I don’t know whether it qualifies as a Cardinal sin, but it is certainly sinful for a Cardinal to elect for pope a fellow cardinal who is an enemy of God and of the Faith.
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
American Catholics operate within the context of a rapidly withering, if not fully dismantled, Democracy. The virtual barricades of a subversive revolution to transform our polity into a Communist or Marxist tyranny are the transformed instruments of government. The deep state FBI, CIA, Congress and government bureaucracies which have grown too big and unmanageable are all part of the problem. All this while the frustration of the working middle-class patriotic Americans grows, threatening to again boil over.
David French sums up well the crisis in which we marinate in his book Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.
“It’s time for Americans to wake up to a fundamental reality: the continued unity of the United States cannot be guaranteed…. There is not a single important cultural, religious, political, or social force that is pulling Americans together more than it is pulling us apart.”
Traditional Catholics, reasonably, propose integralism as an alternative. Fr. Thomas Crean, OP, in his eponymously named book, explores the various benefits of integralism.
“Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man’s supernatural end in Christ and of the divinely established means by which it is to be attained. These implications are identified by means of the philosophia perennis exemplified in the fundamental principles of St. Thomas Aquinas” (Google Books).
If Christ is King of the universe, and of the human persons who fill it, what is His role in the polity that mediates between the two realities? It should not be notable for His complete absence. Which is where our representative democracy is racing at supersonic speed.
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"We are not of this new religion! We do not accept this new religion! We are of the religion of all time; we are of the Catholic religion. We are not of this “universal religion” as they call it today – this is not the Catholic religion any more. We are not of this liberal, modernist religion which has its own worship, its own priests, its own faith, its own catechisms, its own “ecumenical” Bible. We cannot accept these things. They are contrary to our Faith. It is an immense, immense pain for us, to think that we are in difficulty with Rome because of our faith! We are in a truly dramatic situation. We have to choose an appearance of disobedience – for the Holy Father cannot ask us to abandon our faith; it is impossible, impossible! We choose not to abandon our faith, for in that we cannot go wrong.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Ordination Sermon, June 29, 1976)
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