Europe and the Faith by Hilaire Belloc

By Hilaire Belloc

In this publication, pivotal to all his historic insights, Belloc solutions the query: What made Europe? He exhibits it used to be no longer the barbarians nor the Protestant Reformation, however the Catholic religion that made Europe (and the global civilization produced through Europe). Protestantism gravely wounded this our civilization, and purely the Catholic religion can rejuvenate it. It needs to go back to that religion or perish! it is a great eye-opener on the place we're this present day and the place we needs to cross from here!!

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A great deal is known about it, for there are many contemporary accounts. Its comprehension is of vast interest to history. The Catholic may well ask: "How it is I cannot understand the story as told by these Protestant writers? " The story is briefly this: A certain prelate, the Primate of England at the time, was asked to admit certain changes in the status of the clergy. The chief of these changes was that men attached to the Church in any way even by minor orders (not necessarily priests) should, if they committed a crime amenable to temporal jurisdiction, be brought before the ordinary courts of the country instead of left, as they had been for centuries, to their own courts.

The Roman Empire was a united civilization, the prime characteristic of which was the acceptation, absolute and unconditional, of one common mode of life by all those who dwelt within its boundaries. It is an idea very difficult for the modern man to seize, accustomed as he is to a number of sovereign countries more or less sharply differentiated, and each separately colored, as it were, by different customs, a different language, and often a different religion. ; he saw (till yesterday) North Germany under the Prussian hegemony, German speaking, with yet another set of institutions, and so forth.

They record these things, but they are bewildered by them. They can explain St. Thomas' particular action simply enough: too simply. He was (they say) a man living in the past. " As though the Papacy were a secret society like modern Freemasonry, with some hidden machinery for "engineering" such things. " As though nothing besides such interferences was there to arouse the whole populace of Europe to such a pitch! As to the miracles which undoubtedly took place at St. Thomas' tomb, the historian who hates or ignores the Faith had (and has) three ways of denying them.

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