I wish to conclude this book with an appeal to all those whose faith is not corroded to beware of these false prophets who want to extradite Christ to the secular city in a way analogous to Judas’ betrayal of Jesus into the hands of His persecutors.
Let us recall the marks of these false prophets. He is a false prohet who denies original sin and mankind’s need of redemption and thereby undermines the meaning of Christ’s death on the Cross. He is not a true Christian who no longer sees that redemption of the world through Christ is the source of true happiness and that nothing can be compared to this one glorious fact.
He is a false prophet who no longer accepts the absolute primacy of the first commandment of Christ—to love God above all things—and who claims that our love of God can manifest itself eclusively in our love of neighbor. He is a false prophet who no longer understands that to long for the
I-Thou union with Christ and for transformation in Christ is the very meaning of our life. He is a false prophet who claims that morality reveals itself not primarily in man’s relationship with God, but in those things that concern human welfare. And he has fallen prey to the teaching of the false prophets who only sees in the wrong done our neighbor our injury to him and remains blind to the offense against God that this wrong implies.
He who no longer sees the radical difference that exists beween charity and humanitarian benevolence has become deaf to the message of Christ.
He who is more impressed and thrilled by “cosmic processes,” “evolution,” and the speculations of science than by the reflection of Christ’s Sacred Humanity in a saint and by the victory over the world that the very existence of a saint embodies, is no longer filled with the Christian spirit. He who cares more for the earthly welfare of humanity than for its sanctifcation has lost the Christian view of the universe.
(passage from St. Cardinal Newman not included here but very good)
Beware of false prophets who ignore the repeated
warnings of our Holy Father, Pope Paul VI, as well as the Holy See’s clear formulaton of the various heresies and miscoconceptions pervading the world today. Beware of those who try to drown the voice of the Vicar of Christ in
noisy propaganda.
Nevertheless, as I said at the beginning of this book if my heart bleeds from seeing the ravages done in the vineyard of the Lord and from seeing the defilement of the sanctuary of the Church, I am yet full of hope, because our Lord has said: “The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.” Matt.16:18
