https://sspx.ca/en/publications/january-2021-district-superiors-letter-totalitarian-state-38137Excerpt:
"...families – the family of families that is the Nation, and the supernatural family whose father is Our Father, and whose mother is Mary.
The goal of the State, being temporal (that is, for this world), is called the common good. And the common good is peace. Now peace does not mean the absence of conflict, but rather the tranquility of order. Order is when everyone is in his place; this is the work of justice. When every man gives both to God and his neighbour their due, we have peace. The goal of the Church is eternal life, which is the very goal of man. Peace helps man to achieve his ultimate goal.
How do these two work together? As every Catholic belongs to these two societies, there must be some sort of co-ordination between the two. ...
...nor should we be perturbed as if this disorder were going to stop us from working out the only thing that matters – our eternal salvation.
The modern State refuses to recognise God, therefore it takes on the role of God Himself. This denial of God by the State and the pretense that there are no rights which do not come from the State has a technical name, it is called totalitarianism. Totalitarians may be National Socialists or Red Bolsheviks, or they may be hard-hearted and sentimental liberals who wish to save lives by wearing a mask as they hand out the morning-after pill; but they all have this in common: they are atheistic (in rebellion against God), they are materialistic (the soul doesn’t exist and doesn’t matter – we are just animals), and they are authoritarian. How could it be otherwise? In the Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn writes: “Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, whoever, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison, for them there is no antidote.” Just as the man who denies God and perseveringly chooses mortal sin is condemned to utter destruction by making himself his god, so also the family and the nation who place their salvation in bodily health, a vaccine, wealth, or any other false God. We would do well to meditate often on the whole of the seventy-second psalm. “For behold they that go far from thee shall perish.” (Ps. 72)
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Anyone else realize that the gob't is controlling more and more of our Catholic MORES?
Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.comMORES
Definition & Meaning
The meaning of MORES is the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group.
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To blindly yield to
silly civil powers who arrogate God's authority = MORON.