The advancement of the Catholic Faith was my guiding goal in my work as a college professor of political science from the Spring of 1974 when I was teaching “discussion sections” of American Government and Politics as a graduate assistant at the State University of New York at Albany, New York, to my first full-time position as an Instructor of political science at Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York, in 1976-1977, to my first two-year stint as an Assistant Professor at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, and right on through my final term as a long time adjunct professor at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University (with stops in between at Allentown College of Saint Francis de Sales, Nassau Community College, Saint John’s University, New York Institute of Technology, Saint Francis College, Morningside College—and a five week summer session tour of duty at Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska). I did not know that the conciliar church was not the Catholic Church, but I knew that it was necessary for all men to belong to the Catholic Church in order to be saved.
However, there was something very important lacking in my intellectual formation: a familiarity with the great Social Encyclical Letters of Popes Leo XIII, Saint Pius X, and Pius XI. It was not until 1987 that I came to immerse myself in those letters, which served to educate me about Holy Mother Church’s immutable teaching about the Social Reign of Christ the King. The eponymous printed journal that preceded this website’s debut on February 20, 2004, for seven and one-half years was created to serve as an instrument of catechesis about the Social Reign of Christ the King and to explain the heresy of Americanism (the exaltation of the founding principles as an expression of Catholic teaching, which it certainly is not).
Thus, it has been over thirty-five years now that I have never wavered in a necessity to explicate right principles as the foundation of a just social order, noting, of course, that fallen men will always cause problems for themselves and each other without, however, seeking to justify their sins or seeking to protect them under the cover of the civil law. Although it is far easier to permit oneself to be overtaken by the agitations of partisan politics and the pull of the world, the title of this website explains it all: it’s either Christ or chaos in our own lives and in the world.
This commentary is an effort to summarize some, although far from all, root causes of our current difficulties. The proximate root causes are complex and multifaceted. However, this commentary is yet another effort to provide those who are interested with an understanding of truths that I myself did not understand fully until I was in my mid-thirties thirty-five years ago.
I will now “disappear” to work on a Bergoglio-themed disquisition, work that I loathe with a capital “L” but is necessary to point out to those among the unconvinced who are open to consider the truth that the counterfeit church is a false religious sect that has not been, is not now, and can never be the Catholic Church.
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Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
