Attack on the Church by H Belloc
Modern Phase attack on the Church from the left socialist and on the right by the Islamists We approach the greatest moment of all. The Faith is now in the presence not of a particular heresy as in the past the Arian, the Manichean, the Albigensian, the Mohammedan nor is it in the presence of a sort of generalized heresy as it was when it had to meet the Protestant revolution from three to four hundred years ago. The enemy which the Faith now has to meet, and which may be called "The Modern Attack," is a wholesale assault upon the fundamentals of the Faith upon the very existence of the Faith. And the enemy now advancing against us is increasingly conscious of the fact that there can be no question of neutrality. The forces now opposed to the Faith design to ‘destroy’. The battle is henceforward engaged upon a definite line of cleavage, involving the survival or destruction of The Catholic Church. And, all if not a portion, of its philosophy. We know, of course, that The Cath...