FAHEY, Denis - The Kingship of Christ and Organized Naturalism (1943)

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The Kingship of Christ

and

Organized Naturalism

BY

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THE KINGSHIP OF CHRIST

AND

ORGANIZED NATURALISM

By

REV. DENIS FAHEY, C.S.Sp., D.D., D.Ph., B.A.

Professor of Philosophy and Church History,
Holy Ghost Missionary College, Kimmage, Dublin.

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DEDICATION

To the Immaculate Heart of Our Blessed Mother,
Queen of Heaven and Earth, Mediatrix of Our Super¬
natural Life, to St. Michael the Archangel, Prince of
the Supernatural Host in the combat against Satan,
the first Naturalist, to St. Joseph, Protector of the
Universal Church, to St. Joan of Arc, the Messenger
of the Divine Plan for order, and to St. Teresa of the
Child Jesus, this book is humbly and lovingly dedicated
by the Author.

“ Naturalism is more than a heresy : it is pure undiluted anti-
christianism. Heresy denies one or more dogmas ; Naturalism
denies that there are any dogmas or that there can be any.
Heresy alters more or less what God has revealed ; Naturalism
denies the very existence of revelation. It follows that the
inevitable law and the obstinate passion of Naturalism is to
dethrone Our Lord Jesus Christ and to drive Him from the
world. This will be the task of Antichrist and it is Satan's
supreme ambition .... The great obstacle to the salvation
of the men of our day, as the Vatican Council points out in the
first Constitution on Doctrine, what hurls more people into
hell nowadays than at any other epoch, is Rationalism or
Naturalism . . . Naturalism strives with all its might to exclude
Our Lord Jesus Christ, Our One Master and Saviour, from
the minds of men as well as from the daily lives and habits
of peoples, in order to set up the reign of reason or of nature.
Now, wherever the breath of Naturalism has passed, the very
source of Christian life is dried up. Naturalism means complete
sterility in regard to salvation and eternal life ” (The Kingship
of Christ according to Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, pp. 57, 58).

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CONTENTS

Dedication .
Chapter I:

Chapter II:
Chapter III :

Chapter IV :

Chapter V:

Chapter VI:

Chapter VII

Page

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(i) Church and State ;

(ii) The Indirect Power of the Church ;

(iii) Marriage;

(iv) Education;

(v) Private Property ;

(vi) Monetary System ;

(vii) Submission to the Blessed Trinity with
Christ in Holy Mass, in view of Christ’s
programme for order.

The Kingship of Christ in its Integrity : the

Divine Plan for Ordered Social Life. ... ... 33

Organized Opposition to the Kingship of Christ
and to our Supernatural Life : The Organized
Forces—The Invisible Organized Force, Satan
and His Fellow Demons ... ... ... 37

The Organized Naturalism of the Jewish Nation :

The Oneness of the Divine Plan for order—
Consequences of the Jewish Nation’s Rejection
of the Supernatural Messias—Jewish Naturalism
—The Primary Allegiance of the Jews—Con¬
trasting Programmes ... . 42

The Naturalism of Freemasonry: Naturalism
and Supernaturalism—The Naturalism of Free¬
masonry according to the Papal Encyclicals
(The Encyclical Letter, Humanum Genus;

Some References to Secret Societies in later
Papal Documents)—The Naturalism of Free¬
masonry from Anderson's Constitutions—Con¬
trasting Programmes ... ... ... ... 54

An Outline of the Theology of History : Accep¬
tance of the Divine Plan for order in the
Thirteenth Century — The Lutheran Revolt
against the Divine Plan for order—Political
Consequences of the Protestant Revolt—
Economic Consequences of the Protestant
Revolt—The Significance of the French Revolu¬
tion of 1789—Some National Reactions ... 98

: The Kingship of Christ and the Duty of Catholics:

Pope Pius XI and the Duty of Catholics—
Cardinal Pie of Poitiers and the Kingship of
Christ—Solidarity of Catholics as Members of
Christ—Catholics and the Naturalism of the
Jewish Nation—The Jewish State—Catholics
and the Naturalism of Freemasonry—The

Need for Union among Catholics . 123

Appendix

List of the Supreme Councils of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

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CHAPTER I.

THE PROGRAMME OF CHRIST

AND

THE PLANS OF SATAN

Our Lord’s Programme for Order
may be outlined as follows :

FIRSTLY

Our Lord’s Mystical Body,
the Catholic Church, Super¬
natural and Supranational,
which all States and Nations
are called upon to acknowledge,
has been established by God as
the One Way for the ordered
return of human beings to Him.
Into it all men of all nations
are called to enter as His
members. “ Men living to¬
gether in society are under
the power of God no less than
individuals are, and society,
not less than individuals, owes
gratitude to God, who gave it
being and maintains it, and
whose ever-bounteous goodness
enriches it with countless bless¬
ings. Since, then, no one is
allowed to be remiss in the
service due to God . ... we
are bound absolutely to worship
God in that way which He has

shown to be His will .

It cannot be difficult to find
out which is the true religion.

Satan’s Plans for Disorder may
be outlined as follows:

FIRSTLY

Satan aims at preventing the
acknowledgement by States
and Nations of the Catholic
Church as the One Way estab¬
lished by God for ordered
return to Him. When this
acknowledgement has been
brought about in spite of his
efforts and those of his satellites,
he strives to get it undone
and to induce the State to
persecute the Catholic Church.
The first step towards this is
to get all religions, including
the Jewish religion, put on the
same level as the Catholic
Church. The granting of full
citizenship to the Jews, who,
as a nation, are engaged in
preparing for the natural
Messiah, tends in the same
direction. This putting of all
religions on the same level is
usually called in the newspapers
separation of Church and State.
(Cf. Accounts of Revolutions
from the French Revolution of

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if only it be sought with an
earnest and unbiased mind;
for proofs are abundant and

striking.From all

these [proofs] it is evident that
the only true religion is the
one established by Jesus Christ
Himself, and which He com¬
mitted to His Church to pro¬
tect and propagate ” (Leo XIII,
Encyclical Letter, Immortale Dei,
On the Christian Constitution
of States).

“ Justice therefore forbids,
and reason itself forbids, the
State to be godless; or to
adopt a line of action which
would end in godlessness—
namely, to treat the various
religions (as they call them)
alike, and to bestow upon them
promiscuously equal rights and
privileges. Since, then, the pro¬
fession of one religion is neces¬
sary in the State, that religion
must be professed which alone
is true, and which can be
recognized without difficulty,
especially in Catholic States,
because the marks of truth are,
as it were, engraven upon it ”
(Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter,
Libertas, On Human Liberty).

“ By degrees the religion of
Christ was put on the same
level with false religions and
placed ignominiously in the

(Satan's Aims)

1789 to the Spanish Revolution

of 1931 ).

Satan spreads perplexity and
disorder in minds by confusing
the false tolerance of Liberalism,
by which equal rights are
granted to truth and error,
with the true tolerance of the
Catholic Church. “ As to toler¬
ance,” writes Leo XIII (Encyc¬
lical Letter, Libertas, On Human
Liberty), “ it is surprising how
far removed from the equity
and prudence of the Church
are those who profess what is
called Liberalism. For, in allow¬
ing that boundless licence of
which We have spoken, they
exceed all limits and end at
last by making no apparent
distinction between truth and
error, honesty and dishonesty

. it is contrary to reason

that error and truth should have

equal rights .For right

is a moral power which it is
absurd to suppose that nature
has accorded indifferently to
truth and falsehood, justice and
injustice.”

“ The Church,” writes the
same learned Pontiff (Encyclical
Letter, Immortale Dei, On the
Christian Constitution of States),
“ deems it unlawful to place
the various forms of divine
worship on the same footing

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same category with them ”
(Pius XI, Encyclical Letter,
Quas Primus, On the Kingship
of Christ).

Pope Pius XI condemned
separation of Church and State
more than once. In the En¬
cyclical, On Christian Marriage,
he praised the Italian Matri¬
monial Law and the solemn
Convention entered into be¬
tween the Holy See and the
Kingdom of Italy and then
added : “ This might well be
a striking example to all of how,
even in this our own day (in
which, sad to say, the absolute
separation of the civil power
from the Church, and indeed
from every religion, is so often
taught), the one supreme
authority can be united and
associated with the other with¬
out detriment to the rights
and supreme power of either,
thus protecting Christian parents
from pernicious evils and men¬
acing ruin.”

Again the same Pontiff writes
as follows : “It is assuredly
with no small grief We learn
that the legislators have openly
declared that the State has no
religion, and that they have
accordingly confirmed and rati¬
fied what the Constitution of
the Spanish Government has
already unjustly laid down,
namely, the separation of Civil
Society from the Church. To
avoid dwelling too long on
this matter. We do not wish
to point out at too great length

(Satan’s Aims)

as the true religion, but does
not on that account, condemn
those rulers, who for the sake
of securing some great good
or of hindering some great evil,
patiently allow custom or usage
to be a kind of sanction for
each kind of religion having
its place in the State. And, in
fact, the Church is wont to
take earnest heed that no one
shall be forced to embrace the
Catholic Faith against his will.”

Satan also spreads perplexity
and disorder in minds by intro¬
ducing confusion between Anti-
Semitism, which is the detest¬
able hatred of the Jews as a
race, and the duty incumbent
upon Catholics of combating
valiantly for the integral rights
of Christ the King and opposing
Jewish Naturalism. We see this
clearly in the following quota¬
tion from the Jewish writer
Bernard Lazare : “ The Jew is
the living testimony of the
disappearance of the State based
on theological principles, that
State which the Anti-Semites
hope to restore. From the day
a Jew first occupied a public
position, the Christian State
was in danger. That is per¬
fectly accurate and the Anti-
Semites who say that the Jews
have destroyed the correct idea

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what a grievous error they com¬
mit who hold that such a separa¬
tion is licit and worthy of approval,
especially since it is a question
of a nation almost all of whose
citizens glory in the name of
Catholic. Indeed, if the matter
is examined closely, this ini¬
quitous separation, as We have
more than once indicated, is
the necessary consequence of
the theories of the Laicists ”
(Encyclical Letter, On the Per¬
secution of the Church in Spain).

Pope Leo XIII stressed the
same divine principle. “ The
main factor in bringing things
to this happy state were the
ordinances and decrees of your
synods, especially of those which
in more recent times were con¬
vened and confirmed by the
authority of the Apostolic See.
But, moreover (a fact which it
gives pleasure to acknowledge),
thanks are due to the equity of
the laws which obtain in America
and to the customs of your well-
ordered Republic. For the
Church amongst you, unopposed
by the Constitution and govern¬
ment of your nation, fettered by
no hostile legislation, protected
against violence by the common
laws and the impartiality of the
tribunals, is free to live and act
without hindrance. Yet, though
all this is true, it would be very
erroneous to draw the conclusion
that in America is to be sought
the type of the most desirable
status of the Church, or that it
would be universally lawful or
expedient for State and Church
to be, as in America, separated
and divorced” (Encyclical Letter,
Longinque Oceani, On Catholicity
in the United States).

(Satan’s Aims)

of the State could more justly
assert that the entrance of the
Jews into Christian Society has
symbolized the destruction of
the State, I mean, of course,
the Christian State ” ( VAntise-
nutisme, p. 361 ).

Satan wants us to forget that
there is one True Religion, the
Supernatural Religion estab¬
lished by Our Lord Jesus
Christ, True God and True
Man. He wants us also to lose
sight of the fact that there are
organized forces working for the
advent of the Natural Messias.

“ By the fact that the indis¬
criminate freedom of all forms of
worship is proclaimed, truth is
confused with error, and the
holy and immaculate spouse of
Christ is placed on the same
level as heretical sects and
even as Jewish perfidy ” (Pius
VII, Letter, Post tarn diutumas).

Satan has not left us in
doubt about his enthusiasm for
the Declaration of the “ rights
of man ” and the principles of
the French Revolution of 1789 .
“ Long live Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity ! That is the favour¬
able time for us ” are amongst
the expressions used by the
possessed children of Illfurt,
Alsace. (Cf. The Devil, his words
and actions in the possessed
children of Illfurt, from the
official documents).

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SECONDLY

And as a consequence. States and
Nations are called upon to ack¬
nowledge the right of the
Catholic Church, by the voice
of the Pope and Bishops, to
decide what favours or hinders
our most real life, namely, our
life as members of Christ. This
right of the Catholic Church is
known as the Indirect Power. It
belongs to the Catholic Church
as the sole divinely-appointed
Guardian of the whole Moral
Law, natural and revealed.

“ The Church of Christ is the
true and sole teacher of virtue
and guardian of morals ” (Leo
XIII, Encyclical Letter, Immor-
tale Dei, On the Christian Con¬
stitution of States).

“ The Lord Jesus reigns in

civil society .when the

Church holds that position of
dignity which was allotted to her
by her Divine Author, that of a
perfect society, mistress and
guide of all other societies ”
(Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Letter,
Ubi Arcano, On the Peace of
Christ in the Kingdom of Christ).

“ If the natural law enjoins
upon us to love devotedly and
to defend the country that gave
us birth, and in which we were
brought up, so that every good
citizen hesitates not to face

(Satan’s Aims)
SECONDLY

Satan aims at getting States and
Nations to treat with contempt
the Indirect Power of the
Catholic Church and at setting
up the State or the Race as the
authority to decide all moral
questions. He knows that this
means the abrogation of the
moral law and that it leads to
chaos.

“ To create this atmosphere
of lasting peace, neither peace
treaties nor the most solemn
pacts, nor international meetings
or conferences, nor even the
noblest and most disinterested
efforts of any statesman will be
enough, unless in the first place
are recognized the sacred rights
of natural and divine law. No
leader in public economy, no
power of organization will ever
be able to bring social con¬
ditions to a peaceful solution,
unless the moral law based
on God and conscience first
triumphs in the field of econ¬
omics itself. This is the under¬
lying value of every value in
the political life as well as in
the economic life of nations ”
(Pius XI, Encyclical Letter,
Caritate Christi Compulsi, On
the Troubles of Our Time).

“ He who takes the race, or
the people, or the State, or the

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death for his native land, very
much more is it the urgent duty
of Christians to be ever animated
by like sentiments towards the
Church. For the Church is the
Holy City of the Living God,
born of God Himself, and by
Him built up and established.
Therefore we are bound to love
dearly the country whence we
have received the means of
enjoyment this mortal life
affords, but we have a much
more urgent obligation to love,
with ardent love, the Church to
which we owe the life of the
soul, a life that will endure for¬
ever ” (Leo XIII, Encyclical
Letter, Sapientice Christiana, On
the Chief Duties of Christians as
Citizens). “ Christ instituted in
the Church a living, authoritative
and permanent Teaching Author¬
ity, which He strengthened by
His own power, taught by the
Spirit of Truth, and confirmed
by miracles. He willed and
ordered, under the gravest pen¬
alties that its teachings should
be received as if they were His
own ” (Leo XIII, Encyclical
Letter, Satis Cognitum, On the
Unity of the Church).

“ In defining the limits of the
obedience owed to the pastors
of souls,” writes Pope Leo XIII,
“ but most of all to the authority
of the Roman Pontiff, it must
not be supposed that it is only
to be yielded in relation to
dogmas of which the obstinate
denial cannot be disjoined from
the crime of heresy. Nay
further, it is not enough sin¬
cerely and firmly to assent to

(Satan’s Aims)

form of Government, the bearers
of the power of the State or
other fundamental elements of
human society—which in the
temporal order of things have
an essential and honourable
place—out of the system of their
earthly valuation and makes
them the ultimate norm of all,
even of religious values, and
deifies them with an idolatrous
worship, perverts and falsifies
the order of things created and
commanded by God ” (Pius XI,
The Persecution of the Church in
Germany).

Lured on by Satan, men talk
of restoring order in the world
in defiance of or without the
help of Christ and His Church.
This will only lead to greater
chaos : “ No human institution-
exists which can impose upon
the nations an international
code, adapted to the present
time, similar to the one which
in the Middle Ages, ruled that
society of nations which was

known as Christendom.

But there is a divine institution,
which can guarantee the sanc¬
tity of the law of nations, an
institution which embracing all
nations and transcending them,
is endowed with supreme
authority and evokes veneration
through its plenary powers of

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doctrines which, though not
defined by any solemn pro¬
nouncement of the Church, are
by her proposed to belief, as
divinely revealed in her common
and universal teaching and
which the Vatican Council de¬
clared are to be believed with
Catholic and divine faith.

“ But this likewise must be
reckoned amongst the duties of
Christians, that they allow them¬
selves to be ruled and directed
by the authority and leadership
of their bishops, and above all
of the Apostolic See. . . Where¬
fore it belongs to the Pope to
judge authoritatively what things
the sacred oracles contain, as
well as what doctrines are in
harmony, and what in dis¬
agreement, with them ; and also
for the same reason to show
forth what things are to be
accepted as right, and what to
be rejected as worthless ; what
it is necessary to do and what
to avoid doing, in order to
attain eternal salvation. For
otherwise, there would be no
sure interpreter of the com¬
mands of God, nor would there
be any safe guide showing man

the way he should live.

From God has the duty been
assigned to the Church not only
to interpose resistance, if at
times the State rule should run
counter to religion, but, further,
to make a strong endeavour that
the power of the Gospel may
pervade the law and institutions
of the nations. And inasmuch as
the destiny of the State depends
mainly on the disposition of
those who are at the head of

(Satan's Aims)

rule—the Church of Christ ”
(Pius XI, Encyclical Letter,
Ubi Arcano , On the Peace of
Christ in the Kingdom of Christ).

Satan tries to persuade young
people that the Church is
opposed to the form of civil
government they prefer. This is
not true. “ Of the various
governments, the Church does
not reject any that are fitted to
procure the welfare of the
subject; she wishes only—and
this nature itself requires—
that they should be constituted
without involving wrong to any¬
one and especially without viola¬
ting the rights of the Church ”
(Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter,
Libertas, On Human Liberty).

He tries to persuade them
also that the Catholic Church is
opposed to all efforts for a
country’s independence. This
also is false. “ Neither does the
Church condemn those who, if
it can be done without violation
of justice, wish to make their
country independent of any
foreign or despotic power. Nor
does she blame those who wish
to secure to the State the power
of self-government, and to its
citizens the greatest possible
measure of prosperity ” (Leo
XIII, Encyclical Letter, Libertas,
On Human Liberty).

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affairs, it follows that the Church
cannot give countenance or
favour to those whom she knows
to be imbued with a spirit of
hostility to her; who refuse
openly to respect her rights;
who make it their aim and pur¬
pose to tear asunder the alliance
that should, by the very nature
of things, connect the interests
of religion with those of the
State. On the contrary, she is
(as she is bound to be) the
upholder of those who are
themselves imbued with the
right way of thinking as to the
relations between Church and
State, and who strive to make
them work in perfect accord for
the common good. These pre¬
cepts contain the abiding prin¬
ciple by which every Catholic
should shape his conduct in
regard to public life ” (Leo XIII,
Encyclical Letter, Sapientice
Christianas, On the Chief Duties
of Christians as Citizens).

THIRDLY

The Unity and Indissolubility
of Christian Marriage symbolize
the union of Christ and His
Mystical Body. This is the
foundation of the Christian
Family. Our Lord wants His
members to cultivate purity and
honour virginity, under the
guidance of His Immaculate
Mother.

“ If we wish with all reverence
to inquire into the intimate

(Satan’s Aims)

The Church, of course, con¬
demns all secret societies which
are Satan’s happy hunting
grounds : “ As Our Predecessors
have many times repeated, let
no man think that he may for
any reason whatsoever join the
Masonic sect, if he values his
Catholic name and his eternal
salvation as he ought to value
them. Let no one be deceived
by a pretence of honesty. It
may seem to some that Free¬
masons demand nothing that is
openly contrary to religion and
morality; but, as the whole
principle and object of the sect
lies in what is vicious and
criminal, to join with these men
or in any way to help them
cannot be lawful ” (Leo XIII,
Encyclical Letter, Humanum
Genus, On Freemasonry).

THIRDLY

Satan aims at undermining
Christian family life, directly by
the introduction of divorce and
indirectly by the propagation of
immorality. The attack on the
moral law may be launched under
the pretext of the interests of the
race. Satan hates the pure,
especially the Immaculate Queen
of Heaven.

“ Oh ! if only your country
[the United States] had come

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reason of the divine decree [of
the indissolubility of marriage],
we shall easily see it in the
mystical signification of Chris¬
tian Marriage.For, as

the Apostle says in his Epistle
to the Ephesians (V, 32 ), the
marriage of Christians recalls
that most perfect union which
exists between Christ and the
Church, which union, as long
as Christ shall live and the
Church through Him, can never
be dissolved by any separation

“ God wishes men to be born
not only that they may live
and fill the earth, but much
more that they may be worship¬
pers of God, that they may
know Him and love Him and
finally enjoy Him for ever in
heaven; and this end, since
man is raised by God in a
marvellous way to the super¬
natural order, surpasses all that
eye hath seen, and ear heard,
and all that hath entered into
the heart of man. From which
it is easily seen how great a gift
of divine goodness and how
remarkable a fruit of marriage
are children born by the omni¬
potent power of God through
the co-operation of those bound
in wedlock.

“ But Christian parents must

(8atan’s Aims)

to know from the experiences
of others, rather than from
examples at home, of the accu¬
mulation of ills which derive
from the plague of divorce!

.The consequences of

this evil have been thus de¬
scribed by Pope Leo XIII in
words whose truth cannot be
gainsaid : ‘ Because of divorce
the nuptial contract becomes
subject to fickle whim; affec¬
tion is weakened; pernicious
incentives are given to conjugal
infidelity; the care and educa¬
tion of offspring are harmed;
the seeds of discord are sown
among families, the dignity of
woman is lessened and brought
down, and she runs the risk of
being deserted after she has
served her husband as an
instrument of pleasure. And
since it is true that for the ruin
of the family and the under¬
mining of the State, nothing is
so powerful as the corruption of
morals, it is easy to see that
divorce is most injurious to the
prosperity of families and of
States ’ (Encyclical Letter,

Arcanum ).Marriages,

in which one or the other party
does not accept the Catholic
teaching or has not been bap¬
tised, as is clear to you from
wide experience, are rarely

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also understand that they are
destined not only to propagate
and preserve the human race on
earth, indeed not only to educate
any kind of worshippers of the
true God, but children who are
to become members of the
Church of Christ, to raise up
fellow-citizens of the Saints,
and members of God’s house¬
hold that the worshippers of
God and Our Saviour may daily

increase.It is theirs to

offer their offspring to the
Church in order that, by this
most fruitful Mother of the
children of God, they may be
regenerated through the laver
of Baptism unto supernatural
justice and finally be made
living members of Christ, par¬
takers of immortal life, and
heirs of that eternal glory to
which we all aspire from our

inmost heart.

“ All these things, however,
Venerable Brethren, depend in
large measure on the due pre¬
paration, remote and proximate,
of the parties for marriage. For
it cannot be denied that the
basis of a happy wedlock, and
the ruin of an unhappy one, is
prepared and set in the souls of
boys and girls during the period
of childhood and adolescence.
There is danger that those who

(Satan’s Aims)

happy and usually occasion
grave loss to the Catholic
Church ” (Pius XII, Encyclical
Letter to the American Hier¬
archy, 1939 )-

“ The Naturalists and Free¬
masons, having no faith in those
things which we have learned
by the revelation of God, deny
that our first parents sinned,
and consequently think that
free will is not at all weakened

and inclined to evil.

Wherefore we see that men
are publicly tempted by the
many allurements of pleasure;
that there are journals and
pamphlets with neither modera¬
tion nor shame; that stage-
plays are remarkable for licence ;
that designs for works of art
are shamelessly sought in the
laws of so-called realism ; that
the contrivances for a soft and
delicate life are most carefully
devized ; and that all the allure¬
ments of pleasure by which
virtue may be lulled to sleep are
diligently brought into play ”
(Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter,
Humanum Genus , On Free¬
masonry).

Satan rejoices at efforts to
encourage illegitimacy, on the
plea of the needs of the race,
and at efforts to corrupt the
young. “ Every use of the

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before marriage sought in all
things what was theirs, who
indulged even their impure
desires, will be in the married
state what they were before,
that they will reap that which
they have sown ; indeed within
the home there will be sadness,
lamentation, mutual contempt,
strifes, estrangements, weariness
of common life and, worst of
all, such parties will find them¬
selves left alone with their own
unconquered passions. Let,
then, those who are about to
enter on married life approach
that state well disposed and
well prepared, so that they will
be able, as far as they can, to
help each other in sustaining
the vicissitudes of life, and yet
more in attending to their
eternal salvation and in forming
the inner man unto the fullness

of the age of Christ.

The religious character of mar¬
riage, its sublime signification of
grace and the union between
Christ and the Church, evidently
requires that those about to
marry should show a holy
reverence towards it, and zeal¬
ously endeavour to make their
marriage approach as nearly as
possible to the archetype of
Christ and the Church. They,
therefore, who rashly and heed¬
lessly contract mixed marriages.

(Satan's Aims)

faculty given by God for the
procreation of new life is the
right and the privilege of the
marriage state alone, by the
law of God and of nature, and
must be confined absolutely
within the sacred limits of that

state.For now, alas,

not secretly nor under cover, but
openly, with all sense of shame
put aside, now by word, again
by writings, by theatrical pro¬
ductions of every kind, by
romantic fiction, by amorous and
frivolous novels, by cinemato¬
graphs portraying in vivid scene,
in addresses broadcast on the
radio, in short, by all the
inventions of modern science,
the sanctity of marriage is
trampled upon and derided;
divorce, adultery, all the basest
vices are either extolled or at
least are depicted in such colours
as to appear to be free of all
reproach and infamy. Books

are not lacking which.

to the number of antiquated
opinions, relegate the traditional
doctrine of Christian marriage.
These thoughts are instilled into
men of every class, rich and
poor, masters and workers.

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from which the maternal love
and providence of the Church
dissuades her children for very
sound reasons, fail conspic¬
uously in this respect, some¬
times with danger to their
eternal salvation ” (Pius XI,
Encyclical Letter, Casti Con-
nubii. On Christian Marriage).

FOURTHLY

Our Lord wants children edu¬
cated as Members of His
Mystical Body, so that they
may be able to look at every¬
thing, nationality included, from
that standpoint, and observe
the order following therefrom
in relation to God, themselves
and others. Thus is true per¬
sonality developed.

“ For the mere fact that a
school gives some religious in¬
struction (often extremely stin¬
ted), does not bring it into
accord with the rights of the
Church and of the Christian
family, or make it a fit place
for Catholic students. To be
this, it is necessary that all the
teaching and the whole organ¬
ization of the school and its
teachers, syllabus and text-books
in every branch, be regulated by
the Christian spirit, under the
direction and maternal super¬
vision of the Church; so that
Religion may be in very truth
the foundation and crown of

(Satan’s Aims)

lettered and unlettered, married
and single, the godly and god¬
less, old and young, but for
these last, as easiest prey, the
worst snares are laid ” (Pius XI,
Encyclical Letter, Casti Con-
nubii, On Christian Marriage).

FOURTHLY

Satan aims at impeding or, if
possible, preventing altogether
the education of young people
of both sexes as Members of
Christ. He will favour the
Lutheran sectioning off of the
Christian from the Citizen (or
National) and will endeavour to
get educators to strive for
success in examinations or in
games irrespective of the ordered
formation of Christ’s Members.
He will endeavour to get
Catholics thus badly educated
into Secret Societies, such as
Freemasonry, in order to give
them a naturalistic formation
and induce them to turn against
the Religious Orders of the
Catholic Church and against
Catholic Education generally.

Satan uses every effort to
lower the ideals of future priests
and educators and to corrupt
the future mothers of families :
“ Let us spread vice broadcast
among the multitude. Let them
breathe it through their five

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the youth’s entire training; and
this in every grade of school,
not only the elementary, but
the intermediate and higher
institutions of learning as well.
To use the words of Leo XIII:

‘ It is necessary not only that
religious instruction be given
to the young at fixed times, but
also that every other subject
taught, be permeated with Chris¬
tian piety. If this is wanting, if
this sacred atmosphere does not
pervade and warm the hearts
of masters and scholars alike,
little good can be expected
from any kind of learning, and
considerable harm will often
be the consequence . . . .'
(Encyclical Letter, Militantis
Ecclesice, Aug. i, 1897) ” (Pope
Pius XI, Encyclical Letter,
Divini Illius Magistri, On the
Christian Education of Youth).
“ When one thinks of the havoc
wrought in the souls of youth
and of childhood, of the loss of
innocence so often suffered in
the motion picture theatres,
there comes to mind the terrible
condemnation pronounced by
Our Lord upon the corrupters
of little ones : ‘ Whosoever shall
scandalize one of these little
ones who believe in Me, it
were better for him that a
millstone be hanged about his
neck and that he be drowned
in the depths of the sea ’

(Satan’s Aims)

senses, let them drink it in and

become saturated with it.

Make men’s hearts corrupt and
vicious and you will have no
more Catholics. Draw away
priests from their work, from
the altar and from the practice
of virtue. Strive skilfully to fill
their minds and occupy their
time with other matters ....
Recently one of our friends,
laughing at our projects, said to
us : ‘ To overcome the Catholic
Church, you must begin by
suppressing the female sex.’
There is a certain sense in
which the words are true; but
since we cannot suppress woman,
let us corrupt her along with the

Church.The best

poniard with which to wound
the Church mortally is cor¬
ruption ” (Instructions of the
Italian Masonic Alta Vendita
in L’Eglise Romaine en face de
la Revolution , by Cretineau-
Joly, Vol. II, pp. 128-129).

“ Everyone knows what
damage is done to the soul
by bad motion pictures. They
are occasions of sin, they seduce
young people along the ways
of evil by glorifying the passions;
they show life under a false
light; they cloud ideals; they
destroy pure love, respect for
marriage, affection for the

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(St. Matth., XVIII, 6) ..... .
From time to time, the Bishops
will do well to remind the
motion picture industry that,
amid the cares of their pastoral
ministry, they are under obliga¬
tion to interest themselves in
every form of decent and healthy
recreation, because they are
responsible before God for the
moral welfare of their people
even during their time of leisure.

.Above all, all pastors

of souls will undertake to obtain
each year from their people a
pledge, similar to the one already
alluded to, which is given by
their American brothers and in
which they promise to stay
away from motion pictures
which are offensive to truth
and to Christian morality. The
most efficacious manner of ob¬
taining these pledges or promises
is through the parish church or
school ” (Pius XI, Encyclical
Letter, Vigilanli Cura, On the
Motion Pictures).

