What happened? How did this country decay? How, in one person’s lifetime, did America descend from being a nation, if not Catholic, at least one which abided by the natural law in most cases, which had a sane and decent culture and way of life, and an abhorrence of socialism and communism? There are a number of reasons for this, but the main reason lies within its own principles. It goes back to the Renaissance. The spirit of humanism in the Renaissance was that man was not corrupted by original sin, and that, left to his nature and to his own intellectual lights, he could be virtuous and wis ..read more

Much ado was made by the leftists about the events of January 6th of last year. They shuddered for indignation. What a terrible crime that the Right committed! Let it be said first that it was not at all a good idea that the demonstrators enter the Capitol building. It was far worse that some of them actually stole things that belonged to the members of Congress. Such acts did absolutely no good for the cause of protesting the probable election fraud that took place in November. Indeed, the whole event played into the hands of the Left. But the indignation of the Left is very misplaced. The l ..read more

In recent issues of the Seminary newsletter, I commented on the political situation in our country; in doing so I was careful to point out that these were my thoughts merely as a private American citizen. Although the Church favors the union of Church and State, and actually condemns the separation of the two, nonetheless Church and State are two distinct entities each of which has its own object of activity and its own ends. The Church exists to further the eternal salvation of the human race. The State exists to further the temporal good of its subjects. But since man’s body and soul are uni ..read more

While all of us are sickened to see the horror in our cities on the part of leftist fascists, we must nonetheless reflect on our own history in order to understand it better. The Founding Fathers of this country were, for the most part, Deists and Freemasons. They were thoroughly imbued with the then liberal and revolutionary thinking of the eighteenth century. One of their principal tenets was naturalism, which holds that man does not need supernatural grace in order to persevere in the good. The Church teaches that man, as a result of original sin, although still capable of natural virtue ..read more