For this she has gained countless enemies.
Meet Georg Lukacs, the Education Commissar in Hungary after the Soviet Revolution of 1919.
A key weapon Satan frequently uses is to destroy individuals and society by tempting them to rebel against God's beautiful plan for human sexuality and replace it with mere lust. The saints frequently note that the impure person soon loses interest in prayer and is thus in danger of final impiety.
Indeed if sex is sundered from marriage then follows the collapse of the family; the very bedrock of civilization.
Like many atheistic Communists George Lukacs knew that the Catholic Church must be removed from cultural influence if Communism was to hold sway. And so he ordered teachers in Hungary to instruct children about sex outside of any true moral framework in order to destroy the morality of the young. By combining this approach with violent suppression of opponents the Communists sought to unravel the bonds of Church, family, culture. A cruel irony is that it is only when a people become completely individualistic that they can they actually become totally controlled by the State. Two traditional guardians against such tyranny are the Church and the Christian family.
Some decades later the saintly Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary would suffer cruel persecution under the Communist regime for defending these two pillars against the followers of Anti-Christ. Before his arrest, frequent beatings, lengthy imprisonment and exile he fought tenaciously to maintain the independance of Catholic schools from State interference and de-Christianisation. This was one element which led to his own Way of The Cross.
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI recently exhorted our Bishops Conference to 'ensure that the Church's moral teaching be always presented in its entirety and convincingly defended. Fidelity to the Gospel in no way restricts the freedom of others - on the contrary, it serves their freedom by offering them the truth.'
Within a couple of weeks the Govt's Ed Balls was thanking Archbishop Vincent Nichols for 'bringing the Catholic Church on board' with the latest atheistic sex education. Some parents have been innocently fooled by the Catholic Education Service website which claims that the recent 'amendment' to the latest sex-ed bill will protect Catholic schools.
In reality, as Mr. Balls has pointed out, Catholic schools will be 'forced' to teach moral relativism regarding homosexual 'partnerships' and to inform students where to obtain contraception and even abortion.
The petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/cs001/petition.html was begun by concerned families in light of the fact that the Bishops are remaining strangely silent on this issue. At the time of writing this remains a source of grave public scandal to Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
The petition now has over 1,300 names, including several well regarded priests and many disturbed parents. Please sign the petition and ask our Bishops to make a stand.
Cardinal Mindzsenty knew that one cannot give any quarter to evil. Even if this demands very great sacrifice on the part of Bishops, priests and laity.
Make no mistake. The outcome of this particular battle will be decisive in the future of Britain. A cursory reading of the history of the global effects of Nazism and Communism provide powerful similarities. This is confirmed in the writings of the likes of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, St. Edith Stein, Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and of course Cardinal Mindszenty himself.
As His Holiness Pope John Paul II stated in America in 1978, this is because, ultimately, this is a battle between Church and anti-Church... Christ and Anti-Christ.
Whose side are you on?
