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Modernism and The Trojan Horse in the City of God – September 14, 2021

Pope Pius XII called Dietrich von Hildebrand the “20th century Doctor of the Church.”  Dietrich von Hildebrand was a fierce anti-Nazi crusader.  Hitler and Himmler despised him and sought to have him assassinated.  Dietrich managed to evade the Nazis and ultimately flee to America where he taught philosophy at Fordham University.  Von Hildebrand voiced his greatest concerns, however, over the remainder of his life fighting against the Modernist heresy in the Church, especially after the Second Vatican Council.

His thought was crystallized in his famous 1967 book “Trojan Horse in the City of God.”  Von Hildebrand expressed his reason of profound lament in writing the book:  

“This book has been written out of a deep sorrow at witnessing the emergence of false prophets within the City of God.”  

The book was written in 1967 just after the close of the Vatican Council II.  It was then that the Latin Mass Liturgy was transformed into the modern Mass.  Von Hildebrand’s ire, however, was directed not at Vatican Council II, which favored the Latin Mass, but at the false prophets of Modernism who sought to undermine the 2,000 year tradition of the Church. 

Von Hildebrand attacked the “grave errors widespread among progressive Catholics.”   These are what are rotting the Church out from the inside.  Progressive Catholics would rather the Church adopt the spirit of the age than convert the spirit of the age to the Church.  This is heresy.  

And what are the Modernist heresies?  

According to von Hildebrand, they are naturalism, secularism, scientism, relativism, evolutionism, atheism, amoralism, indifferentism, Marxism, and Communism.  These are the cancers eating away at modern man, and have even seeped into the Body of Christ, eating away at doctrine, tradition, the sacraments, and the liturgy.  Particularly, materialism and science fetishism, Von Hildebrand called “the cancer of our epoch.”    

These are much like the ancient heresies that the Church has had to fight continuously to subdue in her past:  

Gnosticism (1st century) – humans are divine souls trapped in material bodies

Docetism (2nd century) – denying Christ’s human body

Arianism (4th century) – denying the divinity of Christ

Pelagianism (5th century) – denying original sin and the need for Christ’s grace

Nestorianism (5th century) – denying the divine nature of Christ

Monophystism (5th century) – denying the human nature of Christ

Monothelitism (7th century) – denying the two wills of Christ

Iconoclasm (8th century) – belief that icons are idols and must be destroyed

Albegensianism (12th century) – denying the creation by God; a form of Gnosticism where the world was created by Satan.

Protestantism (16th century) – denying the Church, the priesthood, the sacraments, Tradition, and advocating sola scriptura (scripture alone), sola fides (faith alone), sola gratia (grace alone)

The 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries have been a whole new breed of heresies altogether, and a summation of all the previous heresies combined.  It is the summation of all worldly historical heresies at our footsteps.  In our day, Darwinsim, Marxism, Freudianism, Scientism, Secularism, Easternism, Mohammadism, atheism, occultism are pervasive everywhere as well.  As Von Hildebrand suggests:

“Like a besieged city, the Church is surrounded by the errors and dangers of our time.”  

The teachings of the false prophets are everywhere.  Von Hildebrand left his most vehement attack against Teilhard de Chardin who he dubbed succinctly “a false prophet,” who preached a “theology fiction.”  Eternity concerns the individual and the individual is not absorbed into the common consciousness of an impersonal force for eternity.  This is a new age Chardin heresy blended with eastern mysticism.  

Christianity is concerned with the individual.  It is incompatible with the generic impersonalism of New Age movements as well as the collective of the Communists.  These are anathema!   He declares, ” Supernatural truths deserve vigorous defense.”  

Von Hildebrand counsels strongly that, “The Church is advised therefore to be wise and concern herself with surviving in a Communist world.”  

The modern man and the modern world seeks to depersonalize each human being created in the image of God. This is false.  This is heresy.   

Materialism and Communism are fundamentally totalitarian in nature.  They seek to depersonalize each person.  It is the cult of depersonalization!   The progressive left and Socialists are fundamentally anti-humanitarian in their outlooks.  There can be no reconciliation between Communists and Catholics.  What does Christ have to do with Satan?  

Secularization is apostasy from Christ.   Christ’s truths are eternal and do not change.   The miraculous cannot be stripped from the Gospels.  Revitalization will focus on the supernatural spirit of Christ.  

It is at this point in the 21st century that we find ourselves.  Even Von Hildebrand might have been shocked in the 1960s how quickly we have rushed down the Gerasene cliff like mad swine drowning under the water. Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah 2021.    

