11/02/2020
AN URGENT APPEAL TO RESIST THE BETRAYAL
AND RUIN OF THE CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION
The triple crisis caused of the (1) Chinese-exported virus, COVID-19, (2) civil unrest, and (3) economic disaster is now shaking the West’s spiritual and material foundations and the world.
The New Zealand TFP joins the common effort of the autonomous kindred organizations in 25 countries on five continents, who analyze the danger and their message of hopeful restoration. A manifesto is being published all over the world, of which we present here a summary of the most important points.
The full text can be read in the website of the American TFP (https://www.tfp.org/statements/), . . .
“The Current Situation presents a unity of purpose that aims to destroy Western Christian civilization’s remaining structures.
1. The viral epidemic whose origin and spread point to Communist China. This virus has affected, above all, the Christian nations of Europe and the Americas, in both its serious health risks and the profound economic, social, and psychological impact of the draconian health and lockdown measures. People are told to get used to a world of sadness, isolation, and sub-consumerism controlled by technocrats, not unlike the dystopian nightmare in George Orwell’s 1984 novel.
2. The West is weakened by focal points of unrest that have arisen simultaneously worldwide as if triggered by a common direction. These points include:
a) An imported uncontrolled immigration, which favors the formation of foreign enclaves within nations. Many newcomers (especially Muslim migrants) refuse integration and assimilation, which creates a de facto internal separatism.
b) Leftist ideologies seek to wipe away all remnants and structures of the Christian past — these social “deconstructionist” ideals target capitalist bourgeois society. The Black Lives Matter and like leftists’ movements have taken advantage of racial and cultural differences to promote class struggle through street violence and urban destruction.
3. Above all, it is weakened by a spiritual crisis. Untold numbers abandon the Faith and live without God or His Law, no longer seeking God’s grace and sacramental life.
4. In this supreme hour of Christianity, the faithful lift their gaze to the Chair of Peter, the Supreme Authority of the Catholic Church, seeking a word of comfort and guidance. Instead of being the West’s bulwark, however, the Holy See seems indifferent to its fate. At times it even seems to favor those attacking the West with unparalleled intensity.
Consider these recent facts (among many that could be listed) that undermine the foundations of the Faith:
1. The Magisterium of the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual acts “are contrary to natural law” and “in no case can they be approved” (Catechism, no. 2357), and a later 2003 Vatican declaration condemns “the legal recognition of homosexual unions.” But a recently released statement by Pope Francis affirms that “homosexual people are entitled to have a family. . . . We have to pass a law on civil unions. So, they will be covered legally.”
2. Pope Francis launched Fratelli Tutti, an encyclical which puts the Catholic Church and Sacred Scripture on par with other religions and their foundational books. In the name of a universal naturalist fraternity and its corresponding “social friendship,” Fratelli Tutti provides the doctrinal and psychological bases for an “open world” without principles or borders, with no defined religion.
3. The encyclical favors the West’s uncontrolled invasion by migrants (in the case of Europe, this means mostly Muslims). It calls for the submission of countries to international organizations like the United Nations, which would solve global problems, especially those related to climate and the environment.
4. Furthermore, and contradicting Church social doctrine, Fratelli Tutti restricts private property and the free market economy so extensively that, in practice, it denies the moral legitimacy of these two foundations of the Western economy. Pope Francis has repeated the “sustainable degrowth,” carbon-free energy savings (that is, pauperism as a standard for consumption), and the communal ownership and management practiced by leftist popular movements.
5. To this must be added the indigenous horizons proposed in the encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ and the Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia, which present the tribal way of life as a model of sustainable living and community. Not to mention the horrendous acts of Pachamama worship in the Vatican.
Both tragically confirm Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira’s predictions of pauperism and tribalism tendencies in the Church, made in the third part of his 1976 book Revolution and Counter-Revolution, and in his 1977 work Indian Tribalism: The Communist-Missionary Ideal for Brazil in the Twenty-First Century.
