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Consensus of the Many

By Stephen Volk

"True rationality is not guaranteed by the consensus of the many, but only by the openness of human reason to the reason of the Creator and by listening together to this Source of our rationality.”  - Pope Benedict XVI

One day, near a Catholic Church in Cologne, Germany, rats, the size of moles, were seen all times of the day and night, scurrying around the church.  Finally, I asked someone what they thought of them.  A local German merely wrinkled up his nose and said, “Aren’t they cute?”  It was apparent that as a defense mechanism to what seemed an unconquerable problem – not unlike residents forced to stay near the Chernobyl accident – desensitization to dangers and a willful denial of the problem resulted. 

I then asked, “Is anything being done about this?”  “No,” was the fatalistic reply.  “Bureaucracy would take at least two years.”  This was the consensus of the many.  Well, even if it would take two years to conquer encroaching epidemic, disease and plague, I contacted medical authorities (also strangely desensitized) about poison rats could take back to their nests, while also discussing preventative measures such as school children not throwing their garbage every day near the Catholic Church located between the grocery store and school.  In this case, it didn’t take an Encyclical to define the problem though it took a healthy intolerance and an aversion to desensitization to overcome it…

Attorney Randy England, a most promising candidate as a 21^st century St. Thomas More, emphasizes, “A large measure of tolerance is a virtue in this world.  Within the Church, however, there must be limits beyond which the title ‘Christian’ can no longer apply.  Of course, the title no longer applies when a Christian forsakes the Law of God to join the consensus of the many. 

The Church is not wedded to the passions of the moment, but bound to the truth without regard for any momentary twists currently popular with those individuals who are given over to the latest scientific or philosophical musings.  This ‘dogmatic relativism’ was rejected by Pope Pius XII in the Encyclical Humani Generis.  He wrote that the way in which we express the truth:

…is capable of being perfected and polished; and we know also that the Church itself has not always used the terms in the same way.  [But] it is also manifest that the Church cannot be bound to every system of philosophy that has existed for a short space of time.  This is supreme impudence and something that would make dogma a reed shaken by the wind.<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[i]<!–[endif]–> 

A most intriguing book is Justice Holmes, Natural Law, and the Supreme Court by Francis Biddle<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[ii]<!–[endif]–> (Macmillan: New York, 1961).  In its pages, we see Catholic dogma confronted by the “consensus of the many” argument.  In the following excerpt, Francis Biddle argues:

"At times Father Lucey seems to be angry for what eludes him.  But the difference between the two men is not principally a question of misunderstanding.  It comes down to a determination of the sources of general principles.  The Catholics say that they come from God, and have a validity entirely independent of their human acceptance.  For Justice Holmes they are derived from the consensus of the community embodied in the long tradition of the law, of the dominant beliefs of the culture of which he felt himself a part, and of the Constitutional provisions expressing that culture.

"Put simply, and without the paradoxes and teasing oversimplifications, Holme's beliefs are neither radical – for our day and age – nor disturbing: the belief that men make their own laws, that these laws do not flow from some mysterious omnipresence in the sky, and that judges are not independent mouthpieces of the infinite; that since morality is human in its origin and its end, men should be permitted to discover what is for them desirable and how it should be achieved, and allowed to indulge in their own legislative experiments to better their lot – they are not fools for doing what they want to do; that the justification of any rule of law is that it helps to bring about a desired social end; that law must change to follow the needs of man; that all doctrine must be adjusted to these needs… There can never be reconciliation between the dogmatic mind and the free mind."   The "free mind" he refers to of course is the Liberal mind and I'm reminded of the 1899 Catholic classic Liberalism Is A Sin  by Fr. Felix  Salvany (TAN Books).

Satan could not have put it better.  The great Irishman C.S. Lewis wrote about the timeless Law of Nature, the Moral Sense, in his Mere Christianity.  Biddle's is the creed of Liberalism and appears to be logical – while we remind ourselves "logic" is not "truth."  Biddle is right when he says it comes down to the sources of general principles.  But after mocking the omnipresence of God (as we see Science taking the moral high ground) Biddle then "assures" us Holmes is the one who is right for believing the true principles are derived "from the consensus of the community." 

