![]() “Today more than ever – and let it be understood rightly – society needs strong and consistent doctrines. If we know good principles well, and if we count on the grace of Our Lord to make these principles known, there will always be men of good will to listen and understand: There is a force attached to the confession of the truth. L’Esprit familial dans la maison, dans la Cité et dans l’État. In a word, our families no longer have the sense of tradition.” (Msgr. Why are our ideas unstable? It is because the higher, fundamental principles have not at all been inculcated in the souls of children by parents, who, having been formed by these principles, have not transmitted them. Instead, we have but vague and unstable ideas, incapable of giving us the strength and energy we need. We are helpless to remedy the situation because we no longer have firm principles solidly established in our souls. Everywhere in France, schools in which the young are taught to know, love, and adore God, are being closed by a government declaring openly that its goal is to establish a nation of atheists. “Nowadays we have become helpless witnesses to such acts which – if we were living in the ancient times of paganism – even the barbarians and savages would have violently opposed. These principles are indelible when they are learned right from childhood – which is the reason why the Revolution constantly wages war against the family, in order to remove any obstacle to the spreading of its errors: It is especially in the home that moral principles are acquired. The Importance of Education, Especially in the Family Note that Saint Pius X cited the last sentence of the above passage, in his sermon on December 13, 1908, when he beatified Saint Joan of Arc). Panégyrique de Saint Émilien, November 8, 1859. The core of Satan’s reign among us is the toning down of Christianity in Christians” (Cardinal Pie. Dear brethren, today, more than ever, the primary strength of the wicked is the weakness of the good. One cannot walk with assurance in the darkness of night, nor even in merely dim daylight. The will is a blind faculty when it is not enlightened by the intellect. Where does this weakness come from? Isn’t it the natural and inevitable consequence of doctrinal weakness, weakness in belief, and, to be more exact, weakness in the Faith? After all, courage has no reason to exist if it isn’t at the service of a conviction. However, we must go further, and ask the ultimate question. When I ask the wise of this era to identify the worst hardship of modern society, they reply unanimously that mankind is becoming weak and soft. Your resistance, dear brothers, consists therefore in being firm in your minds against the seduction of false and misleading principles. “The battle is mainly a battle of doctrines.
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