![]() Revolution, disintegration, chaos, must be reminders that our thinking has been wrong, our dreams have been unholy. The farsighted Sheen reminded, “God will not allow unrighteousness to become eternal. Remember what Our Lady of Fatima said about Russia spreading its errors (Communism) if the world didn’t heed Our Lady’s directives. ![]() Sheen goes on to describe the anti-Christ, which we’ll leave for another time, other than now to say “his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect.” The saintly bishop brings in Communism, too, which has its place in what’s going on at the time and beyond, as we still see. ![]() Then the great bishop said something that at first seems shocking as we look at today: “The new era into which we are entering is what might be called the religious phase of human history.”īut he quickly said this didn’t mean men will “turn to God.” Rather, they’ll turn from indifference to having a passion for “an absolute.” The struggle will be “for the souls of men… The conflict of the future is between the absolute who is the God-man and the absolute which is the man god the God Who became man and the man who makes himself God brothers in Christ and comrades in anti-Christ.” Sheen pointed out the signs of the times reveal we’re “definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization, which regarded religion as an addendum to life, a pious extra, a morale-builder for the individual but of no social relevance, an ambulance that took care of the wrecks of the social order until science reached a point where there would be no more wrecks which called on God only as a defender of national ideals, or as a silent partner… but who had nothing to say about how the business should be run.” Isn’t technology, advancing at a dizzying rate, demanding the obedience of so much of the population? Sheen wondered if we’re even aware of the signs of the times because “basic dogmas of the modern world dissolving before our very eyes.” Replacing them were the assumptions man has (1) “no other function in life than to produce and acquire wealth,” (2) the idea man is naturally good and “has no need of a God to give Him rights, or a Redeemer to salvage him from guilt, because progress is automatic thanks to science-education and evolution, which will one day make man a kind of a god,” and (3) the idea reason isn’t for discovering “the meaning and goal of life, namely the salvation of the soul, but merely to devise new technical advances to make on this earth a city of man to displace the city of God.” As our Lord said: For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noah entered into the ark, and they knew not till the flood came, and took them all away so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.” (Matthew 24:38-39) In the midst of seeming prosperity, world-unity, the decree to the angels goes forth but the masses go on their sordid routines. To highlight his point, Sheen emphasized that the “very day Sodom was destroyed, Scripture describes the sun as bright Balthasar’s realm came to an end in darkness people saw Noah preparing for the flood 120 years before it came, but men would not believe. The great masses without faith are unconscious of the destructive processes going on.”Ĭertainly seems a snapshot of the usual suspects - the headlines and stories of today. Then gave the answer: “Partly because men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation, and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times… Only those who live by faith really know what is happening in the world. “Why is it that so few realize the seriousness of our present crisis?” he asked 72 years ago. Prophetic then, he was already a visionary and forewarning in the Jan. Look at the symptoms: the breakup of the family, divorce, abortion, immorality, general dishonesty.” Making clear he didn’t mean Christianity or the Church, he said, “Christendom is economic, political, social life as inspired by Christian principles. ![]() “We are at the end of Christendom.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen said during a talk in 1947. In a talk 72 years ago, Bishop Fulton Sheen appeared as visionary as prophets of old. Did Archbishop Fulton Sheen prophesy about these times?
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