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Our Lady of Fatima and Communism – August 15, 2021

In 1917, it seems the woman crushing the head of the serpent and the serpent lying in wait of her heel played out in real time.  

The Mother of God came to Portugal in 1917 just as the seed of the serpent was unleashed in Mother Russia. 

MARCH-APRIL: In March 1917, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne, and Lenin returned from exile in Switzerland in April.  Lenin came back to Russia to solidify the Bolshevik Revolution that was exploding across the country.  The errors of Russia were happening in real time.  The Russian monarchy was falling quickly and the Communists were taking over the country.  

MAY:  It was at the very same time that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared from Heaven to three simple peasant children in Fatima.  She came to warn the world about “the errors of Russia.”  Mary first appeared to Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta on May 13, 1917.  

JUNE-JULY:  In July, there was a failed uprising in Russia against the Communists, as the Mother of God appeared again to the children showing them a glimpse of hell.  

AUGUST: In August, Russia continued its descent.  While on August 13th, the Blessed Virgin Mary again appeared to the shepherd children in Portugal telling them, 

“Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them.”  

In September, there was a failed coup, again, in attempt to stop the Russian Revolution.  While on September 13th the vision of the Mother of God came to the shepherd children urging them to pray the Rosary daily and to prepare for a miracle the next month.  

Finally, in October 1917, the Bolsheviks took over control of the government of Russia.  It was the red “October Revolution.”  Socialism and Communism had arrived upon the world scene.  At this very same time, the Blessed Virgin Mary came in her final dramatic appearance at Fatima on October 13, 1917 with the “Miracle of the Sun.”  The battle between the woman and the serpent, heaven and hell, was revealed plainly for all to see.  

In this last visit of the Mother of God she imparted the message that “I am the Lady of the Rosary.”  She continued, “Do not offend the Lord our God anymore, because He is already so much offended.”  To sin is to offend God, which leads one’s soul to hell.  The Miracle of the Sun, too, was perhaps an augur of a great chastisement upon the world if we did not repent and change our ways.  It was a great miracle and blessing but also a warning.   

In retrospect, the Blessed Virgin Mary came down from heaven just as the scourge of Socialism and Communism was unleashed upon the world.  This was not a coincidence.  Mary came to warn the world of the errors of Russia and their Communist doctrine.  

And, what were the errors of Russia?  Atheistic materialism.  An authoritarian state of centralized government.  Suppression of God and religion.  Destroy tradition and re-write history.  Decriminalization of abortion.  Attack the family and enactment of no-fault divorces.  Radical sex education.  Restriction of freedoms.  Silencing of dissent.  False imprisonment, and the mass killing of millions of people.  

The errors of Russia sprang primarily from the writings of Karl Marx, whose ideology is a perverse screed, some may say satanic, that dehumanizes the person and deifies the state.  A human being endowed with a soul and the image of his Creator is reduced to a mere material creature, a “worker” for the state.  That’s enslavement, not freedom or utopia.  Mary came down to warn us not to follow his errors.  

Militaristic Marxism came in a more insidious form, too, in Cultural Marxism.  This came out of the Frankfurt School in Germany, and entered into the education system primarily as a way to undermine the Western history.  It went mainstream as Critical Theory.  Their main efforts have been to critique and deconstruct Western Civilization, along with the Bible and the Church.  Critical theory deconstruction has now gone viral in America and in the West.  The battles we are fighting now with “cancel culture” sprang from the roots of Russia’s errors. 

As the Blessed Virgin Mary came to stop the spread of the errors of Russia and Communism, what did she ask us, as the faithful, to do?  Pray the Rosary daily.  Receive the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist.  Fast and offer spiritual sacrifices.  Wear the brown scapular.  Do the First Five Saturdays Devotion in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  Then, there is also the question of the worldwide consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary done by the Pope and all the Bishops.      

Our Lady of Fatima is just as relevant today in 2021, if not more so, as she was in 1917.  We are a world plunged into the errors of Russia.  This is perhaps related to the Third Secret of Fatima that was likely was only partially revealed.  Our Lady’s probable commentary on the third vision, like in the first two parts, has never been disclosed.  Thus, most likely the Third Secret has yet to be fulfilled and it probably involves the errors of Russia spread throughout the world.  The battle between Our Lady and the serpent continues to rage on in America and the West, but as Our Lady of Fatima declared, “But in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”  

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