A New Dark Ages Where Barbarians Rule

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Many clear thinking people today refer to our present time as a New Dark Ages. The moral pillars that uphold our society are not just wobbling. They have collapsed. We are not just slouching towards Sodom and Gomorrah. We are in these cities like Lot and his family. As one author observed, the barbarians are not just on the outskirts of our city and country waiting to invade, but rather the barbarians have actually conquered and have been ruling over us for years. Clear thinking people who see this reality…clear thinking people who are not satisfied with the bread and circus…with the sensual pleasures and material advantages of barbarian rule…clear thinking people must make an important decision at this moment in time. The decision, in short, is between continuing to invest in, support, and maintain the barbarism that surrounds us or to form and construct new communities that are seeking to build up Christian civilization… communities where the true religion is practiced…where a true intellectual and moral life can be sustained during this New Dark Ages. “Most people consider hunger, plague and war to be punishment from God because in them they see more clearly the hand of divine justice that afflicts the nations. But these adversities, however great and terrible they may be, do not appear as punishments if we look with the pure eyes of faith illuminated with the light of God and compare them with other afflictions of the justice of an offended God. These are spiritual punishments which consist in decreasing the good effects of religion in a town, province or kingdom, or in stripping them, or in the withdrawal of God and abandoning them to the disorder of their passions, to error, to heresy, in one word to Satan’s claws. As there is no greater good in the world than true faith and the Catholic religion, neither can there be a more cruel, more terrible more terrifying affliction for a Catholic nation than being handed over to the devils and to the wicked sects so that in punishment for their sins they root out the holy tree of Religion. As a consequence, they burn the churches, kill the priests and remove all the visible signs of faith. Temporal punishments, properly speaking, are not real punishments, but rather mercies of the Lord, that with them it would oblige persons to wake up from the lethargy of vices and sins, to return to God and be converted. But spiritual punishments are of wrath, indignation and fury. They are the true outcome of the anger of a God who turns the obstinate sinner away from Him. They are the real temporal abandonment, the source and the reason of that eternal abandonment where the demons and those who are condemned in hell” (Bd. Francis Palau, OCD, The Struggle of the Soul with God, 2nd Conf, Article 1, no. 4). For more please visit http://reginaprophetarum.org & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest