The Glory of Catholic Ireland

Christendom was 'the incarnation of Christ in the socio-political order.'

Editor’s note: This essay was originally published for Magnificat Media on June 28, 2016. Slight updates have been made.

As international elites continue to complain about the UK’s departure from the European Union via Brexit, Catholics should remind themselves that the current global order was created solely by the work of human hands - it is nothing more than a straw hut built on quicksand. As John 15:5 says: “I am the vine, you the branches. Without me you can do nothing.”

Those who occupy prominent positions of power in this Matrix-like system have since World War II been rather effective at re-writing history; so successful in fact that many persons, especially Catholics, forget that an alternative to Liberalism and Modernity not only exists but for 1,000 years or so actually existed!

To be sure, the age commonly referred to as Christendom was not perfect. But as the late Fr. Juan Carlos Iscara, SSPX once said, Christendom was “the ensemble of peoples who want to live publicly according to the laws of the Holy Gospel.” It was “the incarnation of Christ in the socio-political order.”

As such, it isn’t unreasonable to believe that a higher percentage of persons born between 500 and 1500 A.D. are now enjoying eternal bliss than persons who were born after 1500.

Several Catholic countries defended the Social Kingship of Christ up until the middle 20th century. After the Second Vatican Council, they were forced to allow false religions to propagated their heresies publicly – this because “the dignity of the human person” demands it, or so Dignitatis Humanae tells us. As a result, more and more countries have witnessed a dramatic rise in non-Catholic sects.

Frances Mulraney is an Assistant Editor for the website Irish Central. She published in June 2016 a blog post about Ireland’s 1932 Eucharistic Congress. It is a good reminder about the strength of the institutional Church before Vatican II. The following videos were embedded in Mulraney’s essay. They are a joy to watch.

This footage should remind us just how glorious the Catholic world order of the Middle Ages must have been. They should also force us recall the duty that the Church Militant today has to make that a reality once again. As Irish priest Fr. Denis Fahey once said, Christendom was when “the state fulfilled its obligation of professing that religion which God Himself established and by which alone He wants to be adored and worshipped — the Catholic Religion.”

So while it is welcome news that voters in the UK supported Brexit, resisting the false song of globalism and embracing nationalism is not enough. It is surely an important first step towards the re-calibrating of the current world order away from the devil, but as Pius XI said in Quas Primas in 1925, only when “men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”