The secret that everyone knows in the pre-apocalyptic era is that the vast majority of the world’s people, economic systems, political priorities, and cultural trends are controlled by an upper-crust minority wielding unprecedented power and prestige. It is the result of the devouring monopolies of mega-corporations and the collusion of the super-rich to get super powerful. These are the elites, and as alarming as this terrifying, tuxedo cabal is, what is most alarming is their hatred for the Catholic Church.
Their hatred is also extremely telling. People often hate what contradicts them, what stands to topple them. And that is precisely what Catholicism is to a world that turns on money and manipulation, on bribes and blackmail, and on shifting structures of power towards self-service. The Church is everything that is not that (although the upper hierarchy of the Catholic Church has its own elite with similar corruptions, but that is another matter).
The thing that the elites are dedicated to is not God and the moral life but rather control. They have their own rules that they set, and they expect compliance within the societal configurations they rig for themselves. Catholics, on the other hand, have a system that transcends secular concerns and commodities—those same concerns and commodities which are the very means by which the elites exercise their control. And there’s the rub.
Catholics see themselves as ultimately outside of, or even indifferent to, their system, being loyal to a hierarchy and law that they recognize as over and above anything the elites can claim. This puts Catholics in a place that causes discomfort to controllers, because they are not subservient to whatever it is the elites say makes the world go round. Catholics are in the world but not of the world, and therefore the same terms of control cannot be applied to them, making them a backwards problem. The beautiful paradoxes of the Beatitudes, for instance, fly against elitist, power-mongering logic, making Catholics a prime challenge to their organizations.
In the end, Catholics belong to a higher order, and by their faith they show an invulnerability to the trappings and terrors that the elites can launch and levy. In short, if the Catholic Church is right, then everything the elites stand for is wrong.
Catholics stand on the tradition and western heritage that the elites have abandoned, the bulwark where God and the Divine order preside, which exposes and condemns the filth and lucre that these lost souls have given themselves over to wholesale.
The elites want power and control, but they ultimately cannot control the soul who is alive with the divine grace of Jesus Christ. Catholics who are living their faith are not as subject to mind control or machinations. The elites do not have the same lure and influence over Catholics who do not put their trust in princes, and that is a recipe for hatred. There is a furnace of frustration that grows hotter with the elites’ ongoing attempts—some mild, some violent—to dethrone or delegitimize the Church; or even better, to do the impossible: to deny their origin once and for all and convert the Church herself to their “religion.”
But getting more to the heart of this hatred, this obsession with earthly power that the elites hold above all else, is nothing more than a playbook written by the common Enemy of man. The elites hate Catholics because the elites are, for the most part, darlings of the devil—which is a terrible thing to say and a terrible thing to see.
As is becoming increasingly clear in these days of disturbing disclosure, the elites form what is called a pathocracy, being comprised of people who do not have the empathy, moral compass, or conscience that normal people have, allowing their pathologies to guide them in doing what normal people would refrain from. Namely, lying, cheating, and stealing (and worse) all the way to the top without compunction.
The few who are willing to rise by revolting against spiritual norms and natural law, as history shows in the rise of Nazism and Stalinism, are the inheritors of a satanic pride. They are infused with the same hatred for God and His Church as the devil himself has because they have chosen the deal with Mephistopheles, exchanging the Christian doctrines of intellectual and moral restriction for unbridled empowerment.
Catholics are free because they have the truth and freedom, which are the very things the elites seek to withhold from the masses, having lost theirs by their enslavement to the dark powers that give them power on earth while their lives last. As Lucifer growled in Paradise Lost, “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven,” so, too, do the elites live a life of excess while hating those who do not have the pleasures and powers they have—because they have something of far greater worth. The Catholic religion is not considered as Marxist opium any longer. Instead of a sedative—or the “soma” of Huxley’s dystopian nightmare—Christianity is considered too dangerous.
While Catholics should maintain their distance from the devil and all his pomps, it is also prudent to get a grip on his strategy. One must know the enemy to make a proper and purposeful resistance. From a Catholic point of view, in loving our enemies, we should know what to pray for, what to be on the lookout for, and how to understand the world that we are passing through in order to reach heaven. The pitfalls are many, the traps are set, with crooked logic to lure us and comforts to make us comatose. These watchwords are from St. Paul:
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
As we don armor with St. Paul for the spiritual warfare that is at hand, shining a light into these shadows of elitist, radical, and diabolical rule is Bill Donahue’s new book from TAN, Christianity in the Crosshairs. This punchy and eminently readable volume provides an excellent overview and analysis of the political and religious situation, revealing the character and weakness of those who hate the one true Faith. Donahue points out how Christianity is deemed an archaicism to a new world order, new world ideologies, and new world illuminati. But beyond that dismissive, seemingly untouchable surface, is the hatred of insufficiency—or as Donahue puts it, the hatred that recognizes something that “puts limits on their sovereignty.”
The purpose of Donahue’s book is to help Christians find a way out of the complacency that infects most people when it comes to the dominance and unstoppable influence of the ruling class. Everyone asks, “What can I do?” when faced with pervasive evil, but hatred and attacks are a sign that Catholics have it within their control to resist elitist control—and that power lies in worshipping the power and benevolence of the one true God above all else, navigating through the twisted wreckage of our culture to the Kingdom that will come when all the kingdoms of the earth are dust.
From Christianity in the Crosshairs:
It behooves Christians not to be complacent. The forces aligned against them are formidable: when the ruling class teams with radical intellectuals and activists, as they do today, they make Christians look like wounded warriors. The average Joe wants nothing to do with them, preferring to mind his own business. But they will never respect his wishes, which is why vigilance and resistance are a must.
The resistance is on, and cracks are forming in the edifices of the elites. But even as they make bolder in acknowledging the self-serving evil that they have embraced, so must Catholics boldly proclaim that Christ is King and that the life of holy and humble service bestows the highest power that a person can wield: the power to commend the soul to the Father and be remembered in the Kingdom.
Pick up Donahue’s book and enter the fray with wider eyes and newer armor. The elites may hate Catholics with all their hearts, but the defense of love will never fail.
