Chapter 7. Jesus Christ, King of the Republics?

The majority does not make the truth. It is the truth that should make the majority.

Author Unknown

I still have much to say about liberalism.

However, I want you to understand well that it is not personal opinions that I am proposing to you.

This is why I am desirous of advising you about papal documents, and not about personal

sentiments that would easily be attributed to an early formation received at the French

seminary in Rome.

Father LaFlock, who was then the superior there, had indeed the reputation of a traditionalist

to a very marked degree.

Therefore, it will be said of me.

He has been influenced by what was told him in the seminary.

Well, I do not deny this influence.

Even more every day I thank the good Lord for having given me Father LaFlock, as a superior

and as a teacher.

He was accused then of making politics, and God knows whether it is a crime or the opposite,

to make the politics of Jesus Christ and to raise up political men who will use all the

legitimate, even all the legal means, in order to drive away from the

city the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ. Indeed, Father LaFlock never meddled in politics,

even in the thick of the plot put together against Action Francaise, in which the movement was

condemned. Pius XIus XIth had to lift

the sanction, but the harm was already done. 1926 marked in France a decisive stage in the

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