“In a word, what we need are saints, for saints are the truly great men. … I assume without further ado that the grace of God is the one thing necessary, and that God will give that grace to those who do His will.” — Fulton J. Sheen, Address of January 31, 1932.
“We have no Government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — Discourse of October 11, 1798, John Adams.
A storm is passing over Buenos Aires today. The beginning of the rainy Spring season is here and the cold weather begins to relent. This Sunday afternoon is a good moment to meditate. The silent streets and the rumor of rain invite us to enter a quiet time. Catching up on emails, I found a pearl: a message from a friendly reader in the United States. What follows is in part the meditation that ensued from reading that reader’s thoughts.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” said John Adams, the second President of the United States. That thought implicitly admits that the Constitution is meant to guide upright, moral individuals. Crooks would soon find a way to circumvent such guiding document no matter how brilliantly such instrument is devised.
That is the reason why so many judicious men have tried to figure out with certainty “the will and intention” of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Men of integrity trust the goodness and wisdom of those who wrote the Constitution and desire to continue in the same path. On the other hand, there are stupid men out there who think they have been born with all the answers to the challenges of life. In their minds, a modern concept is simply superior to any older idea merely because time has passed. That is what define such men as stupid. Forgive my sincerity.
Those who thought and wrote the Constitution were good men with a firm grasp of the realities of the human condition. They were not utopians. They did not need to destroy the present to build the future. The laws they passed were meant to keep their nation as close as humanly possible to the path of rectitude. That was a tremendous challenge: to perpetuate the sound will of their generation through history, to find a way through the ever changing landscapes of history.
Christian men know that the force that moves history forward is God’s will. Any form of government will survive as long as it holds on to the divine principles. That would explain the success of the American experiment. As long as the human component is “moral and religious” —in the Christian sense— the project will be successful. The project will eventually crash if divine principles are ignored.
“I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.”
At this point …
At this point while I was writing this post, the news of the demise of Charlie Kirk came through one of the many information services I am subscribed to. I was planning to write about the relationship between the economic forces and the moral sources driving a nation to either success or failure. I was going to mention how the moral consistency and integrity of a given population at a specific time can make the difference, achieve the impossible, face adverse odds and turn them into positive territory … Then I heard that some poor deranged idiot assassinated a good man, a family man, exemplary citizen. Why? Because the good man was extoling the social benefits of truth and morals.
Truth and morals, dear friend. Truth which is Reality as the Greek philosophers told us.
Many years ago I heard Bill Buckley say “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling STOP! at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” I realized then and there that I also was for preserving all the things in our society that deserve to be preserved.
A lot of water went under the bridge. Having lived seven decades, having read many books, heard many voices, seen many lands I arrive at this moment when so many honorable and worthy men are killed for defending what evidently deserves to be defended. “We hold these truths to be self evident …” because Truth is most times self evident.
It was evident to many in Christ’s time that a man who can cure the sick, resurrect the dead, feed thousands by multiplying a few morsels of food … such man was the King the people of Israel were waiting for. Notice that those who were supposed to be the religious leaders (the ones more qualified to identify that mysterious man as the Christ) were the ones who ordered him to be crucified. The business of promoting truth and doing good is always dangerous.
Charlie Kirk understood the basics of Christ’s mission: declare the truth, make Truth, be truthful, speak Truth because that is the only way for any society to survive. Yell STOP! when things begin to deviate and if that forces evil men to take your life so be it! Your death will achieve much more than your words, much more!
A number of individuals responding to dark and devious ideals have been declaring that family, private property, order, mental health, decency, etc. are “fascist” values. In its stead they propose unnatural unions, to resist order, to indulge in the basest impulses of the human soul, to transgress, to de-construct, to destroy as if that unholy collection of nonsensical principles were to make this world a better place for all.
I will resume those two positions simply as Love and Envy. Love builds up. Jesus cured, taught, fed, restored those who found Him. When His enemies run out of arguments there was only one thing for them to do to “win” —to crucify the man— Little did they know that doing so they were unwittingly participating in advancing the will of God. Envy is a blunt tool, it swiftly kills those who wage it but God’s will is done no matter what. Joseph was sold as a slave, the devious deed was disguised with lies but God used that to preserve Israel.
