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Why 3 Popes Say the Antichrist Novel ‘Lord of the World’ Predicted Our Times...
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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In Benson’s prophetic vision, the Church persists amid a godless world obsessed with progress, pleasure and power.
In 2015, on a flight back to the Vatican from the Philippines, Pope Francis told journalists: “There is a book … it is called Lord of the World. The author is Benson … I suggest you read it. Reading it, you’ll understand well what I mean by ideological colonization.” He went on to describe the novel as prophetic, especially in regard to modern developments such as secularism, relativism and the notion of “progress” detached from any spiritual or moral anchor.
The book in question — Lord of the World(1907) — is a dystopian, apocalyptic novel by English convert Father Robert Hugh Benson. It foresees a 21st-century world in which Christianity has largely declined while secular humanism — or “Humanitarianism” — has seized power, with political and cultural elites uniting around a charismatic global leader. The Church — and the papacy — survive, if only barely, and that is the crux of the clash at the heart of the plot.
To say the least, it was an unusual choice for any pope to recommend. But Pope Francis reiterated his suggestion in a 2023 talk in Budapest, warning his audience from the academic and cultural world about a future dominated by technology — and the threat that poses to culture and, ultimately, to what it means to be human.
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In 2015, on a flight back to the Vatican from the Philippines, Pope Francis told journalists: “There is a book … it is called Lord of the World. The author is Benson … I suggest you read it. Reading it, you’ll understand well what I mean by ideological colonization.” He went on to describe the novel as prophetic, especially in regard to modern developments such as secularism, relativism and the notion of “progress” detached from any spiritual or moral anchor.
The book in question — Lord of the World(1907) — is a dystopian, apocalyptic novel by English convert Father Robert Hugh Benson. It foresees a 21st-century world in which Christianity has largely declined while secular humanism — or “Humanitarianism” — has seized power, with political and cultural elites uniting around a charismatic global leader. The Church — and the papacy — survive, if only barely, and that is the crux of the clash at the heart of the plot.
To say the least, it was an unusual choice for any pope to recommend. But Pope Francis reiterated his suggestion in a 2023 talk in Budapest, warning his audience from the academic and cultural world about a future dominated by technology — and the threat that poses to culture and, ultimately, to what it means to be human.
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Why 3 Popes Say the Antichrist Novel ‘Lord of the World’ Predicted Our Times
In Benson’s prophetic vision, the Church persists amid a godless world obsessed with progress, pleasure and power.
The Real Faces of Saints...
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Most images of saints today show the lingering style of 19th century technique and sentimentality, which is … not great. They’re disconnected from the reality of these great saints and bathed in a saccharine glow established in perhaps the worst century of Catholic artistic endeavor. From holy cards to statues, Catholics really need to step up our game and starting showing these great men and women either as they were, or in an iconic style conducive to devotion. Anything other than this:
I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know Teresa of Avila, and I believe she would personally kick the &$$ of any artist who depicts her this way. I mean that literally.
When Thomas Merton came across a book with depictions of the saints from life or by people who knew them, he was shocked, as he writes in The Sign of Jonas:
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I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know Teresa of Avila, and I believe she would personally kick the &$$ of any artist who depicts her this way. I mean that literally.
When Thomas Merton came across a book with depictions of the saints from life or by people who knew them, he was shocked, as he writes in The Sign of Jonas:
I went looking for and found the original book, published in English in 1947, because I was interested in how the portraits tallied with Merton’s description. What did the saints really look like in life, rather than on holy cards? Here are the portraits Merton saw, along with his observations on each.
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Nuncio to UK Says Contrary to Reports, Pope Leo Has No Immediate Plans to Lift TLM Restrictions
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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The "news" about Pope Leo XIV and the pre-Vatican II Mass following the plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is not so new after all.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Leo XIV does not intend to overturn Pope Francis' limits on celebrating the traditional Latin Mass but will grant two-year dispensations to bishops who ask, a nuncio said.
Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, the apostolic nuncio to Great Britain, told bishops Nov. 13 that Pope Leo told him he would not abrogate "Traditionis Custodes," Pope Francis' 2021 letter greatly restricting the celebration of Masses according to the 1962 Roman Missal, the Latin liturgy in use before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
The Vatican press office did not respond to a request for comment.
But the archbishop made headlines by telling members of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales that the pope would grant bishops who request it a two-year, renewable exemption.
The exemptions are nothing new, a Vatican official told Catholic News Service Nov. 14.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Leo XIV does not intend to overturn Pope Francis' limits on celebrating the traditional Latin Mass but will grant two-year dispensations to bishops who ask, a nuncio said.
Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, the apostolic nuncio to Great Britain, told bishops Nov. 13 that Pope Leo told him he would not abrogate "Traditionis Custodes," Pope Francis' 2021 letter greatly restricting the celebration of Masses according to the 1962 Roman Missal, the Latin liturgy in use before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
The Vatican press office did not respond to a request for comment.
But the archbishop made headlines by telling members of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales that the pope would grant bishops who request it a two-year, renewable exemption.
The exemptions are nothing new, a Vatican official told Catholic News Service Nov. 14.
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Nuncio in Britain says pope won't overturn restrictions on old Latin Mass
The "news" about Pope Leo XIV and the pre-Vatican II Mass following the plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is not so n...
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