Saturday, June 9, 2018

“Ethical Christianity has failed.  Western Civilization is not just suffering from a famine of spiritual values; it is not even caring about them.  It is now seeking to stuff itself with the husks of the secular, the economic, the political, the worldly.  This new thing which no longer is concerned with the soul, but with the belly, is a philosophy of life which mobilizes souls for economic and secular ends, a Ceasarism or adoration of the State, a glorification of the human collective through the depersonalization of man, and a suffocation of human personality and its subsequent absorption into the mass.  Sometimes it takes only the form of a race-worship such as Nazism and at other times the form of economic worship such as Communism.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Communism and the Conscience of the West)

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