Lame rebuttal. First, you do not offer any solutions to your thesis, which is the last sentence (paragraph) of your comment ----> "... but in a different form" ...... Well, at least give one form (solution) that can be effected.
You have misunderstood that last part of my sentence. I meant that many political philosophies, to which some Catholics are adhering, are in fact subversions of the order willed by God, though in another form than the marxism which they, rightfully, wish to see destroyed.
Third, you are implying true faithful Catholics should abstain from the political process, and just leave everything to God's will; however, His will is RARELY done on earth, which is why this world is severely wounded in the first place; and He gave us a mind and body to serve Him and help effect "on earth as it is in Heaven". By not being involved in ensuring your own sovereignty, you waive your rights to fools and malevolent people to rule over you. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with nationalism when it's the correct nationalism with true Christian virtue as its nucleus. It would behoove America to follow the example of Serbia (albeit, they are Orthodox Christian) - a nation that is protective of its land, culture, identity, people and faith in Christ.
Firstly, I do not imply that Catholics should abstain from politics, but the effort that some are putting into serving the ambitions of heathens and apostates who are interested in using Christians to establish their expression of the revolution instead of the one that is popular today, should be placed into bringing more organisation among scattered Catholics, to then eventually create formally Christian political entities in the nations where they live. "That would be very difficult to accomplish!" you say? Life on earth is a warfare, but that did not stop the Saints. Christ has won the war; if His sons fail to win a particular battle, they may be content to have died trying.
By refusing to quench evil by evil, I am not handing over the religion and the land of my fathers, who have lived upon this soil for more centuries than yours have been living in America, to the enemies of my God and kindred. My country is being swarmed by Arab mahometans, and in our cities, people are already suffering much under the yoke of their presence. If you wear a Christian symbol, they call you names that I will not repeat here, they harass elderly people, they 'punish' the nudism of liberalist women by violating them, and they live like kings while we have to go through a bureaucratic and usurious maze to get anything done. So, there is no need for you to educate me about what is happening here in Europe. I know what is happening. The nationalist party here has some Christians in it... together with atheists and neo-pagans who worship either Wodan, 'nature spirits' or whatever it is that they adore. The party publically rejects "irregular" maçonnerie, while accepting "the regular form" (a farcical distinction). This is an example of nationalism in contrast with Christian politics. How on earth can anyone think that supporting such a political body will bring about the reign of Christ in the country?
Christians fighting for God, their land and kindred are not nationalists, and should not be content to have that label pressed upon their foreheads. If you wish to know what nationalism is, then study the history of the Italian revolution. The Popes were considered traitors of the fatherland, and that slanderous assertion was nourished by romanticist publications exalting "the glorious Italy of old". PèreJoseph has rightfully insisted upon the study of the historical origins of the various political doctrines in order to be able to gain a better understanding of what they are and what distinctions must be kept in mind.
In revolutionary France, peasants were compelled under violence to shout "
Vive la nation!", which of course did not really mean desiring the good of the nation, but treason against their king. The peasants preferred to shout "
Vive le roi!" and faced death heroically. To support the various nationalist parties who simply seek to replace the presently established expression of revolutionary society with their own nationalist expression of it, may ultimately lead to a regime which will devour Christians who will not burn incense to cæsar. When a nationalist regime will have been established, it will no longer notice the Christians whom it misled into helping it arise, because it will have attained to what it wanted, and this can lead to the sons of Christ being led before the courts as they refuse to shout "
vive la nation-dieu", and to being put to death as "betrayers of the nation". Cardinal Pie of Poitiers also saw this, and execrated it as nothing less than the spirit of anti-christ.
I will not look at an Eastern schismatic sect to be taught how to defend the religion and heritage of my fathers. There lie enough bones at rest in our own soil of those who gave their lives for the triumph of Catholicism (instead of the ambitions of some schismatic 'patriarch'), awaiting the glorious resurrection. Schismatic sects have nothing to do with Catholicism, and, ironically, they are the ones who separated from the Apostolic See, favouring their national identity before the authority of the Roman Pontiff. So yes, they are nationalists, and the real welfare of their nation and people has nothing to do with it.
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