Friday, June 24, 2011

In Praise of Nasty Catholics

As I see it, we are faced by three enemies: the first a recrudescence of Mohamedanism, aggressive, virile, and often undeniably courageous. I have to agree with them about the decadence of the West, but I greatly dread Islam's solution to our ills.

The second enemy is an effete post-Christian West, dedicated to the vain belief that liberalism will prevail and everything will be all right if we are nice enough.

The third enemy is a Catholic hierarchy which has largely forgotten the battles of Lepanto (1571), Vienna (1683), and Warsaw (1920), and, under the cloak of ecumenism, has adopted the second, liberal position, as above.

Remember the Canadian Catholic teacher corrected by a pupil when he said that Jesus was crucified so we could be nice to each other?

It was time for us, years ago, to stop being nice. We should thank God for all the "nasty" Catholics who fought for the survival of our Catholic Faith.

Our betrayal of them over the last 50 years has been shameful.

5 comments:

Anagnostis said...

Bollocks. It's because of all the nasty Catholics that the world turned away in disgust, as soon as the State no longer had any use for them

Left-footer said...

Anagnostis - please elaborate.

TH2 said...

Regarding Catholic teachers in Canada. Just recently, in a city called North Bay, a teacher taught his class that the Resurrection did not occur. It frustrated one student so much that she made a video about it, which made it's way into a LifeSite News article. Link http://bit.ly/imsvJM

ignorant redneck said...

Anagnostis--"bollocks"? That's gettin' kinda nasty there.

Left-footer said...

Shadowlands and Linen on the Hedgerow - I have tried to post a comment on your blogs, but Google asks me to sign in and immediately signs me out.

Perhaps I have been blocked for my sins.

My later post Done this morning) I hope clarifies my position, and I should be glad if Shadowlands whom I have no wish to offend, read it.