“ The proper and immediate
end of Christian education is
to co-operate with divine grace
in forming the true and perfect
Christian, that is, to form Christ
Himself in those regenerated by

Baptism.For the true

Christian must live a super¬
natural life in Christ.

and display it in all his actions
.Hence the true Chris¬
tian, product of Christian educa¬
tion, is the supernatural man
who thinks, judges and acts
constantly and consistently in
accordance with right reason
illuminated by the supernatural
light of the example and teach¬
ing of Christ; in other words,

(Satan’s Aims)

family.The power of

the motion picture consists in
this, that it speaks by means
of vivid and concrete imagery
which the mind takes in with
enjoyment and without fatigue
.... This power is still greater
in the talking picture for the
reason that interpretation be¬
comes even easier and the charm
of music is added to the action

of the drama. It is

therefore one of the supreme
necessities of our times to
watch and to labour to the end
that the motion picture be no
longer a school of corruption
but that it be transformed into
an effectual instrument for the
education and the elevation of

mankind.This is an

obligation which binds not only
the Bishops but also the faithful
and all decent men who are
solicitous for the well-being and
moral health of the family, of
the nation, and of human society
in general ” (Pius XI, Encyclical
Letter, Vigilanti Cura, On the
Motion Pictures).

“ And repeatedly, as occasion
offered, the Supreme Pontiff has
disapproved of and most strongly
condemned the immodest fash¬
ions in dress which have be¬
come customary in our times,
even among Catholic women and
girls. These fashions are not
only gravely opposed to womanly
dignity and adornment but tend
most unhappily both to the
temporal disgrace of such women,
and what is worse, to their
eternal ruin and that of others
as well ” ( Instruction on Modesty
in Women’s Dress, issued by the
Sacred Congregation of the

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to use the current term, the true
and finished man of character.
For, it is not every kind of con¬
sistency and firmness of con¬
duct based on subjective prin¬
ciples, that makes true char¬
acter, but only constancy in
following the eternal principles
of justice . . . . ” (Pius XI,
Encyclical Letter, Divini Illius
Magistri, On the Christian Educa¬
tion of Youth).

FIFTHLY

The Divine Plan for order calls
for wide diffusion of owner¬
ship of property, in order to
facilitate families in procuring
the sufficiency of material goods
required for the virtuous life of
their members as human per¬
sons, and for Unions of owners
and workers in Guilds or Cor¬
porations, reflecting the soli¬
darity of the Mystical Body in
economic organization.

“ The law therefore should
favour ownership, and its policy
should he to induce as many as
possible to become owners ” (Leo
XIII, Encyclical Letter, Rerum
Novarum, On the Condition of
the Working Classes).

“ As in the conflict of interests
and most of all in the struggle
against unjust forces, a man’s
virtue does not always suffice

(Satan’s Aims)

Council, 12th Jan., 1930).

“ Do not think that any pre¬
caution can be great enough in
keeping the young from masters
and schools whence the pestilent
breath of the Masonic Society
is to be feared. Under your
guidance, let parents, religious
instructors, and priests having
the care. of souls, use every
opportunity, in their Christian
teaching, of warning their chil¬
dren and pupils of the infamous
nature of these societies ” (Leo
XIII, Encyclical Letter, Hu-
manum Genus, On Freemasonry).

FIFTHLY

Satan aims at the concentration
of property in the hands of a
few, either nominally in those
of the State, that is, in those of
the party in power, or in those
of the money-manipulators. He
knows that, given fallen human
nature, this will lead to the
subordination of men to pro¬
duction of material goods and to
the treatment of all those not in
power as mere individuals, not
as persons. For this he favoured
Liberalism or Individualism and
now favours the reaction against
Individualism—Collectivism and
Communism.

Satan saw with pleasure the
ruin of souls resulting from un¬
bridled Individualism. “ Even
on Sundays and Holydays, labour
shifts were given no time to

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to assure him his daily bread,
and as the social machinery
ought to be so organized as by
its natural action to paralyse
the efforts of the wicked, and
to render accessible to every
man of goodwill his legitimate
share of temporal happiness, We
earnestly desire that you should
take an active share in organizing

society for that purpose.

The Church has no need to
disown her past; it is enough
for her, with the co-operation of
the real workmen of social
organization, to take up again
the organizations shattered by
the Revolution [the Guilds] and
in the same Christian spirit
which inspired them, to adapt
them to the new environment
created by the material evolu¬
tion of contemporary society,
for the true friends of the
people are neither revolution¬
aries, nor innovators, but men
of tradition ” (Pius X, Letter,
On the Subject of the Sillon ).

“ Agriculture is the first and
most important of all arts ; so
it is also the first and true riches

of States.To render

onerous the conditions of the
tiller of the soil tends to restrict
his activities and to cripple rural
industry ” (Pius VII, Motu
Proprio, Sept. 15, 1802).

“ Because sociability is one of
man’s natural requirements and
since it is legitimate to promote,
by common effort, decent live¬
lihood, it is not possible with¬
out injustice, to deny or to limit,
either to the producers or to the
labouring and farming classes,
the free faculty of uniting in

(Satan's Aims)

attend to their essential religious
duties. No one thought of
building churches within con¬
venient distances of factories or
of facilitating the work of the
priest. On the contrary, laicism
was actively and persistently
promoted, with the result that
we are now reaping the fruits
of the errors so often de¬
nounced by Our Predecessors
and by Ourselves. It can
surprise no one that the Com¬
munistic fallacy should be
spreading in a world already to
a large extent estranged from
Christianity ” (Pius XI, En¬
cyclical Letter, Divini Redemp-
toris, On Atheistic Communism).

“ Very many employers
treated their workmen as mere
tools, without any concern for
the welfare of their souls, in¬
deed without the slightest
thought of higher interests. The
mind shudders if we consider
the frightful perils to which the
morals of workers (of boys and
young men particularly), the
virtue of girls and women, are
exposed in modern factories;
if we recall how the present
economic regime and, above all,
the disagreeable housing con¬
ditions prove obstacles to the
family tie and family life; if we
remember the insuperable diffi-

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associations, by means of which
they may defend their proper
rights and secure the betterment
of the goods of soul and body,
as well as the honest comforts
of life. But to unions of this
kind, which in past centuries
have procured immortal glory
for Christianity and for the
professions an untarnishable
splendour, one cannot every¬
where impose an identical dis¬
cipline and structure, which,
therefore, can be varied to meet
the different temperament of
the people and the diverse
circumstances of time. But let
the unions in question draw
their vital force from principles
of wholesome liberty, let them
take their form from the lofty
rules of justice and of honesty
and conforming themselves to
those norms, let them act in
such a manner that, in their
care for the interests of their
class, they violate no one’s
rights, let them continue to
strive for harmony and respect
the common weal of civil
society ” (Pius XII, Letter to
the American Hierarchy, Nov. x,
1939 )-

“ If private resources do not
suffice, it is the duty of the
public authority to supply for
the insufficient forces of indivi¬
dual effort, particularly in a
matter which is of such impor¬
tance to the common weal,
namely, the maintenance of the
family and married people. If
families, particularly those in
which there are many children,
have not suitable dwellings ; if
the husband cannot find employ-

(Satan's Aims)

culties placed in the way of a
proper observance of holydays

.Dead matter leaves the

factory ennobled and trans¬
formed, while human beings are
corrupted and degraded ” (Pius
XI, Encyclical Letter, Quad-
ragesimo Anno , On the Social
Order).

On the other hand, Satan
fans the flames of the Com¬
munist reaction and urges on
the revolt against God, Our
Loving Father. “ In the begin¬
ning, Communism showed it¬
self for what it was in all its
perversity; but very soon it
realized that it was thus alienat¬
ing the people. It has, therefore,
changed its tactics, and strives
to entice the multitudes by

trickery of various forms.

Thus, aware of the universal
desire for peace, the leaders of
Communism pretend to be the
most zealous promoters and
propagandists of the movement
for world amity. Yet at the same
time they stir up a class warfare
which causes rivers of blood to
flow, and, realizing that their
system offers no internal guarantee
of peace, they have recourse to

unlimited armaments.

They try perfidiously to worm
their way even into professedly
Catholic and religious organiza-

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ment and means of livelihood ;
if the necessities of life cannot be
purchased except at exorbitant
prices ; if even the mother of
the family, to the great harm
of the home, is compelled to go
forth and seek a living by her
own labour; if she, too, in the
ordinary or even extraordinary
labours of childbirth is deprived
of proper food, medicine, and
the assistance of a skilled
physician, it is patent to all to
what an extent married people
may lose heart, and how home
life and the observance of God’s
commands are rendered diffi¬
cult for them ; indeed, it is
obvious how great a peril can
arise to the public security and
to the welfare and very life of
civil society itself when such
men are reduced to that condi¬
tion of desperation that, having
nothing which they fear to lose,
they are emboldened to hope for
chance advantage from the up¬
heaval of the State and of
established order ” (Pope Pius
XI, Encyclical Letter, Casti
Connubii , On Christian Marriage).

SIXTHLY

The Divine Plan for order calls
for a monetary system so ar¬
ranged as to facilitate the pro¬
duction and exchange of material
goods in view of the virtuous
life of Members of Christ in
happy families.

“ The ancient workingmen’s
guilds were abolished in the

(Satan’s Aims)

tions.See to it, Vener¬

able Brethren, that the Faithful
do not allow themselves to be
deceived! Communism is in¬
trinsically wrong, and no one
who would save Christian civiliza¬
tion may give it assistance in any
undertaking whatsoever ” (Pius
XI, Encyclical Letter, Divini
Redemptoris, On Atheistic Com¬
munism).

“ They [the Communists]
carry out the diabolical pro¬
gramme of wresting from the
hearts of all, even of children,

all religious sentiment.

Thus we see to-day, what was
never before seen in history,
the satanical banners of war
against God and against religion,
brazenly unfurled to the winds
in the midst of all peoples and
in all parts of the earth ”
(Pius XI, Caritate Christi Com-
pulsi, On the Troubles of Our
Time).

SIXTHLY

Satan aims at a monetary
system, by which human per¬
sons will be subordinated to the
production of material goods,
and the production, distribu¬
tion and exchange of material
goods will be subordinated to
the making of money and the
growth of power in the hands

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last [18th] century, and no other
organization took their place.
Public institutions and the laws
themselves have set aside the
ancestral religion. Hence by
degreesj it has come to pass that
workingmen have been surren¬
dered, all isolated and helpless,
to the hard-heartedness of em¬
ployers and the greed of un¬
bridled competition. The evil
has been increased by rapacious
usury, which, although more
than once condemned by the
Church, is nevertheless under a
different guise but with the
like injustice, still practised by
covetous and grasping men. To
this must be added the uprise
of powerful monopolies, con¬
trolling enterprises worked by
contract and all branches of
commerce; so that a very small
number of very rich men have
been able to lay upon the
teeming masses of the prole¬
tariat a yoke little better than
that of slavery itself ” (Leo XIII,
Encyclical Letter, Rerum Nov¬
ation, On the Condition of the
Working Classes).

“ It is patent that in our
days not alone is wealth accumu¬
lated, but immense power and
despotic economic domination
are concentrated in the hands
of a few .... This domination
is most powerfully exercised by
those who, because they hold
and control money, also govern
credit and determine its allot¬
ment, for that reason supplying,
so to speak, the life-blood to the
entire economic body and grasp-

(Satan’s Aims)

of the financiers. He is pleased
that money is employed as an
instrument for the elimination
of the Divine Plan and for the
installation of Naturalism.

Satan favours birth-preven¬
tion. “ And now. Venerable
Brethren, We shall explain in
detail the evils opposed to each
of the benefits of matrimony.
First consideration is due to the
offspring, which many have the
boldness to call the disagreeable
burden of matrimony and which
they say is to be carefully
avoided by married people not
through virtuous continence
(which Christian law permits in
matrimony when both parties
consent), but by frustrating the
marriage act. Some justify this
criminal abuse on the ground
that they are weary of children
and wish to gratify their desires
without the consequent burden.

“ Others say that they cannot
on the one hand remain con¬
tinent nor on the other can
they have children because of
the difficulties on the part of
the mother or on the part of
family circumstances. But no
reason, however grave, may be
put forward by which anything
intrinsically against nature may
become comformable to nature
and morally good. Since, there¬
fore, the conjugal act is destined
primarily by nature for the
begetting of children, those who,
in exercising it, deliberately
frustrate its natural power and
purpose, sin against nature and
commit a deed which is shame-

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ing in their hands, as it were,
the very soul of production, so
that no one dare breathe against

their will.At the time

when the new social order was
beginning, the doctrines of
rationalism had already taken
firm hold of large numbers, and
an economic science, alien to
the true moral law, had quickly
arisen, whence it followed that
free rein was given to human
avarice ” (Pius XI, Encyclical
Letter, Quadragesimo Anno , On
the Social Order).

The Catholic Church con¬
demns the sin of birth-
prevention : “ Within these

sacred precincts [of the Chris¬
tian family], children are con¬
sidered not heavy burdens but
sweet pledges of love : no re¬
prehensible motive of conven¬
ience, no seeking after sterile
pleasure bring about the frus¬
tration of the gift of life, nor
cause to fall into disuse the
sweet names of brother and
sister ” (Pius XII, Letter to the
American Hierarchy, Nov. i,
1939).

But the Catholic Church in¬
sists also that social organization
must aid married people to fulfil
their sacred obligations. “ Since
it is no rare thing to find that
the perfect observance of God’s

(Satan’s Aims)

ful and intrinsically vicious.

“ Since, therefore, openly de¬
parting from the uninterrupted
Christian tradition, some re¬
cently have judged it possible
to declare solemnly another
doctrine regarding the question,
the Catholic Church, to whom
God has entrusted the defence
of the integrity and purity of

morals.raises her voice

in token of her divine ambassa¬
dorship and through Our mouth
proclaims anew : any use what¬
soever of matrimony, exercised
in such a way that the act is
deliberately frustrated in its
natural power to generate life, is
an offence against the law of
God and of nature, and those
who indulge in such are branded
with the guilt of a grave sin ... .
No difficulty can arise that
justifies putting aside the
law of God which forbids all
acts intrinsically evil ” (Pius XI,
Encyclical Letter, Casti Con-
nubii, On Christian Marriage).

“ The poorer section of the
population have outrun the

demand for manual labour.

they must learn to regulate the
expansion of their families as the
middle and upper classes have
long been doing ” (Letter to the
London Times quoted by Jeffrey
Mark, in The Modern Idolatry ,
P- 35)-

“ Houses for slum dwellers in
England cannot be built be¬
cause the working classes do
not have enough money to pay
the interest and redemption
charges on the loans which are
needed to build them. Recent

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commands and conjugal in¬
tegrity encounter difficulties by
reason of the fact that the hus¬
band and wife are in strait¬
ened circumstances, their neces¬
sities must be relieved as far
as possible. And, in the first
place, every effort must be
made to bring about that which
Our Predecessor, Leo XIII of
happy memory, has already
insisted upon, namely, that in
the State such economic and
social methods should be adop¬
ted as will enable every head
of a family, to earn as much as,
according to his station in life,
is necessary for himself, his
wife, and for the rearing of his
children, for the ‘labourer is
worthy of his hire ’ (St. Luke,
X, 7). To deny this or to make
light of what is equitable is a
grave injustice and is placed
among the greatest sins by Holy
Writ (Deut., XXIV, 14, 15);
nor is it lawful to fix such a
scanty wage as will be insufficient
for the upkeep of the family
in the circumstances in which
it is placed.

“ Care, however, must be
taken that the parties themselves,
for a considerable time before
entering upon the married life,
should strive to dispose of or
at least to diminish the material
obstacles in their way.

(Satan’s Aims)

proposals for building such
houses at £330 each would
involve a rental of something
between six and seven shillings
a week to pay the interest and
provide for repayment of the
loan. If the cost were more, the
rent could not be paid; if it
were less, the houses would
probably collapse on the occu¬
pants .The houses will

be guaranteed not to collapse
on the occupants for at least
as long as the period required
for the redemption of the loan ”
CThe Modern Idolatry , by Jeffrey
Mark, p. 39, published in 1934).

“ We are sorry to note that
not infrequently nowadays it
happens that through a certain
inversion of the true order of
things, ready and bountiful
assistance is provided for the
unmarried mother and her
illegitimate offspring (who, of
course, must be helped in order
to avoid a greater evil) which is
denied to legitimate mothers or
given sparingly or almost grudg¬
ingly.

“ It is the concern of the
public authority to make proper
provision for matrimony and the
family, not only in regard to
temporal goods, but also in
other things which concern the
good of souls. Just laws must be
made for the protection of

chastity.The prosperity

of the State and the temporal
happiness of its citizens cannot
remain safe and sound where
the foundation on which they
are established, which is the
moral order, is weakened and
where the very fountain-head

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Provision must be made also, in
the case of those who are not
self-supporting, for joint aid by
private or public guilds ” (Pius
XI, Encyclical Letter, Casti
Connubii, On Christian Marriage).

FINALLY

Our Lord Jesus Christ wants
all His Members to grasp the
programme for order laid down
by His Father and unite with
Himself in the central act of
submission to the Blessed Trin¬
ity, the Holy Mass. In this
sacrifice, the re-presentation of
Calvary, all Catholics profess
their willingness to respect God’s
Rights and their readiness to
strive, as a united body, to mould
society in accordance with Our
Lord’s programme for order.

“ When an organism decays
and becomes corrupt, it is be¬
cause it has ceased to be under
the action of the causes which
had given it its form and con¬
stitution. To make it healthy
and flourishing again, it is
clearly necessary to bring it
again under the vivifying action
of those same causes. Now,
modern society, in its foolhardy
effort to escape from God, has
rejected the supernatural order
and divine revelation. It is
thus withdrawn from the salutary
efficacy of Christianity which is

(Satan’s Aims)

from which the State draws its
life, namely, wedlock and the
family, is obstructed by the
vices of its citizens ” (Pope
Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Casti
Connubii, On Christian Marriage).

FINALLY

Satan wants to confuse and
bewilder human beings, so that
they may give up the idea that
there is an order laid down by
God, which they are bound to
find out, if they do not know it
already, and observe. On
account of his relentless hatred
of the Supernatural Life, he
detests above all the central
act of submission to the Blessed
Trinity, the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass. Hd strives to eliminate it
wherever he can, and, where he
cannot do so, he endeavours to
have it treated as a mere for¬
mality not intended to influence
life. He tries to get the young
and inexperienced to accept that
they are on the road to happiness,
when they neglect the Mass and
its significance for life, cast off
moral restraint and reject the
claims of duty.

On account of his hatred of the
Supernatural Life of Grace,
Satan has steadily striven to get
every country that once ack¬
nowledged the essential or per
se order of the world to reject

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(Our Lord’s Programme)

manifestly the most solid guar¬
antee of order, the strongest
bond of fraternity, and the in¬
exhaustible source of all virtue,
public and private. From this
sacrilegious divorce has sprung
the trouble which now disturbs
the world. Hence modern soc¬
iety, which has gone sadly
astray, must re-enter the bosom
of the Church, if it wishes to
secure its salvation and enjoy
peace and prosperity.

“ Just as Christianity cannot
penetrate into a soul without
making it better, so it cannot
enter into the public life of a
people without establishing
order .... If Christianity
transformed pagan society ....
so, after the terrible upheavals
which unbelief has brought
about in the world, it will be
able to put that world again on
the right road and bring back to
order the states and peoples
of modern times. That, how¬
ever, is not all. The return of
Christianity will not be a com¬
plete and efficacious remedy, if
it does not mean the return to
and the sincere love of the One,
Holy, Catholic and Apostolic
Church. Christianity is incar¬
nate in the Catholic Church. It
is identified with that perfect.
Supernatural Society, sovereign

(Satan’s Aims)

that order and revolt against it.
He considers that he has made
a notable advance towards his
goal when he has succeeded in
having other religions placed on
the same level as the True
Church of Christ. He is well
aware of the anti-supernatural
influence of that official attitude
on the average member of society.
He knows well that “ when
error has become incarnate in
legal formula: and in adminis¬
trative practice, it penetrates so
deeply into people’s minds that
it is impossible to eradicate it ”
(The Kingship of Christ according
to Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, p. 52).

The decay of the ideas of
membership of Christ and of
solidarity with Christ in the
Mass, of which the Guilds of
the Middle Ages were the
embodiment in economic life,
has proved disastrous for human
personality. The attempts to
remedy the evils that have
arisen as a result of modem
disorders do not go to the root of
the evil. Power is steadily passing
into the hands of the few.

G. K. Chesterton has well
depicted some of the results of
Satan’s triumphs in economic
organization. “ The modern
world began with the problem
of the grocer and the grocer’s
assistant. It is in fact ending
with a vast growth of grocers’
assistants and no grocer. It
must still be emphasized, ob¬
vious as it is, that the grocers’
assistants have not grown into

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in its own sphere, which is the
Mystical Body of Jesus Christ
and which has for Visible Head
the Roman Pontiff, Successor of
the Prince of the Apostles ”
(Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter,
Parvenu a la 2$ieme annee ).

In the text from the En¬
cyclical Letter, Immortale Dei ,
On The Christian Constitution of
States , quoted on pages 8 and
9, we have seen that Pope Leo
XIII insists primarily on the
Rights of God. The essential
(or per se) order of the world,
the order which God wants,
demands the acknowledgement
of these Rights. Hence “ we
are bound absolutely to worship
God in that way which He has
shown to be His will ” and
“ the Church deems it unlawful
to place the various forms of
divine worship on the same
footing as the true religion.”

He then mentions what is
secondary and accidental ( per
accidens). “ The Church does
not,” he says, “ condemn those
rulers who, for the sake of
securing some great good or of
hindering some great evil,
patiently allow custom or usage
to be a sort of sanction for each
kind of religion having its place
in the State.” Then towards the
end of the same Encyclical, he

(Satan’s Aims)

grocers. They have all re¬
mained assistants ; only instead
of assisting a humble human
grocer, with a soul to be saved,
they are assisting the Inter¬
national Stores or the Universal
Provision Department. In other
words, the servants have not
become masters. They remain
servants: only they are like
those slaves that were held to
public service in pagan anti¬
quity; they have personal ser¬
vants over them, but only an
impersonal master over all. Now,
very broadly, one idea in the
Guild is that the grocer’s assis¬
tant should grow into a grocer.
For that purpose, it is obviously
necessary to preserve a large
number of equal and indepen¬
dent grocers. It is necessary to
prevent these grocers from being
bought out or sold up by the
stores or the Super-Grocer.
With this object the Guild
deliberately checked certain
forms of competition, protected
the weaker brethren ....

“ Chaucer mentions several
Master craftsmen, evidently
attached to a Guild, as going
on his Canterbury Pilgrimage;
he mentions, for instance, a
Dyer and a worker in tapestry.
If we compare the first with the
huge development of the modern
Dye Industry, we shall recognize
at once the main distinction I
mean. More and more people
may have come to work in dye
factories; more and more pro¬
cesses may have been invented
.... And although for some
time the logic of Capitalism
produced worse and worse con-

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urges all Catholics to work for
this return to order. “ First and
foremost it is the duty of all
Catholics worthy of the name
and wishful to be known as
most loving children of the
Church .... to endeavour to
bring back all civil society to
the pattern and form of Chris¬
tianity We have described.”

“ The law of Christ ought to
hold sway in human society,
and in communities, so as to be
the teacher and guide of public
as well as of private life. This
being divinely appointed and
provided, no one may resist with
impunity, and it fares ill with
any commonwealth in which
Christian institutions are not
allowed their proper place ....
The law of Christ is always to
be sought from the Church,
and therefore, as Christ is for
men the way, so likewise the
Church is the way. He in Him¬
self and by His proper nature,
she by His commission and by
a share in His power . . .

“ The security of the State
demands that it should be
brought back to Him from
whom it ought never to have
departed, to Him who is the
way, the truth, and the life,
not for individuals only but for
human society as a whole.

(Satan’s Aims)

ditions, the wisdom of Capital¬
ists (following on the courage
of Trades Unionists) may now
produce (or pretend to produce)
better and better conditions.
But they produce better and
better conditions for servants;
they do not attempt to produce
a Guild, which is a fraternity
of masters ....

“ There rode in the cavalcade
in Canterbury, along with the
Dyer, the more conspicuous

figure of the Doctor.The

Doctor still exists as a roughly
recognizable figure. The Dyer
has totally disappeared ....
The reason why the Doctor is
recognizable, and the Dyer un¬
recognizable is perfectly simple.
It is that the Doctors not only
were, but still are, organized on
the idea of a Medieval Guild ....
The British Medical Council,
which is the Council of a
Guild .... does what a Guild
was supposed to do. It keeps
the doctors going ; it keeps the
doctors alive; and it does pre¬
vent one popular quack from
eating all his brethren out of
house and home. It sets limits
to competition ; it prevents the
growth of monopoly. It does
not allow a fashionable phy¬
sician in Harley Street to destroy
the livelihood of four general
practitioners in Hoxton. It does
not permit one professional man
to buy up all the practices, as
one grocer can buy up all the

grocers’ shops.The

Guild principle has in fact
saved the doctor .... as a

separate social figure.

But it is the tendency of all

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Christ Our Lord must be rein¬
stated as the Ruler of human
society. It belongs to Him as
do all its members. All the
elements of the commonwealth :
legal commands and prohibi¬
tions, popular institutions,
schools, marriage, home-life, the
workshop and the palace, all
must be made to come to that
fountain and imbibe the life
that comes from Him ” (Pope
Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter,
Tametsi, On Christ Our Re¬
deemer).

Thus there will be peace on
earth for men of good will and
the happiness that can be ours
on our way to full union with
the Blessed Trinity in Heaven.

Our Lord ever seeks to unite
men in love of His Father.

(Satan’s Aims)

the separate social figures, fall¬
ing into modern monopolist and
impersonal tendencies, to dis¬
appear altogether. Standard¬
ization lowers the standard of
personality and independence in
all the types and trades ”
(Chaucer , by G. K. Chesterton,
pp. 70-75). This remnant of
the Guild idea is now being
threatened with extinction by
centralized financial control
through compulsory Health
Insurance, etc.

Satan ever seeks to separate
men from Christ and lead them
on to hatred of God, Our Father,
and so to despair. He urges to
revolt against the order of the
world and, when the inevitable
disillusionment comes, he sug¬
gests that there is no order and
that all is hopeless.

“ If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady’s Rosary,
a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every
condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited
it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome
the devil , to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more
zealously, in a word to promote peace among men ” (Pope Pius XI,
Encyclical Letter, Ingravescentibus Mails , On the Holy Rosary of the
Blessed Virgin Mary).

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CHAPTER II.

The Kingship of Christ in its Integrity

THE DIVINE PLAN FOR ORDERED SOCIAL LIFE

The Divine Plan for the organization of human society may
be represented diagrammatically as follows :—

GOD

(in Three Divine Persons)

4

Our Lord Jesus Christ
Who, as Head of His
Mystical Body, the
Catholic Church, Super¬
natural and Supra¬
national, is High Priest
and King of redeemed
humanity.

His Priesthood is shared
in by the Pope, Bishops,
and Priests, through the
sacramental character of
Orders, and by the faithful,
through the characters
of Baptism and Confirma¬
tion.

His Kingship is both
Spiritual and Temporal.
The Spiritual Kingship
comprises the Right of
Intervention in Temporal
Affairs. The Temporal
Royalty of Our Lord is
Universal. Our Blessed
Mother is Queen of His
Kingdom.

The Spiritual Kingship
of Christ is shared in by
the Pope and the Bishops.

The Universal Temporal
Kingship of Our Lord is
shared in by the Rulers
of States and Nations.

Politics.

Economics.

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VV 7 E can thus easily see that the entrance of Christianity into
the world has meant two things. Primarily and principally,
it has meant the constitution of a supernatural society, the
Mystical Body of Christ, absolutely transcending every natural
development of culture and civilization. Secondly, it has had
as result that this supernatural society, the Catholic Church,
began to exercise a profound influence upon culture and civiliza¬
tion and modified in a far-reaching way the existing temporal
or natural social order. The indirect power of the Church
over temporal affairs, whenever the interests of the Divine
Life of souls are involved, presupposes, of course, a clear dis¬
tinction of nature between the ecclesiastical authority, charged
with the care of divine things, and the civil authority, whose
mission is concerned with purely temporal matters. In pro¬
portion as the Mystical Body of Christ was accepted by man¬
kind, political and economic thought and action began to respect
the jurisdiction and guidance of the Catholic Church, endowed,
as she is, with the right of intervention in temporal affairs when¬
ever necessary, because of her participation in the spiritual
Kingship of Christ. Thus the natural or temporal Common
Good of States came to be sought in a manner calculated to
favour the development of true personality, in and through
the Mystical Body of Christ, and social life came more and more
under the influence of the supreme end of man, the vision of
God in Three Divine Persons.

Accordingly, the Divine Plan for order in our fallen and
redeemed world comprises, primarily, the supernatural social
organism of the Catholic Church, and then, secondarily, the
temporal or natural social order resulting from the influence
of Catholic doctrine on politics and economics and from the
embodiment of that influence iff social institutions. From
the birth of the Catholic Church on Calvary and the solemn
promulgation of her mission at the first Pentecost, the Kingdom
of God in its essence has been present in the world. As a result
of the gradual acceptance of the role of the Church by the
Temporal Representatives of Christ the King, the social institu¬
tions of States and nations became deeply permeated with the
influence of the Supernatural Life of Christ. Then, and only

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then, could the Kingdom of God in its integrity or the rule of
Christ the King in its integrity, be said to exist. The Kingdom
of God or the rule of Christ the King is present in its integrity
only in so far as the whole social life of States, political and
economic, is permeated with the influence of the Church. To
put it in other terms, Christ fully reigns only when the pro¬
gramme for which He died is accepted as the one true way to
peace and order in the world, and social structures in harmony
with it are evolved.

The Kingdom of God in its essence is always with us, but the
influence of the Church on politics and economics, in other
words, the extension of the Kingdom of God in its integrity,
has varied with the centuries. Broadly speaking the thirteenth
century has been, so far, the high water mark of that influence.
Since then, until recently, there has been steady decay. No
particular temporal social order, of course, will ever realize
all that the Church is capable of giving to the world. Each
of them will be defective for several reasons.

First of all, the action of the Church, welcomed by some
Catholics, will be opposed by the ignorance, incapacity and
perversity of others.

Secondly, even if all Catholics did accept fully, they could
only reflect some of the beauty of the Gospel, as the saints
reflected some of the infinitely imitable holiness of Christ.

Thirdly, there would still remain the vast number of non-
Catholics to be won for Christ and have their social life organized
under His rule. It is towards this latter goal that every genera¬
tion of Catholics is called upon to work. The aim is not, need¬
less to say, to bring back the Middle Ages, for the river of time
does not turn back in its course, but the aim is to impregnate
a new epoch with the divine principles of order so firmly grasped
in the thirteenth century. The result of the so-called Reforma¬
tion and the French Revolution has been to obscure the Rights
of God proclaimed by Our Lord Jesus Christ and to diffuse
Naturalism.

