“”Until then our own form of government in the U.S. is by far the best man can do.””
Ah yes, legalized abortion ,pornography,soon to be legalized gay marriage etc... you name and it and more will be here soon all under the guise of false liberty,dear sister.
More from another encyclical “IMMORTALE DEI” from Pope Leo XIII....
“In the same way the Church cannot approve of that liberty which begets a contempt of the most sacred laws of God, and casts off the obedience due to lawful authority, for this is not liberty so much as license, and is most correctly styled by St. Augustine the “liberty of self ruin,” and by the Apostle St. Peter the “cloak of malice.”(23) Indeed, since it is opposed to reason, it is a true slavery, “for whosoever committeth sin is the slave of sin.”(24) On the other hand, that liberty is truly genuine, and to be sought after, which in regard to the individual does not allow men to be the slaves of error and of passion, the worst of all masters; which, too, in public administration guides the citizens in wisdom and provides for them increased means of well-being; and which, further, protects the State from foreign interference.”
We all better start praying very hard for this country to cease abortion and all the other moral atrocities
SFA, that is not the fault of the way the country was constituted but what we as a nation did with our freedom. In short, we have embraced immoral values and lifestyles.
Asa society we are changing racially, culturally and religiously. At the root of this trend are Bobby Kennedy and LBJ, who in mid 1960's pushed the immigration reform (through a Democrat-controlled Congress), favoring 3rd world groups over Europeans.
The aim was to change the demographics of the US to give Democrats an election advantage because non-European minorities generally voted Democratic. Until the mid 1960's, US Immigration laws heavily favored European quotas.
Our open border, which was equally ignored by the Bush administration as by the Clinton or the Obama administrations, only hastened the rate of this change. We have a flood gate open with no signs of anyone being willing or able to plug the leak.
So many are smug about it. Back in the Bush days I was called all sorts of nasty things for pointing to his passive stance on enforcing illegal immigration laws, because it was good for business, it kept the prices down and unless you lives in one of the border states you didn't have to worry about it too much.
Hispanics are happy, businesses are happy, Democrats are happy, and even some Republicans are happy with the way things are.
Our problem is much bigger than just abortion, pornography and contraception. Asa society, we are falling apart at the seams on all fronts.
By 2050, the US white population will cease to be the majority race in the US. In other words in just over 3/4 of a century this country will have become something completely different racially, socially, religiously, etc. from what it was since its foundation, not because the foundation was bad but what we did with it.
There is also an active rewriting of the history at play, along with changing values the kids are taught in school and in the movies. The other day I was watching a documentary about first European settlers here. The whole point of the movie was how the settlers came and poisoned and took over the nature here with their flees, bees, disease, and cattle. Obviously being of European heritage is a bad thing nowadays.
At the rate we are going we will be the largest third world country in the world in not a too distant future. And we did all on our own.
And conversely, governments - including theocracies - cannot remove sin from the hearts of men.
Only God can do that.
I do pray earnestly for America and more specifically for a Spiritual revival in America.