(C.S. Lewis believed democracy isn't always the best form as the majority is usually wrong.  Today, the Marxists, Freemasons and New Age work together, sometimes unwittingly, under a façade of democracy, for the ultimate Marxist goal of internationalism.  While the Cold War appeared to be won outside North America, Marxism continued its North American infiltration of government, education, media, the arts and the Church.  Bella Dodd’s predictions were true!)

Let's take this "logic" a step further.  Who has been diligently forming the "consensus of the community?”  The "politically correct" Constitution-ignoring amoral globalists/internationalists.  Marxism opposes constitutions.  For decades, any goal the globalists/internationalists wanted to achieve needed to be perceived as if emerging from "the grass roots."  You sadly see it in journalism every day:  Common people interviewed in the radio and newspapers with the answers the globalists want to supply and further condition the public with.  But the goals are originally made at high levels then implemented from the top down, with the veneer all these "good ideas" are coming from the grass roots.  Rothschild's ISO 9000 was an excellent example, as were privatized prisons.  There are thousands of examples…

So much for the consensus of the unregenerate community.

So when Biddle says "morality is human in its origin and its end," he is partially right.  The true Catholic way is to have and rightly so, morality spring from true doctrine.  But this is turned upside down (thanks to the Marxist Frankfurt School of homosexual Jewish social engineers, whose purpose for their 1950 The Authoritarian Personality is to turn the values of western civilization upside down) as Biddle perverts that "law must change to follow the needs of man; that all doctrine must be adjusted to these needs."  This is absolute insanity.  But it's what we have pandemically today!  That is, the law changing to meet the sinful needs of man.

In The Vatican and the Kremlin by Camille Cianfarra is further insight to the “consensus of the community.”  Cianfarra reveals, “In man’s relations with other individuals, the Communists uphold the principle of absolute equality, rejecting all hierarchy and divinely constituted authority, including the authority of parents.  What men call authority and subordination, they assert, is derived from the community as its first and only source.”<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[iii]<!–[endif]–>  There you have it.  According to Marxists (“politically correctness” is cultural Marxism) authority is derived from the community as its first and only source.  Francis Biddle was Attorney General for the Roosevelt administration which chose to support totalitarian Marxism in WWII. 

Marxist “consensus of the community” belief infiltrates the Catholic Church today.  On a recent CBC program,  The Current, Anna Marie Tramonte interviewed Rev. Richard McBrien who admitted, “We see the younger generation who are increasingly open on the matter of homosexuals in our society.  And that’s the way our society is moving…  The Church will have to move with society.”<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[iv]<!–[endif]–>  The Church will have to move with society?  The Church will have to move with the consensus of the community?  The Church must become Marxist?  Liberal Richard McBrien and anti-Catholic Biddle are agreed that "law must change to follow the needs of man; that all doctrine must be adjusted to these needs."  Indeed, Pope Benedict XVI addressed this issue by unequivocally stating, "True rationality is not guaranteed by the consensus of the many, but only by the openness of human reason to the reason of the Creator and by listening together to this Source of our rationality.”<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[v]<!–[endif]–> 

Fr. C. E. Coughlin warned, “Father Teilhard de Chardin’s importance in history exhibits the clearest explanation and proof of Lenin’s theory of ‘boring from within’.  Churchmen frequently profess communist doctrines.  When Pope Pius XII, in 1950, published his Encyclical ‘On the Human Creation’ (‘Humani Generis’) it was unmistakably directed against the type of Hegelian pantheism as voiced by Teilhard.  And following its publication (Teilhard knew it had him in mind) the affronted priest wrote: ‘In spite of Encyclicals only the Roman Church is the axis of an evolution that is able to carry out the necessary transformation’.  Thus he hoped to use the decatholicized Church, which he called ‘Roman’, as leverage to effect his goal of fusion; the union of Russia and America, of the Kremlin and the Vatican, of atheism and theism, of Christianity and communism, of Christ and chaos!<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[vi] <!–[endif]–>

