The chief fear that Satan has about his tactics
misfiring is his memory of the warning of God about enmity from a woman, and
about his “head being crushed,” in Genesis 3:15. Perhaps, too He might
also feel disquiet about interference from that Woman mentioned in Revelation 12:1,
arrayed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and crowned with twelve stars,
as prayed in the Rosary’s Glorious Mysteries. For those of us hoping for salvation
in spite of a world descending into mire, praying the Rosary offers a solution
to the spiritual derangement mentioned in previous blogs on this topic. I am reading
James Hitchcock’s The History of theCatholic Church. As professor Hitchcock takes up twentieth- century
modernism and the aftermath of the 1960s, the event that caught my attention was
the story, which I discussed at length in my book, of the destruction of the order
of the California Immaculate Heart Sisters.
As I take up in my chapter on religious life, after
Vatican II, instead of growth, the number of sisters in the United States
declined by over 65 percent in the period from 1965 to 2010. The most
celebrated “renewal” story in the United States was that of the Immaculate
Heart Sisters of Los Angeles, whose program of aggiornamento was guided by the psychologist Carl Rogers (d.
1987), a one-time student for the Protestant ministry who had developed a
negative attitude toward religion. The Immaculate Heart “renewal” was a
paradigm for many others that followed: many religious, having abandoned both
traditional spiritualties and traditional ministries, created a void waiting
to be filled by new "absolutes"—progressive politics, environmentalism, and of course radical feminism.
Ironically, nuns dedicated to the Immaculate Heart
of Mary, shedding their habits and often their vows, became innovators leading
the way to developments far removed from the intentions expressed by Our Blessed
Mother. The assured weapon against the onslaughts of Satan, is confidence in,
imitation of, and devotion to the Queen of the Angels, who is far ahead of the
strategies and nefarious designs of the fallen angels. This weapon, best
exemplified by Her Most Holy Rosary, recommended by saints and the traditions
of the Church, may seem a last recourse. but still offers the best hope for the
defeat of the subtle moves of a supremely evil Mastermind.
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