Another excellent piece, Frank! We love Leo XIII. Thank you for introducing us to him. He has the answers we need to turn back and restore human flourishing once again.
We reach similar diagnoses about the position we find ourselves in, and I've gone to great lengths in my own work to express my views with an even hand. I also commend your position on the Catholic Church as the answer. But the reality is, you offer no route to a Catholic Britain. People prefer comforting lies, and they want easy, quick fixes. These are the biggest obstacles — people are basically lazy, and those leading aren't offering a realistic way forward that people can follow in any great numbers.
The Church comes from Peter, not from Christ. The Holy Spirit moves through it but it is human. It is therefore imperfect. It has never been perfect and will never be perfect. To bring people over to the Church means to bring people over to the living, imperfect Church that actually exists, not to one that doesn't. You can defend it acknowledging this, or you can attack it and promote Schism.
I'm not sure what you're aiming for, Gearoid, but there's no attack on the church from my side, and nothing here promotes schism.
Britain hasn't been a Catholic country for centuries, and whilst I'd prefer an early Christian church as the one faith across these isles, that's pure fantasy, and it's pure fantasy from Frank's perspective too, whether he'd admit it or not.
Your reading of Peter and Christ is wrong: Christ founded the church and built it on Peter as its rock (Matthew 16:18) - Peter is the foundation Christ laid, not a separate source. Get your facts straight before attempting a challenge.
Gearoid - a human rock; fine, I never disputed that. But yes, I'm challenging Frank, as I did in my first comment you waded into: he offers no route to a Catholic Britain because people prefer comforting lies to hard ones. That challenges his leadership, not the Church. Withdraw the schism charge, or explain why challenging Frank counts as one.
Frank - I'd go further: it looks like you offer no route because you know there isn't one. From outside, this resembles Tommy Robinson's use of Christianity - building a following, not a path anyone could walk. Some humility and honesty would help.
I am not a Catholic but recognise that all the quotations and your personal opinions ring true. (I was raised as Christian in the Methodist church.) My opinion is that it is obvious that good and evil do exist and one does not need to adhere to a particular religion to recognise this and to make one's life choices accordingly. I do see Christian values as true and good and I try to adhere to them.
Right now the degradation of my beloved country, England, is foremost in my thoughts. The young men who have confronted illegal immigrants, the police and other state entities, are truly heroes. Not "fascists", not of the "extreme right". They are grossly overused labels, chosen to discredit. The young men are heroes. They, like me, have recognised the wickedness that is both facilitating this and arising as consequences. They are "the Lion Hearts" to which you refer.
As an aside, I have just finished reading the novel "Ivanhoe", written by Sir Walter Scott. Richard the Lionheart is featured and good and evil permeate the history.
As ever, thanks very much for this thought-provoking article, Mr. Wright. God bless you.
I agree with all your workings, but disagree with your conclusion. In my view what is inextinguishable is Christianity, not the catholic church. The modern catholic church acts like a middle man, more interested in perpetuating itself than the salvation of those who wish to find God. Although it's still head and shoulders above CoE which seems determined to lead it's parishioners to satan.
I am a Christian. I do not feel the need to attach myself to a particular sect. Christians do not need to reach God through an operator, they have direct access.
That is not to say I don't believe there are many, many true believers preaching in the catholic church. I imagine there are, just as with any splinter faction of Christianity.
An erudite and intriguing article as we've come to expect.
"The evil of modern society is so prevalent that even atheists and progressives can no longer ignore it." As an atheist I don't consider myself any less moral than any Christian. For example, it was practising Christians who abused choirboys, and senior Church figures who covered it all up, not atheists. I also object to being lumped together with so-called progressives! And yes, we atheists also have a strong sense of ethics.
I'm much more concerned that abortion up to term has recently been sanctified than that we might have 'designer babies'. Murder always was an evil, even in pre-Christian times.