Coughlin was a college professor before he became a priest and during that time made a special study of Russia.<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[vii]<!–[endif]–>  He accused the government of building up communism,<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[viii]<!–[endif]–> as today the Canadian government should be accused of building up Marxism.  The Canadian government is building up the “consensus of the many.”  It is for this reason Father Groeschel, during his recent visit to Canada, warned that Canada is now becoming a “land of darkness.”  It is growing dark because of the “consensus of the thought-controlled many.”   But while Canadian Catholics are now on the defensive concerning “human rights” commissions, they should simultaneously be on the offensive to expose atheist Marxism undermining Canadian society.  Coughlin revealed, “One clearly sees Moscow’s interest in Teilhard and his philosophies.  Brilliant as he was, he lit a candle whose thin flame offered for the Russians a glimmering of hope in the dark night of Vatican-Kremlin contradictions; and bestirred a satanic expectancy on the hearts of the latter that, possibly without war and nuclear weapons, five hundred million Catholics and one billion non-Catholics could be converted to Hegelian Marxism and Soviet atheism…”<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[ix]<!–[endif]–>    

To effectively pray for, confront, and if needed to expose the unrepentant, liberal Marxist priests like Notre Dame’s McBrien, one needs to understand de Chardin as the link between Kremlin and Vatican and how Catholic clergy frequently profess Marxist doctrines, wittingly and unwittingly.  A growing “consensus of the community” within Catholic leadership, for decades, with de Chardin leanings, has softened their stance to modern and secular-materialist destruction of natural law.  To quote de Chardin directly (1952) he wrote: “As I love to say the synthesis of the Christian God (of the above) and the Marxist God (of the forward)… is the only God whom henceforth we can adore in spirit and in Truth.”  As if Marx recognized a God!  As if communism by its nature is not atheistic!  As if there possibly could be a synthesis, a fusing together, of God and anti-God, Christ and anti-Christ!<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[x]<!–[endif]–>  As if Gorbachev in the Presidio is not an ardent disciple of Lenin’s doctrine of revolutionary flexibility.      

So now that "samesex marriages" and "adoption rights for samesex unregenerates are forced upon the UK Catholic Church," to decatholicize it, Biddle would have us believe all doctrine must be adjusted to the "needs" of these "new moralities."  Feminist politicians who infiltrate Opus Dei promote the “consensus of the community” and “new moralities.” So here's where our new 21st century war comes in: Will true traditional Catholic doctrine stand up to and overcome victoriously the "new moralities" in conflict with the Law of Nature?  Or will the consensus of the community – formed at the top by 21st century, atheistic Marxist social engineers – quickly lead to "new moralities" leading to "new doctrine."  This is, indeed, the basis of the rule of law for the UN (proven countless times to be criminal by New American Magazine) and the "politically correct" culturally-Marxist congressmen and senators who have been secretly taking their orders from the liberal Javier Solana in Europe; most recently culminating with Presidential Decision Directive 50 giving President Bush power over Congress.  

While one is tempted to throw up their hands and simply say, "Well, another civilization bit the dust" (there is now an official FBI pamphlet downloadable at Stan Monteith's website which says anyone quoting the Constitution to an officer is to be arrested) I'm reminded of the vision of George Washington published in 1880 where it was shown that, with the help of angels, the USA would win its third world war.  As incredible as this is – and as much as it has been hidden from the public – it appears valid and true.  But there are tremendous, tremendous fights ahead… This is a good time for the Church Militant to stay focused in fighting mode. 

As Canadians, we can see western civilization spared the fate of Russia – as did Achille Ratti, Papal Nuncio, later Pope Pius XI – who displayed fearless faith, fides intrepida, when Ratti stood with the defenders of 1920 Poland; while prayerfully “busy day and night in building up the courage both of government officials and of their people, appreciating that the Marxist invasion must be crushed.”<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[xi]<!–[endif]–> Due to inevitable confrontations, (perhaps compared to 1948 Rumania)<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[xii]<!–[endif]–> it would appear Catholics in North America as the Church Militant will become far less guilty of sins of omission and acknowledge their truly anointed active roles and destinies; with Divine assistance to sway the “consensus of the thought-controlled community” to Jesus Christ.  The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church. 

Stephen Volk