All Nations stand in an array against Holy Church
The new advance against the Church, what may prove to be the final advance against the Church, what is at any rate the only modern enemy of consequence--is fundamentally materialist. It is materialist in its reading of history, and above all in its proposals for social reform.
The Modern Attack in its main character, materialist and atheist and being atheist it is necessarily indifferent to truth. For God is Truth.
Therefore with the advance of this new and terrible enemy against the Faith and the civilization which the Faith produces, there is coming not only a contempt for beauty but a hatred of it; and immediately upon the heels of this there appears a contempt and hatred for virtue.
The less vicious converts of the enemy, talk vaguely of "a readjustment, a new world, a new order; but they do not begin telling us, as in common reason they should, upon, what principles this new order is to be raised. Yet, they do not define the end they have in view. Hilarie Belloc
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