Posted on 08/16/2016 9:37:11 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
A Catholic Priest Tells Christians to Stop Being So Naïve — Wake up to the Threat of Islamic Domination
In Islam, peace does not mean co-existence; it means the West’s submission.
Father George Rutler is sounding the wake-up call to Christians and Western civilization to the threat of Islamic domination. We must respond to terrorist attacks with more than the balloons and flowers of the grieving.
After another devastating ISIS attack in France, this time against a priest in his 80s while he was saying Mass, the answer isn’t just, “Do nothing.” As racism distorts race and sexism corrupts sex — so does pacifism affront peace.
Turning the other cheek is the counsel Christ gave in the instance of an individual when morally insulted: Humility conquers pride. It has nothing to do with self-defense.
The Catholic Church has always maintained that the defiance of an evil force is not only a right but an obligation. Its Catechism (cf. #2265) cites St. Thomas Aquinas: “Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another’s life, the common good of the family or of the State.”
A father is culpable if he does not protect his family. A bishop has the same duty as a spiritual father of his sons and daughters in the church, just as the civil state has as its first responsibility the maintenance of the “tranquility of order” through self-defense.
Christ warned the apostles, as shepherds, to beware of wolves. This requires both the "shrewdness of serpents and the innocence of doves." To shrink from the moral duty to protect peace by not using force when needed is to be innocent as a serpent and shrewd as a dove.
That is not innocence — it is naiveté.
Saint John Capistrano led an army against the Moors in 1456 to protect Belgrade. In 1601, Saint Lawrence of Brindisi did the same in defense of Hungary. As Franciscans, they carried no sword and charged on horseback into battle carrying a crucifix. They inspired the shrewd generals and soldiers, whom they had assembled through artful diplomacy, with their brave innocence.
This is not obscure trivia: Were it not for Charles Martel at Tours in 732 and Jan Sobieski at the gates of Vienna in 1683 — and most certainly had Pope Saint Pius V not enlisted Andrea Doria and Don Juan at Lepanto in 1571 — we would not be here now. No Western nations as we know them — no universities, no modern science, no human rights — would exist.
In the ninth century, the long line of martyrs of Cordoba told the Spanish Umayyad Caliph Abd Ar-Rahman II that his denial of Christ was infernal, and that they would rather die than surrender. Saint Juan de Ribera (d. 1611) and St. Alfonsus Liguori (d. 1787) repeated the admonition that the concept of peace in Islam requires not co-existence but submission.
The dormancy of Islam until recent times, however, has obscured the threat that this poses — especially to a Western civilization that has grown flaccid in virtue and ignorant of its own moral foundations.
The shortcut to handling the crisis is to deny that it exists.
On the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, there were over 60 speeches, and yet not one of them mentioned ISIS.
Vice has destroyed countless individual souls, but in the decline of civilizations, weakness has done more harm than vice. "Peace for our time" is as empty now as it was when Chamberlain went to Munich and honor was bartered in Vichy.
Hilaire Belloc, who knew Normandy and all of Europe well, said in 1929: "We shall almost certainly have to reckon with Islam in the near future. Perhaps, if we lose our faith, it will rise. For after this subjugation of the Islamic culture by the nominally Christian had already been achieved, the political conquerors of that culture began to notice two disquieting features about it. The first was that its spiritual foundation proved immovable; the second, that its area of occupation did not recede, but on the contrary slowly expanded."
The priest in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvrary in Normandy, France, was not the first to die at the altar — and he will not be the last.
In his old age, the priest embodied a civilization that has been betrayed by a generation whose hymn was John Lennon's "Imagine" — that there was neither heaven nor hell but "above us only sky" and "all the people living for today." When reality intrudes, they can only leave teddy bears and balloons at the site of a carnage they call "inexplicable."
PS: I really like Fr. Rutler. He was an amateur boxer in his younger days and still goes to the gym to spar a few rounds to stay in shape.
Muslims are just a distraction used by the real enemy. Focus only on them and you will lose everything/
Guess who is getting their 503 whats its PULLED soon.....
Government Control of churches through Taxation was a truly EVIL IDEA
Thanks a bundle there LBJ, may you burn in syphilitic hell you Perverted “Great Satan-ciety” Bastard!
I wish there were more clergy like Fr. Rutler. I haven’t heard of many church leaders addressing the topic of Islam and its impact on Christianity.
A: Dust.
Fr. Rutler has read his history.
Wish that Pope Francis would, also.
He is a brave soul to speak out like this. More clergy need to warn their flocks and stop being so mealy mouthed about everything. The non profit status instituted by LBJ, has kept the church from speaking out. It’s better to obey God than man, and it sounds like this priest is doing just that.
Shouldn’t we be discussing beach volleyball instead?
Screw that business about turning the other cheek!
The Pope seems to think Muslims are great. I think most of us realize how damn serious things are, and; we need to throw Muslims out of the USA plus Trump got it right with a new immigration policy/Act.
Good news! Trump is going when he gets in.
Correction. Trump will get rid of the Johnson rule once he gets in.
But the fake Pope says Islam is a religion of peace.....
I can appreciate these comments, but I would have more respect for him if he would denounce the false ecumenism and “esteem for Muslims” of Vatican II and all those who partake in it (including his pope). The priest who was killed in France believed and took part in this anti-Catholic inter-religious tenet and look where it got him. This belief has done nothing but weaken and destroy the Catholic Faith and is a huge reason why Islam is being allowed to move forward with its domination.
Hard fights to win, indeed. They all had/have to be defeated lest they dominate and impose their own perverted brands of tyranny upon the world’s civilization.
Re: Fr. Rutler. I recall someone commenting on spending some time at Fr. Rutler’s home, and couldn’t find much in the way of food. And the visitor also commented that Rutler maintains an unreal schedule with little sleep. Rutler reportedly said that food and sleep were for wimps (or maybe it was sissies). Rutler is one of a kind, for sure. Always look forward to his weekly column, tho he’s put it on summer hiatus.
It's like night and day....sanity and insanity.
Further, Francis believes the influx of Muslim immigrants into Europe is actually enriching the continent and the culture. See for instance, this message which appeared over the weekend. Those, such as the Moors, who were evicted by military force, he now invites in with open arms and scolds those such as the Poles who dare to protest.
Truly, Francis and the Islamic invasion are a real chastisement for the Church and an apostate culture.
Have you noticed that the link doesn’t work anymore?
From your comments I’m guessing you don’t know much about Fr. George Rutler. I’ve read his books, followed his program, and read his homilies for years. He is both intellectually brilliant and mystically profound, and not merely on the topics you mention, but certainly those too. Only ignorance or arrogance would cause a Catholic not to “respect” Fr. Rutler.
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