Naturalism consists in the negation of the possibility of the
elevation of our nature to the Supernatural Life and order, or
more radically still, in the negation of the very existence of

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that life and order. In our day owing to the progress of the
anti-Christian revolt, the more radical meaning has become
common. Naturalism may be defined, therefore, as the attitude
of mind which denies the reality of the Divine Life of Grace
and of our Fall therefrom by Original Sin. It rejects our conse¬
quent liability to revolt against the order of the Divine Life, when
this Life has been restored to us by our membership of Christ,
and maintains that all social life should be organized on the
basis of that denial. We must combat that mentality and
proclaim the Rights of God. " About the ' rights of man ’
as they are called," wrote Pope Leo XIII, “ the people have
heard enough : it is time they should hear of the Rights of
God." 1

" The claim to withdraw the public life of States and Nations
from subjection to God and His law,” wrote Cardinal Pie,
“is the dominant error and the capital crime of this [19th]
century." 2

Cardinal Mercier in the 20th century proclaimed that the
terrible war of 1914-1918 was the punishment of this error
and this crime. " In the name of the Gospel,” he wrote, " and
in the light of the Encyclicals of the last four Popes, Gregory XVI,
Pius IX, Leo XIII and Pius X, I do not hesitate to affirm that
this indifference to religion, which puts on the same level the
religion of divine origin and the religions invented by men,
in order to include them in the same scepticism, is the blasphemy
which, far more than the sins of individuals and families, calls
down God’s chastisements on society." 3

1 Encyclical Letter, Tametsi, On Christ our Redeemer. In this Letter,

Pope Leo XIII insists that the true rights of man are based
upon his duties to God. Without due recognition of the Rights
of God through Our Lord Jesus Christ, man’s rights will not
long be recognized. " Just as mankind could not be freed from
slavery,” he writes, “ but by the sacrifice of Christ, so neither
can it be preserved but by His power.”

2 The Kingship of Christ according to Cardinal Pie of Poitiers ( 1815 -

1880 ), p. 48 .

3 Pastoral Letter ( 1918 ), The Lesson of Events.

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CHAPTER III.

Organized Opposition to the Kingship of
Christ and to Our Supernatural Life

THE ORGANIZED FORCES.

'T'HERE is unorganized opposition to the Supernatural Life
in each one of us, owing to the Fall. This unorganized op¬
position of individuals inevitably leads to the formation of little
anti-supernatural groups here and there, even without the
concerted action of vast organized forces. But the fact that
there exists concerted anti-supernatural action on the part of
organized bodies is so far removed from the preoccupations of
the average Catholic that it needs to be specially stressed and
its aims made clear.

We have seen that social organization is meant to be
permeated with the reality of the Supernatural Life of the
Mystical Body of Christ, in view of aiding us to bring our daily
life into harmony with our protestation of loyalty to the Blessed
Trinity in Holy Mass, in union with Christ as Priest. By this
permeation of society with the reality of membership of Christ,
the Kingship of Christ in its integrity is acknowledged. We
have also seen that, conversely, assistance at Mass, in union
with Christ as Priest, urges us to strive to realize the Kingship
of Our Lord in its integrity, in a Christian framework of society.
The Christian framework of society is destined, not only to aid
us in attaining union with Christ, but to serve as a bulwark
against the assaults of the forces organized against our Super¬
natural Life. These forces are three in number, one being
invisible, the other two visible.

The invisible host is that of Satan and the other fallen angels,
while the visible forces are those of the Jewish Nation and Free¬
masonry. The Jewish Nation is not only a visible organization,
but its naturalistic or anti-supernatural character is openly
proclaimed, by its refusal to accept the Supernatural Messias
and by its looking forward to a naturalistic messianic era. The
Masonic Society or group of Societies is a visible organization,
but its naturalistic and anti-supernatural character is secret
or camouflaged. The Naturalism or Anti-Supematuralism of

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its end, as well as of its ritual and symbolism, is clearly grasped
by only relatively few of the initiated. The pantheistic deifi¬
cation of man, which is the consequence of this Naturalism,
is the supreme secret of Freemasonry. Both of these visible
societies, however, make use of subterfuge and secrecy in their
modes of action against the Supernatural Life of the nations
of the world. Accordingly, the most vitally real struggle in
the world is that waged by those naturalistic or anti-super¬
natural armies, under the leadership of Satan, against those
who accept the Supernatural Life of Grace, participation in the
Life of the Blessed Trinity, under the leadership of Our Lord
Jesus Christ.

Needless to say, the efforts of these anti-supematural forces
do not suffice to account for everything in history, for the causes
of historical events are very complex. But if these forces are
left out of account, modern history becomes a puzzle. The
art of manoeuvring human beings towards a certain goal, without
their being aware that they are being so manoeuvred, has been
brought to a pitch of perfection never before attained. The
control of money facilitates the acquisition of the power to
influence all the technical agencies for the formation of public
opinion—the Press, the Radio and the Cinema. Catholics
succumb to the machinations of Our Lord’s enemies largely
because they are not trained for the real struggle in the world.
They leave school without adequate knowledge of the organized
opposition they will have to meet and having very hazy notions
about the points of social organization for which they must
stand and against which attacks are being directed. They do
not realize that the opposition’s ultimate aim is the disruption
of Christ’s order. They are not accustomed to think that they
must co-operate with other young Catholics for Our Lord’s
programme, that they must, for example, get control of the
Cinema and prevent it from undermining the Catholic concept
of marriage and Catholic family life. Thus they display a
lamentable lack of cohesion and a pitiable want of enthusiasm
for Christ's interests, so that Catholics that stand for integral
Christianity can always count on finding other Catholics in the
opposite camp.

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THE INVISIBLE ORGANIZED FORCE—SATAN AND HIS
FELLOW-DEMONS

Satan everywhere combats and everywhere seeks to eliminate
the Supernatural Life of Grace, participation in the Life of the
Blessed Trinity. His act of rebellion was a refusal to depend
on the Blessed Trinity for his happiness and perfection. By
that act he not only forfeited the Life of Grace but declared war
on it. The whole being of that pure spirit, all that relentless,
untiring energy, of which we, poor creatures of nerves and muscles,
cannot form an adequate idea, is always and everywhere directed
against submission to the Blessed Trinity in supernatural love.
We change our minds and we need sleep and rest. With Satan
it is not so. Satan’s sin was a refusal to accept the truth that,
for the perfection and happiness of his being, he should depend
upon God and not upon himself alone. He wanted to get rid
of the dependence and subjection which were inseparable from
his condition as creature. The result was an eternity of misery.

All the frightful energy, then, of Satan's hatred is specially
directed against the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which is the
renewal of the expression of submission of Calvary. Arrayed
with him and animated with the same hatred, is an army of
invisible satellites of the same nature. Forgetfulness of these
facts makes it hard for people who read only the newspapers
and frequent the cinema, to understand, for example, the hatred
of the Mass and of the priesthood displayed by the Communist
and Masonic “ Democracy ” of Spain. Even the formation
given by “Moscow” does not suffice to account for it. 1

We must distinguish between the end Satan had in view in
the Crucifixion of Our Lord and the purpose he now has in view
in directing and provoking attacks on those who celebrate Mass
and those who assist thereat. Satan urged the leaders of the
Jewish Nation to get rid of Our Lord, for he was conscious of
the presence in the Man, Christ Jesus, of an exceptional degree

1 Cf. The Rulers of Russia, in which some of the documentary evidence
is given, which proves that the Jews are the real controlling force
in Russia.

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of that Supernatural Life which he hates, but he did not want
to enter into the Divine Plan for man’s return to order. His
pride, however, obscured his vision of God’s way of proceeding.
By his action on the minds and wills of the leaders of the Jewish
Nation and again on the passions of the crowd, disappointed
and disillusioned at the sight of the acclaimed liberator of Israel
discomfited and helpless, he prepared the way for the sublime
display of obedience and humility of the God-Man on Calvary.
The demons did not know that the act of submission of Calvary
meant the return of order to the world, by the restoration of
the Supernatural Life of Grace to the human race.

St. Paul insists that " if they [the princes of this world] had
known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory ”
(I Cor., II, 8). St. Thomas writes : " If the demons had been
perfectly certain that Our Lord was the Son of God and had
known in advance what the effect of His Passion and Death
would be, they would never have had the Lord of Glory
crucified.” 1 But they are quite well aware of the meaning of
the Mass. All their efforts are directed towards preventing
its celebration, by exterminating the priesthood, and towards
thwarting its effects by limiting it to the role of a rite bereft of
significance for men’s social life, political and economic. If
Satan cannot succeed in doing away with the one acceptable
act of worship, he will try to restrict it to the minds and hearts
of as few individuals as possible. One has only to look at the
world to see how far he has succeeded since the French
Revolution.

1 I a P., Q. 64 , art. 1 , ad 4 . Cf. III a P., Q. 44 , art. I, ad 2 .

Cf. also the following extract from the Sermon of Pope St. Leo
the Great, which is read in the Second Nocturn of the Office
of Palm Sunday : “ If the proud and cruel enemy of God and
man had been aware of the merciful design of God, he would have
tried to soften the minds of the Jews rather than have sought
to stir up their unjust hatred, lest in attacking the liberty of
action of the One Who was not in his debt, all his human captives
should be set free. The malignity of his mind kept him from
grasping the truth. He got the Son of God condemned to death
and that condemnation became a remedy for the fall of the human
race." Satan's disordered pride prevented him from under¬
standing the ordered self-sacrificing humility of God become Man.

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Historically, there has been a noticeable difference between
the mode of procedure adopted by Satan for the elimination
of the Supernatural Life from Protestant and from Catholic
countries. In Protestant countries, on account of the public
official rejection of the Divine Plan for order in the world, the
gradual ousting of the remnant of Our Lord’s doctrine from
the organization of the public life of the countries is inevitable.
Thus, as the advent of Naturalism in these countries is only a
question of time, forcible steps have not in general been taken
to uproot the past. Satan can afford to bide his time, so to
say. That does not mean, however, that these countries may
not be called upon to endure the agony of revolution. Satan’s
hatred of belief in the Divinity of Our Lord, his fear of even
the possibility of a return to the Mass, the longing of the Jewish
Nation for the future Messianic Age, any one of these may be
responsible for a renewal of violence in the effort to uproot
every vestige of Christianity.

In Catholic countries, however, violent revolution is always
aimed at, in order to get rid of the existing social structure, in
which the Kingship of Christ is respected, and so to install
Naturalism. Profanation of the Blessed Eucharist has, on
many occasions at least, been part of the preparation of apostate
Catholics to be fitting instruments of revolution or of anti-
supematural legislation. 1

1 Cf. The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society,
Chapter VII.

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CHAPTER IV.

The Organized Naturalism of the Jewish
Nation

THE ONENESS OF THE DIVINE PLAN FOR ORDER.

YV7E have seen the oneness of the Divine Plan for order
” in the world. This great truth needs to be stressed,
for the age-long struggle of the Jewish Nation against the Super¬
natural Life of the Mystical Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ, that
is, the Naturalism of the Jewish Nation, does not stand out as
clearly in the minds of Catholics to-day as it did in former ages.
Again and again, the Popes have insisted upon the fact that the
Catholic Church is the ark of salvation for all. For example.
Pope Pius IX spoke of those who would be saved through in¬
vincible ignorance of the true religion of Christ, but he urged
the Bishops of the whole world to do all in their power “ to
keep men’s minds free from the impious and fatally destructive
opinion that the way of eternal salvation can be found in any
religion whatever .” 1

The order of the world, then, demands the acceptance by
all men of the Supernatural Life, which is a participation in the
Inner Life of the Blessed Trinity. It is only through that
Divine Life that our natural life, individual and social, can be
lived in order . 2 The Unique Source of that Life is Our Lord
Jesus Christ, and human beings are intended to receive com¬
munication of that Life by being incorporated into Him through
membership of the supernatural society of His Mystical Body,
the Catholic Church. All nations are meant to enter the
Mystical Body of Christ and to organize their national life so
as to allow Our Lord to manifest His treasures of supernatural
sanctity in every clime and in every latitude.

We must now study more closely the significance of Jewish
Naturalism. There is need for clear thinking in this connexion.

1 Allocution, Singulari quadam (9th Dec., 1854) ; Encyclical Letter,

Quanto conficiamur moerore (1863). With regard to invincible
ignorance, cf. Denzinger, 1467.

2 Cf. I a II* Q. 109, a.3.

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We must distinguish accurately between opposition to the
domination of Jewish Naturalism in society and hostility to the
Jews as a race. The latter form of opposition, namely, hostility
to the Jews as a race, is what is designated by the term, Anti-
Semitism, and has been more that once condemned by the
Church. The former opposition is incumbent on every Catholic
and on every true lover of his native land.

CONSEQUENCES OF THE JEWISH NATION’S REJECTION
OF THE SUPERNATURAL MESSIAS.

The Jewish nation was chosen by God to maintain acceptable
worship of the One True God, in preparation for the coming of
Him Who was to re-establish order in the world by the restoration
of Supernatural Life. The Jewish Nation was at the same time
destined to be the source of the individuality of the Supernatural
Messias to come. His Personality was to be from on high.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Supernatural Messias, True God
and True Man, is at one and the same time the Second Person
of the Blessed Trinity and a Jew of the house of David.

Two of the essential points in His preaching roused the stubborn
hostility of the leaders of the Jewish Nation . 1 They refused,
firstly, to accept that the Supernatural Life of His Messianic

1 " The Pharisees who formed the dominant sect in the last years
of the political existence of our nation brought about a veritable
religious revolution amongst the Jews who followed them. To
the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the development of the
historical Synagogue of Israel, to that Church which had its
origin in Jerusalem and had at first no adherents other than
the descendants of Abraham, the proud and perverse Pharisees
set up in opposition a false foreign Synagogue, founded on tradi¬
tions of their own fabrication and on arbitrary interpretations
and hair-splitting decisions, dictated by their hypocritical zeal
(of. St. Mark, VII, 9 and St. Matthew, XV, 9). This has been
for our unhappy nation ‘ a root bringing forth gall and bitter¬
ness ’ (Deut., XXIX, 18) ” (De L’Harmonie entre I'Eglise et la
Synagogue, by the Catholic ex-Rabbin Drach, Vol. II, p. 484).
Cf. Mgr. Landrieux, L’Histoire et les Histoires dans la Bible,
pp. 76-110.

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Kingdom was higher than their national life and, secondly,
they utterly rejected the idea of the Gentile Nations being
admitted to enter the Messianic Kingdom, on the same level
as themselves. Thus they put their national life above the
Supernatural Life of Grace, and set racial descent from Abraham
according to the flesh on a higher plane than spiritual descent
from Abraham by faith . 1 Having put their race and nation
in the place of God, having in fact deified them, they rejected
the Supernatural Messias and elaborated a programme of pre¬
paration for the Natural Messias to come. “ Our Lord spoke a
heavenly language to them [the Jews],” writes the great Jewish
convert, Father Libermann, C.S.Sp., " and they interpreted
his words in mean and ignoble fashion, according to their low
and narrow ideas. Their souls were half-brutalized by sin
and the domination of sense-life, with the result that they were
incapable of grasping heavenly things .” 2

JEWISH NATURALISM.

The Jewish ideal of a future Messianic Age is, therefore, opposed
to the real order of the world in a twofold manner.

In the first place, the Jewish Nation opposes the Divine Plan
for the union of all nations in the Catholic Church, the Mystical

1 G. K. Chesterton sums up the deification of the Jewish race and

nation by the Jews as follows : “There are Jewish Mystics and
Jewish sceptics; but about this one matter of the strange
sacredness of his own race, almost every Jewish sceptic is a
Jewish Mystic ” (The End of the Armistice, p. 86). It is not
strange that the Jews should come to deify their race, since
they have rejected the Divine Plan for order. It is the inevitable
alternative. It is, however, strange in the sense that it is a
terrible proof of the weakness of human nature since the Fall.
Of course, the Jewish race will always remain the race from
which the Redeemer sprang and, as such, is especially dear to
His Sacred Heart. That is the " sacredness,” which they, as
a race, despise and reject.

2 Commentary on St. John's Gospel, p. 374.

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Body of Christ. The Catholic Church is supernatural and by
the aid of the Supernatural Life of Grace, can work at elim¬
inating the particular form of selfishness of each nation, so that
the union of all may be achieved in a manner perfectly respectful
of the variety of national qualities and characteristics. God
wanted the Jews as a people to accept His only-begotten Son
and be the heralds of the supernatural, supranational Life of
His Mystical Body. They were thus offered the privilege of
proclaiming and working for the only mode of realizing the
union and brotherhood of nations which is possible since the
Fall. Their pride or lack of humility and docility caused them
to set their faces against God. When they refused to enter
into His designs, God permitted the crime of deicide and, by
the supreme act of humble submission of Our Lord on Calvary,
the Life of Grace was restored to the world. Calvary, however,
was a consequence of the refusal of the Jews to submit humbly
to God the Father and accept His Son.

In his Commentary on St. Matthew, XXVI, 39 , St. Thomas
quotes the opinion of St. Jerome that Our Lord, by His Prayer
in the Garden of Gethsemani : ‘' My Father, if it be possible,
let this chalice pass from me,” asked to have the redemption
of the world accomplished without the crime of the Jews, His
own people, but bowed down to what His Father was permitting,
namely, the abuse of their free will by that people, with all its
dire consequences for Himself and for His Mystical Body:
" Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." The Jews
freely rejected Christ before Pontius Pilate, as they freely reject
Him to-day. God the Father drew good out of evil then, as He
does to-day, but the rejection was and is against the order of
the world, and therefore evil . 1 The per se order or order desired

1 These great truths must be emphasized in face of such blasphemies
as the following : " As a matter of fact, if, as Christianity teaches,
the only-begotten Son of God was to be crucified as vicarious
atonement to save the sinful world and God used the Jew as a
vehicle to bring about the Crucifixion, why blame the Jew ?
The fault rests with God ” (Judaism in the War of Ideas, by
Harry Joshua Stern, p. 100).

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by God in accordance with His infinite holiness, was that the
Jewish Nation should receive Christ as true God and true Man
and put their natural qualities at His disposal for the undoing
of the effects of original sin. The per accidens order, or order
consequent on God’s permitting the Jews freely to prefer their
national life to the acceptance of the Divine Plan, is the one in
which, in actual fact, the combat against original sin has been
waged, with the Jews in the forefront of the naturalistic or
anti-supematural army.

The Jewish ideal of a future Messianic age is opposed to God’s
Plan in a second way. The Jews reject the Supernatural Messias
and His supranational Kingdom, while they continue to look
for another Messias. This means that they look for a Messianic
age which must of necessity be purely natural. Whether this
Messias be taken to be an individual or the race, it means that
the Jews, as a nation, must strive to impose their particular
national form on other nations. This imposition of the Jewish
national form inevitably spells decay for other traditional
national forms. The imposition by any nation of its national
form on other nations leads to the decay of the other nations,
and this is all the more emphatically the case when the attempted
imposition is accompanied by the rejection of the one true order
of the world which can be achieved only through Our Lord
Jesus Christ. The Jewish Messianic ambition, therefore, contains
a twofold source of corruption and decay for other nations. It
corrupts the national life on the natural level, and by its opposition
to the Supernatural Life coming from Our Lord Jesus Christ, it
rejects that succour, by which alone, human life, individual and
national, can be lived in order.

The Jewish ideal is interpreted differently by different Jews.
The orthodox Jews want to return to Jerusalem, to rebuild
the temple and to reinstitute their worship, while awaiting the
coming of a personal Messias. The non-orthodox or Reform
Jews have departed from the central hope of Judaism by re¬
jecting belief in a personal Messias. 1 But they believe in the
advent of a Messias in the sense of a Messianic Age which will

1 Cf. Campaigners for Christ, by David Goldstein, p. 30.

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come through the leadership and domination of their race. “ In
general the Jews,” writes the Jew, Bernard Lazare, in his well-
known work, L’Antisemiiisme, " even the revolutionaries, have
kept the Jewish spirit, and if they have given up religion and
faith, they have nevertheless been formed, thanks to their
ancestry and education, by the influence of Jewish nationalism.
This is true in a very special way of the Jewish revolutionaries
who lived in the first half of this (nineteenth) century. Heinrich
Heine and Karl Marx are two typical examples.” This is true
also of the Jews of High Finance, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs,
the Kahns, the Schiffs, etc., etc. They are one with their people
in the ideal of the domination of the race and, therefore, in
opposition to the Supernatural Life coming from Our Lord
Jesus Christ, who, according to them, attempted to turn aside
the Jewish nation from its destined goal.

Does that mean that all Jews are bad men ? Needless to
say, it does not. There are Jews in whom may be seen excellent
natural qualities, and the Supernatural Life of Grace is poured
out upon us all by Our Lord, even upon those who reject Him.
It does mean, however, that all Jews, in proportion as they are
one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the
influence of the Supernatural Life in society and will be an
active ferment of Naturalism. The Jews, as a nation, are
objectively aiming at giving society a direction which is in
complete opposition to the order God wants. It is possible
that a member of the Jewish Nation, who rejects Our Lord, may
have the Supernatural Life which God wishes to see in every
soul, and so be good with the goodness God wants, but objectively,
the direction he is seeking to give to the world is opposed to God
and to that Life, and, therefore, is not good. If a Jew who rejects
Our Lord is good in the way God demands, it is in spite of the
movement in which he and his nation are engaged. Our Lord
Jesus Christ alone is the source of the goodness God wants to
see in every human being, the goodness due to participation
in the Inner Life of the Blessed Trinity. No Jew, in virtue of
what he objectively stands for, is supernaturally good as God
wants him to be.

Where the Jews are powerful, they openly attack the Super-

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natural Messias and the Supernatural Life of Grace which comes
from Him. In countries where they are only advancing to
power, they content themselves with desupernaturalizing the
observances and customs which have sprung from acceptance
of the Supernatural Messias. When the latter process has
been carried on for a sufficiently long time and Catholics have
grown weak, the open attack can be begun.

The opposition between the Supernatural Messias and the
Natural Messias is in the very nature of things. According to
the Divine Plan, it is only through acceptance of Our Lord
Jesus Christ as the true Messias that we can live our lives as the
objective order of the world demands. The Jews, as a nation,
have refused to accept the Supernatural Messias, God Himself,
who came into His own world to restore our most real Life, and
they still look forward to another Messias. Therefore, it is
absurd and confusing to speak of the opposition of the Jewish
Nation to the Supernatural Messias as a plot or a secret con¬
spiracy, for, not only is it clear to us, but the Jews themselves
proclaim it openly. It is true that the Jews work with abnormal
secrecy, and in the Masonic Association they have a powerful
secret auxiliary force working for Naturalism, but their opposition
as a nation to the Supernatural Messias and to Supernatural
Life is not a secret. Accordingly, when Mr. Belloc ridicules
the account of Jewish opposition to Christianity, as a vast age¬
long plot culminating in the contemporary Judaeo-Bolshevik
Russian Revolution, he misses the all-important point of the
opposition between organized Naturalism and the Supernatural. 1

Opposition to the order God has established in the world
has led inevitably to decay in belief in God among the Jews,
as well as to corruption in regard to the correct attitude towards
their fellow-human beings and in regard to the means to be
employed to get other nations to accept the Messianic message.

1 Cf. The Jews, by Hilaire Belloc (First Edition, p. 168). In this book,
Mr. Belloc does not deal with the Jewish question from the
standpoint of Jewish national opposition to the Divine Plan
for order through the Mystical Body of Christ. This detracts
from the value of the book.

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It is morally inevitable that nations which resist God and oppose
the supernatural order of the world should suffer decay in the
process. The excesses of the Bolshevik Revolution and of the
Red Government of Spain thus find their explanation.

“ The case of governments,” wrote Pope Leo XIII, " is much
the same as that of individuals : they also must run into fatal
issues, if they depart from the way .... Let Jesus be excluded,
and human reason is left without its greatest protection and
illumination : the very notion is easily lost of the end for which
God created human society .... Their minds busy with a hundred
confused projects, rulers and subjects alike travel a devious
road, bereft as they are of safe guidance and fixed principle.
Just as it is pitiable and calamitous to wander out of the way,
so it is to desert the truth. But the first absolute and essential
truth is Christ, the Word of God, consubstantial and co-eternal
with the Father, who with the Father is one.” 1 2

Pius XI is just as explicit as Leo XIII. ” No belief in God,”
he writes, " will in the long run be preserved pure and genuine,
if it is not supported by belief in Christ . . . Belief in Christ will
not be preserved true and genuine, if not supported and protected
by belief in the Church, the pillar and the ground of truth (I
Timothy, III, 15). Christ Himself, God praised forever in the
ages, has erected this pillar of faith. His command to hear
the Church (St. Matthew, XVIII, 17), to hear His words and
commandments (St. Luke, X, 16) in the words and command¬
ments of the Church, is meant for the men of all times and places
.... The moral conduct of mankind is grounded on faith in
God kept pure and true. Every attempt to dislodge moral
teaching and moral conduct from the rock of faith, and to erect
them on the shifting sands of human regulations, sooner or
later leads the individual and the community to moral de¬
struction.”®

1 Encyclical Letter, Tametsi, On Christ Our Redeemer.

2 Encyclical Letter, Mit brennender Sorge, On the Persecution of the

Church in Germany.

In the Encyclical Letter, Divini Redemptoris, the same Pontiff
wrote : “ Everything must crumble that is not grounded on
the one comer stone which is Christ Jesus."

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These principles of Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI apply
with greater force to the Jewish Nation and its leaders than to
others, for they have rejected greater graces and turned against
God with dire ingratitude. They are Our Lord’s own people
according to the flesh. It is no wonder, then, that we find
terrible divagations from order in the books or codes which
their leaders have compiled to guide and direct their relations
with God and their fellow-men. The Kabbala contains, chiefly,
but not exclusively, the divagations from order with regard to
mystical union with God and the growth of the spiritual life.
The Talmud contains, chiefly, but not exclusively, the deviations
from right order concerning social relations with non-Jews. 1

THE PRIMARY ALLEGIANCE OF THE JEWS.

Read in the light of what has been written, the following
observations will help one to understand the difference between
the situation of a Jew who becomes a citizen of the United States
or France or Italy and, say, an Irishman who becomes a citizen
of one of these States.

The members of the Jewish nation, while retaining their
allegiance to their own nation, are also citizens of other nations.
Given the Messianic aspirations of their own nation, they are
bound to strive for the domination of their nation over the
others, as they are firmly convinced that in this way alone justice
and peace will reign upon the earth. The positions attained
by them in the councils and legislative assemblies of other nations
must logically be for them, at least primarily, means for advancing
the domination of their own people. That Christ should reign
over nations, in order that the influence of His Supernatural
Life should be felt in all public life, elevating and purifying it,
is utterly abhorrent to their Naturalism. They entertain con¬
siderable contempt for the national patriotism of non-Jews,
though in public pronouncements they may pander to it for

1 For the development of the ideas outlined here, cf. The Mystical
Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society, Part II.

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the sake of their own interests. If the Jews, for example, as¬
sisted at a peace conference merely as representatives of a
Palestinian State, their role thereat would be proportioned to
the importance of that State, but when they assist as secretaries
of Lloyd George and Clemenceau and adviser of President Wilson,
then we know that English, French and American citizenship
will be utilized for the furtherance of the interests of a nation
that believes firmly that English, French and Americans are
destined by God to be subject to it.

The primary allegiance of an Irishman, who has become a
citizen of the United States, is to the United States. He may
retain his sympathies with Irish national aspirations, but—to
put it mildly—he is not imbued from birth with the idea that
the Irish nation is destined to rule over the Americans and all
other nations. Besides, if the Irishman in question is still a
Catholic and believes firmly in the Supernatural Messias already
come, he will be convinced that any subordination of the
legitimate interests of the nation of which he is a citizen to those
of any other nation will be sinful. If, in any public capacity,
he found his sympathies with Irish national aspirations (which,
as has been said, do not include a programme of bringing other
nations into subjection) coming into conflict with the mission
entrusted to him of safeguarding primarily the interests of the
U.S.A., he would in conscience be obliged to resign. Otherwise,
he would fail in his duty to the Supernatural Messias, Our Lord
Jesus Christ. The Jew, to be consistent, would fail in his duty
to the Messias to come, if he did not subordinate the interests
of every other nation to those of his own. There is, accordingly,
a vital difference of attitude, which has its ultimate ground in
the doctrines respectively held with regard to the Messias. 1

1 It is well to call attention to the fact that the Balfour Declaration
of Nov. 2 nd, 1917 , allows Jews to be citizens of the Jewish State
in Palestine and also citizens of other States. For non-Jews,
citizenship is restricted to one State. Why should Jews be
permitted to be citizens of two States and to utilize their favoured
position to prepare for their naturalistic Messianic age ?

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Contrasting

Programme of Christ the King
through His Mystical Body, the
Catholic Church.

FIRSTLY

(I) The Catholic Church, Super¬
natural and Supranational, is
the One Way established by
God for the ordered return
of human beings to Him. All
States and Nations are bound
to acknowledge it as such, and
all men of all nations are called
upon to enter it as Members
of Christ.

SECONDLY

(II) The Catholic Church is the
sole divinely-appointed Guardian
of the whole moral law, natural
and revealed.

THIRDLY

(III) Christian Marriage, the
foundation of the Christian
Family, as the Symbol of the
union of Christ and His Mystical
Body, is One and Indissoluble.

FOURTHLY

(IV) Children must be educated
as Members of Christ’s Mystical
Body, so that they may be able
to look at everything, nationality
included, from that standpoint.

Programmes.

Programme of the Jewish Nation
since the rejection of Christ before
Pilate and on Calvary.

FIRSTLY

(I) The Jewish Nation, under
the Natural Messias, will estab¬
lish union among the nations.
That necessarily involves aim¬
ing at the elimination of every
vestige of the Supernatural Life
that comes from Christ.

SECONDLY

(II) The Jewish Nation, under
the Natural Messias, will decide
what is moral and what is
immoral.

THIRDLY

(III) Divorce and Polygamy
will take the place of Christian
Marriage.

FOURTHLY

(iV) As the doctrine of member¬
ship of Christ is a corruption
of the true Jewish message to
the world, all trace of member¬
ship of Christ and of the Super¬
natural Life of Grace must be
eliminated from education. Non-
Jews must be trained to accept
submission to the Jewish Nation
and non-Jewish nationality must
not conflict with Jewish world¬
wide supremacy.

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FIFTHLY

(V) Ownership of property should
be widely diffused, in order to
facilitate families in procuring
a sufficiency of material goods
for their members. Unions of
owners and workers in Guilds
will reflect the solidarity of the
Mystical Body of Christ.

SIXTHLY

(VI) The Monetary System of a
country is meant to be at the
service of production in view of
the virtuous life of Members of
Christ in happy families.

FIFTHLY

(V) Complete Socialization of
property, either in the form of
ownership of everything by
the State, or by the relatively
few financiers who control the
State, must be aimed at. Owner¬
ship of property, especially in
land, makes for independence,
so it must be eliminated.

