You advocate forming hero(es) and sending them out into the fortress of the enemy, where maintaining one's faith is most difficult, nevermind spreading it.
Education, the military, and government are very dangerous places.

I would almost make a parallel with martyrdom and the desire for it -- Martyrdom is good, when God calls you to it. But we are not to offer ourselves for martyrdom on our own -- if it wasn't God's will, we might be punished for our rashness and vainglory by God not sustaining us during the tortures against human nature -- which means we would "break" or "snap" (losing our soul in the process).

So I would add that one must discern -- very much on a case-by-case basis -- whether or not a given son is fit to be a "commando against the world". To put it bluntly, he needs to be a choleric temperament -- NOT a melancholic and certainly not a sanguine or phlegmatic. Moreover, he must be well trained in the Faith, but also in the errors of the world. (Basically what I got in the SSPX Seminary under Bishop Williamson. He certainly knows how to form a leader and how to inoculate a person against the world's poison.) He should know at least the important parts of History, so he doesn't do anything foolish. He should know human nature, which he can get from books like "The Spiritual Life" by Tanquerey and classics of Literature. He also must be mortified, at least enough to habitually avoid mortal sin. A strong prayerlife is important as well -- and a particular devotion to the Blessed Virgin, like St. Louis de Montfort.

So he would need armor for his Intellect and Free Will; Intellect, because he would have to know the main errors of our day (Darwinian Evolution, Protestantism, Rationalism, Liberalism, Modernism, false Democracy, Americanism) or he wouldn't be able to recognize them. Free Will, because he would have to be strong enough to not get sucked into those errors himself.

If I had a son that fit the above qualifications, I'd be willing to let him fight. But if he were weak, or not a deep thinker, etc. I'd be worried about sending him into the lion's den.
You don't want your child to get eaten alive or corrupted by the powerful influence of people around him. The influence of those around you must never be downplayed or underestimated. That's one thing life has taught me so far. It can affect anyone, even us.

In Christ,

Matthew


Geoffrey E. A. Gilbert wrote:

> The burden has fallen to us.  We must make use of what God gives us, here and now, to restore the Kingship of Christ.  We must start with ourselves, and make ourselves as perfectly exemplary as Catholics as possible.  For those of us with families, we must strive to make our families as Catholic as possible.  Going beyond that, since there are no catholic societies (lowercase "s"), we must rebuild them ourselves, complete with all the beautiful cultural trappings which made Christendom the paragon of human society.
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> The Japanese Catholics were cut off from Catholic priests for something like 400 years.  They maintained the Faith through the sacraments of Baptism and Matrimony, which do not -- strictly speaking -- require priests to administer.  I'm not saying it is that bad right now; I'm just saying that it could get to that point.
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> I'd say we tear a page or two out of the Jєωs' handbook and learn from them.  They've lived in hostile societies for about two thousand years, give or take, and have somehow managed to maintain their identity, their customs, their cultural integrity, and their religion... despite having no formal government to advocate their rights explicitly in their own name.  I would argue that the tables have turned, and that we are now a lot like they used to be.
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> We are at then end of a train of revolutions or rebellions against the authority of God that began with Lucifer's War in Heaven, and continued through Adam and Eve's disobedience in the Garden of Eden, the Jєωs' repudiation of Christ at the Crucifixion, the Orthodox repudiation of the Pope, the Protestant's revolution against the unity of the Church, the Freemason's denial of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Communists' disavowal of God altogether.  We have suffered territorial losses because of these revolutions and rebellions, as well as from external, physical threats from the heresy of Islam.  Now, bereft of the unity that our religion itself provides, we are suffering the same external attacks from the same Mohammedan enemy.
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> I do not advocate a strategy of retreat: that is to say, I dont think that Catholics should hole up in tiny, little Catholic communities and have nothing to do with "the world".  That is insane: we live in the world, and it isnt going to go away.  I do think that there is nothing wrong with living in Catholic communities and, under the right circuмstances, I would do so in a heartbeat.  In fact, it makes perfect sense to found and maintain Catholic communities so that our children have a place where they can be raised properly, without negative outside influences; and where we can enjoy the satisfaction of true Catholic companionship.
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> However, I think that we need to go beyond this and start retaking the cultural and governmental institutions.  Raise your children Catholic... then get them into education, government, and the military.  We must re-establish a self-aware Catholic aristocracy in order to have a Catholic government of any sort.  We wont have ever have that if we focus too inwardly... unless one advocates a strategy of "wait for society to collapse and God to pull us out of this mess", which I do not.
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> Yes, He will help: I'm sure of it.  But, as Mr. Amesse pointed out indirectly, if we don't do something for ourselves in the meantime, we will have a lot of explaining to do.  And I'd rather not be on the business end of that one-way conversation with God.
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> Semper fidelis,
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> G.E.A. Gilbert