Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
October 28, 2020
“The forming of an aristocracy of the soul, the
mind and education, holding high the banner of the Catholic Counter-Revolution.”
Is there
a correlation between the virus that has been assailing two billion people over
the past ten months and the pandemic of errors that have infected the world for
many decades? In both cases we find
ourselves faced with pathogenic agents attacking the social organism. In the
first case the aggressor is a virus that attacks bodies and which only the
microscope can identify; in the second case we have a germ that is infecting
and corrupting souls but whose identity was revealed by Heaven in 1917, when
Our Lady of Fatima declared that if mankind did not amend its ways, Russia
would spread its errors and wars, revolutions and the annihilation of entire
nations would have followed.
The Most
Blessed Virgin Mary had before her eyes not only two terrifying world wars and
hundreds of millions dead, victims of the Communist and National Socialist
totalitarianisms, but also the present health crisis the world is experiencing,
with all its political and social ramifications clearly emerging. A perspective
- not of social control by a health dictatorship as many think – but on
the contrary, of social collapse and even prior to that, of the psychological
[collapse] of modern society, which by straying from God, has chosen the path
of its own self- dissolution.
This tragic
scenario seems irreversible, as in addition to the impenitence of mankind we see
the apostasy in the leadership of the Church, who no longer preach about the
necessity of prayer, penance and conversion to the One Church of Christ, but
proclaim a new, ecological, ecumenical and globalist “Gospel”. How can we avoid the chastisement predicted
by Our Lady at Fatima, when we find ourselves having to face churchmen like the
new Cardinal, Raniero Cantalamessa, who for years has been obstinately
repeating that calamities are never a divine punishment? (Avvenire,
April 23, 2011 and recently, Corriere
della Sera, April 10, 2020), Deus non irridetur! God is not
mocked, warns St. Paul in the letter to the Galatians (6,7).
Cantalamessa, like so many other
prelates, is a worthy son of the Second Vatican Council. Yet even those who
deny the responsibility of Vatican II, cannot deny the existence of an
unprecedented crisis of values, expressed in the loss of the concept of good
and evil, in relativism, in the practical atheism under which humanity lives,
and who, after ceasing to believe in God, is professing faith in idols like
Mother Earth.
The capsizing of principles transmitted
by the juridical and social protection conferred to homosexuality is an
eloquent and dramatic expression of the ongoing process of moral degradation.
Yet, even graver is the approval, or compliance which the highest authorities
in the Church seem to manifest for this degeneration in society.
The flock
has no religious and political leaders – but in the end – has the pastors it
deserves. Indeed protest against religious and public authorities is not
sufficient, if one doesn’t begin reforming oneself first of all; one’s way of
life, one’s way of thinking, breaking away from every compromise with the
modern world where the deep cause of the crisis resides.
The
dominant note today seems to be mediocrity, which is the rejection of the
greatness and supremacy of the soul, replaced by the pursuit of success and self-interest. The current scandal engulfing the Vatican
Secretariat of State, brings to light a vulgar and egotistical way of serving
the Church where theological and moral errors find their natural breeding
ground.
With good reason then, Ernesto
Galli della Loggia, in an article entitled The
Vanishing Catholic Church and Italy, in the Corriere della Sera of October
17, 2020, referring to the disastrous management of the Vatican finances,
points out “The disappearance of an
aristocratic and conservative Catholic Italy whose skills, until a short time
ago the Church in various ways used, and who served the Church and the destiny
of Catholicism in the spirit of strong ethical commitment and substantial
personal disinterest.” “The lack of true competences of an extra-religious
nature, and at the same time, the impossibility of counting on the competences
of a Catholic civic society now inexistent or remote, condemn, not only the
financial management of the Holy See, but more in general, all its relations
with “our times” to live perilously,
unendingly, on the brink of swindle or illegality, or at best, in the most
desolate ineptness.”
On October 30, 1993, at the Pallavicini Palazzo in
Rome, an international conference was held on occasion of the publication of
Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira’s book Nobiltà
ed élites tradizionali analoghe nelle allocuzioni di Pio XII al patriziato e
alla nobiltà romana (Marzorati, Milan 1993). Cardinal Alfonso Maria Stickler launched an appeal to
the traditional elites for a courageous battle in defense of Christian and human
values (Tommaso Monfeli, Cattolici senza
compromessi, Fiducia 2019, pp.
137-138). Few responded to the appeal, but the resistance of these few,
who continue to fight, indicates the path for the moral rebirth of Italy and
Europe: forming the elites of tomorrow.
True elites, primarily spiritual, but also political and social; an
aristocracy of the soul, the mind and education which holds high the banner of
the Catholic Counter-Revolution, while the foundations of society are being
shaken from below. This is the path we follow and what we indicate to those who
don’t want to be sucked into the vortex of the swamp we have right in front of
us.
Translation: Contributor Francesca Romana
