With this we can be short. All the Saints have given us examples of human understanding at the ordinary level far in excess of what they would have understood had they not pitched their minds to enhance the glory of Catholic Faith. But we don’t have to go even that far afield. How many simple Catholic fathers and mothers, in rearing their children in the Catholic Faith, have shown a wisdom and a practical knowledge in everyday things in excess of what they could have been expected to know from the limited level of their understanding? The powerful Light of their Catholic Faith came to the aid of their natural understanding and gave them insights far above that with which their sketchy education had provided them.
No time in these minds for fancy flights in humanism, evolution, feminism and Modernism. They love God and His creatures and they show such a practical knowledge of everyday things that, being far ahead of Mabo and Wik, they are in no need of these complicated constructs of base human thinking in order to find their way unerringly in passing on to their offspring the truths of our human relationships. To their minds, their superior understanding does not come as superior; to them it is natural that the Light of Catholic Faith enlightens their minds in such a way that they find their way on earth better than do those who do not share their supernatural insights.
Yes, their Catholic minds, in communion with God, are blessed.
Although St. Paul’s condemnation, as expressed in the above-quoted words from his Letter to the Romans, is universal, we will in this essay study only the darkening of the Catholic mind, i.e. the plummeting of the typical Modernist mind to the level of the basest and crudest understanding, which, as we will see, will have to be classed as no understanding at all of the truth.
But since the human mind was not the first mind darkened by God to a base and abject level, it is necessary, for a proper understanding of what we are dealing with here, to cast our minds back to the dawn of creation, to the last and final dialogue of God with His first creatures in the Garden of Eden.
A Study of the Satanic Mind.
The first recorded curse of God, the one pronounced against Satan after the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is exceedingly important as the punishment meted out there involves human beings referred to as “Satan’s seed”:
And the Lord God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this, be accursed beyond all cattle, all wild beasts. You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust every day of your life. I will make you enemies of each other, you and the Woman, your seed and Her seed. She shall crush your head and you will strike at Her heel.” [Gen. 3:14-15].
“Because you have done this ...”
‘There is to be no mistake as to the reason for the curse’, writes Pember in his book: “Earth’s Earliest Ages” ‘It is no accident but the deeply-burnt brand which testifies to God’s abhorrence of him who brought sin into Creation’.
“Because you have done this ...”
Because you engineered the first apostasy; because you were successful in making the woman believe you and doubt God; extinguishing in her the supernatural Light of innocent Faith in God: be accursed beyond all cattle. And the punishment is absolute and forever: never will the devil succeed in producing anything of real or lasting value.
For as long as this world will last he and his seed are condemned to be satisfied by crawling around in the dust of dark places (the endless Modernist workshops!), eating dust and producing nothing but dust. Never for one moment will the divine curse allow them to produce something of real human value, of lasting satisfaction or permanent beauty ...
“… beyond all cattle ….” Even cattle have more value for humanity than Satan and his human cohorts ….
What awesome thoughts for our contemporaries! How often in human history have bishops, priests, teachers and parents, newspaper editors and politicians repeated the first apostasy? Enforced heresy onto those entrusted to their care? Made people believe them and made them doubt the Voice of God as it became known to humanity in the teachings of the Catholic Church? How often have they extinguished innocent Catholic Faith? Has the curse been mitigated so that they could get away with it? Has History truly nothing to say about what is rampant in our days? Is it silent about the vengeance of God over the wilful extinction of innocent Catholic Faith?
No, History has been far from silent. It has told us again and again: “There has been no mistake: God’s pronouncements are indeed a deeply-burnt brand!” No matter how encouraging the popularity of a ‘renewed catholicism’ is to bishops and priests, it will turn out to be merely dust coming from those condemned to live in dark places. The ‘easy catholicism’ of our days, the revolt against “Humanae Vitae”, the contraceptive pill, the Modernism that teaches ‘freedom of conscience’ to do one’s own thing, RENEW, women priests, married priests, and the deaneries created to form the framework for the smooth transition of all the benefits of Paul Collins’ anti-hierarchical ‘church’ into the renewed local churches: it will all prove to be dust, cursed to be empty of any real value, of any human satisfaction or lasting joy ....