SIXTHLY

(VI) Money is the instrument
by which State-control or State-
socialization is brought about.
Instead of the correct order of
finance for production and pro¬
duction for Members of Christ,
men must be subservient to pro¬
duction and production to finance.
State-control can be main¬
tained by means of financial
control.

As family life is central and vital in social organization, it may be
well, as an illustration of the above contrast, to quote an expression
of the Jewish attitude towards marriage. The Jewish Chronicle
(11/6/1937) stated the Jewish standpoint towards marriage as follows :
“ Jewish law has no use for theories about the indissoluble marriage
tie . . . Marriage is, in the Jewish view, just a civil transaction or social
contract between human beings and, as such, liable to be abrogated
if the agreement fails. The Jewish standpoint on divorce is, in a word,
both humane and rational.”

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CHAPTER V.

The Naturalism of Freemasonry

NATURALISM AND SUPERNATURALISM.

W E have studied the opposition to the Mystical Body of
Christ of the Jewish Nation, the non-secret organized
naturalistic force. Let us now turn to the secret organized
naturalistic force. Freemasonry. The Masonic society or group
of societies, is, as has been already remarked, a visible organ¬
ization, but its naturalistic or anti-supernatural character is
secret or camouflaged. Relatively few of its members are
aware of the naturalism or anti-supematuralism of its end, as
well as of its ritual and symbolism. Let us make clear, first of
all, what we mean by the Naturalism of Freemasonry.

I. Supernaturalism affirms that the Life of Grace, partici¬
pation in the Life of the Blessed Trinity, is infinitely higher
than the natural life of human reason and that the unique Source
of that Life in the existing order, is Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The loss of Supernatural Life through the fall of the first Adam
has been repaired through membership of the Mystical Body
of the Second Adam. Naturalism on the contrary, affirms
that our highest life is the life of reason, and, consequently,
denies that there has been any such thing as a fall from, or a
loss of, Supernatural Life.

II. Supernaturalism affirms, as is logical, that it is only through
cultivation of our membership of Our Lord’s Mystical Body
that we can be good men and true, as we ought to be. Naturalism,
also logically, affirms that it is a matter of indifference whether
one invokes Our Lord Jesus Christ, or Mahomet or Buddha, or
nobody at all.

III. Supernaturalism teaches that the Church, the Mystical
Body of Christ, is infinitely higher and nobler than any natural
society, while insisting that ordered love of country and native-
land must be sedulously cultivated. The naturalistic mentality,
on the contrary, insists that the highest social organization is
the individual State, or the whole group of States, tending to
coalesce into a world State.

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life, political and economic, with the spirit of the Mystical Body.
The State or group of States aimed at by Naturalists will aim at
eliminating every vestige of Supernatural Life from social
organization. 1 2

In this chapter we shall prove the Naturalism of Freemasonry,
in the first place, from the Papal Encyclicals, beginning with
the Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII, Humanum, Genus,
which is specially devoted to the subject; and secondly, from
Anderson’s Constitutions, the oldest official publication of the
English Grand Lodge.

THE NATURALISM OF FREEMASONRY ACCORDING TO
THE PAPAL ENCYCLICALS.

THE ENCYCLICAL LETTER, HUMANUM GENUS*

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII on Freemasonry.

To Our Venerable Brethren, The Patriarchs, Primates, Arch¬
bishops, and Bishops of the Catholic World in Grace and Com¬
munion with the Apostolic See, Pope Leo XIII

Beloved Sons, Health and Apostolic Benediction.

THE TWO CAMPS.

A FTER the human race, through the envious efforts of Satan,
■*^had had the misfortune to turn away from God, who had
created it and bestowed on it the Supernatural Life of Grace

1 “ What Naturalists or Rationalists aim at in philosophy, that the

supporters of Liberalism, carrying out the principles laid down
by Naturalism, are attempting in the domain of morality and
politics. The fundamental doctrine of Rationalism is the sup¬
remacy of the human reason, which, refusing due submission to
the divine and eternal reason, proclaims its own independence,
and constitutes itself the supreme principle and source and judge
of truth ’’ (Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII, on Human
Liberty).

2 All the Papal Documents quoted in this chapter have been translated

from the originals as contained in the editions de la Bonne Presse,
Paris. Cross headings have been added in the translation of the
Encyclical Letter, Humanum Genus, for the sake of clearness.

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and other heavenly gifts, it became divided into two distinct
and mutually hostile camps. One of these steadily combats
for truth and virtue, the other for all that is opposed to virtue
and truth. The former is the Kingdom of God on earth, namely,
the True Church of Jesus Christ, and all who wish to belong to
it sincerely and in a manner worthy of salvation must serve
God and His Only-Begotten Son with all the vigour of their
minds and all the strength of their wills. The latter is the
kingdom of Satan, under whose sway and in whose power are
all those who, following the baneful example of their leader
and of our first parents, refuse to obey the divine and eternal
law, and in many ways either show contempt for God or openly
revolt against Him.

St. Augustine had a clear vision of these two kingdoms, and he
accurately described them under the image of two States with
laws diametrically opposed, because of the completely divergent
ends to which they tend. In a few concise and well-chosen
phrases, he indicated the efficient cause of each as follows : “Two
loves have formed two cities : the love of self, reaching to con¬
tempt of God, an earthly city; the love of God, reaching to
contempt of self, a heavenly one .” 1

While the two armies have always been engaged in conflict
down the ages, the equipment of the combatants and the mode
of warfare have varied considerably, as well as the force and
vigour of the opposing forces. In our day, however, the
partisans of evil seem to be drawing closer together and, as a
body, appear to be animated with extraordinary energy, under
the leadership and with the assistance of the widely diffused
and strongly organized association known as Freemasonry. No
longer concealing their designs, they are now with the greatest
audacity, preparing to rise up against God Himself. They are
planning the utter destruction of Holy Church publicly and
openly, with the intention of completely despoiling the Christian
nations of the benefits procured for them by Jesus Christ, Our
Saviour, if that were possible. Afflicted by the sight of those
evils. We feel Ourselves frequently constrained by the charity

1 The City of God. Book XIV, C.17.

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which presses Us, to call upon God and cry : “For lo, Thy enemies
have made a noise : and they that hate Thee have lifted up the
head. They have taken a malicious counsel against Thy people,
and they have consulted against Thy saints. They have said :
‘ Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation.’ ” 1
In the face of such a crisis, when so pitiless and so persistent a
warfare is being waged on the Catholic name, it is Our duty to
indicate the danger, to point out the enemies of Christ, and to
withstand, as far as in Us lies, their plans and their designs,
lest the souls committed to Our care should be lost for all eternity.
We are bound to strive, too, that the Kingdom of Jesus Christ,
of which We have received the charge, may not only survive
and hold its own, but may extend its boundaries ever wider and
wider over the whole earth.

PREVIOUS CONDEMNATIONS OF FREEMASONRY.

The Roman Pontiffs, Our Predecessors, ever vigilant and
solicitous for the safety of the Christian people, promptly detected
the presence of this dangerous enemy and its designs, as soon
as it came out of the darkness in which it had been secretly
plotting. Looking far ahead into the future they raised the
alarm and enjoined on both rulers and peoples to be on their
guard and not to allow themselves to be ensnared by the tricks
and devices prepared for their deception. The first warning
of the danger was given by Pope Clement XII in the year 1738. 2
The Constitution promulgated by this Pope was confirmed and
renewed by Pope Benedict XIV . 3 Pope Pius VII followed in
the footsteps of these two Pontiffs . 4 Pope Leo XII, having
collected in his Apostolic Constitution all the acts and decrees
of the preceding Pontiffs on this subject, ratified and confirmed

1 Psalm LXXXII, v. 3-5.

3 Constitution, In Eminenti, 24th April, 1738.

3 Constitution, Providas, 18th May, 1761.

4 Constitution, Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo, 13th September, 1821.

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them for ever . 1 Pope Pius VIII , 2 Pope Gregory XVI , 3 and on
numerous occasions, Pope Pius IX 4 expressed the same views.

When once the fundamental constitution and the spirit of
Freemasonry had been understood from the clear evidence of
its proceedings, from the knowledge of its principles and causes,
from the publication of its rules, its rites and their commentaries,
as well as by numerous testimonies of its members, this Apostolic
See denounced it and openly proclaimed that this body, set up
in opposition to law and right, was dangerous for the interests
both of the Christian religion and of the State. The Holy See
at the same time forbade any one to enter the society under
those severer penalties which the Church is accustomed to inflict
on those who are guilty of graver crimes.

Infuriated by these measures, and hoping that, by employing
contempt and calumny, they could either evade or whittle down
the force of these condemnations, the associates accused the
Sovereign Pontiffs who had pronounced them, either of having
decreed what was unjust or of having exceeded the bounds of
moderation in the penalties inflicted. This was the course
they adopted in order to escape the authority and lessen the
import of the Apostolic Constitutions of Clement XII, Benedict
XIV, Pius VII and Pius IX. Nevertheless, in the ranks of the
Masonic society itself, there were to be found men who, even in
spite of themselves, admitted that, given the doctrine and the
discipline of the Catholic Church, the Roman PontiSs had only
done what was right and lawful for them to do. To these ad*
missions must be added the statements made by many princes
and rulers of States, in complete agreement with what the
Sovereign Pontiffs had said. These statesmen either made it
their business to denounce the Masonic Society to the Holy
See or to brand it as dangerous by enacting special laws against
it, as was done in Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Bavaria,
Savoy and other parts of Italy.

1 Apostolic Constitution, Quo graviora, 13th March, 1825.

2 Encyclical Letter, Traditi, 21st March, 1829.

3 Encyclical Letter, Mirari vos, 15th August, 1832.

4 Encyclical Letter, Qui pluribus, 9th Nov., 1846. Allocution,

Multiplies inter, 25th Sept., 1865, etc.

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It is especially important to note that the course of events
justified the far-seeing prudence of Our Predecessors. It is true
that their wise foresight and paternal solicitude had not always
and everywhere the desired success. This happened, either on
account of the dissimulation and cunning of the members of the
society or because of the thoughtlessness and imprudence of
those whose business it chiefly was to attend diligently to the
matter. Hence it came about that, in the space of 150 years.
Freemasonry increased to an incredible extent. Employing
both audacity and fraud, the members of the Association have
succeeded in gaining entrance into every walk of life, so that
now they seem to be almost the ruling power in States. There
have followed from this swift and formidable advance precisely
those evils foreseen long ago by Our Predecessors, for the Church,
for the authority of rulers, and for the public welfare. Things
have come to such a pass that henceforth there will be serious
reason to fear, not indeed for the Church, for her foundations
are far too solid to be overthrown by human efforts, but for the
security of those States, in which the society, of which We are
speaking, wields too great an influence, or in which are to be
found other similar bodies which act as its servants and satellites.

For these reasons, as soon as the government of the Church
had been committed to Our care, We clearly saw and judged
it to be Our duty to combat to the utmost of Our power this for¬
midable organization for evil, and to throw into the conflict all the
weight of Our authority. Profiting by the frequent opportunities
offered to Us, We treated some of the chief points of doctrine which
seemed to have been most influenced by the perverse teachings
of Freemasonry. Thus in Our Encyclical Letter, Quod Apostolici
Muneris, We strove to refute the monstrous tenets of the Social¬
ists and the Communists. Afterwards, in another Letter,
namely, Arcanum, We undertook to explain and defend the true
and genuine idea of family life of which marriage is the origin
and the source. Again, in the Encyclical Letter beginning
with the word, Diuturnum, We set forth the theory of political
power in conformity with the principles of Christian wisdom
and showed how marvellously it harmonizes with the natural
order of things on the one hand and with the well-being of peoples
and rulers on the other.

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MASONIC DISCIPLINE AND AIMS.

In this present Letter, following the example of Our Pre¬
decessors, We have decided to treat directly of Freemasonry
itself, of its doctrine as a whole, of its aims, and of its habitual
line of thought and action, in order to bring out into ever clearer
light its evil influence and to do what We can to prevent the
spread of this fearful plague.

There are in the world several organized bodies of men which,
though they differ from one another in name, ritual, form and
origin, are yet in complete agreement in their essential principles
and their aim. Thus they really form one organization with
Freemasonry, which is a kind of central body, from which they
all radiate and in which their activities are co-ordinated. Though
these organizations do not now appear to be very desirous of
remaining in concealment, though they hold their reunions in
broad daylight and in view of all and publish their own period¬
icals, nevertheless, when matters are carefully weighed and
examined, it is clear that they belong to the category of secret
societies and that they retain the characteristics of these bodies.
In them there are many things resembling mysteries, which
their constitutions insist must be kept hidden most carefully,
not only from non-members but from very many associates
also. Such are, for example, their secret and ultimate designs,
the identity of the supreme heads, and certain secret and par¬
ticularly concealed reunions, along with the decisions arrived
at and the ways and means of carrying them out. The manifold
differences among the members in regard to rights, duties and
functions, the elaborate hierarchical distinction of orders and
degrees, and the severe discipline by which the associates are
governed, all these contribute enormously to the maintenance
of secrecy.

Candidates for admission to the society are obliged to promise
and in most cases even to take a solemn oath that they will
never, at any time or in any way, make known to anyone, either
the members, or the signs or the doctrine of the society. In
this way by the help of a deceitful external appearance and by a
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like the Manicheans in former times, leave no stone unturned
to keep themselves hidden and to have as witnesses of their
actions only their own associates.

To secure the advantage of concealment, they masquerade
as thinkers and men of letters, associated for the pursuit of
learning. They are for ever boasting of their zeal for cultural
progress and of their love of the poor : they declare that all
they want is to improve the conditions of the masses and to
secure for as many as possible a share in the benefits of civil¬
ization. Even if we suppose their intentions to be sincere,
these by no means exhaust their aims. Moreover, those who are
enrolled must promise and undertake to obey the injunctions
of their leaders and masters with the most unquestioning sub¬
mission and the greatest fidelity, and to be always ready to
carry out their orders at the least sign or the slightest indication
of their will, submitting themselves in advance, in case of dis¬
obedience, to the direst penalties and even to death itself. And
in fact, if any of the associates are convicted of having proved
false to the discipline of the society or of having disobeyed
orders, they are not infrequently punished with death, and the
sentence is carried out with such audacity and dexterity that
the assassin very often escapes detection and does not pay the
just penalty of his crime.

THE DISORDERED SPIRIT OF FREEMASONRY.

But to hide one’s real purpose and to wish to remain hidden ;
to bind men like slaves with the tightest bonds and without
giving any sufficient reason for such conduct; to make use of
men, thus enslaved to the will of another, for all kinds of crimes ;
to arm men for murder after having secured impunity for the
crime, all these practices are enormities opposed to the natural
law. Accordingly, reason and truth itself make it clear that
the society of which we are speaking is in flagrant opposition
to justice and fair dealing. There are also other proofs, and
remarkably clear ones, which show still more plainly that Free¬
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virtue. For no matter how great may be men’s skill in hiding
the truth and no matter how prolonged their practice in the
art of lying, nevertheless, it is impossible that the intrinsic nature
of a cause should not manifest itself, at least to some extent,
by its effects. " A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.” 1 Now Free¬
masonry produces pernicious fruit of the bitterest taste. For,
from what We have already set forth, it is indisputably evident
that their ultimate aim is to uproot completely the whole
religious and political order of the world, which has been brought
into existence by Christianity and to replace it by another in
harmony with their way of thinking. This will mean that the
foundation and the laws of the new structure of society will be
drawn from pure Naturalism.

All that We have said and all that We are about to say must
be understood of Freemasonry taken as a whole and as including
its kindred and confederated associations, but Our remarks do
not apply to each of the individual members of the Masonic body.
Amongst these there may be some and even many, who, though
they have incurred the guilt of having enrolled themselves in
such an association, yet do not personally take a vicious part
in the crimes perpetrated by the organization and are ignorant
of the final purpose for which it is working. In the same way
it is possible that some of the affiliated societies do not approve
of certain extreme conclusions, to which they would seem to
be committed, in view of the fact that these conclusions follow
logically from the principles held in common by all. They are
deterred by the very foulness of these conclusions when seen
in all their hideousness. Some of the societies, again, are induced
by particular circumstances of time and place either to aim at
achieving less than the other associations or than they themselves
would wish to attempt. They are not, however, on this account,
to be considered as alien to the Masonic Federation, because
the Masonic Federation is to be judged, not so much by what
it has achieved and brought to completion as by the spirit which
animates it and by its general principles.

1 St. Matthew, VII, 18.

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THE MEANING OF NATURALISM.

What this animating spirit is can be clearly seen from the
signification of the term. Naturalism, which has already been
employed to designate it. The fundamental doctrine of the
Naturalists is that human nature and human reason must be
in all things mistress and guide. This decided, they either
ignore man’s duties towards God or pervert them by vague and
erroneous opinions. For they deny that anything has been
revealed by God ; they do not admit any religious dogma, or
any truth that cannot be understood by the human intelligence ;
they deny the existence of any teacher who ought to be believed
by reason of the authority of his office. Since, however, it is
the special and exclusive function of the Catholic Church to
preserve from any trace of corruption and to set forth in their
integrity the truths divinely entrusted to her keeping, including
her own authority to teach them to the world, and the other
heavenly aids to salvation, it is against the Church that the
rage of the enemies of the supernatural and their most ferocious
attacks are principally directed.

FREEMASONRY IS NATURALISTIC OR ANTI-SUPER¬
NATURAL.

Now, if the mode of action of the Masonic Association in what
concerns religion be examined, especially wherever it is more at
liberty to cast off restraint, it will be clear to any impartial
observer that it is aiming at carrying out the programme of the
Naturalists.

By lengthy and persevering labour they strive to bring about
a condition of affairs in which the teaching office and authority
of the Church shall count for nothing in the eyes of the State.
It is for this reason that they continually proclaim and contend
that Church and State should be completely separated and
divorced. By this means they exclude the exceedingly ben¬
eficent influence of the Catholic Church from the making of
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States must be constituted with complete disregard for the laws
and precepts of the Church.

Nor can they be satisfied with ignoring the Church—the best
of guides—and eliminating her influence, they treat her as an
enemy and seek to injure her. This is the explanation of the
impunity that is allowed to those who attack the very found¬
ations of the Church by word, writing and teaching. Neither
the rights of the Church nor her divine prerogatives are spared.
The least possible freedom is left her ; she is hampered by laws
that do not seem on the surface too oppressive, but which are
in reality expressly framed with a view to impeding her liberty
of action. As examples of such legislation, We can point to
the onerous laws specially imposed on the clergy, which aim at
both reducing their members and at diminishing their necessary
means of existence and action ; the galling restrictions by which
the remaining possessions of the Church are tied down and placed
under the power and arbitrary control of State administrators ;
the enactments by which religious communities are suppressed
and broken up.

It is, however, against the Apostolic See and the Roman
Pontiff that the efforts of the Freemasons have for a long time
been specially directed. After the Sovereign Pontiff had been,
for lying reasons, deprived of his temporal power which was the
bulwark of his independence and of his rights, he was reduced
to a position that was iniquitous and at the same time made
intolerable by difficulties arising on every side. Now the time
has come when the members of these associations openly pro¬
claim what in secret they have long been plotting, namely,
that the sacred power of the Roman Pontiffs must be done
away with and the Papacy itself, instituted by God, utterly
destroyed. If other proofs were lacking, this fact is sufficiently
vouched for by the testimony of men who have intimate know¬
ledge of the matter. Most of these have frequently declared
it to be true both in the recent and in the more remote past,
that the Freemasons intend to pursue Catholicism with the most
implacable hatred and that they will not rest until they have
completely overthrown all the religious institutions created by
the Sovereign Pontiffs.

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If those who are received into Freemasonry are not obliged
to abjure Catholicism explicitly, this, instead of being an obstacle
to Masonic aims, is, on the contrary, helpful to them. First
of all, in this way they easily deceive the simple-minded and the
unwary and entice many others to join their ranks. Secondly,
as all those who present themselves from any form of religion are
readily received, Freemasons thereby successfully inculcate the
great error of this age, namely, that religion is a matter of in¬
difference and that one religion is as good as another. Such
an attitude of mind spells the ruin of all religions, especially
of the Catholic religion, which, since it is the one True Religion,
is treated with the gravest injustice and offered the worst form
of insult, when it is placed on the same level as other forms of
worship.

CONSEQUENCES OF NATURALISM.

But the Naturalists go further still, for having rashly taken
a completely erroneous course in regard to the most important
questions, they are carried headlong to the ultimate consequences
of their principles, either on account of the weakness of human
nature or because God thus inflicts upon them the just punish¬
ment of their pride. Hence it comes about that even those
truths that are attainable by the natural light of human reason
(such as most assuredly are, the existence of God, the immater¬
iality or spirituality of the human soul, and its immortality)
are no longer held by them to be certain and unquestionable.

Steering a similar erroneous course, the Freemasons have
struck the same rocks. Although as a rule, they admit the
existence of God, they themselves openly admit that they do
not all firmly assent to this truth and hold it with unwavering
conviction. For they do not attempt to hide the fact that this
question of God is the chief source and cause of discord amongst
them : nay, it is well known that recently it has been the subject
of a serious disagreement in their ranks. As a matter of fact,
however, they allow their members the greatest licence on the
point, so that they are at liberty to hold that God exists or that
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is no God are admitted just as readily as those who, while indeed
asserting that there is a God, nevertheless, have wrong ideas
about Him, like the Pantheists. This is purely and simply the
suppression of the truth about God, while holding on to an
absurd caricature of the Divine Nature.

When once this most fundamental truth of all has been over¬
thrown or weakened, the human mind inevitably begins to lose
hold on other principles that can be known by the light of human
reason, namely, that all things have been brought into existence
by a free and sovereign act on the part of the Creator, that the
world is governed by Divine Providence, that human souls are
immortal, and that, after this life here on earth, human beings
will live another life that will last for ever. The loss of these
truths, which are the foundation of the natural order and which
are so vital for the rational guidance of life and the practical
conduct of men, will have a serious repercussion on public and
private morality. We need not dwell upon the effect of this
collapse upon the supernatural virtues which no one can either
exercise or acquire without a special gift and grace from God.
Of these virtues it is of course impossible to find any trace in
those who contemptuously reject as unknown, the redemption of
the human race. Divine Grace, the sacraments and the happiness
to be attained in Heaven. We speak only of those duties which
follow from the principles of natural morality.

Now, that God is the Creator of the World and its provident
Ruler, that there is an eternal law which ordains respect for
the natural order and forbids its being disturbed, that the final
end of man is to be found in a sphere far removed from human
things and beyond this earthly sojourn : these are the sources
and the principles of all justice and morality. If these are
done away with, as the Naturalists and the Freemasons desire,
it will be straightway impossible to distinguish accurately be¬
tween justice and injustice or discern what is the foundation of
that distinction. And in fact the moral formation which alone
finds favour with the Freemasons and which, they hold, should
be given to youth, is that which they call civil and emancipated
and independent. From this formation all religion is excluded.
But how insufficient this training is, how lacking in firmness and

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how easily blown about by every gust of passion, can be easily
seen from the regrettable results which have already begun to
make their appearance. For, wherever this training has ousted
Christian moral formation and begun to enjoy more or less
■undisturbed sway, there uprightness and moral integrity have
quickly begun to decay, the most monstrous opinions have
sprung up and waxed strong, and the effrontery of evil-doers
has grown apace. These evils are to-day the subject of wide¬
spread complaints and regrets, and these complaints are fre¬
quently corroborated by those of many men who are compelled
to acknowledge the evidence of the truth, though it is the last
thing they would wish to do, in regard to the matter in question.

Besides, since human nature is stained by original sin and is
therefore more inclined to vice than to virtue, in order to lead a
■virtuous life, it is indispensable to restrain the disorderly move¬
ments of the soul and bring the passions into subjection to reason.
In this struggle, what appeals to nature must very often be
despised, and the greatest labours and sufferings must be endured
that reason may always remain in triumphant control. Now,
the Naturalists and tire Masons, not accepting by faith those
truths which have been made known to us by God’s revelation,
deny that the first Adam fell. Consequently, they hold that
free will is in no way “ weakened and inclined to evil.” 1 On
the contrary, exaggerating the virtue and goodness of our nature
and considering it to be the only source and rule of justice, it
does not occur to them that continual effort and unremitting
attention are necessary to bridle rebellious passions and keep
them under steady control. This is the reason why we see
human beings beset with so many temptations to indulge in
the pleasures of the senses. This is the explanation of the
publication of journals and pamphlets that are both unrestrained
and indecent, as well as the shocking licentiousness of the stage
and the scandalous treatment of artistic subjects according to
the shameless laws of so-called realism. This is, too, the
pretext under which are excused or justified the systematic
pandering to effeminacy and luxury', and the continual pursuit

1 Conc. Trid., Sess. VI, De Jusiif., c. 1.

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of every form of pleasure by which virtue may be weakened
and lulled to sleep. In all this those who take away from men
all hope of the joys of heaven, and lower the whole ideal of
happiness to the level of fleeting pleasure, and make it of the
earth earthy, are certainly gravely guilty, but they are quite
consistent.

What We have said can be confirmed by a fact that is astound¬
ing not so much in itself, as in its open admission. Since, in
general, no one obeys cunning and crafty schemers so readily
as those whose courage and self-control have been sapped and
broken by subjection to the yoke of their passions, there have
been found in Freemasonry men who have proclaimed their
determination to strive skilfully and cunningly to saturate
the masses with every form of vice. They hope that the masses
thus debased will be like putty in their hands to carry out their
future projects, no matter what may be their nature.

With regard to family life, the teaching of the Naturalists may
be summed up as follows : marriage belongs to the class of com¬
mercial contracts and can therefore be rightly revoked at will
by those who have contracted it. The enactments of the State
have power over the marriage bond. In the education of youth,
nothing that concerns religion is to be taught systematically or
prescribed methodically. When each one has attained to man’s
estate, he must be left free to follow whatever religion he may
prefer. All these points are fully assented to by the Freemasons,
and not only do they accept them, but they have long been
endeavouring to introduce them into manners and customs.
Already in many countries, even in those that pass for Catholic,
it has been enacted that no marriages other than civil marriages
will be considered lawful; in others, the law allows divorce ;
while in others, every effort is being made to introduce legislation
for the purpose as soon as possible. Thus the time is rapidly
approaching when the nature of the matrimonial contract will
have been completely perverted. It will have come to be con¬
sidered an unstable union entered into under the passing influence
of passion and liable to be dissolved when that influence has
grown weak.

In their efforts to secure control of the education of youth,

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the Freemasons show the greatest unity and cohesion. They
expect that they can easily form those soft and malleable minds
according to their own ideas and mould them to their purposes.
They are well aware that nothing can be more efficacious than
the training of youth to prepare for the State a race of citizens
of the type they long for. Accordingly, they will not allow
Catholic priests to have any share either in the actual teaching
in or in the management and control of schools for the education
and instruction of children. In many places they have already
succeeded in placing the training of youth exclusively in the
hands of laymen, and they have excluded from moral formation
any mention of those all-important and most sacred duties of
man towards God.

Next comes their political doctrine. In the sphere of politics,
the Naturalists lay down that all men have the same rights
and that all are equal and alike in every respect; that everyone
is by nature free and independent; that no one has the right to
exercise authority over another; that it is an act of violence
to demand of men obedience to any authority not emanating
from themselves. All. power is, therefore, in the free people.
Those who exercise authority do so either by the mandate or
the permission of the people, so that, when the popular will
changes, rulers of States may lawfully be deposed even against
their will. The source of all rights and civic duties is held to
reside either in the multitude or in the ruling power in the State,
provided that it has been constituted according to the new
principles. They hold also that the State should not acknow¬
ledge God and that, out of the various forms of religion, there
is no reason why one should be preferred to another. According
to them, all should be on the same level.

Now that these views are held by the Freemasons also, and
that they want to set up States constituted according to this
ideal, is too well known to be in need of proof. For a long time
they have been openly striving with all their strength and with
all the resources at their command to bring this about. They
thus prepare the way for those numerous and more reckless
spirits who, in their mad desire to arrive at equality and common
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condition, by the destruction of all distinctions of rank and
property.

FREEMASONRY’S AIM : ELIMINATION OF SUPER¬
NATURAL LIFE FROM SOCIETY.

From the points We have touched upon, it is quite clear what
Freemasonry is and what it is aiming at. Its chief tenets are
so completely and manifestly at variance with human reason
that nothing more wicked can be conceived. To wish to destroy
religion and the Church which God Himself has founded, and
which He will watch over to the end of time, to strive to bring
back, after the lapse of eighteen centuries, the customs and
morals of the pagans is the height of folly and outrageous impiety.
But it is not less horrible or less intolerable that those benefits
should be repudiated which have been mercifully won by Jesus
Christ for men, not only as individuals, but also as members of
families and States. Even our enemies do not hesitate to give
testimony of the very high esteem in which they hold these
benefits. In this mad and wicked design, the implacable hatred
and thirst for vengeance with which Satan is animated against
Our Lord Jesus Christ becomes almost visible to our bodily
eyes.

Likewise, another purpose which Freemasonry vigorously
strives to attain, is to uproot the fundamental principles of
decency and right living and to co-operate with those who want
to pass their lives in satisfying their desires as the animals do.
This simply means urging the human race, a prey to shame and
dishonour, along the path that leads to destruction. The
dangers which menace both the family and civil society con¬
tribute to make matters worse. As We have pointed out
elsewhere, all peoples and all ages agree in recognizing in marriage
something sacred and religious, and the law of God has laid
down that marriages may not be dissolved. If marriages are
deprived of their sacred character, and divorce introduced,
trouble and confusion in the family will be the inevitable con¬
sequence. Women will be deprived of their dignity. Children

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will lose protection and security for themselves and their interests.

To ignore religion in public life, in the management and ad¬
ministration of civil affairs, to pay no more heed to God than
if He never existed shows a rashness and a temerity never met
with even in the annals of paganism. The pagans had not a
merely vague idea about the divinity, but the necessity of public
worship was so deeply graven on their minds and hearts that
they thought it easier to have a city without material foundations
than without God. Human society, for which we are destined
by nature, has assuredly been constituted by God, the Author
of nature. From Him, as from their principle and source,
flow abundantly and continually the innumerable benefits which
society confers on us. Accordingly, just as we are individually
warned by the very voice of nature to offer to God the holy
worship of our pious gratitude, because it is to Him that we
owe the gift of life and all the benefits that accompany it, so
also and for the same reason a like duty of worship is incumbent
upon states and nations.

It is, therefore, clear that those who wish to release civil
society from all obligation of religious worship are not only
guilty of inj ustice but also give proof of ignorance and stupidity.
By the will of God, men are born to live together in civil society.
Authority or the power of commanding is a bond so necessary
for every organized community that, if it is taken away, the
organization will inevitably begin to break up. Hence it follows
that the power of ruling in a society owes its origin to the author
of the society. Therefore we see that whoever is invested with
authority is the minister of God. Accordingly, as the purpose
and nature of human society demand, it is as right and fitting
to obey legitimate authority when it prescribes what is just,
as it is to obey God to whom all things are subject. Moreover,
nothing is further from the truth than to maintain that it depends
on the will of the people to withdraw their obedience whenever
it pleases them.