"How did Christendom fall so fast?" I don't think it has fallen. Yes, the Churches are nearly empty and their authority has waned but the underlying ethical system continues, if perhaps abated, in the overwhelming majority of the population of this country.
To my own atheistic senses, it looks like the Church has succumbed to the hubris and in-fighting that come to beset all large organisations. Nevertheless the man-in-the-street has retained his sense of good and evil. That's our culture and it's as old as the English-speaking peoples. I do agree that social attitudes are being eroded by commercial pressures as you observe and yes, a tyranny could reverse that. It may yet come to that.
What you seem to be saying is that if we all throw ourselves upon the control of the authority of the Church then our moral problems will be over. We must outsource our rules of conduct and accept the perfection of the diktats we receive. History has shown us the dangers inherent in that approach. For example, Charles the Second was quite prepared to see his subjects summarily executed for rejecting the book of Common Prayer. The people on both sides of that conflict claimed to be Christians. So the 'mercy' of which Church are we to throw ourselves upon?
If dissent from the voice of authority is to be immediately stamped upon then you can forget about any advances in the well-being of humankind discovered by diligence and ingenuity: electricity, light and heat, longevity, the astonishing wonders of the universe ... All gone. The Dark Ages were a thousand years of the dominance of the authority of the Christian Church. It took the rejection of that to bring about the modern world. If you are prepared to see a return to those dark, unproductive days then submit. I believe there are other ways that don't suffer from these problems.
Thatcherism when the money men came in and destroyed Britain.
M&S new people came in chased the young, new look, new fashion lines all made abroad with shoddy outcomes. What they never got was keep the base and eventually customers age want qaulity come into the base.
Quality: simple underwear made to last. All their clothes are made in Britain employing people up and down the country. A pair of underwear where is elastic doesn't go at the seems after a couple of washes. They could last as long as a human life fading with age, which could then be used to clean the house. A simple example telling a story of Britain.
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Another excellent piece, Frank! We love Leo XIII. Thank you for introducing us to him. He has the answers we need to turn back and restore human flourishing once again.
Thank you, Frank for your extraordinary work. You bring much clarity in this time of darkness.
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We reach similar diagnoses about the position we find ourselves in, and I've gone to great lengths in my own work to express my views with an even hand. I also commend your position on the Catholic Church as the answer. But the reality is, you offer no route to a Catholic Britain. People prefer comforting lies, and they want easy, quick fixes. These are the biggest obstacles — people are basically lazy, and those leading aren't offering a realistic way forward that people can follow in any great numbers.
The Church comes from Peter, not from Christ. The Holy Spirit moves through it but it is human. It is therefore imperfect. It has never been perfect and will never be perfect. To bring people over to the Church means to bring people over to the living, imperfect Church that actually exists, not to one that doesn't. You can defend it acknowledging this, or you can attack it and promote Schism.
I'm not sure what you're aiming for, Gearoid, but there's no attack on the church from my side, and nothing here promotes schism.
Britain hasn't been a Catholic country for centuries, and whilst I'd prefer an early Christian church as the one faith across these isles, that's pure fantasy, and it's pure fantasy from Frank's perspective too, whether he'd admit it or not.
Your reading of Peter and Christ is wrong: Christ founded the church and built it on Peter as its rock (Matthew 16:18) - Peter is the foundation Christ laid, not a separate source. Get your facts straight before attempting a challenge.
A human rock is my point, if you will excuse me. My message is for those who focus on cleaving the living Church from their imagined ideal.
Gearoid - a human rock; fine, I never disputed that. But yes, I'm challenging Frank, as I did in my first comment you waded into: he offers no route to a Catholic Britain because people prefer comforting lies to hard ones. That challenges his leadership, not the Church. Withdraw the schism charge, or explain why challenging Frank counts as one.
Frank - I'd go further: it looks like you offer no route because you know there isn't one. From outside, this resembles Tommy Robinson's use of Christianity - building a following, not a path anyone could walk. Some humility and honesty would help.
