Chapter 34

To Rebuild the Catholic City

Liberalism

It is for thee that I die

says the church today in its death throes. It can say like Jesus addressing those who

came to arrest him, this is your hour and the power of darkness. It is there at Gethsemane, but it could not

die. It has the look of a city occupied by the enemy,

but the resistance to the liberal sect is organizing and strengthening itself. This is the sect

that we saw rise up in the 16th century from the Protestant revolt, then to become the instigator

of the revolution. For a century and a half of struggle, without truce, the popes have condemned

the principles and points of the application of liberalism. In spite of that, the sect has pursued its path. We have been

present at its penetration into the Church under the pretense of an acceptable liberalism,

with the idea of reconciling Jesus Christ with the revolution. Then we learned with amazement of the plot of penetration of the Catholic

hierarchy by the liberal sect. We have seen its progress right up to the highest positions

and its triumph at the Second Vatican Council. We have had Liberal popes.

The first Liberal Pope, the one who scoffed at the prophets of doom,

convened the first Liberal Council in the history of the church.

The gates of the sheepfold have been opened,

and the wolves have come into the flock, and they have massacred the sheep.

Then came the second liberal pope, the double-faced pope, the humanist pope. He overturned the

altar, abolished the sacrifice, and profaned the sanctuary.

The third liberal pope has come onto the scene, the pope of the rights of man, the ecumenist pope,

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