The Church in the United States has done a poor job of forming the faith and conscience of Catholics for more than 40 years. And now we’re harvesting the results — in the public square, in our families and in the confusion of our personal lives. Our republic was not designed to survive with a Godless people. It is far more important that the church become a political force than a political party.
“It is far more important that the church become a political force than a political party.”
Far more important that The Church bring about a metanoia in men than being a political anything. If The Church can bring about that change, all else will fall into place.
“Worldly thoughts and the cares of life have the same effect on the understanding as a veil draped over the eyes, for the understanding is the eye of the soul. So long as we leave them there, we cannot see. But when they fall away as we remember that we are to die, then we shall clearly see the true light which illumines every man as it comes into the world from on high.” +Symeon the New Theologian