Yes, There is a War on Christianity
In the September 4 letters to the editor one reader declared concern over a supposed war on religion. There is a secular nature of many current issues BUT, the flaunting of practices that run afoul of the natural law and Church teaching including trying to pass laws, use executive orders to force the nation to accept and even pay for abortions and transgender operations (in the military for example), as well as direct attacks (FBI targeting Catholics, FBI refusing to investigate attacks on prenatal centers, laws targeting religious freedoms, etc.) shows that this is a real war. St. Paul said, “For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Eph 6:12) Protecting childhood, families, and pro-life policies, while fighting against the LGBTQ+ agenda, abortion and the culture of death are not far right issues, they are Catholic issues. Get and read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Pope St. John Paul II said, “It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all inalienable rights are founded and from which they develop.” Evangelium Vitae
From Christifideles Laici, “The inviolability of the person … finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. … the common outcry, … on behalf of human rights-for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture – is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.” (Emphasis added)
Published in the September 18, 2023 Catholic Virginian.
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