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By Timothy Matthews
Issue: March 2009
http://www.catholicinsight.com/online/features/article_882.shtml
Western civilization at the present day is passing
through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has been
previously experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social
institutions or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces
or the slow development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever
consciously faced the prospect of a fundamental alteration of the beliefs and
institutions on which the whole fabric of social life rests ... Civilization is
being uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and is being
reconstituted in a new organisation which is as artificial and mechanical as a
modern factory.
Christopher Dawson. Enquiries into Religion and Culture, p. 259.
Most of Satan’s work in the world he takes care to keep hidden. But two small
shafts of light have been thrown onto his work for me just recently. The first,
a short article in the Association of Catholic Women’s ACW Review; the second, a
remark (which at first surprised me) from a priest in Russia who claimed that we
now, in the West, live in a Communist society. These shafts of light help,
especially, to explain the onslaught of officialdom which in many countries
worldwide has so successfully been removing the rights of parents to be the
primary educators and protectors of their children.
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