Yes, of course we are Catholics. But the name should refer to a leading edge of the Catholics, not just to the average or below average Catholics. Devotions are good, but they are private activities and restricting Catholicism to devotions has a distinct docetist air about it. Catholicism is incarnate and therefore must fully include the entire public sphere and not just private devotionalism alone. Also, the Kingship of Christ is not "political", which would mean something within the limitations of a political party. Catholic Nationalism is a pedagogy, not a political program. It is a synonym for "Catholic monarchy" or the Kingship of Christ, and hence fully incarnate extending to both the spiritual and material realms of Creation
True safety is always in courage, never in timidity or cowardice. The name should be a brave one, not something "safe" and timid. The name should specifically emphasise the fully incarnate Kingship of Christ, but in some simple and very direct way. Hence the name "Catholic Nationalism" ought to serve us well. Again, we need an integral pedagogy, not devotionalism or a political party. We certainly don't need to reinvent the disastrous "Christian Democrats".
Also it is relevant that by Catholic Nationalism what is meant is Roman Catholic Nationalism, which means Roman Nationalism or Pan-European Nationalism. This is at the furthest remove from the existing "White Nationalism", something mostly sponsored by the current government of Israel and the Orthodox rabbinate. The Catholics should lead and the existing leadership of the S.S.P.X. is woefully incapable of that or anything like it. The responsibility falls to "the Resistance" or whatever improved label that cutting edge is given. Catholics should provide a serious alternative to "White Nationalism", not in a feeble political way but in an integral pedagogic way that reflects the integral nature of the Incarnation. The name should clearly avoid the docetism of the Jansenists and their insistence on drifting off into a private religion of devotionalism that reduces Catholicism to disincarnate immaterial ghostly realms. The Roman liturgy is the most public of activities, not a private devotion for private life alone. The name should take this into account.
Globalism has effectively destroyed the former nation-states. The time for Romanity has arrived and in simple down-to-earth terms this is typically known as Nationalism, the contemporary heir to the monarchism that effectively perished a century ago in 1918. Any existing Nationalism must be Roman and if serious would be Roman Catholic as well. So we have our work cut out for us.
Roman Catholic Nationalism, that is the wave of the present and we should have the courage and presence of mind to ride it to the full. We must have the courage to ride the tiger of Nationalism, a Catholic Nationalism, because otherwise that tiger will most certainly turn around and eat us alive. In the existing world we are Catholic Nationalists and we should have the courage and charity to say who we actually are.
In no uncertain terms.
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