Should a Catholic Nowadays Be a Patriot?
To such a question the answer is this: in today’s world, full of apostasy, a Catholic cannot be a patriot in the modern sense, for that would mean loving rebellion and sin. Today’s states are not fatherlands, but Masonic structures which hate Christ. Patriotism understood as an uncritical attachment to a godless nation is merely a diabolical temptation, meant to lull the soul’s vigilance to sleep and bind it to the earth that is hastening toward destruction.
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength.” (Mk 12, 30)
The First Commandment excludes any patriotism that sets the nation above God. A Catholic must love the truth, not the colours of a flag.
Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that love of one’s country is permissible only insofar as that country leads man to his final end — God. But if a land, its culture, and its society reject the law of God, the Catholic has the duty to turn away from them with horror. Love of neighbour (one’s fellow countryman) consists solely in desiring to draw him out of the mire of sin and unbelief, not in jointly remaining in a pagan sentimentalism which the world calls patriotism.
“But our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself.” (Phil 3, 20-21)
The only Fatherland of a Catholic is Heaven, and toward it he ought to direct all his love.
He who loves earthly countries in the age of their rebellion against the Creator drinks spiritual poison. The earth is a place of exile, and earthly nations are but temporary communities which, without the Catholic faith, become instruments of Satan. True happiness and perfect society exist only in the House of the Father, among the Saints and the Angels. All earthly attachments which do not serve salvation are vanity and falsehood, which the devil suggests to proud men.
“In my Father’s house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.” (Jn 14, 2)
In former times, when kingdoms were Catholic, patriotism was service to the cause of God; but today it has become a form of apostasy.
Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas, reminded the world that states which do not acknowledge the reign of Christ are bound to perish. The nations of today, delivered into bondage to the servants of antichrist, do not deserve the love of the Catholic, but his prayer for their conversion and his severe judgement upon their sins.
The modern fatherland is a marketplace of impurity and rebellion, and patriotism in such conditions is a pact with Satan.
He who loves today’s society thereby accepts its apostasy. The Antichurch is silent about this betrayal, promoting a false cult of man. The greatest deceiver in this respect was the antipope Karol Wojtyła, who, instead of God, placed “national dignity” and humanism upon the altar. For a true Catholic, such “patriotism” is a betrayal of the mission of conversion and a road toward eternal perdition. One may not love what God condemns.
Yielding to national sentiments in prayer and calling the earthly fatherland “our dearest mother” is a hideous sacrilege.
Such language is a slander cast in the face of Mary the Mother of God. How can one stand beneath the Cross, hearing Christ’s testament, and choose as “mother” a godless earthly construct governed by Masons?!
This is a pitiful attempt to replace the Immaculate with an earthly idol. A Catholic who does this loses sight of the only rescue of his soul and enters into a pact with the spirit of this world, which is the enemy of God.
There is only one dearest Mother: the Most Blessed Virgin Mary.
She is the Queen of Heaven, our only true Fatherland. He who loves the earth more than Her is not worthy of Heaven. Amen.
“I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world cometh, and in me he hath not any thing.” (Jn 14, 30)