In like manner no one doubts that all men are equal in regard
to their being of the same race and nature and having the same
final end to be attained by each, and as far as the rights and
duties that follow from that end are concerned. But as they

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are not aH equally gifted, as they differ in qualities of mind and
body, and as there exists amongst them almost innumerable
distinctions of manners, tastes and characters, nothing is so
repugnant to reason as to wish to apply the same measure to
all and to introduce a strict mathematical equality into the
regulations of civil life. Just as the perfect constitution of a
human body results from the union and harmonious functioning
of members which have neither the same structure nor the same
purpose, but which, by their proper arrangement and association,
make the whole organism beautiful in appearance, solid, strong,
and apt to render all the services required, so in the organism
of human society there is an almost infinite variety of dissimilar
members. If these were all held to be equal and if each was
to be free to act according to his fancy, the resultant state would
be utterly unseemly. If, on the contrary, by a wise and orderly
arrangement according to merits, pursuits and crafts, all keep
in view the Common Good, they will present the picture of a
social organism, well-constituted and completely in accordance
with the demands of nature.

FREEMASONRY AND THE FUTURE OF NATIONS.

From the anti-social character of the errors We have mentioned,
it is clear that the greatest dangers are to be feared for States.
For once the fear of God and the reverence due to His laws
have been taken away, the authority of rulers treated with
contempt, free rein and approval given to sedition, popular
passions recklessly fanned, and all restraining influences elim¬
inated except the fear of punishment, then, there will necessarily
follow a revolutionary upheaval and a period of wholesale
destruction of existing institutions.

A complete change and upheaval of this kind is being carefully
prepared by numerous associations of Communists and Socialists,
in fact, it is their openly avowed aim ; and Freemasonry is not
only not opposed to their plans, but looks upon them with the
greatest favour, as its leading principles are identical with theirs.
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to realize the ultimate conclusions contained in these principles,
this is not because they are restrained by the discipline of the
organization or by lack of determination, but partly on account
of the power and virtue of that divine religion which cannot
be crushed out of existence; and partly because the more
balanced part of mankind are unwilling to sink into slavery
under the domination of secret societies, and offer a vigorous
resistance to their insane endeavours.

DECEITFULNESS OF FREEMASONRY.

Would that all men, judging the tree by its fruits, would come
to recognize the germ and the source of the evils that weigh
upon us and of the dangers that threaten us ! We have to
battle against deceitful and treacherous enemies who know how
to appeal to the feelings of rulers and peoples, and have won the
favour of both by soothing speeches and by flattery. By pre¬
tending to be the friends and supporters of political rulers.
Freemasons have succeeded in ingratiating themselves with
them and have striven to make them allies and powerful coll¬
aborators in the work of oppressing the Catholic Church. In
order to spur on those personages more efficaciously to this
work of persecution, the Masons have pursued the Church with
the obstinate calumny that she is ever jealous of the power and
prerogatives of civil rulers, and enviously wishes to supplant
them. Having by these manoeuvres secured impunity for their
audacity, they have come to wield a very great influence in the
government of States, but they are ready, nevertheless, to
shake the foundations of empires, to assail, to denounce and
even to dethrone rulers, whenever these latter appear to use
their authority in a manner different from what Freemasons
would like.

In the same way they have cajoled and deluded the people.
Loudly prating about liberty and public prosperity, they have
got the people to believe that the Church and the sovereigns are
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from unjust servitude and delivered from poverty and want.
And when they have thus aroused in the people the thirst for
novelty and change, they urge them to overthrow both the
Church and the civil power. Needless to say, the results achieved
do not correspond to the hopes and expectations that have
been raised. As a matter of fact, the masses are more miserable
than they were before. They are compelled to do without a
great part of those compensations for their sufferings and
miseries, which they would easily have been able to obtain in
abundance, if matters had been arranged according to Christian
principles. It usually happens that all who strive against
the order established by Divine Providence pay the penalty
of their pride and find affliction and misery, in the place of
the prosperity and the abundance upon which they had rashly
counted.

Since the Church is chiefly and especially concerned with urging
men to respect the rights of God, the Sovereign Lord of all, it
is a calumny to accuse her either of being jealous of the civil
authority or of claiming as her own any of the rights of civil
rulers. So far is this from being the truth that she teaches
that our obligations to the civil power are binding upon us in
conscience through a conviction of duty. Since the Church
holds that the right to rule comes from God Himself, her teaching
enhances greatly the dignity of the civil power and is a con¬
siderable help towards securing the submission and good will
of the citizens. Always desirous of peace and anxious to main¬
tain concord and harmony, she embraces all in the tenderness
of her maternal charity and, exclusively preoccupied with aiding
poor mortal men, she teaches that clemency must be allied with
justice, authority tempered with equity, and laws administered
with moderation. She insists, too, that no man’s right may
be violated, that order and public tranquillity must be safe¬
guarded, and that the sufferings of those who are in want must
be relieved, as far as is possible, by public and private charity.
But, to use the words of St. Augustine, " men believe, or would
like to have it believed, that Christian teaching is incompatible
with the good of the State, because they want the State to rest,
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vice.” 1 All these things considered, if both princes and peoples
joined forces with the Church to repel the attacks of Freemasons
instead of allying themselves with them to destroy the Church,
they would act completely in accordance with the dictates of
prudent statesmanship and with the demands of the public
welfare.

PRACTICAL REMEDIES.

No matter what the future may be, it is Our duty, Venerable
Brethren, to try to remedy an evil so deplorable and so very
widespread. Since We are well aware that Our best and firmest
hope of remedy lies in the strength of that divine religion which
the Freemasons hate in proportion to their fear of it, We hold
it, therefore, to be of supreme importance to utilize all its wonder¬
ful salutary power against the common enemy. Accordingly,
whatever Our Predecessors, the Roman Pontiffs, have decreed
in view of opposing the designs and machinations of Freemasonry,
whatever they have enacted to keep men from becoming affiliated
to such associations or to withdraw from them, if they have had
the misfortune to be already members, all and each of these
measures We ratify and confirm by Our Apostolic Authority.
Full of confidence in the goodwill of Christians, We beg and
beseech each one of them, for the sake of his eternal salvation,
to consider it a sacred obligation of conscience never in the
least to deviate from what the Apostolic See has enjoined in
this matter.

We pray and conjure you. Venerable Brethren, to unite your
efforts with Ours and to bring your zeal to bear on the extir¬
pation of this foul pestilence whose poison is circulating through
the arteries of the State and is threatening to corrupt it com¬
pletely. You have to safeguard the glory of God and the
salvation of your neighbour. Fighting for these great causes,
neither your determination nor your courage will fail. It will
be for your prudence to judge what are the most efficacious

1 Epist. 137 ad Volusianum, C.V. n.20.

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means to be employed, in order to overcome the difficulties
and the obstacles that may arise. However, given the authority
of Our office, it is becoming that We Ourselves should indicate
to you the most suitable line of conduct in the circumstances.
Therefore, We enjoin the following:

First of all, tear off the mask from Freemasonry and make
plain to all what it really is.

Secondly, in your Sermons and Pastoral Letters inform the
people of the artifices used by associations of this kind in order
to win men over and to induce them to join their ranks. Show
them also the perversity of their naturalistic doctrines and the
wickedness of their acts. Remind them of what Our Pre¬
decessors have repeatedly affirmed, namely, that no Catholic
who rightly values the profession of the Catholic faith and his
eternal salvation, may, for any reason whatever, become a
Freemason. Let nobody be deceived by a false appearance
of honesty. It may appear to some that Freemasons do not
demand anything that is openly opposed to religion and good
morals. Nevertheless, since the fundamental animating principle
of Freemasonry is vicious and immoral, to ally oneself with
Masons or to help them in any way cannot be lawful.

In addition, by frequent instructions and exhortations, the
people must be induced to learn diligently the precepts of religion.
In view of this. We strongly advise that, in suitable publications
and by sermons at opportune times, the elements of the sacred
truths summing up the Christian philosophy of life should be
set forth and explained. This will result in men’s minds being
strengthened by the acquisition of sound knowledge, and in
their being fortified against the manifold forms of error and the
numerous allurements to vice. This is especially necessary in
an epoch like the present, when unlimited freedom of writing
is accompanied by insatiable eagerness for learning.

Your task is indeed a formidable one ; but you will be able
to count especially upon your clergy as collaborators and sharers
in your labours, if you take care to have them well formed in
holiness of life and well equipped with the learning their sacred
calling demands.

This noble cause of such far-reaching importance calls also

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for the help of zealous laymen, who will combine love of religion
and country with an honourable life and sound doctrine. Having
thus co-ordinated the forces of both clergy and laity, do all
you can, Venerable Brethren, to promote amongst men intimate
knowledge of the Church and self-sacrificing devotion to her.
For the greater their knowledge and the deeper their love of
the Church, the more strongly will they loathe secret societies
and keep away from them.

Wherefore We are glad to profit by this new opportunity
afforded Us to repeat what We have recommended elsewhere,
namely, that the Third Order of St. Francis, whose rules and
constitutions We prudently modified a short time ago, should
be propagated and favoured. For, according to the designs
of its founder, the whole aim of this Order is to draw men to
the imitation of Christ, to love of Holy Church, and to a practice
of all the Christian virtues. It can, therefore, be of great assist¬
ance in overcoming the pernicious influence of these detestable
societies. We pray that this holy association may be endowed
with new vigour and see its members increase daily. Amongst
the many benefits to be expected from it will be one that
surpasses all the others, namely, the imbuing of men’s minds
with the true ideal of liberty, fraternity and equality. For this
association imparts a training according to the right ideal that
was set before men by Our Lord Jesus Christ and followed by
St. Francis, and which is poles apart from what the Freemasons
imagine.

The Third Order inculcates the love of true liberty, namely,
the liberty of the Sons of God, by which we refuse to serve those
iniquitous and tyrannical masters, Satan and our passions. It
cultivates that true fraternity, which has its source in God, the
Creator and common Father of all. It strives for that true
equality which, established upon the solid foundation of justice
and charity, does not dream of doing away with all distinctions
among men, but, out of the immense variety of duties and
activities in the social life of a people, brings about an admirable
union and harmony which naturally contributes to the progress
and the dignity of the State.

Thirdly, there is a form of social organization which was

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created by the wisdom of our ancestors but which was allowed
to lapse in the course of time. This might well serve as a pattern
and a model for a similar institution at the present day. We
mean the workingmen's guilds or associations, destined to
safeguard both the interests of the trade or profession and the
moral life of the workers, under the guidance of religion. If
our ancestors, by the test of long experience came to realize the
utility of such associations, our age will perhaps derive still
greater fruit from their revival, because of their special fitness
to help in the struggle against the powerful influence of secret
societies. Those who are obliged to support themselves by
manual labour are, owing to their condition, especially deserving
objects of charity and kindness on the part of their fellowmen.
At the same time, they are the most liable to be deceived by the
seductions of the apostles of fraud and deceit. They ought,
therefore, to be assisted with the greatest possible kindness,
and they should be invited to become members of honourable
associations, lest they be enticed to enter evil ones.

On this account, in view of promoting the welfare of the people,
We would very much like to see those guilds revived, under the
auspices and patronage of the Bishops, with their functioning
adapted to the needs of the present day. It has been a great
pleasure to Us to see associations of this kind springing up in
various places, as well as similar organizations of employers,
both groups having for their purpose to help honest workingmen,
by watching over and protecting their children and families
and by furnishing them with the means of cultivating integrity
of life, love of piety and knowledge of Christian doctrine. In
this connection, We must make mention of that well-known
society which has given such an admirable example of Christian
charity to the world and has laboured so well for the poor and
lowly, We mean the society which is named after its father, St.
Vincent. Its works and its aims are known to all. The efforts
of its members are wholly directed towards assisting freely the
needy and the unfortunate. They carry on their charitable
work with marvellous prudence and admirable modesty, and
the more they hide the good they do, the better they are fitted
for the practice of Christian charity and for the relief of human
suffering.

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Fourthly, in order the more easily to attain the end desired.
We commend, in a more particular manner, to your fidelity
and vigilance, the young who are the hope of human society.
Let their formation be the chief object of your solicitude and
let there be no limit to the zeal and watchfulness you display,
in order to keep young people away from masters and schools
where the pestilential influence of Freemasonry is to be feared.
Under your guidance, let parents, religious teachers and priests
having the charge of souls, profit by every opportunity, in their
explanations of Christian doctrine, to warn their children and
their pupils of the criminal character of those societies, so that
these may learn at an early age to be on their guard against
the many deceitful artifices, by which the recruiting-agents of
secret societies are accustomed to ensnare their victims. And
those who prepare the young for the fitting reception of the
sacraments will act wisely and prudently, if they induce each
and all of them to take the resolution never to enter any society
without the knowledge of their parents, or without having
consulted their parish priest or their spiritual director.

We are well aware, however, that our united labours will be
quite unequal to the task of extirpating these pernicious seeds
from the Lord’s field, if the Heavenly Master of the vineyard
does not kindly come to our aid. We must, therefore, with
great ardour and earnest supplication, implore of Him the help
and assistance rendered necessary by the pressing nature of
the danger and the magnitude of the crisis. Proud of its
triumphs. Freemasonry bears itself insolently, and its obstinacy
in evil-doing seems to be unbounded. United by an iniquitous
compact and by their secretly arranged projects, the Freemasons
assist one another and urge one another on to strive boldly
for the accomplishment of their evil designs.

UNION AMONGST MEMBERS OF CHRIST.

This violent attack must be countered by an energetic defence.
Accordingly, let all good men unite and form an immense as¬
sociation of action and prayer. We beg of them so to unite
their minds and hearts that they may be able to stand firm

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and unmoved against the growing power of secret societies.
Let them raise their hands to God in mournful supplication
and strive to obtain from Him that Christianity may prosper
and flourish, that the Church may enjoy the liberty she needs,
that those who have gone astray may return to the right path,
that truth may at length triumph over error and virtue over vice.

Let us have recourse to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of
God, as our Helper and Mediatrix. Victorious over Satan in
the very first instant of Her Immaculate Conception, may She
show forth Her power over this wicked association, which We
clearly see to be animated with the spirit of revolt, and with
the incorrigible perfidy and hypocrisy of Satan and his fellow-
demons. Let us implore the help of St. Michael, the Prince of
the heavenly host, who hurled those rebels down to hell; of
St. Joseph also, the Spouse of the Most Holy Virgin, the heavenly
Patron and Protector of the Catholic Church; of the great
Apostles, SS. Peter and Paul, the indefatigable Propagators
and the invincible Champions of the Catholic Faith. Under
their protection and by the persevering prayer of all the faithful,
We trust that God will mercifully and propitiously come to
the help of the human race exposed, as it is, to so many dangers.

As a pledge of heavenly gifts and as a proof of Our benevolence,
We lovingly grant in the Lord to you, Venerable Brethem, and
to the clergy and to all the people committed to your watchful
care, Our Apostolic Benediction.

Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, on the 20th of April, 1884,
the seventh year of Our Pontificate, Leo XIII, Pope.

SOME REFERENCES TO SECRET SOCIETIES IN LATER
PAPAL DOCUMENTS.

It will be well to quote some passages from more recent
Encyclicals in order to show the unchanging attitude of the
Holy See towards Secret Societies.

EXTRACT FROM THE APOSTOLICAL LETTER, REVIEW
OF OUR PONTIFICATE.

On the Feast of St. Joseph, March 19, 1902, Pope Leo XIII
gave to the world an Apostolical Letter which is usually called

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in English A Review of His Pontificate . 1 In it he confirms anew
what he had written in the Encyclical Letter, Humanum Genus,
eighteen years before. Part of this Apostolical Letter runs as
follows :

“ The Church the enemy of liberty ! The idea of liberty,
which is one of the most precious gifts of God to man, is travestied
when the term liberty is made use of in order to justify abuses
and excesses. What is meant by liberty ? Is it exemption
from all laws, deliverance from every form of restraint, the right
to be guided by mere caprice in every action ? Liberty under¬
stood in this sense the Church certainly reproves and so does
every good and honourable man. But if by liberty is meant
the rational faculty of observing order and doing good with
full unhampered control of one’s actions, in accordance with
the rules laid down by eternal justice, then nobody more than
the Church favours or encourages or protects such liberty, which
is the only one worthy of man and the only one worthy of society.
By the influence of her doctrine and the efficacy of her action,
the Church freed humanity from the yoke of slavery. She
preached to the world the great law of human equality and
fraternity as members of Christ.

“ The Church encroaching upon the rights of the State and
invading the domain of politics ! Why, the Church knows
well and always teaches that her Divine Founder has ordered
to give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the
things that are God’s and that He has thus sanctioned the un¬
changeable principle of the perpetual distinction of the two
powers, each of which is sovereign in its own sphere. This
distinction has been fruitful in its results and has efficaciously
contributed to the development of Christian civilization. The
Church is opposed to every design directed against the State
and, in her spirit of charity, seeks only to co-operate with the

*Cf. The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII (Edition Benziger
Brothers). The opening words of the Letter in the Edition de la
Bonne Presse are: “ Parvenu a la vingt-cinquifeme ann6e.”
A note is added in that edition to the effect that the Letter was
written in French and Italian, not in Latin.

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public authority in the State. The Church is, of course, con¬
cerned with the same subjects as the State and with the same
society, but in the manner and for the lofty purpose assigned
to her by her divine mission.

“ Would to God that her action had been welcomed instead
of being received with distrust and suspicion, for it would have
meant that the numberless benefits mentioned above would
have been multiplied. Accordingly, to accuse the Church of
ambitious designs is only to repeat a very ancient calumny, a
calumny which her powerful enemies have more than once
employed, as a pretext to hide their own tyrannous plans. When
history is studied without prejudiced ideas against the Church,
it clearly shows that, far from oppressing the State, on the
contrary, the Church, like her Divine Founder, has been most
frequently the victim of oppression and injustice. The reason
is that her power is based, not on the force of arms, but on the
strength of order and of truth.

“ It is clear, therefore, that such accusations are hurled against
the Church out of sheer perversity. In carrying out this wicked
and treacherous work, one perfidious association is more espec¬
ially engaged, an association which human society bears within
its bosom this many a year, and which, like a deadly pestiferous
germ, destroys its prosperity, its fecundity and its life. This
association is, as it were, the abiding personification of the
revolutionary ideal. Its object is the reversal of order, and for
this it aims at exercising an occult suzerainty over the State,
for the sole purpose of making war on God and His Church.
There is no need to name it, for, by this description, all will
recognize Freemasonry, of which We treated especially in Our
Encyclical Letter, Humanwn Genus, of the 20th April, 1884. In
that Letter, We denounced Freemasonry’s destructive tendencies,
erroneous doctrines and pernicious aims. We pointed out
that it has cast its nets over almost all nations, and succeeded
in establishing relations with other associations which it moves
by its hidden influences. It first attracts its adherents and then
holds them by the advantages it procures for them. By bending
rulers of States to its designs, sometimes by promises and some¬
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of society. Thus it forms an invisible and irresponsible State
within the body corporate of the lawful State. Full of the
spirit of Satan who, according to the expression of the Apostle,
knows how to transform himself into an angel of light when he
wants to do so. Freemasonry pretends that its object is human¬
itarian, yet it sacrifices everything to its sectarian designs. It
proclaims that it has no political aims, yet in reality it exercises
an enormous influence in the legislative and administrative
life of States. Loudly professing respect for authority and
even for religion itself, its ultimate object, as its own statutes
bear witness, is the extermination of sovereigns and priests, in
whom it sees the enemies of liberty.

“ It is daily becoming clearer that the continual troubles
with which the Church is harassed and the renewed vexations
of which she has quite recently been the object are mainly due
to the inspiration and the co-operation of this association. There
are numerous evidences of this. Like a storm in a clear sky,
that is to say, without any apparent cause proportionate to the
effect, attacks and persecutions have suddenly buret upon the
Church simultaneously in different countries. The same means
have been used everywhere to prepare these persecutions, to wit,
a Press campaign, public meetings and theatrical productions ;
similar weapons, too, have been employed in every country,
namely, the spread of calumnies and the fomenting of popular
uprisings. All this points, without a shadow of doubt, to a
concerted line of action and to the direction of all these activities
by one central authority.

" These events are, in fact, but one phase in the development
of a prearranged plan, which is being carried out over an ever-
widening area to multiply the ruins of which We have previously
spoken. Thus Freemasonry is striving first to restrict and then
to exclude completely religious instruction from the schools,
in order to educate generations of unbelievers or of utterly
indifferent and merely nominal Christians. By means of the
daily Press, it is endeavouring to combat Catholic morality, to
ridicule the practices of the Church and to profane her solemn
feasts.

" Consequently, it is only natural to expect that the Catholic

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priesthood, whose mission it is to preach religion and administer
the sacraments, should be assailed with special fierceness. In
directing their attacks against the priesthood, Freemasons aim
at lowering its prestige and its authority in the eyes of the people.
Already their audacity increases hourly in proportion as they
feel certain of impunity. All the acts of the clergy are malic¬
iously interpreted. They are made objects of suspicion on the
slightest indications, and the vilest accusations are hurled
against them. In this way, new disabilities are added to those
from which they already suffer, both on account of compulsory
military service, which is a great obstacle to the preparation
for the priesthood, and by reason of the confiscation of eccles¬
iastical endowments, freely established by the pious generosity
of the faithful.

“As regards the Religious Orders and Congregations, the
practice of the evangelical counsels made them the glory of
society as well as of religion. But this only served to render
them more odious to the enemies of the Church, and they have
been held up unrelentingly to the contempt and hatred of all.
It is a subject of deep grief to Us to have to recall here the in¬
iquitous measures, so completely undeserved, of which the
Religious have quite recently been the victims. These measures
have been strongly condemned by all honourable men . ”

Extract from the Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius XI,
Caritate Chrisii Compulsi,
on

The Troubles of Our Time, 3rd May, 1932.

Pope Pius XI points out that secret societies have brought
innumerable evils upon the world and that the atheistical
Communist movement is particularly favoured by them.

“ The leaders and propagators of this iniquitous atheistic
movement, utilizing for their own purposes the present state
of general want, are wholly intent on getting people to believe,
by the help of heinous accusations, that God and religion are
the cause of such terrible calamities. They place the Holy
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on the same level as the symbols of the modern lust for power,
as if forsooth religion were in friendly alliance with those secret
associations which have brought such a multitude of evils upon
the world. In this they strive, and with disastrous results,
to combine an impious war against God with men’s struggle
for their daily bread, with their desire to possess land of their
own, just wages and decent homes, in a word, a condition of
life befitting human beings.

" Now, it is deeply to be regretted that multitudes of men,
under the impression that they are struggling for the means of
subsistence, embrace those theories, in which the truth is com¬
pletely subverted, and hurl insults at God and religion. Nor
are these attacks directed exclusively against the Catholic
religion, but against all religions which still acknowledge God
as the Creator of this visible world and the Supreme Ruler of
all things. And the secret societies, ever prompt to help the
enemies of God and the Church, no matter who they may be,
strive to enkindle ever more this mad hatred which can bring
neither peace nor happiness to any class of society but will
inevitably cause the ruin of States.”

Extract from the Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius XI

on

The Persecution of the Church in Spain, 3rd June, 1933.

Pope Pius XI declared that the persecution of the Church
then raging in Spain, as well as those in Russia and Mexico, were
instigated by secret societies.

" Everyone knows that the Catholic Church does not prefer
one particular type of government rather than another, provided
the rights of God and of the Christian conscience be safe-guarded
and respected, and that she never places any difficulty in the
way of agreement with any kind of civil society, whether it
takes the form of a monarchy or of a republic, whether it rests
on the supremacy of the nobility or on that of the populace

.We are amazed and deeply grieved that some, as if trying

to justify the wicked persecution that is being waged against
the Church in Spain, should have publicly declared that the need

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of protecting the new republic called for the measures adopted.

“ This sort of argument is so clearly false and calumnious
that one can justly infer from it that this persecution of the
Church in Spain has been set on foot, not so much from ignorance
of Catholic teaching and of its benefits, as from the hatred and
enmity which the destroyers of all order, religious and civil,
banded together in secret societies as in Mexico and Russia,
cherish and stir up against the Lord and against His Christ. 1 '

Extract from the Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius XI, Divini

Redemptoris, On Atheistic Communism, 19th March, 1937.

Pope Pius XI returns to the alliance between secret societies
and the Communist movement.

“ Another factor which has powerfully contributed to the
spread of Communism is certainly to be found in the fact that a
great part of the daily Press of the world, which does not accept
Catholic precepts and principles, of set purpose never mentions
Communism. We say of set purpose, for otherwise it is not
easy to understand how those writers who so eagerly seize
upon and publish accounts of events of less importance have
so long remained silent about the atrocious crimes perpetrated
in Russia, in Mexico and in a great part of Spain ; and how they
have so little to say, considering the importance of the matter,
about the Communist Association which is in power in Moscow
and which has ramifications far and wide all over the world.
All are aware that this silence is due, in great part, to an imprudent
political policy ; and also that it is favoured and recommended
by various secret forces which have long been working for the
overthrow of the Christian organization of States."

THE NATURALISM OF FREEMASONRY FROM
ANDERSON'S CONSTITUTIONS.

Let us now set forth the Naturalism of Anderson’s Consti¬
tutions of the Freemasons . 1

1 Anderson’s New Book of the Constitutions is the oldest and most
important official publication of the Grand Lodge of England.

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The first of the charges or obligations of the Freemasons,
namely, that concerning God and Religion, in Anderson’s Con¬
stitutions (edition of 1723), reads as follows : " A Mason is obliged
by his tenure, to obey the moral law 1 : and if he rightly under¬
stands the Art, he will never be a stupid Atheist nor an irreligious
Libertine. But though in ancient times Masons were charged
in every country to be of the Religion of that country or nation,
whatever it was, yet 'tis now thought more expedient only to
oblige them to that Religion in which all men agree, leaving
their particular opinions to themselves ; that is, to be good men
and true, or men of Honour or Honesty, by whatever Denomin¬
ations or Persuasions they may be distinguished; whereby Masonry
becomes the Center of Union, and the means of conciliating
true Friendship among persons that must have remained at a
perpetual Distance.” Later on in Section VI on Behaviour, we
read :".... no private Piques or Quarrels must be brought
within the door of the Lodge, far less any Quarrels about Religion,
or Nations, or State Policy, we being only as Masons, of the
Catholick Religion above mentioned ; we are also of all Nations,
Tongues, Kindreds, and Languages, and are resolved against
All Politicks, as what never yet conduc’d to the welfare of
the Lodge, nor ever will. This charge has always been strictly
enjoined and observed ; but especially ever since the Reformation
of Britain, or the Dissent and Secession of these Nations from
the Communion of Rome.”

Two points in these " Charges ” must be stressed. First
of all, belief in the existence of God is not clearly demanded or
enjoined. The whole wording is redolent of that ambiguity
which is so calculated to deceive the ignorant and unwary.
” Atheism is not condemned, but just sufficiently disavowed
to meet the exigencies of the time, when an open admission of it
would have been fatal to Masonry. It is not said that Atheists

1 The Constitutions of Freemasonry or Ahiman Rezon, published by
the Grand Lodge of Ireland, in 1858 , adds on here "as a true
Noachida.” In a note it is stated that this means Sons of Noah,
the first name of Freemasons. The text of these Constitutions
is that of Anderson’s second edition of 1738 .

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cannot be admitted or that no Mason can be an Atheist, but
merely that if he understands the Art, he will never be a stupid
Atheist, that is to say, he will not hold or profess Atheism in a
stupid way, for instance, by statements that shock religious
feeling and bring Masonry into bad repute. And even such a
stupid Atheist incurs no stronger censure than the simple ascer¬
taining of the fact that he does not rightly understand the Art, a
merely theoretical judgment without any practical sanction.
Such a disavowal tends rather to encourage modern positivist
Atheism.” 1 The same writer goes on to say : " Scarcely more
serious is the rejection of Atheism by the British, American and
German Grand Lodges in their struggle with the Grand Orient of
France. The British Grand Lodge, it is true, in its quarterly
Communication of 6th March, 1878 (Chr., 1878, I, 161), adopted
four resolutions, in which belief in the Great Architect of the
Universe is declared to be the most important ancient landmark
of the Order, and an explicit profession of that belief is required
of visiting brethern belonging to the Grand Orient of France, as a
condition for entrance into the English Lodges. Similar measures
were taken by the Irish, Scottish, and North American Grand
Lodges. But this belief in a Great Architect is so vague and sym¬
bolical, that almost every kind of Atheism and even of ‘ stupid
Atheism ’ may be covered by it. Moreover, British and
American Grand Lodges declare that they are fully satisfied
with such a vague, in fact, a merely verbal declaration, without
further inquiry into the nature of this belief, and that they do
not dream of claiming for Freemasonry that it is a ‘ church,’
a ‘ council,’ a ‘ synod.’ Consequently, even those are ack¬
nowledged as Masons who, with Spencer and other Naturalist
philosophers of the age, call God the hidden all-powerful principle
working in nature.”

Father Gruber then quotes extracts from various Masonic
writers and orators to show how vague an affirmation about
God will satisfy the Masonic authorities. For example, an

1 Article on "Masonry” in The Catholic Encyclopaedia, by Rev.
H. Gruber, S.J. Father Gruber’s knowledge of the subject
is unquestioned.

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American Grand Orator, Zabriskie of Arizona, on 13th November,
1889, proclaimed that “ individual members may believe in
many Gods, if their conscience and judgment so dictate.”
Father Gruber then concludes : “ Thus the whole controversy
turns out to be merely nominal and formal. Moreover it is to
be noticed that the clause declaring belief in the Great Architect
a condition of admission, was introduced into the text of the
Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of England only in 1815,
and that same text says: A Mason, therefore, is particularly bound
never to act against the dictates of his conscience, whereby
the Grand Lodge of England seems to acknowledge that liberty
of conscience is the sovereign principle of Freemasonry pre¬
vailing over all others when in conflict with them.Thus

the Grand Orient of France is right from the Masonic point
of view as to the substance of the question; but it has
deviated from tradition by discarding symbolical formulae
which, if rightly understood, in no way imply dogmatic assertions
and which cannot be rejected without injuring the work of
Masonry, since this has need of ambiguous religious formulae ....
From this point of view, the symbols of the Grand Architect of
the Universe and of the Bible are indeed of the utmost im¬
portance for Masonry.”