I am not a Catholic but recognise that all the quotations and your personal opinions ring true. (I was raised as Christian in the Methodist church.) My opinion is that it is obvious that good and evil do exist and one does not need to adhere to a particular religion to recognise this and to make one's life choices accordingly. I do see Christian values as true and good and I try to adhere to them.
Right now the degradation of my beloved country, England, is foremost in my thoughts. The young men who have confronted illegal immigrants, the police and other state entities, are truly heroes. Not "fascists", not of the "extreme right". They are grossly overused labels, chosen to discredit. The young men are heroes. They, like me, have recognised the wickedness that is both facilitating this and arising as consequences. They are "the Lion Hearts" to which you refer.
As an aside, I have just finished reading the novel "Ivanhoe", written by Sir Walter Scott. Richard the Lionheart is featured and good and evil permeate the history.
As ever, thanks very much for this thought-provoking article, Mr. Wright. God bless you.
I agree with all your workings, but disagree with your conclusion. In my view what is inextinguishable is Christianity, not the catholic church. The modern catholic church acts like a middle man, more interested in perpetuating itself than the salvation of those who wish to find God. Although it's still head and shoulders above CoE which seems determined to lead it's parishioners to satan.
I am a Christian. I do not feel the need to attach myself to a particular sect. Christians do not need to reach God through an operator, they have direct access.
That is not to say I don't believe there are many, many true believers preaching in the catholic church. I imagine there are, just as with any splinter faction of Christianity.
An erudite and intriguing article as we've come to expect.
"The evil of modern society is so prevalent that even atheists and progressives can no longer ignore it." As an atheist I don't consider myself any less moral than any Christian. For example, it was practising Christians who abused choirboys, and senior Church figures who covered it all up, not atheists. I also object to being lumped together with so-called progressives! And yes, we atheists also have a strong sense of ethics.
I'm much more concerned that abortion up to term has recently been sanctified than that we might have 'designer babies'. Murder always was an evil, even in pre-Christian times.
"How did Christendom fall so fast?" I don't think it has fallen. Yes, the Churches are nearly empty and their authority has waned but the underlying ethical system continues, if perhaps abated, in the overwhelming majority of the population of this country.
To my own atheistic senses, it looks like the Church has succumbed to the hubris and in-fighting that come to beset all large organisations. Nevertheless the man-in-the-street has retained his sense of good and evil. That's our culture and it's as old as the English-speaking peoples. I do agree that social attitudes are being eroded by commercial pressures as you observe and yes, a tyranny could reverse that. It may yet come to that.
What you seem to be saying is that if we all throw ourselves upon the control of the authority of the Church then our moral problems will be over. We must outsource our rules of conduct and accept the perfection of the diktats we receive. History has shown us the dangers inherent in that approach. For example, Charles the Second was quite prepared to see his subjects summarily executed for rejecting the book of Common Prayer. The people on both sides of that conflict claimed to be Christians. So the 'mercy' of which Church are we to throw ourselves upon?
If dissent from the voice of authority is to be immediately stamped upon then you can forget about any advances in the well-being of humankind discovered by diligence and ingenuity: electricity, light and heat, longevity, the astonishing wonders of the universe ... All gone. The Dark Ages were a thousand years of the dominance of the authority of the Christian Church. It took the rejection of that to bring about the modern world. If you are prepared to see a return to those dark, unproductive days then submit. I believe there are other ways that don't suffer from these problems.
Thatcherism when the money men came in and destroyed Britain.
M&S new people came in chased the young, new look, new fashion lines all made abroad with shoddy outcomes. What they never got was keep the base and eventually customers age want qaulity come into the base.
Quality: simple underwear made to last. All their clothes are made in Britain employing people up and down the country. A pair of underwear where is elastic doesn't go at the seems after a couple of washes. They could last as long as a human life fading with age, which could then be used to clean the house. A simple example telling a story of Britain.
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