List of top 9 famous quotes and sayings about liberalism is a mental disorder to read and share with friends on your Facebook, Twitter, blogs. Embarrassing his dad. The truly Catholic press is altogether Catholic, that is to say, it defends Catholic doctrine in all its principles and applications; it opposes all false teaching (known as such) always and entirely, opposite per diametrum ["diametrically opposed"], as St. Ignatius says in that golden book of his exercises. It doesn't make sense. Witness in this respect the persecutions she has suffered.
The book you hold in your hands, Dear Reader, contains in essence the answers to these questions. Here are the sources of all error, here are the roads to Liberalism. On the other hand, it sometimes happens that a good journal falls into such or such an error or into an excess of passion in a good cause and so says something which we cannot altogether approve. How shall we guide ourselves in such a labyrinth? As examples of truly Catholic mixed monarchies, that of Catalognia and Aragon (the most democratic and at the same time the most Catholic of the Middle Ages), the ancient monarchy of Castile up to the advent of the House of Austria, the elective monarchy of Poland up to the time of the iniquitous dismemberment of that most religious realm. LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER THAT DESTROYS ALL COMMON SENSE AND REPLACES IT WITH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND REFUSAL TO BELIEVE ANY REAL FACTS THAT CONFLICTS WITH THEIR ILLUSION OF REALITY. St. Louis, Missouri June 30, 1899. It is a mental disorder. To profess to be Catholic and yet subscribe himself to be Liberal is not the way to convince people of the sincerity of his profession. It must be noted here that as the word is used in this present context, "Liberalism" refers to religion and not to politics, though it definitely bears upon that realm as well.
Disorder in the intellect begets disorder in the heart, and vice-versa. It enters in by eye and ear. Such is the general negation uttered by Liberalism. There are theoretical and practical Liberals. With it the evil is only accidental; the good constitutes its substance and is its ordinary condition. This logically implies the obedient acceptance of the dogma on the part of the individual and of society.
Author: Matt Dillon. Asked by a Catholic, who desired to know if it were permissible to speak evil of a heretic who propagated false doctrines, he replied: "Yes, you can, on the condition that you adhere to the exact truth, to what you know of his bad conduct, presenting that which is doubtful as doubtful, according to the degree of doubt which you may have in this regard. " They are bad in spite of their good works, because the general character of their acts, as well as their habitual tendencies, is bad and if they sometimes do good in order to cloak their malice, they are even worse than before. He knows no other tactics than to attack on the flank, tactics which, in religion, may perhaps be convenient, but are never decisive. There is but one condition upon which intimacy with a Liberal is justifiable at all, and that is for the purpose of converting him. They confidentially say to us. Chapter 26 Permanent Causes of Liberalism. Some accidentally good qualities do not take away the bad character of a bad man. Liberalism, whereas essentially one and the same everywhere, presents various faces in different countries. It may speak the language of charity, appealing to us from the tenderest side, and ask us to associate ourselves with it in the name of a common humanity. For we must remember that the Church places no obligation in such matters on a person who could only perform them under grave inconvenience (sub gravi incommodo). Not to be Liberal is to place in his way, at the outset, what appears to be an insurmountable obstacle. Chapter 11 The Solemn Condemnation of Liberalism by the Syllabus.
Later on, when the full tide of the deplorable deluge had submerged all Europe, carrying all before it, God raised up to His Church Pius IX (1846-1878), who has justly passed into history as the "Scourge of Liberalism. To divorce the entire life of the people from her influenceby the institution of civil marriage, by civil burial and divorce, by teaching the insidious doctrine that society as such has no religious relations or obligations and that man as a social and civil being is absolutely independent of God and His Church and that religion is a mere private opinion to be entertained or not entertained, as one pleases such is the program, such is the effect, and such, in turn, is the cause of Liberalism. They fail to see in it an infirmity of the understanding, a voluntary blindness of the heart, and a consequent weakness of will. Such are our Liberal surroundings in this country. The following short chapters on Liberalism are mainly and substantially Dr. Sarda's book, put into English and adapted to our American conditions. And so it is with our Liberals. Wherever found, whatever its uniform, Liberalism in its practical action is ever a systematic warfare upon the Church. To have children and not to practice birth control (let alone abortion), to raise and nurture them within the family they were born in, to respect and care for the elderly, to nurse the sick, to bury the dead (in anticipation of the resurrection of the body), etc., etc. Thus, the greater part of the polemics of this great Father and Doctor of the Church was personal, aggressive, biographical, as well as doctrinala hand-to-hand struggle with heretics, as well as with heresy. Yes, this is permissible, permissible in prose, in verse, in caricature, in a serious vein or in badinage, by every means and method within reach. Impress on them the necessity of reading it; show them its merits and its value.