Chapter 22. What Families Can Do

It is high time to react.

When Gaudiom et spes speaks of the movement of history, becoming so rapid that everybody

finds it hard to follow, we can take this as meaning the headlong rush of liberal society into disaggregation and chaos.

We must take care not to follow.

One cannot understand how the leaders can claim to be of the Christian religion, whilst destroying

all authority within the state. On the contrary, it is important

to re-establish this authority which is prescribed by Providence in the two natural societies

of divine right, the family and civil society, whose influence here below is fundamental.

In recent times, it is the family that has suffered the hardest blows.

The changeover to socialism in countries like France and Spain has only sped up the process.

The ensuing legal measures demonstrate a great cohesion in their determination to ruin

the institution of the family. The reducing of parental authority, easy divorce, the disappearance

of responsibility in the procreative act, the legal recognition of irregular unions, and even of homosexual couples, juvenile cohabitation,

trial marriage, the reduction of financial and social assistance to large families, etc.

The state itself, in its own interest, is beginning to see the effects of this in the declining

birth rate and wonders how, in the near future, their right of the state is beginning to see the effects of this in the declining birth rate and wonders how

in the near future their rising generations will be able to maintain the pensions of those who are

no longer economically active but the effects are considerably more serious in the spiritual field

catholics must not follow, but as citizens,

they must bring all their weight to bear to put right what is needed. This is why they may not

remain aloof from politics. However, their endeavors will be most effective in the upbringing they give their

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