Chapter 18

The myth of liberty by itself, from Laminé to Sanya.

They do not fear to make blasphemous reconciliations between the gospel and the revolution.

Pope St. Pius X.

Catholic liberalism, scarcely established, is going to rise up to the assault on the church

under the flag of progress.

Let me call forth some names from this progressive liberalism.

Felicite de la Manet, a priest who would be rebellious against the church and unfaithful to his

priesthood, founds his liberalism on the myth of the progress of humanity, which is manifested by the

growing aspirations of the peoples for liberty.

He writes,

This movement has its indestructible principle in the first and fundamental law, by virtue

of which humanity tends to disengage itself progressively from the ties of infancy,

to the extent that the intelligence being emancipated by Christianity's growing and developing

itself, the people attain the age of man.

End quote.

In the Middle Ages, humanity in its infancy needed the church's guardianship. Today, having become adults, the people should liberate themselves from that guardianship

by separating the church from the State.

As for the Church, it must adapt itself to this new order of things which it has created itself.

He writes,

A new social order founded on an immense development of freedom,

which Catholicism has rendered necessary by developing itself in souls the true notion and the sentiment of the right." End quote.

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