The second point that needs to be stressed in connection
with these " Charges ” is the fundamental error of Masonry,
namely, its Naturalism. The order of the world, as has been
already stated, demands the acceptance by all men of Super¬
natural Life which is a participation in the Inner Life of the
Blessed Trinity. It is only through that Divine Life that our
natural life, individual and social, can be lived in order. The
Unique Source of that Life is Our Lord Jesus Christ, and human
beings are intended to receive communication of that Life by
being incorporated into Him through Membership of the super¬
natural, supranational society of His Mystical Body, the Catholic
Church. All nations are meant to enter the Mystical Body of
Christ and to organize their national life in accordance with the
Divine Plan. Now Masonry everywhere, English Masonry as
well as French Masonry, refuses to accept the Divine Plan for

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order; it puts itself above the Mystical Body of Christ and
aims at drawing all States and Nations into a naturalistic, supra¬
national unity.

How do we prove that Masonry refuses the Divine Plan ?
According to the section of Anderson’s Constitutions which we
have quoted, the Masonic Society obliges its members to observe
the moral law and to be good men and true, but insists that in
order to be morally good men, it is a matter of indifference
whether God’s Plan for the restoration of our Supernatural
Life, through Our Lord Jesus Christ, is accepted or not. Now,
by original sin we lost Supernatural Life and we need Divine
Grace that we may live an ordered life, yet this society proclaims
that one can be a good man and a true man, while remaining
utterly indifferent to the Unique Source of Grace, Our Lord
Jesus Christ and to His Divinity. That is equivalently a denial
of the Fall and is pure Naturalism. 1 The importance of the
Masonic Society in the world, as the only body capable of bringing
about union amongst men, divided by their allegiance to
relatively unimportant warring sects, is implicitly understood
in every line of the Constitutions. It is explicitly affirmed in

1 In the 1738 edition of Anderson’s Constitutions, the naturalistic
or purely rational non-Christian character of Freemasonry is
even more strongly emphasized than in the 1723 edition. “ In
ancient times,” we there read, " the Christian Masons were
charged to comply with the Christian usages of each country
where they travelled or worked ; but Masonry being found in
all nations, even of diverse religions, they are now generally charged
to adhere to that religion, in which all men agree, leaving each
Brother his own particular opinion.” The Constitutions of Free¬
masonry or Ahiman Rezon, published by the Grand Lodge of
Ireland in 1858 , as already stated, follows the 1738 edition of
Anderson’s Constitutions. In this volume an apt illustration
of the Naturalism of Freemasonry, that is, of its systematic
inculcation of indifference to Our Lord, the Unique Source of
Supernatural Life, is to be found. The prayers to be used in the
various Lodges and Royal Arch Chapters and Encampments
of High Knights Templars are almost all in two alternative
forms. One of these is purely naturalistic : the other makes
mention of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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such places as the Fellow-Crafts’ or Companion Masons’ song,
part of which runs as follows :

I.

Hail Masonry: thou Craft divine:

Glory of Earth, from Heav’n revealed ;
Which dost with jewels precious shine.
From all but Masons’ eyes concealed.

II.

As men from Brutes distinguished are,

A Mason other men excels ;

For what’s in Knowledge choice and rare
But in his Breast securely dwells.

In virtue, then, of knowledge revealed from heaven, com¬
municated to men by this Society which professes indifference
to the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a Mason is raised as
far above a man who believes in the Divinity of Our Lord and
accepts His teaching, as a human being is above a brute beast.
The folly of attaching importance to membership of the Mystical
Body of Christ, in comparison with membership of Freemasonry,
could hardly be more strongly emphasized. Thus we see that
Freemasonry not only inculcates indifference to the Divine
Plan for order through membership of the Mystical Body of
Christ, but even puts itself above the Mystical Body.

Again, the whole force of the arguments, used by the Masons
on behalf of the beneficent, unifying influence of Masonry, seems
to repose on the assertion that human reason inculcates religious
indifference. For example, Lord Ampthill, Pro-Grand Master,
in a speech quoted in the History of the Bank of England Lodge,
declares : “ I have said enough to remind you that the purpose
of Freemasonry is religious ; for what is religion except the
service of God .... But do not misunderstand me ; I am not
saying or thinking that Freemasonry is a religion, or that it can
take the place of any dogmatic religion that has a name, a definite

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existence and a creed. What I do say, and firmly believe
is, that the object of Freemasonry is to assist men of all creeds
to live religious lives and to practise more truly the religion
which they profess.” 1 Hence this society, which professes
itself deeply religious and respectful of the service of God, avoids
awakening the minds of its members to the great objective
truth that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity has come
down into the world to indicate precisely how God in Three
Divine Persons ought to be worshipped and served. Not only
does it thus avoid calling the attention of its members to the
importance of discovering which is the One True Religion es¬
tablished by God become Man, but it urges them to disregard
the matter and gloss over it as unimportant. Hence it attempts
to drive home in practice the pernicious error that, according
to the natural law, one religion is as good as another.

The plague of religious indifference has so weakened men’s
minds with regard to God’s designs that they are almost incapable
of seeing the awful disorder of such Naturalism. It will, there¬
fore, be well to dwell upon it a little.

To enter a society in which men surrender their wills un¬
reservedly to the heads of the society, by taking an oath of
blind obedience, is an immoral act, contrary to man’s God-
given rational nature. The revolt is, however, still more heinous,
when it is question of entrance into a society making open pro¬
fession of Naturalism. As there are only two camps here below,
revolt against Christ the King is, objectively, entrance into
the camp of Satan. This Naturalism is the fundamental error
of Masonry, and it is common to all the sections of Masonry,
Anglo-Saxon, French, Italian and Spanish. Corruption of the
idea of God has inevitably followed on the rejection of the one
way instituted for return to God, namely, membership of the
Mystical Body of Christ. The French Grand Orient has betrayed
the presence of this corruption and degradation with regard
to God, more openly than English or Irish Masonry. That is
the whole significance of the controversy about the deletion of

1 History of the Bank of England Lodge, pp. 11, 12, by Stephen A. Pope.

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the expression, The Great Architect of the Universe, by the
French Grand Orient . 1

The retention by the Grand Lodge of England of the article
relating to the Great Architect of the Universe does not signify
that English Masonry is Christian, for English Masonry does
not accept the supremacy of the Mystical Body of Christ. On
the contrary, English Masonry is anti-supernatural and anti-
Christian like the other sections of the Masonic Brotherhood,
for it puts Mahomet and Buddha on the same level as Christ,
thus denying Christ’s role as the One Mediator.®

1 The Manifesto published in 1938, by the Duke of Connaught, in his

capacity as Grand Master of English Masonry, re-affirms
the necessity of faith in the Supreme Being for recognition by
the Grand Lodge of England, but it leaves the question exactly
where it was.

2 In The Freemason of August 14th, 1926, we read : " At a Masonic

service.in Parish Church of St. Andrew, Ramsbottom,

. . . Bro. the Bishop of Hulme, Past Prov. Grand Chaplain,
Worcester, said the tame spirit of Freemasonry was Charity.
Freemasonry was not of necessity Christian. The Name of
the Lord Jesus Christ would not be found in the prayers, nor
in the offerings of praise, but any one who recognized the supreme
Being of God, if nothing else disqualified him, might become
a member of the great order. Though Freemasonry was not
Christian, at least it was true to say it was religious." In the
same issue of March 26th, 1927, of the same periodical we read :
" Bishop Welldon, P.G.C., erstwhile Bishop of Calcutta and
Metropolitan of India, in his ' Recollections and Reflections,'
says that ' Freemasonry, which is so great a power in India,
may be taken to establish the possibility of uniting the votaries
of many different religions in the common worship of one Almighty
Creator.’ ” Again The Freemason of 3rd Nov., 1917, gives an
account of the installation of a Mohammedan, Brother
Anik, as Venerable of the Wantage Lodge of London, treating
the event as a new title to glory on the part of English Masonry.
The Grand Master, the Duke of Connaught, expressed his regret
at not being able to assist at the ceremony.

In the section" Notes on the Book of Constitutions," 1922
edition, of The Masonic Record, Sept. 1927, we find, the following
comments :

" (3) Charges concerning God and Religion.

“ Let a man’s religion or mode of worship be what it may, etc.

“ Hence not necessarily Christian.

( Contd. on next page.)

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Neither does this article mean that English Masonry professes
belief in a transcendent God, as we know Him, for it is compatible
with acceptance of Pantheism, that is, with the identification
of God with man. French (Grand Orient) Masonry has shown
this Pantheistic conception of the idea of God more fully and
more explicitly than English Freemasonry. An open avowal
of Atheism or of the deification of man would have been impolitic
in England in 1878 , when the French Grand Orient deleted from
its Constitutions the paragraph referring to the existence of God.
The retention of the vague term, “ Great Architect of the
Universe, ” enabled English Freemasonry to pose as religions,
while continuing its work of sapping the belief of Englishmen
in the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and in the reality of
that Supernatural Life of Grace coming to us from Him, by
which we are true men as we ought to be.

The opposition of all the branches of Freemasonry to the
Catholic Church is thus essential and ineradicable, for it is the
opposition of Naturalism to the Supernatural Life which comes
from Our Divine Lord. It is, in other words, the opposition
of Anti-Christ to Christ. It has been thought necessary to
stress this great truth because of the statements one sometimes
hears, even from Catholics, that Continental Freemasonry is
quite different from English Freemasonry. The latter, they
say, has no connection with the former and is merely a benevolent
association, in which non-Catholics find friendship and help.

(Note 2 contd. from previous page.)

“ Therefore the Sacred Book is that which contains the Sacred
Law of the individual concerned.

" When any Sacred Book other than the Bible is used for the
purpose of obligating any member of the non-Christian faith
the V.S.L. must be in the Lodge and must be opened ; for any
Brother who has been O.B. [obligated a Brother] on the V.S.L.
[Volume of the Sacred Law] has the right to insist on its presence
in the Lodge. The use of the other sacred writings is for the
convenience of the candidate.

“ There is nothing to prevent a man believing also in one or
more inferior Gods provided that he acknowledges One Supreme
God.”

Cf. Reflections on Freemasonry, by an Anglo-Catholic, pp. 52-00.

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but which Catholics may not enter because of the oath of secrecy
imposed on its members. Statements such as these are utterly
misleading. They betray complete ignorance of that which
constitutes the essential defect in all forms of Freemasonry,
namely, its Naturalism. They betray ignorance also of the
fact that, when Pope Leo XIII condemned Freemasonry, he
made no distinction between the disputants in the Masonic
quarrel about the Great Architect of the Universe . 1 He con¬
demned the whole association, both the section that retained
the vague “ landmark ” and the section that rejected it.

‘The "dispute” had reached the acute stage in the years 1877-
1878, about six years before the appearance of the Encyclical,
Humanum Genus.

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CONTRASTING

Programme of Christ the King
through His Mystical Body , the
Catholic Church.

FIRSTLY

(I) The Union of States and
Nations must be brought about
through the acknowledgement of
the One Way established by God
for the ordered return of human
beings to Him, the Catholic
Church , Supernatural and Supra¬
national.

SECONDLY

(II) The Catholic Church must
be acknowledged as the sole
divinely-appointed Guardian of
the whole moral law, natural
and revealed.

THIRDLY

(III) The Unity and Indis¬
solubility of Christian marriage,
as the Symbol of the union of
Christ and His Mystical Body,
must be acknowledged.

FOURTHLY

(IV) Children must be educated
as members of Christ’s Mystical
Body and trained to envisage all
questions from the supernatural
standpoint.

PROGRAMMES

Programme of Freemasonry.

FIRSTLY

(I) The Union of States and
Nations must be brought about
through the establishment of
some form of Naturalistic Supra¬
national Organization, political
and economic. All religions
must be on the same level in
States, but with discrimination
against the Catholic Church.

8EC0NDLY

(II) The Naturalistic Supra¬
national Organization, which
Freemasonry will establish,
must decide all political and
economic questions between
States, without any regard for
the moral law as laid down by
the Catholic Church. The
Catholic concept of native land
will not be respected.

THIRDLY

(III) Marriage must be brought
down to the level of a purely
civil contract, terminable by a
simple State formality.

FOURTHLY

(IV) All trace of membership of
Christ and of the Supernatural
Life of Grace must be eliminated
from education. Priests and
religious must be excluded from
teaching. All distinction be¬
tween the sexes in education
must be done away with. Un¬
restrained liberty of the Press,
the Cinema and the Radio must
be introduced.

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FIFTHLY

(V) Ownership of property
ought to be widely diffused.
Unions of owners and workers
in Guilds will reflect the soli¬
dary of the Mystical Body of
Christ.

SIXTHLY

(VI) The Monetary System of
States ought to be at the
service of production, in view
of the happy family life of
members of Christ. Each State
must aim at keeping its internal
price-level stable. International
trade is meant to be an exchange
of goods and services between
nations, to their mutual advan¬
tage, not a financial war.

FIFTHLY

(V) Socialization of Property
and increasing bureaucratic con¬
trol must be aimed at, so that
a small group may wield power.
Guild-organization will be
opposed.

SIXTHLY

(VI) Instead of the correct
order of finance for production
and production for members of
Christ, the rejection of the
Supernatural Life and order
inevitably leads to the reversal
of order, in which men are
sacrificed for production and
production for finance. This
disorder will be specially dis¬
astrous for agriculture. The
Naturalistic Supranational Organ¬
ization must aim at financial
control, in order to maintain
political and economic control.

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CHAPTER VI.

An Outline of the Theology of History

ACCEPTANCE OF THE DIVINE PLAN FOR ORDER IN
THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

'"THE Kingdom of God on earth consists, as we have seen,
A essentially and principally in the supernatural society of the
Catholic Church, secondarily and as a consequence of the influence
of the Catholic Church, in an organization of the social life of
States, political and economic, in accordance with the Divine
Plan for order. God in Three Divine Persons is Subsistent
Love of order. Accordingly, as there is not opposition and
separation between invisible Grace and visible organization,
between interior liberty and external power, between the super¬
natural world and the material universe, the social organization
of men, called upon to share in the Inner Life of God through
membership of Christ, will reflect the Divine Love of order.

God came on earth in the Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ
and put before the Jewish nation, from which He had taken
His Sacred Humanity in the chaste womb of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, the divine programme for the ordered organization of
the world, asking them at the same time to be its heralds. The
crucifixion of Our Lord was the rejection by the Jewish nation
of God’s programme for order. They refused to accept that
there was any life higher than their national life, and they would
not hear of the non-Jewish nations coming in as members of
the Messianic Kingdom, on the same level as themselves. In
spite of the naturalistic opposition of the Jewish Nation and
notwithstanding the weakness of fallen human nature, Western
Europe in the thirteenth century had come to acknowledge
God’s Rights in the way He Himself had laid down, and had
organized society on the basis that man’s supreme dignity was
his supernatural and supranational life as a member of Christ.
The following diagrammatic expression of the Catholic ideal
of the life of the individual Christian may help to show how the
supernatural outlook permeated the whole of life at that epoch.
The position of the rectangles and the arrows tending downwards
indicate that Supernatural Life is meant to permeate and
animate all the activities of social life. The arrows tending
upwards indicate that social life is meant to aid in the develop-

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ment of the personality of members of Christ and thus contribute
to the formation of the Mystical Body in Heaven. In this way,
the social life of the Citizen is fully subordinated to the Super¬
natural Life of the Christian. His environment aids him to
act as a member of Christ instead of being a hindrance thereto.
Thus, too, God’s Rights are fully respected.

God

(in Three Divine Persons)

t I

Our Lord Jesus Christ,

Accordingly, at that epoch, there was no separation between
the Christian and the Citizen either in education or in social
life. Education was understood to be the training of the in¬
telligence of Christ’s members to grasp the order of the world
around Christ and the disciplining of the will to observe that
order in relation to God, their fellow-members of Christ’s
Mystical Body and themselves. Social life, in which politics and
economics would be put into a watertight compartment and
sectioned off from the life of members of Christ, was completely
alien to such minds. They knew that in the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass, they pledged themselves to work with Christ, their
Head, to mould the world in accordance with His Divine Plan
for order. The Guilds were an application of this great doctrine
of human solidarity in Christ to economic affairs.

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By the grace of Headship of the Mystical Body, our Lord
Jesus Christ is both Priest and King of redeemed mankind and,
as such, exercises a twofold influence upon us. Firstly, as
Priest, He communicates to us the Supernatural Life of Grace
by which we, while ever remaining distinct beings from God,
can enter into the vision and love of the Blessed Trinity. We
can thus become one with God, not, of course, in the order of
substance or being, but in the order of operation, of the im¬
material union of vision and love. The Divine Nature is the
principle of the Divine Vision and Love, and by Grace we are
“ made partakers of the Divine Nature ” (2 Peter, I, 4). This
pure Catholic doctrine is infinitely removed from Masonic
Pantheism. Secondly, as King, our Lord exercises an exterior
influence on us by His government of us. As King, He guides
and directs us socially and individually, in order to dispose
all things for the reception of the Supernatural Life which He,
as Priest, confers.

Society had been organized in the thirteenth century and
even down to the sixteenth, under the banner of Christ the
King. Thus, in spite of deficiencies and imperfections, man’s
divinization, through the Life that comes from the Sacred
Humanity of Jesus, was socially favoured. Modern society,
under the influence of Satan, was to be organized on the opposite
principle, namely, that human nature is of itself divine, that
man is God, and therefore, subject to nobody.

THE LUTHERAN REVOLT AGAINST THE DIVINE PLAN
FOR ORDER.

The so-called Reformation sectioned oft the Christian life
from the life of the Citizen, so that political and economic organ¬
ization left membership of Christ out of account. Lutheranism
initiated that dualism, which separates life into two halves so
independent that they have only accidental relations with each
other, and thus prepared the way for Liberalism. This is the
application of Naturalism to morality, politics and economics.
This was the result of the separation of Grace and nature (the
latter being intrinsically corrupt), faith and works. According

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to Luther, while the natural equipment of each individual remains
intrinsically corrupt, he can, by an act of blind confidence,
hold up the justice of Christ as a fire-screen between God's anger
and his own abiding corruption. This was the origin of the theory
of the Invisible Church of believers in Christ, the One True
Visible Church, through which alone (in re or in voto) one becomes
a member of the Mystical Body of Christ, being done away
with. 1 This is the invisible Church of human relations with
God and of divine action. All the rest, all that concerns the
life and action of the external man, including the ecclesiastical
organizations entered into in order to stir up faith in Christ, in a
word, all the affairs of this world, are relegated to the State.
So there is a clear-cut separation between the Christian and the
Citizen. “ You are a prince or a judge," said Luther, " .

you have people under you and you wish to know what to do.
It is not Christ you are to question concerning the matter but

the law of your country.Between the Christian and the

Ruler, a profound separation must be made.Assuredly,

a prince can be a Christian, but it is not as a Christian that he
ought to govern. As a ruler, he is not called a Christian but a
prince. The man is a Christian, but his function does not concern

his religion.Though they are found in the same man,

the two states or functions are perfectly marked off one from
the other, and really opposed.” 8

Hence all man’s external activity, springing from a nature
deprived of Supernatural Life and subject to the dictates of a
ruler who must look upon himself not as a Christian but as a
ruler, is completely naturalistic. By this individualism and
separatism, the way is made smooth for modern Naturalism
and Liberalism. If we bear in mind that, according to Luther,
Our Lord Jesus Christ is no longer the Source of Sanctifying

1 We may render in re by in actual fact and in voto by in desire or

in intention.

2 Luther’s Works (Weimar Edition) XXXII, pp. 391 > 439, 440.

Again he writes in his Commentary on the Epistle to the
Galatians : " Conscience has nothing to do with the Law, works
or earthly justice ” (Gal., c. II, v. 14, quoted by l’abb6 Paquier
in Luther et VAllemagne, p. 166).

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Grace, the Intrinsic Principle of Life of the Mystical Body, we
may express the disordered Lutheran separatist ideal as follows :

Our Lord Jesus Christ

C

5

8

u

8

O

The note of interrogation at the head of the diagram is meant
to emphasize the fact that those who are not in the order laid
down by God for return to Him are objectively in disorder.

Each Protestant State, after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ,
expressed this separatist ideal by organizing its particular form
of religion as a State Department, such as looked after agriculture
or any other section of the nation’s life. It is true that the
Protestant States, as organized bodies, still acknowledged in
this way that they had a duty to God and, at the beginning at
least, maintained the great truth of the Divinity of Our Lord
Jesus Christ, though rejecting the order established by Him
for the full recognition of God’s Rights. Decay in regard to
the order of the world and in respect for human personality
was inevitable, seeing that the guidance of the Vicar of Christ,
the divinely-instituted infallible Guardian of the moral law,
had been rejected.

POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PROTESTANT

REVOLT.

The first result was an enormous increase in the power of the
Temporal Rulers, in fact a rebirth of the pagan regime of Im¬
perial Rome . 1 The Spiritual Kingship of Christ, participated

1 From the eleventh century onwards, the first law school of Europe,
that of Bologna, propagated the cult of Roman Law. The
legists, imbued with the idea of the will of the Roman Emperor
as law, were a potent influence in urging rulers to revolt against
the Mystical Body. Cf. The Church at the Turning Points of
History, by G. Kurth, pp. 86-122. Of course, the Renaissance
movement helped to strengthen that spirit.

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in by the Pope and the Bishops of the Catholic Church, being
no longer acknowledged, authority over spiritual affairs passed
to the Temporal Rulers. They were thus, in Protestant
countries, supposed to share not only in the Temporal Kingship
of Christ the King, but also in His Spiritual Kingship. As
there was no Infallible Guardian of order above the Temporal
Rulers, the way was paved for the abuses of State Absolutism.
The Protestant oligarchy who ruled England with undisputed
sway, from Charles the Second’s time on, and who treated Ireland
to the Penal Laws, may be cited, along with that cynical scoundrel,
Frederick of Prussia, as typical examples of such rulers. Catholic
monarchs, like Louis XIV of France and Joseph II of Austria,
by their absolutist tendencies and pretentions to govern the
Catholic Church, show the influence of the neighbouring Pro¬
testant countries. Gallicanism and Josephism are merely a
revival of Roman paganism.

The first political consequence of the Protestant rebellion
against order was, accordingly, the extreme error of State Ab¬
solutism. The principle of private judgment prepared the way
for the opposite extreme error of “ holy rebellion ” and the
“ right ” of the people to overthrow authority whenever it
displeases them. The doctrine that all men are equal in the
Mystical Body and are their own priests, sowed the seeds of
that spirit, which was given a body in the naturalistic Masonic
society, when the advance of time had brought about the decay
of belief in the Supernatural Life. When the favourable moment
had arrived, the Masonic divinization of human nature found
its expression in the Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789 .
The French Revolution ushered in the struggle for the complete
organization of the world around the new divinity—Humanity.

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PROTESTANT

REVOLT.

When men lived the life of the Mystical Body, looking upon
themselves as Christ’s members, they evolved economic organ¬
izations in accordance with their inner convictions. The Guilds
of the Middle Ages were the economic expression of accepted
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economic organizations to which religious practices were super-
added. No, by them men gave expression, in their arrange¬
ments for the production and distribution of what the body
needs, to their full acceptance of the Divine Plan for ordered
life. The rending of the Mystical Body by the so-called Re¬
formation movement has resulted in the pendulum swinging
from the extreme error of Judaeo-Protestant Liberalistic
Capitalism or Individualism to the opposite extreme error of
the Judaeo-Masonic Communism of Karl Marx.

Liberalism does not consist merely in withdrawing economics
from subordination to politics, but in the further step of with¬
drawing both politics and economics from subjection to the
moral law binding on members of Christ. Perhaps we may
best describe it by saying that it consists in erecting some par¬
ticular section or aspect of human activity, economic or political,
into a separate domain with its own autonomous end, completely
independent of the final end of man as a member of Christ.

The Spiritual Kingship of Christ being no longer acknowledged,
authority over spiritual affairs, including the right to interpret
and apply the moral law, was vested in the Temporal Rulers
of the Protestant States. Given human frailty, we need not be
surprised at the deviations from the moral law which met with the
approval of those Rulers from the sixteenth century onwards.
It is not necessary for our purposes to investigate how far the
self-interest of the Rulers inclined them to accept the doctrine
of the orthodox English and French Political Economists, Adam
Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Stuart Mill, Bastiat, J.B.Say and the
Physiocrats, namely, that Economic affairs, including, of course,
the manipulation of money or exchange-medium, are governed by
Physical Laws of nature, to which no political law should attempt
to do violence.

We have seen the great liberalistic principle that Economic
affairs are governed by Physical Laws which no political law
should attempt to regulate in view of favouring membership of
Christ. In the name of this principle, organized Naturalism
worked for the destruction of the Guilds of the Middle Ages at
the French Revolution, and naturalistic Liberalism resisted
the trade-union and reform movements. Every movement

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of resistance to social amelioration and professional organization
was made in the name of this liberalistic Economic Science . 1
In this way. Liberalism sacrificed the weak to the strong and
obliged the former to respect the contracts made with the latter
out of dire necessity, though with all the external marks of liberty.
Accordingly, in practice. Liberalism led to the disregard of the
fundamental equality of human persons and to the treatment of
human beings as mere individuals.

There is a second consequence of the decay in regard to the
Divine Plan for order. The suppression of the economic struc¬
tures based upon the acceptance of our supernatural solidarity
in Christ, namely, the Guilds, has simply been the prelude to a
prolonged attempt to impose an anti-supernatural reaction.
Liberalism stressed the first part of Article I of the Declaration
of the Rights of Man, namely, “ men are bom free.’’ The
resultant oppression of the weak by the strong led to the coalition
of the weak in an endeavour to defend the fundamental rights
of human nature in which all are equal. Unfortunately, the
leadership of this reaction was seized by Socialists and Com¬
munists, impregnated with the same revolutionary doctrine as
the Liberalists, namely, the doctrine of the “ autonomy of the
individual ” or “ the unconditioned liberty of the individual
fallen human being.” By stressing the second part of Article I
of the Declaration of 1789 , namely, " men are born equal,"
they have inaugurated a system as anti-social as the other. In
the name of the essential equality of human nature, they aim at
suppressing the inevitable accidental inequality of human con¬
ditions. The only way to succeed in this is to suppress the
actual organization of society in which the law maintains the
inequality of conditions, especially through the possession of
private property, and reconstruct a society in which all the
citizens shall be equal not only de jure but de facto. For this

1 ” At the time when the new social order was beginning, the doctrines
of rationalism had already taken firm hold of large numbers,
and an economic science alien to the true moral law had soon
arisen, whence it followed that free rein was given to human
avarice” (Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Quadragesimo Anno).

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they have stirred up the class-war and aroused envy and hatred.
In their ideal society, the State shall own everything and shall
oblige all, without distinction of classes, to work for the Common
Good, distributing to each his proper share of the common store.

Given the false foundation of both the Liberalist and the
Socialist doctrines, namely, the Rousseauist-Masonic deification
of the individual, there is no equable solution of the problem.
If society is conceived to be, as the Declaration of Rights of
1789 and the Social Contract of Rousseau suppose, a simple
material juxtaposition of autonomous individuals, then, either
in the name of liberty, the strong will oppress the weak, or in
the name of equality, the manipulators of the coalition will oppress
everybody. In both cases, human beings will be treated as mere
individuals, not as persons.

Whenever man revolts against the Divine Plan for order and
rejects the Supernatural Life of Grace, he sinks down to an
infra-human level and becomes anti-natural as well as anti-
supernatural. This is the ultimate reason for the abuses and
enormities of modern economic social arrangements, so deplored
by Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI. The swing of the pendulum
of human striving for social justice, from anti-supernatural
(and anti-natural) Liberalism to anti-supernatural (and anti¬
natural) Communism, has been wittily described by Christopher
Hollis. “It is clear,” he writes, "that the battle between
Capitalism and Communism, so far from being the eternal
struggle of our race, was in reality little more than a family
quarrel between two Jews for the divine right to deceive mankind
—between the Dutch Jew Ricardo and the German Jew Marx .” 1

We have seen that one result of the Lutheran revolt was the
division between the Christian and the Citizen. According to
the Catholic ideal, the whole life of a member of Christ is meant
to be subjected to Christ and animated with the meritorious
Supernatural Life of Grace, just as all movements of the hand
or of any other member are subject to the head in the physical

1 The Two Nations, p. 131. For the development of the ideas out¬
lined here, cf. The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganisation
of Society, Part IV, and The Workingmen’s Guilds of the Middle
Ages.

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body. According to the Lutheran ideal, all the activity of a
Christian in the world is withdrawn from the rule of Christ and
given over to Naturalism. “ They who are just," says Luther,
“ observe the law, not because they are thereby justified before God ,
but for the sake of civil order, and because they know that
such obedience is well pleasing to God, and a good example and
pattern for the improvement of others." 1 - To earthly activity
was thus ascribed a merely earthly, naturalistic value. Calvin
agreed with this, maintaining the sectioning or division of
life, but he added powerful incentives to the observance of
natural morality and the pursuit of wealth. He taught that
moral life and success in business were a proof of one’s election
to salvation, a clear indication that the purely interior act of
faith-confidence in Christ had been rightly performed, and that
on the other hand, lack of honesty and ill-success were a proof
of eternal damnation. Accordingly, political action and business
dealings, instead of being vivified with the supernatural love
of one’s fellow-members of Christ, actual or potential, were
left to the guidance of private judgment, that is, inevitably,
to the promptings of self-interest. Thus, individualism in
religion prepared the way for individualism and separatism in
political and economic activity. Naturalism grew apace.

Meanwhile, the uprise of a multitude of sects, which was the
inevitable consequence of individualism and private judgment,
favoured Naturalism after another fashion. Satan urged the
desirability of setting up a society, based upon that natural
religion in which all men agree, as a remedy for the divisions
arising from the quarrels between Christian denominations.
Thus, the tempter whispered, since human beings are rational,
you can make them good and true and at the same time re¬
establish the brotherhood of men of all nations, so much en¬
dangered by all these quarrels. Satan pleaded, too, for an oath of
secrecy because of special knowledge to be safeguarded, knowing
the force of such an appeal and its efficacy in keeping men in sub¬
jection. In this wise. Freemasonry, a naturalistic caricature
of the Mystical Body of Christ, was brought into existence.

Quoted by Rev. Eustace Dudley in National Resurrection, p. 39.

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

OF 1789

The so-called Reformation had not attempted to set up a
supranational organization in the place of the Catholic Church.
That was reserved for the French Revolution, in which we
behold the first appearance in public of the new ideal of a purely
naturalistic society striving for the universality that belongs
only to the Catholic Church. The State or Nation, falsely holding
that it is not obliged to make profession of any religion, pro¬
claims that religion is a private matter and, after the model
of the Masonic Society, declares itself superior to the Mystical
Body of Christ and to ail the various man-made forms of religion
professed by its individual subjects.

