How shall Christian Civilization be restored

First we must have a clear understanding of what civilization and faith mean and how they are related.

Faith is from God while civilization is man-made.

Civilization refers to the whole body of beliefs, habits and practices which pervade a particular society, something which is built up slowly over long periods of time, and passed on from generation to generation as something tried and proven in the crucible of history and therefore worthy of preservation.

The Western world has enjoyed the benefits of Catholic civilization for many centuries, even in the Protestant countries where significant remnants of Catholic belief and practice still prevailed though always referred to as Judeao-Christian civilization rather than as simply Catholic.

Steadily and progressively since the Protestant Revolution, the Catholic civilization has been eroded and secularised.

In the Protestant countries, the Catholic people have allowed themselves to become secularised by the prevailing culture instead of trying to Christianise it, as is their duty.

The Catholic, like the secularised Protestant, has domesticated his religious beliefs and practices and has less and less used these beliefs and practices to influence his public behaviour.

He has allowed himself to become atomised, like the Calvinist.

Because of this, most Catholics do not present themselves as true examples of what their Faith stands for and therefore cannot act as the leaven that the Gospel calls all followers of Christ to be.

Incredibly, many Evangelical Protestants while referring to themselves as Christians deny that name to Catholics : Catholics are to be called Catholics, not Christians.

In the reclamation of our Catholic civilization, we must recognise the supreme importance of our families.

Our civilization, to be preserved, must be continually replenished by fresh infusions from the families in each generation.

If the family is allowed to disintegrate or to become secularised, the civilization cannot survive.

Our families are meant to be first the primary school for teaching, by word and example, the Truths and Laws of God as revealed to His Church by Revelation.

As our children get older, this Catholic culture of the home is supposed to be further elaborated, developed and applied in the Catholic School or CCD classes.

Then, when the child has reached adulthood and enters public life and the general culture, he is in a position to influence that culture by applying the principles and values he acquired at home and in his Catholic school or CCD.

However, it is not enough to transmit Catholic doctrine faithfully to the younger generations.

There must also be a comprehensive correct re-statement and propagation of the true history of Catholic Civilization which has been so drastically falsified by the enemies of the Church down through the centuries, to such an extent that later generations became totally unaware of the glories of that civilization.

Such re-statement would show what has been and is being lost and would awaken Catholics, and indeed other Christians, to work mightily towards the Restoration.

If even a fraction of the millions of, at least nominal, Catholics in the U.S. were educated enough to be able to do this, our general culture would be soon rescued from the progressive secularisation that is destroying it.

Part of the prevailing mind-set implies that God doesn’t mind that millions of people in various parts of the world are not members of the Church that Christ founded, that we should accept as ‘normal’ that Catholics should just keep to their present numbers and not be interested in inviting, by our words and example, these other people to come into the fold ‘so that there should be one fold and one shepherd’.

Any Catholic worthy of the name must realise that Christ wants all people to be members of His Church - yes, Jews, Hindus, Moslems, and Christian sects, sincere as many of them are in their present beliefs and practices.

We have to, though in a charitable way, hold that they are, in plain language, wrong and living in error.

“Go into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature”

“He that heareth you, heareth Me”

“He that believes and is baptised will be saved, and he that believes not will be condemned ”.