War against Christianity

By Modesto P. Sa-onoy

The series of rioting and protests in America has worsened with the anarchists beheading statues of men that shaped America, like George Washington, Ulysses Grant, and saints of the Catholic Church. The mobsters have already issued a call to destroy more statues of saints.

Last week, Dr. Taylor Marshall gave an interview to the U.S. cable network One America News (OAN) about the current crisis in America, where Marshall discussed his book, “There is a War on Christianity”. Marshall pointed out that the attacks on national symbols and statues “are an attack against Christian civilization.”

Marshall, Thomist scholar and author of multiple books, said that “with these riots and these hate groups” it is not just about George Washington and other political figures, but “they are now attacking Christian symbols, signs, crosses, statues. We are really in a war over the heart of civilization.” He pointed out that “civilization emerged from Christianity.”

“The goodness that we have experienced,” Marshall went on to say, “in our nation emerged from a Christian culture. And these atheists, these socialists, these Marxists, they know that, and they are attacking it.”

We recall that the founder of Marxism, Karl Marx once stated that “religion is the opium of the people,” and Communist countries have always suppressed Christianity. Indeed, the communists can make alliances with Christians who try to topple Christian governments and then when they had taken power, they turn against their Christian allies. Communist China is a glaring example that Filipinos should be wary about their kind of friendship and offers of assistance.

I mentioned earlier the destruction of the statues of St. Junipero Serra in San Francisco, the great champion for the rights of indigenous peoples, and then that of St. Louis, blaming the saint for intercontinental slave trade when there was no such thing at the time of St. Louis in the 13^th century.

“They are taking the debates and controversies of our time and they are imputing them into these men who come before us so that they can erase Christian memory, erase Christian civilization. They are actually going after what we believe in our hearts,” Marshall added.

Marshall holds that the U.S. can cherish what is good in its country and history, while purging evils, such as abortion, as it has done in the past in cases such as with slavery. “As a nation,” he explained, “we have been able to – often through blood – repent and to change our ways.”

While he admits that “Trump is not perfect,” he adds that “none of us is perfect,” nor previous Presidents or even Catholic saints, and explains that “we can work together, not to burn everything that’s America to the ground. We can simply fix what is wrong and cherish what has been good and wholesome in our history.”

In a comment to LifeSiteNews on President’s Trump’s tweet that “there is a war against Christianity,” Marshall said that “people are realizing that we have shifted from a political battle to a spiritual battle.”

On the other hand, Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments cited a “bizarre proposal” regarding reception of Holy Communion in Italy aimed at minimizing the risk of contagion of the coronavirus. He called the proposal “total madness” and represents examples of the devil attacking the Eucharist, another attack not only on Christianity but the Catholic Church in particular.

One proposal, being studied by the Italian government and already adopted in some dioceses in Germany, is “do-it-yourself” Communion, whereby consecrated hosts are packaged in plastic bags, so the faithful can take them away.

The practice is being proposed while public Masses remain suspended across Europe, depriving the faithful of Holy Communion.

Such a proposal is “absolutely not possible,” Cardinal Sarah told the Italian Catholic news La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana May 2. “God deserves respect; you can’t put him in a bag. I don’t know who thought of this absurdity.”

Well, for one who does not believe in the Real Presence.

The Eucharist, he added, “must be treated with faith, we cannot treat it as a trivial object. We are not at the supermarket. This is total madness.”

Cardinal Sarah advocated more reverence of God at Mass, like kneeling to receive the Host at the tongue.

The attack against the Church is from without and within.