“Listen! Your brother’s blood (the blood of Charlie Kirk and countless others) cries out to Me from the ground.”
Even if Charlie Kirk was the monster some leftists say he was: he did not deserve to be killed like an animal. Now God’s commentary shall be heard. In my opinion, not a month will pass before God speaks.
Wait and listen.
Quod scripsi, scripsi 
MHB FROM SPIRIT DAILY NEWS
https://spiritdailyblog.com/
Before that incident, I’m not sure I knew who Charlie was. The name rang a bell; I attached it to a podcaster or blogger; something political; but when told of the shooting, it took me a while to familiarize myself with the reach and mission of this man.
When I did, I saw that he was a strong evangelical Christian. I saw he had a Catholic wife–now widow–who is a daily Mass-goer. Two very young children. And a massive following of young people to whom he was imparting powerful, impactful, and unusually intelligent Christian messages. There was the open Midwestern face. There was the wide ready smile. He was a man who mixed it up on campuses with political opposites, but without harshness. His kindness and faith glowed around him. He was a man who went toe-to-toe in a podcast debate with Governor Gavin Newsom of California and asked him not to use the Name of God in vain when the governor did but parted friends with him also. In short, he was one of the best examples for our youth one could possibly conjure and he was reaching them. He was touching them. He brought Christ into their midst. Thousands instantly showed up when he appeared on a campus. Many converted.
This is a fellow who asked his wife every day how he could be a better husband. Thirty-one short years old.
His life snuffed out in a nanosecond.
Trust in God’s Plan, he always said.
I think he was on the verge of converting to the religion of his wife. He attended Mass with her. He spoke highly of the Blessed Virgin Mary—a rarity among Protestants. He preached unity in the face of evil, civility in the face of chaos, love instead of rancor, and he was gunned down as a result of that.
When that disordered fellow in Utah shot Charlie Kirk last week, he shot at all of us.
We all were wounded in the crossfire.
We were all wounded also with those Catholic school children in Minneapolis.
In both cases, there was a “trans” element. In Minnesota the shooter was turning into a young “woman.” In Utah, the shooter lived with a man who was “transitioning” into a woman. In both cases, the devil was running rampant.
It was really the evil that shot Kirk and the school kids. It can’t stand the rise of young Christianity. And it is rising. Kirk was just 31 and as well-spoken as any Evangelical preacher in this nation. Satan can’t take that. No. He was getting nervous at the statistics: our young men and women, especially in college—which is where Kirk did most of his “preaching”—are coming back into Christianity and even the most traditional forms of it.
They’ve had it precisely with fatal demonic nonsense like transgenderism.
They’re not satisfied with the immorality that has been normalized and the aberrational behavior now defended as a right.
They’re not going to put up with the world we’ve malformed for them.
They know insanity and possession when they see it.
And they can see the devils coming out of the woodwork.
Have you noticed how many “mainstream” commentators—the Megyn Kellys, the Tucker Carlsons, the Glenn Becks—are now openly discussing evil spirits and the devil?
You can’t turn anywhere now and not hear some sort of mention of it, whereas just a year or two ago it was verboten.
Have you not noticed the openness of our young to the supernatural? Have you not seen the rise to prominence of exorcists? Have you not witnessed the heightening battle on social media (especially TikTok) between Christians and witches?
At Medjugorje, in the early 1980s, the Virgin Mary described a “darkness” that “reigns over the whole world,” a “great struggle” about to unfold, the “present hour” as the “hour of Satan,” when “the demon is authorized to act with all his force and power.” Have we not borne witness to this?
It is a very serious, pivotal time. There is the sense of something monumental about to happen.
They want to take the world back, as do active Christian youth, and so the shot that rang out at Utah Valley University rings and always will echo in our ears.
The wound is felt by us all.
The threat is to everyone who believes in the Bible, who honors Jesus as Lord and Savior.
We were all shot in Utah, but like Charlie—who is now bigger than ever and whose death is evangelizing people more than he ever could have done while on earth—all of us will rise above it; eventually, all of us will triumph; the guns will one day silence; none of us will ultimately succumb.
But in the meantime is a truly aching sadness that after seeing old clips of him on campuses, after watching him love his wife and kids, and when contemplating what more he was about to do, will take some time to mend.
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