02-15-2021, 09:58 PM
“The judgement of God upon your sex endures even today; and with it inevitably endures your position of criminal at the bar of justice. You are the gateway of the devil.”
- Tertullian on Women’s Dress
CHAPTER TWO
A Conspiracy, REALLY?
The most important and significant of these occurred in 1793 on November 10th. During the French Revolution, a mob forced its way into the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and toppled the statue of the Virgin Mother from Her altar to replace Her with a nude statue of “the Goddess of Reason”. As the revolution spread during the next century, we saw the diabolical results. France, once known as the, “Eldest Daughter of the Church” became corrupted and morally empty and has suffered many wars as a punishment from God. 7
Its program of destruction was later revealed by a French paper, “The French Woman”, in the words, “Our children must realize the ideal of nakedness…Thus the mentality of the Child is rapidly transformed. To escape opposition, progress must be methodically graduated; first, feet and legs naked; then. Upturned sleeves; the back;…in summer the children will go around almost naked in all weathers.”
In recent years here in Canada, feminists lobbied and won the right to go topless in public claiming, if men can do it why can’t we? Can you just hear the devil laughing with that victory! It can hardly be denied that the slow slide toward more and more nudity and general immodesty was a planned program of Satan himself. When one looks at the last 100 years how could we imagine it was all just a coincidence!
Later in 1846, the Pontifical Government of Italy, under Pope Gregory XVI, seized secret documents from the communists. They were eventually published in French in 1875 with the approval of Pope Pius IX. Just to read some of that document is frightening, “It has been decided in our councils that we must get rid of Catholics, but we do not want to make martyrs, so let us strive to popularize vice among the people. It must enter by their five senses: Let them drink it in and be saturated with it…make men’s hearts corrupt and you will have no more Catholics. Keep the priests away from their work, the altar and the practice of perfection. Aim skilfully at occupying his thoughts and his time elsewhere…I recently heard one of our friends making fun of our projects saying, ‘To overthrow Catholics, you must begin by suppressing the female sex.’ The saying is, in a certain sense, true, but since we cannot suppress woman, let us corrupt her along with the Church…The best dagger with which to wound the Church to death, is corruption.” Satan’s plan for nakedness is also his plan for our ruin!
“Where virtue is, there are many snares.” Said St. John Chrysostom and it is no wonder since the practice of modesty contains within it such great treasure. Is it not surprising that the devil uses this issue to divide people into picking or taking sides or feeling the issue is simply unimportant? 7
It should not have been surprising when in 1930, Pope Pius XI warned against this in his encyclical, “Caritate Christi Compulsi”. Here he reminds us that the Red Atheism is organized in its anti-religion program; that “it works its way even into the common (elementary) schools; it appears in theaters; in order to spread it makes use of its own cinema films, of the gramophone and the radio; with its own printing presses it prints booklets (comic) in every language; it promotes special exhibitions and public parades (bathing contests, etc.) “If I didn’t know it, I would say this Pope was speaking to us today! Not much has changed! 7
The late Alfred Cardinal Shuster of Milan, Italy made this statement about the communists that should have alerted everyone, but it must have fallen on deaf ears when he said that, the communist party had “a thoroughly diabolical campaign to ruin Italy and send his children to Hell through the demon of impurity.” He went on to state that “the Pioneers of Italy, a communist organization, stages parties and dances at which boys and girls between seven and fourteen are urged to indulge in petting and kissing.” 7. These dances are already going on in elementary schools, in fact, I remember going to dances in my own Catholic school when I was barely in 4th and 5th grade! What possible purpose did these dances serve? There were perhaps one or two teachers “on duty” and the lights were turned down low and modern music was played. I can remember these so vividly and now find it utterly amazing that they could have allowed such things to go on in a Catholic School!
What possible purpose could there be in having these kinds of dances for young innocent children? Is this the way to make saints? Will this prepare them spiritually, for the tumultuous adolescence that will soon follow? Or will these dances simply be another “nail in the coffin” in which their faith is buried, perhaps forever! Satan is well aware of this fact and has fooled the schools into thinking that this activity is necessary for the children’s entertainment. Could they not organize other activities that would instead lift their hearts and minds towards God?
“History is again repeating itself.” Wrote Father Kunkel in a 1957 issue of Divine Love magazine. “As the powers of darkness finally succeeded in capturing the physical Body of Christ, so today, these same forces are striving feverishly to capture the Mystical Body of Christ-the Church.” The Church today can say in the words of Christ, “This is your hour, and the power of darkness.” Father Kunkel goes on to explain. “Never before in the Christion era have these powers of darkness has such a strangle-hold on the Church and its individual members. This is so, because they are reaching the climax of their conspiracy against Christ-the crucifixion of His Church.” Truly this is even more true today than when it was written in 1957! How much more fearful we should be of the wrath of God upon mankind when babies are killed by the thousands every year and fashions are beyond immodest but bordering more on nudity.
“One of the strange phenomena of history is the fact that the devil has succeeded so well in keeping concealed the existence of the corrupting Body of Satan, with its long-range program for the destruction of the Church. Catholics just do not seem to be aware that, as soon as Christ instituted His Church-His Mystical Body-the devil likewise organized his anti-church, his corrupting body.” As many Saints and Pope Leo XIII have said, “The corrupting body of Satan still exists in our time and is very well organized. It is preparing to strike (what it believes will be) the last blow needed to lay the Church in its tomb. One of its most deadly weapons is impurity and concupiscence of the flesh to wreck ‘the human temples of the Holy Ghost.’”
Father Kunkel tells us how since the fall of Adam and Eve, Satan has very cleverly used impurity to destroy entre nations as in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Deluge, or the Roman Empire. In this way they were destroyed from within just as the Church today is being destroyed from within.
A conspiracy is not so hard to believe when we understand how truly revolting the sin of impurity is to God. Impurity is one sin that we do against ourselves. This body that we inhabit, will one day be destined to be in the presence of God, and impurity is the one sin that will stain it and be carried with it like a banner telling what we have done. My daughter loves reading and relating what she has read. Lately, she has had a great interest in Purgatory and Hell and tells us in a book she is reading called Purgatory, that a nun had a vision of souls in purgatory who must sit in the most vile and filthy environment until their debt from impurity is paid. This environment was so awful it made the poor nun who had seen the vision, nauseous and sick. 21
Despite the Church’s obvious pleas, we can all agree that this last century has brought us into a continual slide into nakedness. As each decade has passed, the Church’s influence has become less and less and its voice in society has all but disappeared. We can see that there really must have been some kind of planned attack. We’ve seen how the growing humanism exploded during the French Revolution. Later Communist documents revealed the true intentions of the communists and how very plainly their directives have been slowly put into place around the world.
Impurity is so enmeshed in our society that it will take heaven’s intervention to uproot it now. It is now commonplace to see bare arms, legs, midriffs and all this without ever going to a beach! One can even see this splendid display in Church! God Forbid! The smoke of Satan has truly entered the Church when immodesty is not only seen on the streets, but even in our own churches today! “The judgements of God upon your sex endures even today; and with it inevitably endures your position of criminal at the bar of justice. You are the gateway of the devil,” said Tertullian on Women’s Dress. We can be the gateway of the devil or the gateway to heaven. If we are to see a change in society it must start with us. Women having more of a sense of modesty makes us Satan’s target. If he can destroy a woman’s femininity, he can destroy her modesty and it is women who maintain the chastity in the world. Our choice for modesty alone can be the starting point for many other women we will meet during our everyday lives. We must set an example of Our Lady’s modesty and the Churches teaching on it. It all starts or ends with us.