Churchmen don’t talk about the Church’s teaching against contraception because too few Catholics take it seriously. But too few Catholics take it seriously in part because churchmen don’t talk about it. They reinforce each other’s failure to do their duty, and here is the result
Young Evangelical Christians, and the nonreligious children of Protestants, are now converting to Catholicism in large numbers. Christianity isn’t dying. Protestantism is.👇🏻
This is, of course, retarded
Everyone from the feminists to the bolsheviks, name Christianity as their greatest enemies
The pagans lost to the Christians, if they couldn't stop Christianity they certainly couldn't stop leftism, but Charles Martel did stop Islam
May 21st is the Feast Day of the Cristero Martyrs. 26 priests and 2 nuns Martyred by the Mexican Revolutionary Army during the Cristero War from 1927-1929. They all refused the oath to the "Supreme Government" and were executed by firing squad or hanging.
When you teach Christians that they are predestined for heaven regardless of their actions, or that they will he raptured into Heaven before a great tribulation, you condition them to be apathetic and complacent.
Ultimately, Protestantism breeds spiritual weakness.
Its easy to get bogged down as Catholics and be like man we've got a lot of problems and there's people who are different than each other fighting and uncertainties and different perspectives. Then you see something like this and realize actually we're more united than we realize
Here’s the thing: Catholics should have an instinctual hesitation—even hostility—towards innovations and breaks from tradition.
That doesn’t mean every innovation is wrong, but accepting them as something to be celebrated is a spirit of the modern age, not Catholicism.
The loss of faith in Jesus Christ as the central cause of Europe’s demographic decline, moral confusion, and cultural exhaustion. Without the Gospel, Europe loses its identity, its vitality, and its future.—Pope Benedict XVI
Society does not become civilized through the stimulus of sonorous sermons, but through the catalytic action of discreet gestures.
- Nicolas Gomez Davila