Are the beginnings of a new project published? Chapter 21 Personal Polemics and Liberalism. All faithful Catholics hailed it with an enthusiasm only equaled in intensity by the paroxysm of fury with which the Liberals received it. The majority of ancient heresies turned upon very subtle points of doctrine, which only the skilled theologian could discern, and upon which the ignorant multitude could give no judgment, save such as they received in confidence from their leaders. A government, whatever be its form, is Catholic if its constitution, its legislation, and its politics are based on Catholic principles; it is Liberal if it bases its constitution, its legislation, and its politics on rationalistic principles. It is easily distinguished, but it is very difficult to define its limits. Catholic associations hampered in their onward march by such an alliance will find themselves so impeded that free action becomes impossible. LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER THAT DESTROYS ALL COMMON SENSE AND REPLACES IT WITH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND REFUSAL TO BELIEVE ANY REAL FACTS THAT CONFLICTS WITH THEIR ILLUSION OF REALITY. But it must be admitted that, if ever an error has been deprived of any excuse on this score, that error is Liberalism as it exists today. In his Brief to Mgr.
We are simply holding to the constant practice of antiquity. It is evident that they have recognizedby its nature or by its origin, or as a means or as an endsomething in the object so praised that is favorable to Liberalism. All these documents from which we quote may be found in full in Mgr. These are precisely the enemies against whom we have constantly to be on guard, against whom we have to wage perpetual war. George W. Bush cannot have it both ways. Iniquity works in obscurity. ForewordWhy Liberalism Can Exist. If an author or a journalist make open profession of Liberalism and does not conceal his Liberal predilections, what injury can be done him in calling him a Liberal? And for what purpose? This is an important point. It will be in fact a great charity, not such indeed as the Liberals beg of us, but one truly very meritorious, the charity of listening to them with patience for the hundredth time. It was vigorously assailed by the Liberals. Does the Index of Forbidden Books itself give the title of every forbidden book? Not to offend our neighbor for the love of God is a sin.
The new doctrines which it preachedand which it wished to substitute for ancient truthhad nothing abstract nor metaphysical; it rejected everything but brutal facts, which betrayed it as the offspring of Satan and the enemy of mankind. To whom does the Holy Father address these repeated admonitions? Why should they take particular pains to employ a term requiring confusing explanations and which cannot but excite suspicion and cause scandal? Moreover, his injurious manner of speaking cannot be approved, for he inveighs rather against the person of D. Sarda than against the latter's supposed errors. There is no room, therefore, for confidence in the Liberal Catholic press, especially in cases where it is difficult to form a judgment. We do not deserve it. Let each party keep distinct its own proper device, or let the Liberals in question range themselves under our ensign, if they wish to fight with us against a common enemy. The all-pervading Liberal ideas that "one religion is basically as good as another" and that "it does not matter what a person believes so long as he is a good person" were spawned almost automatically and by logical necessity, as it were, due to the historical context leading up to where we find ourselves today. The same judgment, however, cannot be passed on the other work, that by D. de Pazos, for in matter it needs corrections. The present generation draws its main intellectual nourishment from it. If its blasphemy were open and direct, no Catholic would tolerate it for an instant; is it any more tolerable because, like a courtesan, it seeks to disguise its sordid features by the artifice of paint and powder? Upon the occasion of the appearance of the first errors of De Lamennais, Gregory XVI (1831- 1846), in his encyclical Mirarl Vos, explicitly condemned Liberalism as it was then understood, taught, and practiced by the constitutional governments of Europe. These Sacraments were given by Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, to the Church and are supernatural means to give us supernatural assistance to save our souls and attain Heaven, a supernatural end.
He who places himself in the vortex of a maelstrom is sure in the end to be engulfed in it. Do we not find under the rubric of "General Rules of the Index" certain principles according to which good Catholics should guide themselves in forming their judgment upon books not mentioned in the Index, but which each reader is expected to apply at his own discretion? In the folly of their ignorance, which they assert against the wisdom of the Church, they harden their consciences to the practical guidance of the Holy See and blindly enlist in the service of an enemy whose cunning deludes them into the slavery of Hellunder the disguise of freedom!
Well, Dear Reader, "What is wrong" is what has already been wrong for a very long time in the thinking of our peoplethey no longer profess the truth. Quotes About Having The Wrong Friends (34). This abandonment is the direct result of the loss of the one, true Catholic faith as the integral creed of our society as a whole, which in turn has eventuated in the abandonment of traditional Catholic moral customs that enable man to live in conformity with God's laws and enable society to function harmoniously. One denies less, the other more.