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Is it too late to save Europe from the twin threats of nihilism and Islam?
2 posted on 07/03/2003 8:22:17 PM PDT by Loyalist (Keeper of the Schismatic Orc Ping List. Freepmail me if you want on or off it.)
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To: Loyalist
Looks like it. In the seven years we lived in rural France last decade, the venerable old churches were emptying and withering like flowers in a drought. At the same time the church members aged and faded, a strong surge of young with large families sought out the traditional Church. There were maybe a half dozen weekly traditional Masses or more within driving distance of us, and usually packed with the faithful. We would attend early to be assured of seating.

Yet, in our locality, the only Novus Ordo priest covered four church parishes, alternated Sunday Mass at one or the other, and those few from the other towns would travel there. Some said the number of traditionals was soon to equal or surpass those who still attended Novus Ordo. We have no idea if they were right, but that supported what we witnessed.

The Islamists we knew of there, being Algerian Kabili, posed no particular problem either in numbers or impact.

Oh, yes, these very same churches were used by St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort in his effective renewal of the Faith in the region. He tackled a similar problem of people drifting away from the Church, succeeded in dragging them back to Mass. It worked.
5 posted on 07/03/2003 8:54:28 PM PDT by 8mmMauser (left is opposite of right)
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No, but absent a miracle, they are toast.
6 posted on 07/03/2003 9:30:18 PM PDT by narses ("The do-it-yourself Mass is ended. Go in peace" Francis Carindal Arinze of Nigeria)
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"Is it too late to save Europe from the twin threats of nihilism and Islam?"

Only through a revival of nationalism.

Terminate the dictatorship by deracinated cosmopolitans and allow the traditional cultures of Europe to flourish umimpeded by the blatant lie that "diversity is our strength."

10 posted on 07/04/2003 10:40:54 AM PDT by Goetz_von_Berlichingen (“Europe is the Faith, and the Faith is Europe.”)
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