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Tuesday February 09, 2010
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Editorials
Editorials
As always, Benedict has his sight focussed on points of crisis. He writes: “The denial or even the restriction of the rights of the family, by obscuring the truth about man, threatens the very foundations of peace.” This is strong language, hard for people to grasp. He continues: “Consequently, whoever, even unknowingly, circumvents the institution of the family undermines peace in the entire community, national and international, since he weakens what is in effect the primary agency of peace. This point merits special reflection: Everything that serves to weaken the family based on the marriage of a man and a woman, everything that directly or indirectly stands in the way of its openness to the responsible acceptance of a new life, everything that obstructs its right to be primarily responsible for the education of its children, constitutes an objective obstacle on the road to peace.” How does this apply to us, Canadians? Three years ago, the Liberal government of Paul Martin wiped out the legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman and thereby undermined God’s intent for the welfare of society. Pope Benedict continues, noting that: “We do not live alongside one another purely by chance; all of us are progressing along a common path as men and women, and thus as brothers and sisters. Consequently, it is essential that we should all be committed to living our lives in an attitude of responsibility before God, acknowledging him as the deepest source of our own existence and that of others” (Zenit, Dec 11,2007). Here the Pope touches on a second evil: namely the denial of God’s providence. When Pierre Trudeau introduced his policy of multiculturalism it was immediately interpreted to mean that Christianity had been deposed from its “privileged,” i.e., traditional legal position in Canadian law. Canada was now “secular,” they said, and there was no further need to respect what the Church had to say. From then on secularism quickly developed into an anti-religion religion of which the atheist and abortionist Henry Morgentaler and the atheist and homosexual agitator, Vancouver MP Svend Robinson, have been recent prophets. Christians continue to point out that this attitude will lead to destruction and chaos. The renowned historian of culture, Christopher Dawson (died 1970), demonstrated that the centuries have repeatedly confirmed that religion is the greatest cohesive force of culture and that it constitutes the cornerstone of every major civilization. When society loses its religion, it will soon lose its culture. Canada’s turn against religion already has left a trail of chaos and confusion. That was the point of Cardinal’s Ouellet’s October 2007 observation about the state of affairs in Quebec (See News in Brief, pp 24). Secularism is never constructive, only destructive. Thirdly, without the natural (moral) law as the foundation of democracy, those in power will decide what is good and evil. Writes Pope Benedict: "At the root of this tendency is ethical relativism, which some people even see as one of the principal conditions for democracy because, they feel, relativism guarantees tolerance and mutual respect. But if this were true, the majority at any given moment would become the ultimate source for law, and history shows with great clarity that majorities can make mistakes. "True rationality is not guaranteed by the consensus of the many, but only by the openness of human reason to the reason of the Creator and by listening together to this Source of our rationality" (Zenit, October 5, 2007). Today, Catholic Insight magazine has also become a victim of the new anti-religion. We, too, have been denounced to the Canadian Human Rights Commission in Ottawa for speaking out against the activists who agitated for adding so-called sexual orientation to the Hate Crimes Act in 2003 and the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in 2005. The politically correct activists brook no opposition. See the article ”Catholic Insight under human rights attack”, page 10; and David Warren,“Suing for silence”, page 17. We will keep you posted. © Copyright 1997-2006 Catholic Insight
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