Modern History since 1789 is, to a large extent, the account
of the domination of State after State by the naturalistic
supranationalism of Freemasonry, behind which has been steadily
emerging the still more strongly organized naturalistic supra¬
nationalism of the Jewish Nation. That is why the post¬
revolutionary epoch has witnessed, in country after country,
persistent attacks on the programme of Christ the King, in
regard to the Church, the State, the Family, Education, the
Religious Orders, Secret Societies, the Press and Private Property.
After every successful Masonic Revolution, since the first in
1789, down to and including the Spanish Revolution of 1931,
the world soon began to hear of the country’s entering upon
the path of “ progress,” by the introduction of " enlightened ”
reforms, such as, the separation of the Church and State or the
putting of all religions on the same level, the legalization of
divorce, the suppression and banishment of religious orders
and congregations, the glorification of Freemasonry, the secular¬
ization of the schools, the nationalization of property and the
unrestrained licence of the press. These were, of course, simply
the results of Satan’s utilization of his visible instruments in
order to eliminate the influence of Christ the King. Satan
knows well that the carrying out of his programme can only
lead to savagery and chaos, through the ruthless enslavement
of the many by the few. Most of his subordinates, however,
do not grasp this. Blinded by the suggestions of the tempter

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and by their own pride, men overthrow the bulwarks of society
reared on faith in Christ and on our membership of Him, with
disastrous results, especially for the poor and the lowly.

Thus, in practically every country in Europe, in which the
whole people once worshipped the Blessed Trinity in union
with Christ as Priest in Holy Mass and strove to organize their
social life under Christ the King in accordance with that pro¬
testation of homage, Satan has succeeded at one time or another
in setting up a native Government hostile to the Mass and to
the rule of Christ the King. There are still two exceptions—
Poland and Ireland. In these two countries, Satan cannot yet
boast that he has succeeded in getting a native Government to
insult the Mass and attack the formation of children as members
of Christ. But these two countries, so remarkable for their
traditional loyalty to God the Father and Our Lord Jesus Christ,
Whom He has sent, are weakening in their grasp of order. While
some of the other countries that had succumbed to the wiles of
Satan and his emissaries in the past, have begun to react and
are returning to Our Lord and His Church, these two countries
have declared themselves indifferent to Him.

Article 114 of the Polish Constitutional Law of March 17th,
1921, re-enacted by the Constitutional Law of April 23rd, 1935,
states : " The Roman Catholic Faith, being the religion of the
great majority of the nation, occupies a leading position in the
State among other religions, which, however, enjoy equal rights.”
In Ireland, by Article 44 of the Constitution in operation from
December 29th, 1937, " The State recognizes the special position
of the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church as the
guardian of the faith professed by the great majority of the
citizens ” and recognizes equally the Protestant Sects and the
Jewish Congregations as the Churches of the minorities. Thus
the Polish State and the Irish State, to put the matter succinctly,
declare themselves, as such, indifferent to the struggle between
the True Supernatural Messias and the natural Messias. 1

1 Cf. quotations from the Encyclical Letter, Immortdle Dei, On the
Christian Constitution of States: “The Church deems it un¬
lawful to place the various forms of divine worship on the same
footing as the true religion,” etc., pp. 30 , 31 . Cf. also the
Encyclical Letter, Humanum Genus, Chapter V, p. 69 .

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The word Revolution may be taken in two senses. The
primary signification is that of a radical transformation of society,
undertaken for the purpose of destroying the ancient order
which was based on the recognition of the Rights of God through
the Mystical Body of Christ and of the reality of the Super¬
natural Life of Grace as our highest and noblest life. The
second signification is derived from the former. According to
it, the word is applied to the doctrines or principles in the name
of which the social transformation is accomplished and to the
new institutions set up in the place of those overthrown. The
aim of revolution, therefore, is based on the negation of God’s
Rights and of our Supernatural Life and is the enthronement
of man’s reason as supreme. In other words, it is the inaugur¬
ation of the reign of Naturalism or Rationalism.

The French people had grasped the truth of the Divine Plan
for order and had stood for the Rights of God. By leaving
Our Lord Jesus Christ out of account and passing over in silence
the Rights of the Head of the Mystical Body, they committed
apostacy and ushered in a long period of disorder under the
sway of the promoters of Naturalism. When men reject Our
Lord Jesus Christ, they tend inevitably to put themselves in
the place of God. This is what the French Masons had done
and this is what they succeeded in doing officially in the name
of France in T789. It is precisely in this putting of human
reason in the place of God that Rationalism consists, and this
is what we find in the Declaration of 1789.

We may now express the naturalistic significance of the
Revolution as follows :

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The individual Christian, actual or potential, becomes a mere
Citizen, and the State organizes the whole of life on purely
naturalistic lines. The kind of organization set up and the
moulding process applied to the ordinary man as a consequence
will vary according to the disorder of the fundamental conception
in question. But the result will invariably be, as has been
already remarked, that the Citizen will be treated as a mere
Individual, not as a Person. Man can consistently maintain
the supremacy of reason over sense in social organization, only
on condition of maintaining the subjection of his reason to God,
through Our Lord Jesus Christ.

SOME NATIONAL REACTIONS 1

We have seen that Modern History since 1789 has been to
a large extent the account of the domination of State after
State by the naturalistic supranationalism of Freemasonry,
behind which has been gradually and steadily emerging the
still more strongly organized naturalistic supranationalism of
the Jewish Nation. Now, since human society, just like
individual men, cannot avoid essential deviations from order
unless it submits to God through Our Lord Jesus Christ, the
anti-supernatural revolt has brought about inevitable disorder
and decay, even in the natural life of nations. The imposition
of an anti-supernatural form has inevitably resulted in natural
decline. This has shown itself especially in the Catholic
countries, because the naturalistic forces have devoted par¬
ticular energy to the attack on the elements of supernatural
organization still to be found in these countries, with disastrous
consequences for the national life. But the Protestant countries
have not been spared. In them, however, by the fact of the
accepted separation of the Christian and the Citizen, the de-
supernaturalizing process was already well on its way. It has
been continued by the widespread legalization of divorce, the
elimination of true Christian education, and especially by the

1 Cf. The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society ,
Chapter XVI, where these national reactions are treated at greater
length.

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developing domination of money, with its complete reversal
of order. This reversal of order involves the subordination
of members of Christ, actual or potential, to the production
of material goods, and of production to finance. The results
are to be seen, in the treatment of human beings as mere
individuals, not as persons, in the decay of family-life, in the
increasing socialization of property, and in the subjection of
nations to those who control money.

For the past twenty years, thinking men in every country
have begun to see the need for national reactions against the
consequences of Naturalism, in order to safeguard their national
life and maintain their independence. A complete reaction
on the part of a country would mean a return to full acknowledge¬
ment of all that we have seen implied in the Kingship of Christ
in its integrity. That would mean not only the rejection of
the domination of the naturalistic or anti-supematural forces
of the Jewish Nation and Freemasonry, but also the acknowledge¬
ment of the Divine Plan for order, by acceptance of the Catholic
Church's mission and teaching on the relation of Church and
State, on the Catholic Church as the divinely-appointed Guardian
of the moral law, on the Sacrament of Matrimony and Family
Life, on the Catholic Education of Youth as Members of Christ,
on Private Property and the Function of Money.

SPAIN'S REACTION

Spain’s reaction against the principles of the French Revolu¬
tion has been the most poignant and the most thorough, for,
after Russia, it was in Spain that the " rights of man ” came
nearest to the complete overthrow of the Rights of God. The
history of Spain and Portugal, since the beginning of the
nineteenth century, may be well summed up in these words
of Pere Deschamps : " The revolutions which have succeeded
one another in these countries [Spain and Portugal] have been
caused for the most part by the rivalry between different sections
of Freemasonry. These work together harmoniously in the
struggle against Christian social order but tear one another

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to pieces when they have attained power. The same holds
true for Mexico.

The Spanish Revolution of 1931 was a Masonic Revolution.
A Masonic bulletin published by M. Leon de Poncins proclaims
it to the world : " The new Republic,” we read therein, “ is
the perfect embodiment of our doctrines and our principles.
It would be impossible to bring about a political revolution
more completely Masonic than the Spanish Revolution.” 1 2
The Masonic Revolution was intended to be only the forerunner
of the Communist revolution, but General Franco rose to do
battle for the Rights of God and saved Spain for Christ the
King.

PORTUGAL’S REACTION

Portugal’s reaction against Judseo-Masonic disorder has been
on the whole peaceful, but it is well to have it known that if
General Carmona and Dr. Salazar have been able to continue
their work of orderly reorganization. Freemasonry has not
been idle. In 1931, and again in 1935, the Grand Orient
attempted to get rid of them but failed. Everybody knows
that the revolution of 1910, which put an end to the Monarchy,
was the work of Freemasonry. 3

In regard to the points of the Divine Plan for order con¬
cerning the relation of the State to the Catholic Church, the
Family, and the Education of members of Christ, the Portuguese

1 Les SotieUs Secretes et la Societi, Vol. II, p. 068 . On pages 068 -

680 , the author quotes a number of Masonic documents con¬
cerning the secret history of Spanish and Portuguese revolutions.

The remark made about Mexico receives ample confirmation
in Mexico, the Land of Blood-drenched A liars, by Francis C. Kelly,
and in No God next Door, by Rev. M. Kenny, S.J. Father Kenny
gives an excellent summary of the responsibility of the United
States and of American Freemasonry for the persecution of the
Catholic Church in Mexico.

2 Histoire Secrete de la Revolution Espagnole, by M. Leon de Poncins,

p. 24 . This work and that of M. Jean Marques-Riviere, Comment
la Franc-Mafonnerte fait une Revolution, contain details and
documents.

3 Cf. Le Portugal Renait, by L. de Poncins.

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Constitution favours the return to order, while considering it
prudent to take account of the results of decay and to await
the development of the right mentality towards the Divine
Plan through education. Thus " the State shall maintain the
regime of separation in relation to the Catholic Church and
any other religion or cult practised within the Portuguese
territory,” 1 but will keep up diplomatic relations with the Holy
See with reciprocity of representation. Civil marriage and
civil divorce are allowed, but the State will not permit Catholics
married by the Church to apply for civil divorce. The State
will not, therefore, aid the revolt of Catholic members of Christ
against Christ.

The Portuguese Corporative State rises superior to the Italian,
because it fully recognizes the fact that man is not only an
individual subordinate to the State but also a person for whose
well-being and development the State itself exists.

IRELAND’S REACTION

The struggle against England on the national level has so
absorbed the attention of Irishmen that relatively few of them
ever envisage that struggle in its full relation to the vaster
and more intensely real conflict waged between Our Lord Jesus
Christ and Satan. They know that when England embraced
the heretical doctrines of the so-called Reformers in the six¬
teenth century, Ireland remained steadfast in its hold on order,
but they do not accurately know what has been the effect of
the French Revolution on Ireland, considered from the point
of view of the vital struggle between Christ and Satan which
is being waged in the world. We have seen that the progress
of the French Revolution has meant the successive renunciation

1 Political Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (Editions SPN,
Lisbon, p. 17 ). Article I of the Concordat of 1940 runs as follows :
" The Portuguese Republic recognizes the personality in law of
the Catholic Church. Friendly relations with the Holy See
shall be maintained in the traditional manner, by the appointment
of an Apostolic Nuncio to the Portuguese Republic and of a
Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See.’’

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by States of all acknowledgement of the Mystical Body of
Christ and the Supernatural Order, under the influence of the
naturalistic supranationalism of Freemasonry and the Jewish
Nation. As a consequence all religions are placed on the same
footing, that is, the Catholic Church is placed “ on the same
level as heretical sects and even as Jewish perfidy,” to use the
expression of Pope Pius VII. 1 2 The State thus declares itself
indifferent in the struggle between Our Lord Jesus Christ and
the New Messias and we know that “ he who is not with me
is against me ” (St. Matt., XII, 30).

The widespread ignorance in Ireland of the meaning of
Naturalism and of the significance of the principles of 1789
is shown by the repeated exhortations to Irishmen to accept
without discrimination all the principles of Wolfe Tone and
James Connolly. One of the great tragedies of these men’s
lives was that they were caught up in movements whose inner
significance and ultimate orientation they were far from
realizing. This tragedy is even more poignant in the case of
James Connolly than in that of Wolfe Tone, for James Connolly's
devout reception of the Sacraments and recital of the Rosary
before death showed that he believed firmly in the divinity of
Our Divine Lord and honoured His Blessed Mother.®

GERMANY’S REACTION

In order to understand the different currents in the German
Reaction against Judseo-Masonic influences, we must bear
well in mind that the Jewish Nation and Freemasonry are
working in the camp of Satan for the reign of Naturalism, that
is, for the disruption of the Divine Plan for order and the
elimination of Supernatural Life and Love from the world.
They will hotly deny this or scoff at it, but the objective order
of the world is a fact. Further, the leaders of the Jewish Nation
aim at the inauguration of the reign of the natural Messias
and the rejection of Our Divine Lord, in view of their own

1 Letter, Post tam diuturnas.

2 Ireland’s attitude towards the Kingship of Christ will be dealt with

in a later pamphlet.

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domination, and they use their undeniable influence in Free¬
masonry for that purpose. Accordingly, we must be prepared
to see these naturalistic forces favour Protestant powers like
England and Prussia, in so far as they may be useful instruments
in propagating Naturalism, and at the same time seek to use
them for the ulterior schemes of Judaeo-Masonry. We must
be prepared, too, for reactions, when these Protestant countries
perceive that what they consider their national interests have
been sacrificed on various occasions to Jewish interests and
that their national life is in danger of corruption and decay.

We need not be astonished, then, to find, on the one hand,
in books like Les Societes Secretes et la Sociele, by Pere
Deschamps, S.J., and Les Pourquoi de la Guerre Mondiale, by
Mgr. Delassus, lengthy accounts of the different ways in which
Jewry and Freemasonry favoured the hegemony of Prussia
over the German countries and the substitution of Berlin for
Vienna as the cultural centre of the German-speaking peoples.
On the other hand, we find in books like that of Dr. Friedrich
Wichtl, Weltfreimaurerei, Weltrevolution, Weltrepublik , 1 the
accusation levelled at Jewry and Freemasonry of having con¬
tinually worked against the interests of Germany. For example,
Wichtl shows that Freemasonry throughout the world turned
against Germany during the Great War (1914-1918). In
particular he proves that it was through Masonic pressure that
Italy entered the war against Austria and Germany. He shows
also that the Communist Republic in Munich and the whole
Communist movement in Germany and Russia, after the Great
War, were the work of Judaeo-Masonry and Brothers .\ Toller,
Levien, Axelrod, Wadler, Ewinger, Lenin, Trotsky, etc.,
etc. 2 On page 286, he gives as his conclusion, that “ neither
we, Germans, nor the visible Governments of our enemies are
responsible for the terrible slaughter of the Great War, but that
dark, secret power which we have called World-Masonry, behind
which is hidden the invisible ruler of the destinies of all States
and peoples. World-Jewry.”

1 World Masonry, World Revolution, World Republic.

2 Op. cit., pp. 211 - 231 , 278 - 281 .

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In their books, Pere Deschamps, S.J., and Mgr. Delassus
stress the fact that the organized naturalistic forces favoured
Prussia, in view of utilizing that Power’s anti-Catholic attitude
for the elimination of the spirit of the Mystical Body of Christ
from Germany. Wichtl insists upon the fact that in the end,
Prussia began to see that she was being sacrificed in her turn
for “ higher interests.” One is strongly reminded of a remark
made to the distinguished historian, Cardinal Pitra, at Vienna,
in 1889. A highly-placed personage, whose name he does not
give, said to him : " The Catholic Nations must be crushed by
the Protestant Nations. When this result has been attained,
a breath will be sufficient to bring about the disappearance
of Protestantism. Thus we shall arrive at State Atheism.” 1
Hence the points of view defended by these two groups of writers
are complementary. 2

The German reaction against the corrupting naturalistic
influence of Jewry and Freemasonry, instead of inaugurating
the return of the whole German nation to the Divine Plan for
order, from which North Germany turned aside in the sixteenth
century, has intensified the disorder. The reaction is a purely
naturalistic one by which the German Race is put in the place
of the Mystical Body of Christ, German Blood is substituted
for Sanctifying Grace, the Life-blood of the Mystical Body,
and the instinctive aspirations of the German racebound,
national soul, as interpreted by the Leaders of the race, replace
the moral law. In the place of the supernatural, supranational
Mystical Body of Christ, the Jews also put their race and their

1 Quoted by Mgr. Delassus, op. cit., Vo 1 . II, p. 48 .

2 Wichtl exaggerates when he asserts (op. cit., p. 186 ) that, though

Frederick the Great was a Freemason, he was never admitted
to the real secrets of the Lodges. As the founder of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite (to which, however, additions were
made at the end of the 18 th century), Frederick was well aware
of the inner meaning of Masonic Naturalism. In fact the Mason,
Bluntschli, claims for him the honour of being the initiator of
the revolutionary era, which, he says, should date from the year
of Frederick’s accession, namely, 1740 , rather than from 1789 .
The modern State, ” independent of all theocracy," that is, owing
no submission to the divine law, began with Frederick, he main¬
tains. Cf. Deschamps, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 19 .

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Nation, thus declaring that order is to come to the world through
all nations being moulded by the Jewish Nation. Instead of
drawing the obvious lesson from the Jewish rejection of Christ
and striving to bring Germany to accept His Divine Plan, the
National-Socialist movement has denounced the whole Christian
revelation as a superimposed deformation of the German national
soul and set up the German race and its national aspirations,
in the place both of the Mystical Body of Christ and a fortiori
of the Jewish race and nation.

Accordingly, National-Socialism substitutes the German race
and its exigencies of social organization for the supernatural,
supranational Mystical Body of Christ and its exigencies of
social organization, expressed by the Indirect Power of the
Church, Christian Marriage as the union of members of Christ,
and Christian Education as the formation of members of Christ.
One can readily conclude that the National-Socialist reaction
against the corroding influence of Jewish Naturalism on German
national life leads, not only to measures of repression against
the Jews, but to a dire persecution of the Catholic Church. 1
The deified German race has attacked directly the rival natural
deity, the Jewish race, and has proceeded systematically
to get rid of it as corrupting the very fount of deity, German
blood. It also systematically undermines and seeks to eliminate
the supernatural, supranational Catholic Church. Catholics
are still allowed to profess at Mass that they will endeavour
to live their lives as members of Christ and that they will strive
to organize society so as to be aided in so doing. But, from
the moment Catholics in Germany and Austria leave the church

1 In The Rulers of Russia (pp. 74 - 77 ), two quotations are given from
distinguished German Catholic writers to show the enormous
extent of Jewish influence in Germany. Dr. Kurt Ziesche,
Professor in the University of Breslau, insists upon the prevalence
of Jewish Naturalism in the political and economic life of the
country, in his book. Das Kdnigtum Christi in Europa, pub¬
lished in 1926 . Dr. Eberle, the Editor of Schonere Zukunft,
sets out in 1927 the actual power and might of Jewish influence
in banking, in publishing and commercial life, etc., etc. Cf. The
Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, p. 310 .

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after Mass, they find society organized on the principle that
the highest form of life is German national life and that German
blood is higher and nobler than Sanctifying Grace, the life¬
blood of the Mystical Body. National-Socialism demands an
education which forms the young to regard membership of
the German race, not membership of Christ’s Mystical Body,
as the highest good. The moral law of which the sole divinely
appointed guardian is the Catholic Church is replaced by the
exigencies of German blood, as declared by the leaders of the
people. Thus the whole social organization of German life
and the ideals animating it are completely anti-Catholic.

The radical opposition of German racial theories to Catholic
teaching is made clear in the instruction to combat them, issued
by the Sacred Congregation for Seminaries and Universities
to Rectors of Seminaries and Catholic Universities. The docu¬
ment, which was sent on April 13th, 1938, runs as follows :

‘' Last year, on Christmas Eve, Our august Pontiff and gloriously
reigning Pope, in his allocution to the Cardinals and Prelates
of the Roman Curia, referred in grave and sorrowful terms
to the grievous persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany.
It was a cause of the greatest pain to the heart of the Holy
Father that, in order to excuse such flagrant injustice, bare¬
faced calumnies were invented, and most pernicious doctrines,
falsely alleged to be scientific, were spread far and wide, with
the intention of creating dire confusion in minds and uprooting
the true religion. In view of this state of things, the Sacred
Congregation of Studies urges Catholic Universities and Faculties
to direct all their resources and efforts to the defence of truth
against the inroads of these errors. Accordingly, those who
are teaching in these centres of higher studies must mobilize
all the means at their command in biology, history, philosophy,
apologetics, legal and moral science, and thus forge the weapons
with which to refute decisively and expertly the following
absolutely untenable and erroneous doctrines :

" 1. The human races, by their natural and immutable
characters, are so different, one from another, that the lowest
of them is further removed from the highest than it is from
the highest species of animal.

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“ 2. The vigour of the race and blood-purity must be pre¬
served and cultivated by every means. Anything that con¬
duces to this end is, by the very fact, honourable and permissible.

“3. The intellectual and moral qualities of man come mainly
from his blood, the source of racial characteristics.

" 4. The essential aim of education is to develop the
characters of the race and to inflame men’s minds with a burning
love of their own race as of the supreme good.

" 5. Religion is subject to the law of race and must be
adapted to it.

“ 6. The primary source and supreme rule of the whole
juridical order is the racial instinct.

" 7. Only the Cosmos or Universe exists, a living being ;
all things, man included, are only diverse forms, increasing
through the ages, of the Universal Living Being.

" 8. Individual men exist by the State and for the State :
whatever rights they possess come to them exclusively through
a concession from the State."

The following phrases of the Encyclical of Pope Pius XX,
On the Persecution of the Church in Germany, must be read in
conjunction with the above propositions, especially with Nos.
5 and 6 : “ He who takes the race, or the people, or the State,
or the form of Government, the bearers of the power of the
State or other fundamental elements of human society—which
in the temporal order of things have an essential and honour¬
able place—out of the system of their earthly valuation, and
makes them the ultimate norm of all, even of religious values,
and deifies them with an idolatrous worship, perverts and
falsifies the order of things created and commanded by God.
Such a one is far from true belief in God and a conception of

life corresponding to true belief. We have done

everything to defend the sanctity of a word solemnly pledged,
to protect the inviolability of obligations freely undertaken,
against theories and practices which, if officially approved,
must destroy all confidence and render valueless any word
that might also be pledged in the future.”

In The Rulers of Russia, I quoted an author to the effect that
the German monetary system was a reaction against the fallacy

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of making the volume of a country’s money or exchange-medium
depend on the amount of gold the government of the country
could control. 1 It is quite true that the volume of money
or exchange-medium ought to be proportioned to the develop¬
ment of a country’s capacity for production, not to the amount
of gold that may happen to be in its Central Bank. But the
German financial system, as a whole, is far from being in harmony
with the principles of St. Thomas; in conjunction with the
racial theory, it will tend to the treatment of the human person
as a mere individual. The German Government controls the
creation of bank credit by the Reichsbank, and allows this new
bank credit to reach the channels of trade by granting loans
of it to whatever businesses it favours. Now, when the Govern¬
ment takes over exclusive control and management of the
lending business, we have, in practice, Socialism or Communism.
For a Government to create bank credit and lend it to whom
it chooses is even more vicious than for private banks to create
money as loans. In the case of private banks, arbitrary dis¬
crimination is not the primary motive in denying loans. The
German Government determines what businesses may or may
not borrow and thus exercises the power of life and death over
them. This power tends to reinforce the treatment of subjects
as mere individuals, not as persons.

With regard to the appeals to God in the mouths of National-
Socialist orators, the following words of Cardinal Pie of Poitiers
are apposite. " There are men,” writes the great Cardinal,
" who speak emphatically of God. That does not demand any
great sacrifice. For them, God is a sort of abstraction .... But
Jesus Christ, that is, God become Man, God here upon earth,
God speaking, commanding, threatening, that is quite another
matter ... ‘ We will not have this man to reign over us.’ 2

Others again admit Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Gospel.
Our Lord has given proofs of His Divinity. He must be believed.
He has given us the Gospel. It must be accepted . . . But

1 3 rd Edition, Revised and Enlarged, November 1939 , p. 74 .
* St. Luke, XIX, 14 .

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the claims of the Catholic Church and of its Supreme Head,
the Pope, the Vicar of Christ, cannot be tolerated. ‘ We will
not have this man to reign over us.’ ” 1

1 The Kingship of Christ according to Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, p. 34 .
For Cardinal Pie, " God reigns visibly on earth, when the
Incarnate Son of God rules, and the Incarnate Son of God rules,
when the rule of His Church is definitely acknowledged ” (op.
cit.,p. 32 ). Cf. Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Ubi Arcano Dei,
On the Peace of Christ.

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CHAPTER VII.

The Kingship of Christ and the Duty of
Catholics

POPE PIUS XI AND THE DUTY OF CATHOLICS

YV 7 HEN instituting the Feast of the Kingship of Christ, Pope
W Pius XI insisted upon the duty of Catholics to combat
bravely for the Rights of God by proclaiming Christ’s Kingship
over States and Nations. “ The annual and universal celebration
of the Feast of the Kingship of Christ," he wrote, ” is very much
calculated to fix men’s attention on, and remedy in some way,
this public revolt from Christ that may be traced to secularism,
to the great ruin of society. While nations insult the sweet
name of Our Redeemer by suppressing all mention of it in their
conferences and parliaments, we ought all the more loudly
acclaim it, and all the more universally affirm the Rights con¬
ferred on Him by His royal dignity and power.We

earnestly hope that the Feast of the Kingship of Christ, which
in future will be yearly observed, may hasten the return of
society to our loving Saviour.

" It would be the duty of Catholics to do all they can to bring
about this happy result. Many of them, however, do not seem
to occupy the position in the social scale or to wield the influence
befitting those who bear the torch of truth. This disadvantage
may, perhaps, be due to slowness and timidity on the part of
good people, who shrink from resistance or make but a feeble
struggle, with the result that the enemies of the Church become
more and more reckless and more daring in their attacks. But
if the faithful would generally understand that it is their duty
to fight bravely and continually, under the banner of Christ
their King, then fired with apostolic zeal, they would endeavour
to win over to Our Lord those who are estranged from Him
or know Him not, and would endeavour to maintain His Rights
intact.” 1

1 Encyclical Letter, Quas Primas, On the Kingship of Christ.

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CARDINAL PIE OF POITIERS AND THE KINGSHIP
OF CHRIST

Cardinal Pie of Poitiers (1815-1880), one of the great champions
of the Kingship of Christ during the 19th century, again and
again urged Catholics never to relinquish the struggle for God’s
Rights, never to become resigned to the dethronement of Christ
the King.

Speaking of the Church’s mission to the nations of the world,
the Cardinal said : “ Remark the last words addressed by Our
Lord to His Apostles before He ascended into heaven : ‘ All
power is given to me in heaven and on earth. Going there¬
fore, teach ye all nations.’ Notice that Our Lord Jesus Christ
does not say all men, all individuals, all families, but all nations.
He does not merely say : Baptize children, teach the catechism,
bless marriages, administer the sacraments, give religious burial
to the dead. Of course, the mission He confers on the Apostles
comprises all that, but it comprises more than that, for it has
a public and social character. Jesus Christ is King of peoples
and nations." 1

Again, when commenting on the first three petitions of the
Our Father, " Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come,
Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” he insisted that
all these demand the public social reign of God, through the
acknowledgement of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Whom the Father
has sent. The Name of God is not hallowed as It should be,
if It is not hallowed publicly and socially. Our Lord’s Kingdom
is meant to come, not only in individual souls and in heaven,
but on earth, through the submission of States and Nations
to His rule. The will of God is not done on earth as it is in
heaven, if organized societies here below do not acknowledge
their duties to God through Our Lord Jesus Christ. " The
Catholic,” he goes on to say, ” is not a being who shuts himself
up in an oratory, from which the tumult of the world is care¬
fully excluded and who, occupied exclusively with saving his

own soul, takes no interest in the way the world is going.

When Our Lord taught His Apostles the Our Father, He made

1 The Kingship of Christ according to Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, pp.

24 , 25 .

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it clear that none of His followers could accomplish the first
act of religion, which is prayer, without putting himself in
relation with all that can advance or retard, favour or hinder,
the reign of God on earth, and he must do this in proportion
to his intellectual attainments and to the extent of the horizon
open before him .... As long as this world lasts, let us never
consent to limit the reign of God to heaven or even to heaven
and the interior of souls. ‘ Thy will be done on earth as it
is in heaven.’ The dethronement of God on earth is a crime,
to which we must never become resigned. Let us never cease
to protest against it.” 1

This is especially necessary nowadays when proposals are
being made in view of remedying economic and financial evils,
while leaving God’s Rights and Our Lord’s Programme for
their orderly acknowledgement out of account. " There would
be to-day neither Socialism nor Communism," wrote Pope
Pius XI, " if the rulers of the nations had not scorned the
teachings and maternal warnings of the Church. On the basis
of Liberalism and Laicism, they wished to build other social
edifices which, powerful and imposing as they seemed at first,
all too soon revealed the weakness of their foundations, and
to-day are crumbling one after another before our very eyes,
as everything must crumble that is not grounded on the one
corner stone which is Christ Jesus.” 2

SOLIDARITY OF CATHOLICS AS MEMBERS OF CHRIST

The reaction against the organized propagation of Naturalism
will demand an integral grasp of our corporate oneness with
Christ. We come into union with Our Lord, not as isolated
individuals, but as members of a supernatural organism, the
Mystical Body of Christ. Each baptized Christian enters into
an interior vital relation with Christ through being incorporated
into the organism of which Christ is the invisible Head. Or,
to express it more in accordance with reality, Christ unites each
baptized Christian with Himself by incorporating him or her

1 The Kingship of Christ according to Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, pp.

26 , 92 .

2 Encyclical Letter, Divini Redemptoris, On Atheistic Communism.

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into a living organism, of which He is the invisible Head. That
organism, supernatural and supranational, is destined to per¬
meate the whole social life of States and Nations with the spirit
of supernatural solidarity in Christ. Of course, the end aimed
at by this supernatural organism, in its permeation of society,
is the development of the individual member’s personality
through interior union with Christ. But the individual member
will develop his interior personal life only in proportion as he
forgets self for the sake of the Head and the whole Body. All
of us, as members of Christ, must strive to realize the fulness
of St. Paul’s expression : “ I live, now not I ; but Christ liveth
in me ” (Gal., ii, 20).

In the physical body, an individual member can attain its
full development, only by fulfilling its function in perfect sub¬
jection to the head and in complete harmony with the other
members, thus co-operating for the good of the whole body.
Analogously, in the Mystical Body of Christ, an individual-
member must, as it were, lose himself in order to find himself
really. Many Catholics, unconsciously influenced by Protestant
individualism, not only consider themselves as imitating Christ,
our Model, from outside, so to say, but regard themselves as
having an isolated individual relation with Christ. They do
not bring home to themselves sufficiently that all Christ’s
members form one organism under Christ, battling for the
Divine Order of the world, and that they can grow up in Christ,
only by supplying their quotas of self-sacrifice in their places,
in the supernatural organism of His Mystical Body.

