Chapter 33 The Remedy for Liberalism

To Restore All in Christ

For Great Evils, Great Remedies

What is it that will be able to heal the cancer in the church?

The response is clear.

The remedies must be applied which the popes have proposed against the modern errors,

namely, Thomist philosophy, sound theology, and the law which flows from the first two sciences.

You understand that in order to combat the subjectivism and the rationalism which are at the

basis of the liberal errors, I will not appeal to the modern philosophies, infected precisely

with subjectivism or with rationalism.

It is neither the subject, nor its knowledge, nor its love, that the philosophy of all time

and metaphysics in particular takes as its object.

It is the very being of things.

It is that which is. It is the very being of things. It is that which is.

It is indeed being.

With its laws and its principles that our most spontaneous knowledge uncovers,

at its peak, the natural wisdom, which is philosophy,

leads through theodicy or natural theology, into the being par excellence,

the being subsisting by itself. It is indeed this first being that common sense, supported,

strengthened, and elevated by the data of the faith,

prompts us to place at the summit of the real, according to the revealed definition.

Egosum cuisum, I am who am.

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