A Church Under Attack

The world hates the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church will not shift on its moral teaching.  It will not bend to the popular view, but rather remain faithful to what is right. Nor will the Church renounce Christ or his teaching, even when threatened with death..

Scantily clad, noisey activists of the feminist group 'Femen' invaded a conference at a university in Brussels. During the conference, demonstrators threw water on the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Andre-Joseph Leonard.  Bishop Leonard did not react and ignored the women. At the end of the demonstration, the archbishop kissed an image of the Virgin Mary before leaving the room.

Femen was Born in Ukraine and with subsidiaries in several countries (including Brazil and nations with a Muslim majority), the group was often often campaigning for the rights of women and minorities. One of their banners is the defense of gay marriage.

The bishops lack of reaction to these women, and his humility in the face of irresponsible anger, achieved a greater statement of faith and assertion of Catholic belief than anything the activists could have achieved.  The aggression toward the Church in the world of today is a reflection of the ongoing aggression that has existed since its birth two thousand years ago.  If anyone should be protesting for rights, Catholics should.

If you think that the Catholic Church of today has not suffered martyrdom like the early church, then its time to wake up. The Mexican revolution in the 1920s introduced widespread persecution of Catholics. Missionaries were expelled from the country, Catholic seminaries and schools were closed, and the Church was forbidden to own property. Priests and laymen were told to denounce Jesus and their faith in public; if they refused, they faced not just punishment but torture and death. For more information on the Mexican martyrs  Click Here

These were not the only martyrs of the twentieth century.  The Nazis also martyred Christians of various denominations, especially Catholic Clergy and laymen at the Dachau concentration camp.  More information, Click Here

The kind of anger and hate expressed by the feminists that attacked Bishop Leonard, like the persecution of Mexican Catholics and German Catholics faithful to the Church, is a rejection of truth and reason out of fear.  It is still not popular to be truly Christian.

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