6. The Church Hierarchy’s passivity during the health crisis was evident when many religious authorities went beyond political ones, prohibited the celebration of Masses, and imposed Communion in the hand. For the first time in history, the Catholic clergy celebrated Easter without the faithful. Many among the latter are not returning to Church, aggravating a growing apostasy.
Is There a Right to Resist a Pope Who Abandons the Christian West?
Until Pope Francis, the Sovereign Pontiffs recognized Western Christian civilization as the Church’s firstborn child and sought to defend it. Instead, the Church would be acting like a false shepherd who turns the flock over to the voracious wolves wanting to devour it. However, this is the attitude shown by many of our highest ecclesiastical authorities.
We do not fear assuming the state of RESISTANCE because its moral legitimacy was acknowledged by the silence of Pope Paul VI and numerous other ecclesiastical authorities to the TFP statement on the Vatican’s policy of détente with communist regimes. The 1974 document, written by Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, was signed and published by all TFPs then existing.
Saint Peter teaches us that it is necessary “to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). The limits of this declaration do not permit us to list all the Church Fathers, Doctors, moralists, and canonists — many of them raised to the honor of the altar — who have affirmed the legitimacy of resistance. This genre of resistance is not separation, it is not revolt, it is not acrimony, it is not irreverence. On the contrary, it is fidelity, it is union, it is love, it is submission.
To resist means that we will encourage Catholics to reaffirm their love for Western Christian civilization and their willingness to defend its remnants and culture. Furthermore, we will promote their restoration with greater brilliance and solidity, so the West regains the world leadership it deserves not because it is Western but because it is Catholic.
To resist means to respectfully publish our analysis and judgment in situations such as the encyclical Fratelli Tutti or Pope Francis’s endorsement of the legal recognition of homosexual unions—a death blow to what remains of Western Christian Civilization.
To resist means to denounce with filial and respectful frankness the dangerous contradiction between the privileged treatment accorded by the Holy See to Red China (whose Communist regime it does not condemn) and Pope Francis’s disdain for the great countries of Europe and the Americas, for he mercilessly attacks their sovereignties and economic system based on free enterprise and private property.
To resist means to proclaim with indomitable confidence that beyond the spiritual storms, material challenges, and every attack by their enemies, the West and Christian civilization will rise again, fulfilling Our Lady’s prophetic words in Fatima, “finally, my Immaculate Heart will triumph!”
Tradition Family Property – New Zealand
Joining the Catholic militant effort of the kindred TFP societies in
Europe
Österreichische Gesellschaft zum Schutz von Tradition, Familie und Privateigentum (Austria)
Société pour la Défense de la Tradition, Famille, Propriété (France)
Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Schutz von Tradition, Familie und Privateigentum e.V. (Germany)
Associazione Tradizione Famiglia Proprietà (Italy)
Tradition, Family, Property–United Kingdom
Irish Society for Christian Civilisation
Fundacja Instytut Edukacji Społecznej i Religijnej im. Ks. Piotra Skargi (Poland)
Tradición y Acción (Spain)
Helvetia Christiana (Switzerland)
Stichting Civitas Christiana (The Netherlands)
Instituto Santo Condestável (Portugal)
Asia
Philippine Crusade for the Defense of Christian Civilization, Inc.
Oceania
Australian TFP, Inc.
Africa
Family Action South Africa
Latin America
Sociedad Paraguaya de Defensa de la Tradición, Familia y Propriedad (TFP)
Centro Cultural Cruzada (Colombia)
Sociedad Colombiana Tradición y Acción
Tradición y Acción por un Peru Mayor
Sociedad Civil Fátima la Grande Esperanza (Argentina)
Acción Familia por un Chile Autentico, Cristiano y Fuerte
Circulo Beato Pio IX (Ecuador)
Instituto Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (Brazil)
North America
American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (U.S.A.)
Canadian Society for the Defence of Christian Civilization
The New Zealand TFP – the furthermost echo of the Rampant Lion in the world
