ARTICLE BY MONSIGNOR FULTON J. SHEEN, PROPHETICALLY WRITTEN IN 1948

[Satan] will establish a counter-church, which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church… It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. We are living in the days of the Apocalypse. The two great forces—the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical Body of the Antichrist—are beginning to draw battle lines for the catastrophic conflict. The false prophet will have a religion without a cross. A religion without a world to come. A religion to destroy religions. There will be a false church.

The Church of Christ, the Catholic Church, will be one; and the false prophet will create the other. The false church will be worldly, ecumenical (in every sense, even with pagans), and global. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some kind of global association. A world parliament of churches.  It will be emptied of all divine content; it will be the mystical body of the Antichrist. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet.

The Antichrist will not be called that; otherwise, he would have no followers. He will not wear red stockings, nor vomit sulfur, nor carry a trident, nor wave a tail with an arrow like Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the devil convince men that he does not exist. When no one recognizes him, he exerts more power. God has defined Himself as "I am who I am," and the Devil as "I am who I am not."

Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find a description for the popular myth of the Devil as a jester dressed as the first "red" in the world. Rather, he is described as a fallen angel, as "the prince of this world," whose business is to tell us that there is no other world.

His logic is simple: if there is no heaven, there is no hell;  If there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge; and if there is no judgment, then evil is good, and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so like Himself that he would deceive even the elect, and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect.

How will he come in this new age to gain followers for his religion? The pre-communist Russian belief is that he will come disguised as the great humanitarian; he will speak of peace, prosperity, and abundance, not as a means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves.

The third temptation, in which Satan asked Christ to worship him and all the kingdoms of the world would be his, will become the temptation to have a new religion without the Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy religion, or a politics that is a religion, that gives to Caesar what is God's.  Amidst his apparent love for humanity and his fervent pronouncements on freedom and equality, he will harbor a great secret that he will tell no one: he will not believe in God. He will establish his dictatorship.

Because his religion will be fraternity without the fatherhood of God, it will deceive even the elect. He will establish a counter-church that will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the marks and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that in all its outward aspects will resemble the mystical body of Christ.

Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, 1948.

Modernist heresy leads us toward this false religion and this false church.

THE ATHEIST SEEKS TO SIN WITHOUT REMORSE

 

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE MODERN AGE IS FAITH IN GOD

The whole contrast that exists between the Middle Ages, which sought first causes, and the modern age, which pursues secondary causes, is exemplified in art: in the Middle Ages, no sculptor ever carved his name on a sculpture; and the reason was that he worked for God; and he acknowledged that it was God who gave him the ability to sculpt, and the mind of an artist; and when he left his work anonymously, it was God, the first cause, who brought the credit. Today, the sculptor carves his name on marble, because he works for man, and has forgotten the First Cause, the Cause of all causes, which is God. (... )

Medieval art is the art of a redeeming humanity. It is rooted in the Christian soul, on the shore of living waters, under the sky of theological virtues, and among the sweet marshmallows of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. For in the Middle Ages it was not a question of making Christian art, but of being Christian. If you were a Christian, your art was Christian. If you believed in eternal dogmas, your art would express eternal truths. The medieval artist used to say: "If you want to carve things of Christ, you must live with Christ." For medieval man, art required calm and meditation rather than excitement and feverish motorcycling. History tells us that the Blessed Angelic wept while painting the "Crucifixion" which is today in the Convent of San Marco in Florence.

(Fulton J. Sheen, from "Truth and Lies: A Prophetic Criticism of Modern Thought" Mimep editions)

BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN DIXIT

 Dostoevsky wrote that in a future day men would say there is no crime, there is no sin, there is no guilt, there is only hunger; then men will come crying and fawning at our feet saying to us, "Give us bread." Nothing will matter except the economic. 

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaughts of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Silent Shepherds: The time has come to defend and teach the true doctrine. Sooner or later, God will hold you accountable

 

BREAKING CHAINS by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen:

"The joy born of love of God enables us to see the world from an entirely different point of view. Before, when shackled to the ego, we were cooped up within the narrow walls of space and time. But once the chains are broken, one falls heir to immensities beyond all telling. Then we find our greatest joys not in the things we cling to, but in what we surrender; not in the asking for anything, but the giving of something; not in what others can do for us, but in what we can do for others. Joy comes from using well the talents the Lord gave us, from a sense of bliss at being redeemed by Our Lord, and being permitted to minister more entirely to His Glory."

Way to Happiness, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN DIXIT

"Dostoevsky wrote that in a future day men would say there is no crime, there is no sin, there is no guilt, there is only hunger; then men will come crying and fawning at our feet saying to us, "Give us bread." Nothing will matter except the economic."

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

ABOUT TOLERANCE

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness. This is not true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two totally different things. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God's... 

 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen 

THE CORRECT DEFINITION

 

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY, BY ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN

 

Atheists and Religion

“Even those who hate religion have never really lost it; if they had, they would not hate it so much.

The intensity of their hate is the proof of the reality of that which they hate. If they really lost religion, they would not spend all their energy attempting to make everyone else lose theirs; a man who has lost a watch does not go about persuading others to lose their watches.”

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

P.S. Dear atheists, I am sorry to tell you that you have never stopped being religious.

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Dixit

Dirtiness of the Soul

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen dixit

Dostoevsky wrote that in a future day men would say there is no crime, there is no sin, there is no guilt, there is only hunger; then men will come crying and fawning at our feet saying to us, "Give us bread." Nothing will matter except the economic.

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaughts of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

The Joy Born of Love of God