The History of the Modern World is the History of an Illusion.

Modern History since 1789 has been, to a large extent, the account of the domination of State after State by the naturalistic supranationalism of Freemasonry, behind which has been steadily looming up the still more strongly organized naturalistic supranationalism of the Jewish Nation. That is why the post-revolutionary epoch has witnessed, in country after country, persistent attacks on the programme of Christ the King in regard to the Church, the State, the Family, Education, the Religious Orders, the Press and Private Property. Soon after every successful Judaeo-Masonic Revolution, since the first in 1789 down to and including the Spanish Revolution of 1931, the world has begun to hear of the country’s entering upon the path of ” progress ” by the introduction of ” enlightened ” reforms, such as, the separation of Church and State, the legalization of divorce, the suppression and banishment of religious orders and congregations, the glorification of Freemasonry, the secularization of the schools, the nationalization of property and the unrestrained licence of the press. As the revolt against the Divine Plan for order in the world and the denial of God’s Rights have spread, respect for man’s personal rights has diminished. These rights are being denied and the world is threatened with the return of a slavery worse than that of Ancient Rome, in proportion as rulers of States no longer see in their subjects members of Christ. As the social organization of the world has been increasingly withdrawn from the rule of Christ the King, human beings are being treated more and more as mere individuals completely subject to the State, just as in the days before Christ.

Pope Leo XIII shows how inevitable all this was. “Never to have known Jesus Christ in any way,” he writes, “is the greatest of misfortunes, but it involves no perversity or ingratitude. But, after having known Him, to reject or forget Him, is such a horrible and mad crime as to be scarcely credible. For He is the origin and source of all good, and just as mankind could not be freed from slavery but by the sacrifice of Christ, so neither can it be preserved but by his power. The case of governments is much the same as that of the individual; they also must run into fatal issues if they depart from the Way. Let Jesus be excluded, and human reason is left without its greatest protection and illumination; the very notion is easily lost of the end for which God created human society, namely, that by the help of their civil union the citizens should attain their natural good, but nevertheless in a way not to conflict with that highest and most perfect and enduring good which is above nature. Their minds busy with a hundred confused projects, rulers and subjects alike travel a devious road, bereft, as they are, of safe guidance and fixed principle.”

M. Maritain has some apposite remarks in this connection. “The terrestrial State being ordained by nature.” he writes, “to the moral good of the human being, and therefore necessarily ordained in fact to eternal life as to its last end and to the good of the heavenly city, it is a metaphysical impossibility for the terrestrial State to attain its peculiar end and true prosperity in opposition to the good of the Church. Yet it believed that it could. The history of the modern world is the history of that illusion. The results are before our eyes.”

(Rev. Denis Fahey C.S.Sp., The Mystical Body of Christ)