As a 39 year old male raised in the age of the pill, where detachment of sex from procreation was the cultural norm, I have realized over the course of time the great and mortal lie this is. Sister Lucy of Fatima, the famed seer, once wrote that the final battle between good and evil would be about the family. John Paul II, in his Memory and Identity describes how the new ideologies of evil were seeking to destroy the foundation of the social unit - the family. While Nazi socialism and Communist socialism overtook common institutions, the new evil would attack marriage and the family. Of course, Marx disliked the bourgeois family (read Christian family), his Leninist followers went after middle and federal institutions. Their satanic ideology wouldn't stop there, however. It was not enough for the devil to attempt to remake society from the top down, he must try to remake it from the bottom up. Satanism (and Leftism) are at war with nature - "ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil' - or rather, remaking reality after our own desires. This attack on the family is the battering ram that will make our children martyrs.
Our Lady once told a seer that more souls go to hell for sins of the flesh than for any other. She also told the Fatima seers, frighteningly, that souls were falling into hell like snowflakes (a truly horrifying image.) Pope Paul VI noted in Humanae Vitae that with the pill the road to perdition would be wide and lead many to adultery and fornication. Welcome to 2019.
Since sex before marriage is now the norm because we've divorced sex and procreation, or sex from its reason for being/final cause, I thought it pertinent to review what the Angelic Doctor had to say on fornication (see II-IIae Q.154 a.2). After surveying the animal kingdom in a reductionist sort of way, Aquinas comes to the conclusion that fornication is evil because it is a sin against the offspring. He identifies that human offspring require a male presence to realize their potential citizenship and for the common good. In short, children need fathers in their lives, and fornication essentially takes his commitment out of the picture. We've seen an even worse horror in our epoch, with the murder of MILLIONs of children for the sake of fornication. Aquinas calls fornication a crime against life. One can easily see in reading this the connection John Paul II made between contraception and abortion (Evangelium Vitae). He called them fruits of the same rotten tree. Of course, abortion proponents and even some Protestant pro lifers advocate the pill to prevent abortion. The social science tells a different story as abortion increases wherever the pill is used. It shouldn't be surprising that Planned Parenthood would promote the pill, since it provides food for their god Moloch. We can see in Aquinas' principled reasoning here, that fornication leads to fatherlessness, which is a crime against life. It's no wonder contraception always leads to abortion.
It is important to see how Aquinas' critique of fornication ties directly into two precepts of the natural law (precepts being commands dictated by our very natures). Two of those precepts are the "procreation and education of children" and to "seek the common good." Fornication is a threat to both of these precepts.
We need to transvalue all values once again, as the existentialist/nominalist/philosophy-theology of change have undermined the very ontology of what it means to be human. Satan has inverted nature and reinvented it to be as God. Our culture instantiates in men that to be "manly" is to put notches in the belt, when that is precisely the opposite of manly. It is cowardice and weakness. Manliness is standing with and for the women we have relations with. The coward kills his offspring and is no man at all. The coward walks away from difficulty and lays down at the feet of effeminate pleasures. The coward seeks the playboy life as he has no strength over his own internal desires. He is weak, and worse, a slave.
As Catholics, the first clarion call we must make is to re-instantiate the final cause of sexuality, procreation. Our children must know that sex is for preservation of the species, not just for fun. Our children need to know that they are committing crimes against life if they are having sex before marriage.
I realize the modern will read this and scoff at the prudishness of such a post. As someone who is devastated by the continual murder of children in the womb, we must find the source. I am also a red blooded male and understand the natural urges, but I have come to understand the telos of such urges. I have also found happiness and satisfaction in marriage. Our young men and women need to know that natural happiness is attainable through obeying the natural law. Caring for our children is part of that law and as Aquinas shows, fornication is a detriment to human life. Aquinas had principled philosophy, we have experience. The silent holocaust is all we need witness to discover the truth of his words.
Break out the smelling salts modernity.
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