Monday, May 09, 2005
PAGANIZATION OF FRANCE AND THE DEATH OF CATHOLICISM
A reader sent in this article at Chiesa by Sandro Magister in which he reviews two books:
George Weigel, “The Cube and the Cathedral. Europe, America, and Politics without God,” Basic Books, New York, 2005.
Danièle Hervieu-Léger, “Catholicisme, la fin d’un monde [Catholicism, the end of a world],” Bayard, Paris, 2003.
There is much material for thought in the article, too much to blog everything. He speculates on the possible reason for the choice in the last conclave:
By electing Joseph Ratzinger as pope, the cardinals made a strategic decision too: they identified Europe as the epicenter of the great conflict of faith, culture, and civilization – which hinges upon the vision of life and man – that the Catholic Church must face during the next years and decades.
Within Europe, France is both the real and symbolic center of this conflict.
He goes on from there to contrast the Christian roots of France with the Pagan enculturation that is taking place there, in the process listing several symptoms of the transition.
What he fails to do is label the rise of occultism as the very source of that Paganization. Yet Webb makes it obvious in The Occult Underground and The Occult Establishment that this new way of thinking has overtaken the culture, and it began in France, so it should surprise no one that France is the first to fall. But as the occult revival spread throughout Europe, into America, and into the Orient through the efforts of H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophical Society, so this dismissal of faith will spread around the world.
It comes down to a choice, Christianity or barbarism. Right now it appears that in the near term barbarism will be the winner.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
