Thursday, May 22, 2025

A Speech I Would Love to Give

🔔 “A Church That Stands: Truth Without Compromise, Love Without Fear”

A Vision for the Catholic Mission in the Modern World

This is what I long for the Church’s mission to be—not just an institution that endures, but a Church that stands.

Stands for truth.
Stands for love.
Stands, even when the world kneels to falsehood.

Not a Church that blends into the background, but one that rises like a mountain—a beacon of mercy, clarity, and courage in a fog of confusion. Not loud, not shrill, but unmistakably firm.

✝️ The Catholic Church: Truth Incarnate

As Christians, we must begin with truth—not theory, not trend, but truth Himself, Jesus Christ. And if He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6), then His Body, the Catholic Church, is the visible sign of that truth on this earth.

We must be unashamed to say it:
There is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
There is one ark of salvation.
There is one Bride of Christ.

The Second Vatican Council (Lumen Gentium, §8) taught:

“This Church, constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter.”

Not to boast. Not to condemn. But to invite. To proclaim. To offer what has been handed down, not as an opinion, but as a rescue mission.

🕯️ Preach the Gospel, Not Preferences

The mission of the Church is not just to make the world kinder. It is to make it holy. To offer salvation, not simply solutions. To call every soul home to the sacraments, to the Eucharist, to Confession, to the Cross.

Yes, we work with Protestants, with Jews and Muslims, with those of no belief at all, where we share common cause—for the unborn, for the poor, for peace. But we must never blur the truth for the sake of temporary alliances.

St. Paul reminds us, “Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!” (1 Corinthians 9:16)

Pope Benedict XVI warned that the Church is not called to conform to the world, but to convert it.

🧱 On the Moral Front Lines

Today, we are called to defend what the world calls intolerable. Let us be very clear—not in hate, but in love:

Abortion is the deliberate destruction of innocent life. No euphemism can soften that reality.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” – Jeremiah 1:5
(Catechism, §2270–2275)

Marriage is between one man and one woman, a covenant image of Christ and His Church.

(Catechism, §1601–1666)

Gender is not a construct. God created us male and female, and our bodies are not accidents to be overwritten by ideology.

(Genesis 1:27; Catechism, §2333)

These truths are not weapons. They are wounds healed, identities restored, and dignity remembered. To speak them is not to hate—it is to love with fire in our throat and hope in our hands.

🌍 A Catholic Vision for the World Order

We do not retreat into bunkers. Christ did not call us to isolation but to evangelization.

Yes, we must work toward a New World Order—but one not of centralized tyranny, surveillance, and moral relativism, but of subsidiarity, solidarity, and spiritual renewal.

A world where nations govern justly, with respect for natural law.
Where institutions serve the human person, not ideological agendas.
Where the United Nations, global agencies, and economic forums defend life, liberty, faith, and family, not undermine them.

St. John Paul II spoke of a civilization of love. But he warned:

“Freedom without truth is illusion.”

The Church must be the moral compass in this new order—calling the world not to uniformity, but to unity in truth.

🕊️ Unity Without Compromise

Let us unite, yes—across churches, across borders. But let it be a unity of truth, not compromise.

We must love our Protestant brothers and sisters. We must honor the deep beauty of the Eastern Orthodox. We must respect those of other religions and none. But we must also say, clearly and charitably:

“Come home.”
Come to the Eucharist.
Come to the fullness of the Gospel.
Come to the Church Christ founded.

The goal is not just peace, but salvation.