The true opposition

by H.E. Bishop Thomas Aquinas O.S.B.

The true opposition is not between the right and the left, nor between the West and the East, nor between China and the United States. The true opposition is between Catholicism and the enemies of Catholicism; between the Catholic Church and the enemies of the Catholic Church, whoever they may be.

All other oppositions, in the face of this true opposition, are superficial. Freemasonry has members both on the left and on the right. In the United States, Freemasonry is well represented among both Republicans and Democrats.

The true opposition is not there. The true opposition is between those who are against Christ and those who are for Christ.

For example, the French Revolution was against Christ. Today, however, the right and the left refer to the same principles of the French Revolution. Can they truly be opposed? Pilate and Herod were enemies, yet they became friends when they opposed Our Lord.

It is true that the right is closer to natural law than the left, and this is a good thing; from this point of view, the right is far better than the left.

But if the right refuses Our Lord what is due to Him, it will end by swelling the ranks of the Antichrist.

The same happened at the Council and in the post-conciliar period. The conservatives were and are better than the ultra-modernists. But if conservatives refuse Our Lord His kingship, they end up accepting the same principles as the modernists. Their opposition is not the true one.

The true opposition is that which sets Revolution against Counter-Revolution, Christ against Antichrist. This is what Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer did. If the Revolution is a bloc, the Church is much more so. It is this bloc that must be defended.

Father Emmanuel used to say that in the end there would no longer be politics properly so called. There would only be a religious drama: the drama of the true opposition between those who belong to Christ and those who belong to the Antichrist.

May Our Lady, to whom was given the mission of crushing the serpent’s head, make us place ourselves resolutely and entirely in the armies of Christ the King, and oppose with the same energy the forerunners of the Antichrist.