"Christendom. “Christendom,” as I’m using the word, is “that society of sovereign nations which recognize the kingship of Jesus Christ in all that pertains to the ordering of national and international affairs.”

Christendom does not presently exist. It did at various times, most notably in the middle ages, and was partly the result of a serious effort by Catholic leaders — churchmen and statesmen — to leaven all of society with the precepts of the Gospel. One vehicle for this was St. Augustine’s The City of God, a book studied by leaders in Church and state with a view to ordering society according to its pattern.

These principles can be envisioned as planks in the platform of a Catholic Community.

The Nine Planks Listed:
 
1.There is absolutely no salvation outside the Catholic Church. Nobody is saved unless he is elevated by faith, baptism, and submission to the divinely-constituted authority, into the divine life of grace as a living member of Christ’s Mystical Body, the Catholic Church. This is a solemnly defined dogma that all must believe.

2.For the proper ordering of society and for the supernatural end of man to be more readily achieved, all societies, including nations, must recognize the temporal and eternal Kingship of Jesus Christ as it is revealed through his Mystical Body, the Church. As this is decidedly not the way in which the world is presently ordered, we live in a very sick society: sick politically, sick economically. Thus it is difficult to live the life of virtue. This translates directly into the daily difficulties we experience in our homes, with our marriages, and with our children.

3.Catholic Culture is essentially a by-product of the most important act that happens on earth, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which is at once an un-bloody representation of the sacrifice of the Cross, and the highest act of adoration rendered to the blessed Trinity by all the members of Christ’s Mystical Body. The restoration of Catholic Culture — so essential to the rebuilding of Christendom — will require, among other things, the restoration of the authentic liturgical traditions of the Church.

4.Few people believe any of these propositions and those in authority in the Church and civil society seem either indifferent to them or bent upon their suppression. Further, the forces of organized naturalism, under the headship of Satan, seek to efface them altogether, replacing them with the diabolical agenda of religious indifferentism, anti-Christian globalism, and the naturalistic worship of man in the place of God.

5.The Holy Sacrament of Matrimony is indissoluble and its primary end, the begetting and education of children, is essential for the temporal good of society and for the eternal salvation of souls. The home is the domestic Church and the enemies of Christian order have long fought to undermine its stability.

6.As Catholics who have no authority or influence in the Church and as citizens with no authority or influence in temporal society, solving the dilemma pointed out in proposition four is something we are powerless to do on a large scale by any direct activity of our own. We can pray and work for a positive change, but the actual achievement will be the work of God through the visible authority of the magisterium.”

7.In the meantime, by working together to create an atmosphere where the difficult tasks implicit in number five will be realized, we can, in our own small way, build parts of the foundation upon which the future Christendom will be erected. This is to build “Catholic Communities” which I propose are Christendom’s “building blocks.”

8.There is a multitude of little things which must be done to succeed at this task. These little things include cultivating a proper Catholic outlook on — and activity in — the following areas: home life; wives with jobs out of the home; child rearing; scholastic education; modesty; music and other entertainments; the “teenage subculture,” with its inevitable result, the generation gap; honorable courtship as opposed to casual dating; and the fostering of vocations.

9.These “little things” will demand great sacrifices of us. With the aid of actual grace and the gifts of the Holy Ghost, diligently and joyfully carrying them out in these most difficult of circuмstances will make us saints — as long as we are in the state of grace and maintain a purity of intention. Further, it will bring down upon us God’s choicest blessings in such as way that our prayers and work for the restoration of the Church’s teaching, the restoration of the Mass, and the restoration of Christendom will be answered.
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