Logos Rising, our Easter Blessing in Disguise

I have to say the demonstrations in Ohio and Michigan (and earlier this week in Berlin) have been heartwarming and inspiring. In my view, this is the only "ecumenism" that is worth anything—the love of truth and freedom, the desire to be free from tyranny, to work for our families and raise our children, and our total contempt for the corrupt traditions of men and their constant and vicious lies. "Since man is a social animal," writes St. Thomas Aquinas, "one man naturally owes another whatever is necessary for the preservation of human society. Now it would be impossible for men to live together, unless they believed one another, as declaring the truth one to another. Hence the virtue of truth does, in a manner, regard something as being due" (ST, II-II, Q.109, art. 3). Indeed, and the truth has long been overdue, and the Lord of History is come to settle accounts. I would literally fight to the death (if it came to that) alongside the most theologically ignorant Protestant who is "woke" to this massive injustice on our fellow human beings.

Though there are signs of hope here and there, and the United States perhaps more than any other nation possesses the cultural diversity to withstand, legally and politically, the new world order that is coming, I am of the opinion that nothing will be the same after this. I believe we are living through the early stages of one of those pivotal human events, a momentous shift and radical reordering of civilization, like what happened to Imperial Rome and later to Christendom. Let us not forget that to defraud the laborer of his wages is also a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance; and together with all the others (as though abortion alone wasn't enough), there is nothing to hold back God's judgment on a wicked and perverse generation. And after the final destruction and breakdown of the social order, the Mystical Body, which lives forever, will have to rebuild the City of Man in the spirit of St. Benedict, to bind its wounds in the spirit of St. Francis, and to banish all superstitions once again, especially that last and terrifying superstition that death is the end.

On a final note, Dr. Wodarg recently shared this very insightful article on "how liberal democrats deal with the corona virus." There is no better evidence that liberalism and democracy have failed, and was bound to failure, than the present worldwide calamity.