05-22-2025, 07:40 AM
The Liberal Illusion
Chapter XII
The Christian is priest, the Christian is king, and he is made for a higher glory. God must reign in us, God must reign through us, in order that we may merit to reign with God. Here we have certain rules of faith that we cannot keep apart from our rules of political life. Our rank is sublime, our dignity is divine; we cannot abdicate our present destiny, we cannot shirk its exceedingly high and exceedingly urgent duties — duties of the public no less than of the private order — without abdicating by that very fact our future dignity. We do not possess wealth, power, freedom, life for the sake of ourselves alone: attached to every gift bestowed on us is the obligation of using it to protect the multitude of our weak and ignorant brothers, both as regards their souls and as regards their bodies. Now, the main way to protect the
weak is to enact such laws as will make it easier for them to know God and to be in communion with God. Upon this point we shall be examined and judged, nor does any Christian believe for a moment that, on the day when he is called upon to give an account of the little ones he has contemptuously abandoned, or defended without courage and love, he will be able to excuse himself on Caine’s plea: Am I my brother’s keeper?
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre