in college or high school. Some of our parents read it. Some of us praised Pope Paul VI for this document, perhaps THE most important encyclical of the entire 20th century. Some of us had a maze-like way out and back to the Church. Some of us were political activists and some flower children. Some of us by the mid-1970s saw clearly the death of the West. Perhaps we were deluded for a time by the optimism of the 1980s, but this optimism changed to reality with the growing use of abortifacients and infanticide.
But, the damage was done under our watch and our parents watch. Few "twigged" onto the prophetic nature of this encyclical.
I am going to quote three small sections of this pivotal work, which is infallible, and which is linked above. One quotation is one the picture here.
Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.
23. And now We wish to speak to rulers of nations. To you most of all is committed the responsibility of safeguarding the common good. You can contribute so much to the preservation of morals. We beg of you, never allow the morals of your peoples to be undermined. The family is the primary unit in the state; do not tolerate any legislation which would introduce into the family those practices which are opposed to the natural law of God. For there are other ways by which a government can and should solve the population problem—that is to say by enacting laws which will assist families and by educating the people wisely so that the moral law and the freedom of the citizens are both safeguarded.
Those of my generation who voted for the most anti-life president ever must face the judgement of God. Those of my generation who do not understand that contraception and abortion are THE issues of the day, will have to answer to a Just Judge, who loves the innocent, as He is innocent.
Those of my generation who continue to compromise within the Church, and thereby weaken the Church, ESPECIALLY priests and bishops, will have to answer to the One Who died for our sins.
By 2008, one million embryos, that is human beings with souls, had been destroyed by IVF. There are Catholics here and in Malta who think IVF is ok despite the teaching of the Catholic Church. These people choose to ignore this call to suffering without children, or the call to adoption.
Look at this older article. .http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/1_million_embryos_destroyed_in_uk_in_14_years
The entire globe is sick and getting more ill by the day. Ireland is about to pass an abortion law and Malta will follow within a year.
Some of us watched The Seventh Seal as youth. It became a cult film. Bergman hated both communism and the Catholic Church. His vision of the future was that humans had to free themselves from all "isms". Sadly, he lacked faith in Jesus Christ, and put too much faith in the goodness of men and women to change the earth. This is a false view, which is part of the modernist heresies of both millenarianism and progressivism.
Star Trek, as I wrote in my first blog, also preached the gospel of humanism, progressivism and the so-called spiritual evolution of mankind. Both these iconic media formed a generation who left the teachings of the Church. Humans become the center of all, and finally, the individual became the narcissistic center of his or her own universe. The ideal of civic order and civic duty died. The next generation, the "Me Generation" of Generation X was born into this modernist soup.
Modernism in the Church is the witches' brew of selfishness, ambition, pride and lust. The very pope who gave us Humanae Vitae noted the age of dissent, and this is a translation and explanation found here:
Referring to the situation of the Church today, the Holy Father affirms that he has a sense that “from some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” There is doubt, incertitude, problematic, disquiet, dissatisfaction, confrontation. There is no longer trust of the Church; they trust the first profane prophet who speaks in some journal or some social movement, and they run after him and ask him if he has the formula of true life. And we are not alert to the fact that we are already the owners and masters of the formula of true life. Doubt has entered our consciences, and it entered by windows that should have been open to the light. Science exists to give us truths that do not separate from God, but make us seek him all the more and celebrate him with greater intensity; instead, science gives us criticism and doubt. Scientists are those who more thoughtfully and more painfully exert their minds. But they end up teaching us: “I don’t know, we don’t know, we cannot know.” The school becomes the gymnasium of confusion and sometimes of absurd contradictions. Progress is celebrated, only so that it can then be demolished with revolutions that are more radical and more strange, so as to negate everything that has been achieved, and to come away as primitives after having so exalted the advances of the modern world. June 29, 1972.
There are false mediums who think they are explaining what will happen in our short, Baby Boomer futures.
They only have to look at the anarchy they allowed to occur.
My generation could have changed this great movement into moral anarchy.
We did not. We shall witness more and more moral anarchy and the age of the martyrs. We allowed the door to open to death and death walked in, stomping about the earth and claiming nations for his own. Only the one, true, holy and apostolic Catholic Church will stand firm against this destruction of the moral framework of the rule of law.
We have experienced an age of Mercy. Do not pass Mercy by....He is Real, the Incarnate One, and He stands at the door and knocks.
Pray, think, reflect, act.