Other Catholics seem to be unconsciously influenced by the
Lutheran separation of the Christian and the Citizen and consider
their spiritual life as a purely interior relation with Christ.
Their spiritual life is, as it were, sectioned off from ordinary
everyday life. They are in danger of allowing the world around
them to be organized against Our Lord’s Programme for order,
while they continue to practise their religion more or less un¬
concernedly. They do not sufficiently realize that we enter
into vital relation with Christ, through being incorporated into
a visible organism, and that we must take as the starting-point
of our spiritual life the objective fact of this incorporation.

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We must not initiate our spiritual life by the soul's looking at
itself somewhat after the subjective fashion in which Descartes
started intellectual life. The spiritual life is not the life of a
" soul,” but the life of a member of Christ, composed of soul
and body, occupying a place in an organic unity destined to
mould the world for Christ.

The whole body grows in charity and union with Christ,
when each part supplies what it is destined to give, according
to its position and function. In Chapter IV of the Epistle
to the Ephesians, especially in verses u, 12, 15, 16, St. Paul
insists upon this positional development. We have grown
accustomed to considering ourselves as separate individuals
looking at Christ from outside, each one living his or her individual
life with Christ. We must consider ourselves as we really are,
that is, as one with Christ and as being moved by Him as a
body, for the moulding and transformation of society.

CATHOLICS AND THE NATURALISM OF THE JEWISH
NATION

The Jewish Nation has gradually become the most strongly
organized, non-secret, visible force working for the elimination
of the supernatural outlook in society and for the installation
of Naturalism. The supernatural outlook insists that we are
a race whose highest life, the Divine Life of Grace, by which
the Blessed Trinity dwells in our souls, was lost by the fall of
Adam, but restored by Our Lord Jesus Christ. Naturalism
denies the existence of any life higher than natural life and
maintains that social relations must be organized on that basis.
As members of Christ, we are bound to work for the return of
society to our loving Saviour, so that social organization may be
permeated with the reality of the Supernatural Life of Grace.
Pope Pius XI insists on this in the Encyclical on the Kingship
of Christ. Let us now take two examples of how our efforts
to combat Naturalism will bring us into conflict with the Jews
in their preparations for the naturalistic Messias. The first
example will deal with the political, the second with the economic
organization of the world.

States and nations are bound to acknowledge the Catholic
Church as the One True Church. Pope Pius XI shows that

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the naturalistic spirit has gradually come to infect society,
because " by degrees the religion of Christ was put on the same
level as false religions, and placed ignominiously in the same
category with them.” 1 Previously Pope Pius VII had written :
“ By the fact that the freedom of all forms of worship is pro¬
claimed, truth is confused with error, and the holy and
immaculate Spouse of Christ, outside of which there can be
no salvation, is placed on the same level as heretical sects, and
even as Jewish perfidy.” 2 We have seen that Pope Leo XIII
insists that " the Catholic Church deems it unlawful to place
the various forms of divine worship on the same footing as
the true religion.” 3 Now since the French Revolution, States
have placed all forms of error on the same level as the Mystical
Body of Christ, and Jews have been admitted as full citizens
of the once Christian States. 4 By granting full citizenship
to members of the Jewish religion, the State, to all intents and
purposes, gives free rein to the naturalistic moulding process
pursued by the Jewish Nation, in view of the elimination of
membership of Christ and of the inauguration of the new
Messianic era. It thus shows itself indifferent in the struggle
between the true Supernatural Messias, who has come, and the
naturalistic Messias, to whom the Jews look forward.

In regard to the economic organization of the world, Pope
Pius XI insists that " then only will it be possible to unite all
in harmonious striving for the Common Good, when all sections
of society have the intimate conviction that they are all members
of a single family and children of the same heavenly Father,
and further, that they are one body in Christ, and everyone
members one of another ” 5 (Rom., XIII, 5). To have lasting

1 Encyclical Letter, Quas Primas, On the Kingship of Christ.

“Letter, Post tam diuturnas.

3 Encyclical Letter, Immortale Dei, On the Christian Constitution

of States.

4 " The sententious maxims which in 1789 were declared to be

the synthesis of the Rights of Man, were in point of fact, merely
the Rights of the Jews, to the detriment of those peoples amongst
whom those ‘ Rights ’ were enthroned ” (Article in the Civiltd
Cattolica, Della Questione Giudaica in Europa, November 15 th,
1890 ).

5 Encyclical Letter, Quadragesimo Anno, On the Social Order.

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peace in society we Catholics, then, must strive to bring back
the great truth that employers and employed must treat one
another as members of Christ. It is, as we have seen, part
of what we promise Christ as King, when we make submission
to our Heavenly Father along with Christ as Priest at Mass.
Now, the aim of the Jewish Nation is to substitute for the
Supernatural Messias in whom we are members of one Body,
the rule of the natural Messias. Accordingly, in virtue of
Catholic principles, we must oppose the efforts of the Jews
to get control of the economic organization of society. How
can we succeed in getting employers and employed to treat
one another as members of Christ, if we allow social organization
to pass into the hands of those who have persistently denied
and rejected His Divine Mission and for whom the supernatural
Kingdom of His Mystical Body is simply a fraudulent attempt
to turn Israel aside from its destiny ?

We have, therefore, a twofold programme set out before
us. We must, on the one hand, defend Our Lord’s Rights and,
on the other, seek to tear away the veil from the eyes of those
whose blindness hurts Him in a special way.

On the one hand, we have to stand valiantly for the Divine
Personality of Our Lord and for the transcendent claims of
His Mystical Body, the Catholic Church, in which He continues
to live and into which all must enter in order to be one with
Him. The Personality of Our Lord, True God as well as True
Man, is not merely the subsistence of a created soul: it is the
Personality of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity.
The Jews, as a nation, have always rejected that Divine
Personality, and their efforts are directed to combating the
influence of the Supernatural Life which He seeks to diffuse
through the Catholic Church. We have to stand, therefore,
unequivocally for the rights of Christ the King. Jewish efforts
to eliminate the Supernatural Life of Grace and faith in Jesus
tend inevitably to drag life down to an infra-human level.
We have, therefore, to resist and defeat Jewish efforts to dominate
our society and mould it along naturalistic lines. Besides the
safeguarding of the poor and needy, there is the more far-
reaching question of the creation of money and the regulation
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That power must not be allowed to fall into, some would say
to remain in, Jewish hands, or to fall into the hands of nominal
or erstwhile Christians, Masons and others, who are dependent
upon, or in alliance with, Jews. We must combat Jewish
attempts to bring under their domination individual Catholics
and Catholic countries, even more vigorously than we must
struggle against Freemasonry, because the Jews form a more
strongly organized and more cohesive naturalistic force than
Freemasonry. 1

On the other hand, Our Lord, True Man as well as True God,
is a Jew of the House of David, born of the Virgin Mary, the
Lily of Israel. Our Lord’s Individuality, that by which as
a Man He is distinct from other members of the human race
and belongs to a certain environment and a certain descent,
is Jewish. The Blood that was poured out on the Cross at
the hands of the official leaders of His own nation for the
restoration of the Divine Life of the world was Jewish Blood.
Our Lord’s Sacred Heart is a human heart and He loves His
own nation with a special love. We must never forget that or
allow ourselves to fall victims to an attitude of hatred for the Jews
as a nation. We must always bear in mind that He is seeking
to draw them on to that supernatural union with Himself which
they reject.

The Jews look upon themselves as the Chosen People, in
the sense that they are the people destined to bring happiness
to the world in the Messianic Era yet to come. Catholic writers
would do well not to pander to this Naturalism, by speaking
of the Jews simply as the Chosen People, for thus they increase
the confusion of thought in modern times. The Jews were
chosen to be the custodians of the divine promises until the
coming of Jesus Christ, of whom they were to be the fount
according to the flesh. They have not ceased to be the race
in which the “ Word was made Flesh,” and, as such, they are
the object of special love on the part of Our Lord. But the
Naturalism by which they rejected Him and continue to hold
that the happiness of the world is to come through their Messianic
aspirations is false and must be everywhere combated.

l The Jews exercise a very real and efficacious power of influence
in Freemasonry and direct its action, thanks to the B’nai B’rith
Lodges, which do not admit non-Jews, but whose members
are admitted to ordinary Masonic Lodges.

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THE JEWISH STATE

The remedy for the dual allegiance of the members of the
Jewish Nation is to be found in the Jews becoming citizens
of a Jewish State to be set up by international agreement and
ceasing to be citizens of other States. 1 It may be well to quote
some prominent Catholic writers who have advocated that
the full citizenship of States, accorded to the Jews for the first
time by the French Revolution, should be withdrawn from
them. In Les Pourquoi de la Guerre Mondiale, Mgr. Henri
Delassus, Doctor in Theology, writes as follows : “ The first
thing to do is to change French legislation. French law, for
the last one hundred and twenty years is legalizing a false¬
hood. It considers as French those who are not French, since
they are Jews. French legislation should be in harmony with
truth. It ought to restore to the Jews their Jewish nationality,
in conformity with reason, history, justice and humanity. The
legislation introduced by the Revolution represents the Jew

as French. He is not French.The Jews must cease

to be officers, magistrates, professors, civil servants, barristers,

attorneys, doctors in the public service.We must repeal

the law by which Jews have been allowed to usurp the title
of French citizens and declare them deprived of French citizen¬
ship .Without any foolish acceptation of persons, with¬

out a trace of inhuman violence, by an abstract legal provision,
which cannot wound anybody’s self-love and of which, conse¬
quently, nobody can complain, Jewish functionaries must

be obliged to resign from Government positions. It is

especially to financial centralization that the Jews owe the
greater part of their strength. But that would have been
overcome or could not have been maintained without the aid
of political centralization .... Without a change in the legis¬
lation introduced by the Revolution, the restoration of the
French State is impossible.” 2

1 Of course, the rights of the original inhabitants of the territory
selected must be respected.

2 Les Pourquoi de la Guerre Mondiale was published by Desclfe,

De Brouwer et Cie, Lille and Paris, in 1922 .

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Perhaps the most forcible testimony to the necessity of this
measure is that to be found in the series of articles contributed
to the Civilta Cattolica in October, November and December,
1890. These articles form a complete treatise on The Jewish
Question in Europe, its causes, its effects and the remedies
advocated. 1 After having spoken of various unsatisfactory
remedies, the writer continues : "In order that the Christian
nations may be delivered from the yoke of Judaism and Free¬
masonry, which is daily growing more oppressive, the only
way open to them is to go back along the road they have
traversed, to the point where they took the wrong turning.
If the Jews are not rendered harmless by means of special laws
depriving them of that civil equality to which they have no
right, nothing useful or lasting will be accomplished. In view
of their presence in different countries and their unchangeable
character of foreigners in every nation, of enemies of the people
in every country that supports them, and of a society segregated
from the societies amongst which they live ; in view of the
Talmudic moral code which they follow and the fundamental
dogma of their religion which spurs them on to get hold of the
possessions of all peoples by any means in their power, as,
according to it, they are entitled to rule the world ; in view of
the fact that the experience of many centuries and our present

1 The special position of La Civilta Cattolica amongst Catholic reviews
and the enconiums bestowed on it by Sovereign Pontiffs deserve
to be more widely known. Let us mention a few of them.
Pope Pius IX gave the review its status in the following terms :
“ By this Letter, in virtue of Our Apostolic Authority, We erect
and constitute in perpetuity the College of Writers of the periodical,
La Civilta Cattolica."

Pope Benedict XV blessed its work : “ We bless the fruitful
Apostolate which the venerable review, La Civilta Cattolica,
carries on courageously and unwaveringly on behalf of the
Christian cause."

Pope Pius XI praised its devotion to the Holy See : " From
your assiduous activity and from the whole life of La Civilta
Cattolica, there radiates that special devotion to the Holy See
which has deservedly won for you the benevolence and esteem
of Our Predecessors and Ours.”

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experience have proved conclusively that the equality of civil
rights with Christians, granted them in Christian States, has
had for effect the oppression of Christians by them, it follows
as a necessary consequence that the only way to safeguard
the rights of Christians, where the Jews are permitted to dwell,
is to regulate their sojourn by laws such that it will be impossible
for them to injure Christians. This is what has been done
in the past. This is what the Jews have been seeking to undo
for the last hundred years. This is what will have to be done
again, sooner or later, whether one likes it or not.”

Have the Jews a right to Palestine as the portion of the
earth’s surface in which they may set up a separate State ?
It is clear from all that has been said about their rejection of
the true Supernatural Messias that they can no longer lay claim
to it by Divine Right. They were assigned that part of the
earth as their inheritance on condition of their being obedient
to God. They disobeyed God's command to hear His Son,
by their rejection of Our Divine Lord before Pilate and on
Calvary, and they persist in their disobedience. Accordingly,
there can be no question of a right based on a divine promise.
In addition, the Arabs have a natural right to the country
they have occupied for the last thirteen hundred years. Canon
Arendzen wrote as follows on this aspect of the question, in
the Catholic Gazette of August, 1936 : " The Arab population
which has occupied the country for the last 1,300 years has
definite and inalienable rights which must be respected. The
Jews are foreigners in Palestine and the intrusion of vast numbers
of foreigners, so as to swamp the native population, seems an
act of unprovoked injustice. It would obviously be unfair
if some great power by force made England a national home
for the Danes, on the strength of that people once having been
masters of this country, a thousand years ago. The Jews have
practically evacuated Palestine since 138 a.d., and their intrusion
into it, after having left it for eighteen hundred years, seems
unjustifiable, on any known principles of equity. The Man¬
datory power, which at present is the government de facto,
is clearly acting against elementary laws of fairness in promising
to a race, alien in religion, speech and blood, a country already

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occupied by another nation.” 1

The Jewish claim to Palestine is implicitly a denial that
they have disobeyed God and missed their vocation by the
rejection of the Supernatural Messias. It is the assertion in
action that the promised Messias has not yet come and that
the day of their national domination over the world will yet
dawn. The final result will inevitably be another disastrous
blow to their hopes, for all their naturalistic attempts to impose
their will on God, instead of accepting His, are doomed to
failure, and every failure involves the Jewish nation in dire
catastrophes.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ANTI-SEMITISM

After all that has already been said, it will be easy to deal
with the question of Anti-Semitism. What is meant by the
term ? It means hatred of the Jews as a race. The Jews,
however, use the word to designate any form of opposition to
themselves, and they strive persistently to associate irrationality
and want of balance with the term. They evidently want the
world to believe that anyone who opposes Jewish pretensions
is more or less mentally deranged.

Now, first of all, it must be remarked that the term is too
wide and too loose. The Arabs are doubtless Semites. Yet
the Arabs in Palestine, on account of their opposition to Jewish
domination, are Anti-Semites.

Secondly, as we must stand valiantly for the rights of Christ
the King, the True Supernatural Messias, and strive to re¬
impregnate society with the supernatural spirit of the Mystical

1 With regard to the 1915 agreement between the Sherif of Mecca,
Hussein, and Sir Henry MacMahon, acting for the British Govern¬
ment, conceding the Arab claim to Palestine, cf. Waters Flowing
Eastward, by L. Fry, pp. 68 - 69 , and the literature cited.

“In the nine o'clock news (B.B.C.) on Sunday, Nov. 2 nd,
1941 , General Smuts was quoted at some length as applauding
the Balfour offer of Palestine to the Jews as a permanent home.
He seemed to be as ignorant as Mr. Balfour appeared, some
twenty-five years ago when the declaration was made, that we
had previously admitted and acknowledged the claims of the
Arabs to the same property " (The Weekly Review, November
6 th, 1941 ).

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Body, we must combat Jewish efforts to permeate the world
with Naturalism. In. that sense, as there is only one Divine
Plan for order in the world, every sane thinker must be an anti-
Semite. The Jewish World, February 9 th, 1883 , contained
the following programme : “ The great ideal of Judaism is . . .
that the whole world should be imbued with Jewish teachings,
and that in a universal Brotherhood of nations—a greater
Judaism in fact—-all the separate races and religions shall
disappear.” This implies the elimination of the Supernatural
Messias and the disappearance of the Mystical Body of Christ,
the Catholic Church. The Jews need not be surprised that
such pretensions evoke “ Anti-Semitism.” That programme
is a challenge to the Catholic Church to a duel to the death.

The Catholic Church condemns hatred and want of charity
between nations just as it does between individuals. By nature
we are brothers and by our supernature, the Divine Life of
Grace, we are united in a brotherhood which is infinitely nobler
still. " Above the brotherhood of humanity and fatherland,”
said Pope Pius XI, “ there is a brotherhood which is infinitely
more sacred and more precious, the brotherhood which makes
us one in Christ, our Redeemer, namely, our kinship in the
Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ Himself .” 1

The Church condemns in a more particular manner hatred
of the Jews. Why is hatred of the Jewish race, as such, especially
odious ? Because they are the nation and race in which the
Word became Flesh. Our Lord is a Jew of the House of David.
Catholics commonly designate this hatred by the term ” Anti-
Semitism .” 2

If we take into account the condemnation of the German
racial theories in the Encyclical Letter, On the Persecution of
the Church in Germany, and in the Letter of the Sacred Con¬
gregation of Seminaries of April, 1938 , the present National-
Socialist hatred of the Jewish race is to be still more severely
condemned, because it is based on blasphemous and heretical
presuppositions . 3

1 Allocution to the Spanish Refugees, 14th September, 1936.

2 Cf. the document of the Congregation of the Holy Office, quoted

on p. 275 of The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World.
2 Cf. Chapter VI, pp. 119-120.

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It must, however, be remarked with the writer of the article,
Juifs et Chretiens, in the Dictionnaire Apologelique de la Foi
Chretienne, that the Church has spoken for and against the
Jews. On the one hand, the Church has spoken for the Jews
to protect their persons and their worship against unjust attacks.
She has always condemned acts of violence against the Jews
and has respected the liberty of their consciences and allowed
them freedom for their cult. On the other hand, the Church
has spoken against the Jews, when they wanted to impose
their yoke on the faithful and provoke apostasy. She has
always striven to protect the faithful from contamination by
them. As experience in past centuries showed that if the Jews
succeeded in attaining to high offices of State they would abuse
their powers to the detriment of Catholics, the Church always
strove to prevent Catholics from coming under their yoke.
They were forbidden to proselytize and were not allowed to
have Christians as slaves or servants.

On the one hand, the Church condemns race-hatred in general
and hatred of the Redeemer's race in particular. On the other
hand, the Church insists, as we have seen, on the duty of com¬
bating Naturalism in public and private life, approves of
love of native land and extols true supernatural patriotism.
We have the right and the duty to defend our country and our
nation against the unjust aggression of another nation. This
duty is still more strongly urged upon us when it is a question
of our country’s fidelity to Christ the King. We must, there¬
fore, combat Naturalism in general always and everywhere,
and we must be vigilant in regard to the Naturalism of the
Jewish Nation in particular. The tireless energy with which
His own nation pursues the elimination of the influence of the
Supernatural Life is doubly painful to Our Lord’s Sacred Heart.
The combat against Naturalism in general and, therefore,
against the organized Naturalism of the Jewish Nation, is urged
upon us, for example, by Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi, 1900) and
Pope Pius XI ( Quas Primas, 1925, and Quadragesimo Anno,
I93i)-

We are warned against Jewish Naturalism explicitly in a
whole series of Papal Documents quoted by Pope Benedict XIV,

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in the Encyclical Letter, A Quo Primum (1751). “ As for Us,”

writes that learned Pontiff, " in this matter, as in all others.
We follow the line of conduct adopted by Our Venerable Pre¬
decessors, the Roman Pontiffs. Alexander III (1159-1181)
forbade Christians, under severe penalties, to enter the service
of Jews for any lengthy period or to become domestic servants
in their households. ‘ They ought not,’ he wrote, ' to serve
Jews for pay in permanent fashion.’ The same Pontiff explains
the reason for this prohibition as follows : ‘ Our ways of life
and those of the Jews are utterly different, and Jews will easily
pervert the souls of simple folk to their superstition and un¬
belief, if such folk are living in continual and intimate inter¬
course with them.’ This quotation concerning the Jews will
be found in the Decretal ‘ Ad haec.' Innocent III (1198-1216),
after having mentioned that Jews were being admitted by
Christians into their cities, warned Christians that the mode
and the conditions of admission should be such as to prevent
the Jews from returning evil for good : ‘ When they are thus
admitted out of pity into familiar intercourse with Christians,
they repay their hosts, as the proverb says, after the fashion
of the rat hidden in the sack, or the snake in the bosom, or
the burning brand in one’s lap.' The same Pontiff says it is
fitting for Jews to serve Christians, but not for Christians to
serve Jews, and adds : ‘ The sons of the free-woman should
not serve the sons of the bond-woman. On the contrary, the
Jews, as servants rejected by that Saviour whose death they
wickedly contrived, should recognize themselves, in fact and
in deed, the servants of those whom the death of Christ has
set free, even as it has rendered them bondmen.’ These words
may be read in the Decretal, ‘ Etsi Judaeos.’ In like manner,
in another Decretal, ' Cum sit nimis,’ under the same heading,
‘ De Judaeis et Saracenis ' (On Jews and Saracens), he forbids
public positions to be bestowed on Jews : ‘ We forbid the giving
of public appointments to Jews because they profit by the
opportunities thus afforded them to show themselves bitterly

hostile to Christians.’ If any should ask what is

forbidden by the Apostolic See to Jews dwelling in the same
towns as Christians.he has only to read the Constitutions

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of the Roman Pontiffs, Our Predecessors, Nicholas IV (1288-
1294) ; Paul IV ( 1555 - 1559 ) ; Saint Pius V (1566-1572) ;
Gregory XIII (1572-1585) ; and Clement VIII (1592-1605),
which are readily available, as they are to be found in the
Bullarium Romanum.”

In face of Jewish Naturalism, then, we must proclaim the
supremacy of the Supernatural Life of the Mystical Body, by
which we are spiritual descendants of Abraham, over the natural
life of Abraham’s descendants according to the flesh, as well
as over every form of national life. 1

In face of Rosenberg’s naturalistic deification of the German
race and his rejection of Jewish blood as poisoned, we must
proclaim that the Mystical Body of Christ is the one divinely-
instituted supernatural society in which all, both Jew and
Gentile, German and non-German, find redemption. We must
affirm unflinchingly that this Supernatural Society, of which
the life-blood is Sanctifying Grace, is infinitely superior to every
nation and every race. As Abraham merited by his faith and
obedience to be the ancestor of the Head of redeemed humanity,
who was therefore of Jewish blood, so we, by our faith and
obedience, are his spiritual descendants, spiritually Semites,
members of the Mystical Body of his seed. This is what Pope
Pius XI emphasized when he used the expression : " Anti-
Semitism is inadmissible. We are spiritually Semites,”
addressed to the members of a Belgian pilgrimage in September,
1938. 2 Pope Pius Xl’s phrase is an echo of the one used by
Pope Pius IX to the Jewish convert priests, the Fathers Lemann :

1 " All are not Israelites that are in Israel: neither are all they that

are the seed of Abraham, children” (Rom., IX, 6, 7 ).

2 The French Journal, La Croix, of September 17 th, 1938 , stated

that Pius XI, opening a Missal which had been offered him by
some Belgian pilgrims, read out in Latin the prayer, “ Supra
quce propitio, etc.," from the Canon of the Mass. In English
the prayer runs as follows : " Vouchsafe to look upon them with
a countenance merciful and kind, and to receive them as Thou
wast pleased to receive the gifts of Thy just servant Abel, and
the sacrifice of our father Abraham, and that which Melchisedech,

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" You are the sons of Abraham and I also.” 1

The phrase used by Pope Pius XI has been very frequently
quoted, in fact, so frequently, that one is inclined to suspect
that it is being used as propaganda with a view to emphasizing
one aspect of the question, especially when one hardly ever
finds any allusion to the previous portion of the Pope’s discourse.
Pope Pius XI had also said : " It is impossible for Christians
to be Anti-Semites, but We acknowledge that everyone has
the right to defend himself, in other words, to take the necessary
precautions for his protection against everything that threatens
his legitimate interests.” Thus we find, in this pronouncement
of Pope Pius XI 2 , the two currents which, down the centuries,
run through the official declarations of the Holy See concern¬
ing the Jews. On the one hand, the Sovereign Pontiffs strive
to protect the Jews from physical violence and to secure respect
for their family life and their worship, as the life and worship
of human persons. On the other hand, they aim unceasingly

.. Thy high priest, offered up to Thee, a holy sacrifice and a spotless
victim.” The Pope then went on to say : " Antisemitism is
incompatible with the sublime ideas and truths expressed in
this text. We Christians can take no part in such a move¬
ment .... no, it is impossible for Christians to take part in Anti-
Semitism. We acknowledge that everyone has the right to
defend himself, in other words, to take the necessary precautions
for his protection against everything that threatens his legitimate
interests. But Anti-Semitism is inadmissible. We are spiritually
Semites.”

-—Translation from The Missed (Burns Oates & Washbourne, Ltd.,
1933 ).

1 “ Vos estis filii Abrahae et ego." This is quoted in the book. La

Cause des restes d’Israel introduite au Concile Oecumlnique du
Vatican, by the Fathers Lemann.

2 The Antiphon of the Magnificat of the first vespers of Quin-

quagesima Sunday expresses the same idea in succinct fashion.
It runs as follows : ” Noble Abraham, the Father of our Faith,
offered a holocaust on the altar in the place of his son.”

Cf. the text of Gal., Ill, 29 : “ And if you be Christ’s, then
are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.”
M. Drach quotes this text when, addressing his fellow-Israelites,
he says : "It is only through Jesus that you can be children
of Abraham ” ( L’Harmonie entre I'Eglise et la Synagogue, Vol. I,
p. 25 ).

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at protecting Christians from the contamination of Jewish
Naturalism and try to prevent Jews from obtaining control
over Christians. The existence of the second needs to be
strongly stressed, because, to some extent, it has been lost sight
of in recent times. Catholics need to be made familiar, not
only with the repeated Papal condemnations of the Talmud,
but with the measures taken by the Sovereign Pontiffs to pre¬
serve society from the inroads of Jewish Naturalism. Other¬
wise they will be exposed to the risk of speaking of Pope St.
Pius V and Pope Benedict XIV, for example, as Anti-Semites,
and showing their ignorance of the meaning of Supernatural
Life and of the rule of Christ the King over society.

CATHOLICS AND THE NATURALISM OF FREEMASONRY.

We have seen, first of all, that Pope Leo XIII insisted upon
the necessity of safe-guarding the young from the influence of
Freemasonry. " Let their formation be the chief object of
your solicitude and let there be no limit to the zeal and watch¬
fulness you display in order to keep young people from masters
and schools where the pestilential influence of Freemasonry
is to be feared. Under your guidance, let parents, religious
teachers and priests having charge of souls, profit by every
opportunity in their explanations of Christian doctrine, to warn
their children and their pupils of the criminal character of these
societies.” The influence of Freemasonry is always opposed
to the programme of Our Lord Jesus Christ and always in the
direction of Liberalism and Naturalism. " Tell your friends,”
we read in a French Masonic Bulletin, “ that we are first and
foremost a school of mutual perfection and of popular intellectual
development. Freemasonry is a kind of laboratory in which
all the lofty ideas of the age are brought together, to be spread
abroad afterwards throughout the profane world, in a concrete
and practical form. Tell your friends that we are the Philosophy
of Liberalism. Tell them all that, while being careful to safe¬
guard the Masonic secret.” 1

11 Quoted from a Bulletin of 1882 , by Pere Philippe, C.SS.R., in A
Dieu et a Son Christ, p. 102 .

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Secondly, we have seen that Pope Leo XIII proclaimed to
the world that “ no Catholic who rightly values the profession
of the Catholic faith and his eternal salvation, may, for any

reason whatever, become a Freemason.It may appear to

some that Freemasons do not demand anything that is openly
opposed to religion and good morals. Nevertheless, since the
fundamental animating principle of Freemasonry is vicious
and immoral, to ally oneself with Masons or to help them in
any way cannot be lawful." He added also that “ those who
prepare the young for the fitting reception of the sacraments
will act wisely and prudently, if they induce each and all of them
to take the resolution never to enter any society without the
knowledge of their parents, or without having consulted their
parish priest or their spiritual director.” For a Catholic to
become a Freemason is to betray Our Lord. 1

Thirdly, Pope Leo XIII exhorts the faithful to counter-attack.
" This violent attack [on the Supernatural Life of the world]
must be countered by an energetic defence . . . Let all good men
unite and form an immense association of action and prayer

.Let us have recourse to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother

of God, as our Helper and Mediatrix, and to St. Michael the
Archangel, St. Joseph and SS. Peter and Paul."

THE NEED FOR UNION AMONG CATHOLICS.

“ Many times,” wrote Pope Pius XI, " Our paternal heart
has been saddened by the divergencies—often idle in their
causes, always tragic in their consequences—which array in
opposing camps the sons of the same Mother Church. Thus

1 In the Codex Juris Canonici, issued in 1917 , by Pope Benedict XV,
the previous ordinances axe confirmed and enforced :—-
All those who enroll their names in the sect of Freemasons,
or similar associations plotting against the Church or the legi¬
timate civil authorities, incur by the very fact the penalty of
excommunication, absolution from which is reserved to the
Holy See. If the delinquents be clerics or religious, every Catholic
is under the obligation of denouncing them to the Congregation
of the Holy Office (Canons 2335 and 2336 ). Cf. Freemasonry
and the Anti-Christian Movement , by Rev. E. Cahill, S.J., p. 130 .

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it is that the revolutionaries, who are not so very numerous,
profiting by this discord, are able to make it more acute and
end by pitting Catholics one against the other.” 1

Accordingly, " we must unite in an immense effort to obtain
that, as we have seen the Revolution open by the Declaration
of the Rights of Man and the proclamation of the social expulsion
of Jesus Christ, we may see this same Revolution come to an
end by the recognition of the Rights of God and of the duties
of the human race to its Saviour and its King.'' 2

1 Encyclical Letter, Divini Redemptoris, On Atheistic Communism.
a Le Regne Social du Coeur de Jesus, by H. Ramiere, S.J., p. 604 .

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APPENDIX

List of the Supreme Councils of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

Below is given the list of the Supreme Councils of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite. Each of these is a member of the
Federation of the Supreme Councils of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite. This body wields a formidable influence for
Naturalism in the world.

The Supreme Council for Ireland, 33rd Degree, A. & A. S.
Rite, was patented in 1824 and constituted in 1826.

The following is the list:

Charleston (South Carolina, U.S.A.), Boston (U.S.A.),
Belgium, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany,
Yugoslavia, Serbia, Roumania, Austria, Turkey, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Switzerland, Ireland, Scotland, England, Canada,
Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Chili, Paraguay,
Uruguay, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Greece, Central America,
San Domingo, Panama, Argentina, Egypt, Tunis, Brazil.

An important meeting of the Supreme Councils of the whole
world was held at Paris in 1929. Twenty-seven Supreme
Councils were there represented. It would be interesting to
have an account of the connexions between the growth of the
Federation of the Supreme Councils and the increase in the
number of Central Banks in the world. Both lead to enormous
power in the hands of relatively few men.

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