Introduction
Pope Leo was referring to the current modern debate about war, especially in reference to the globalist war against Iran and Russia., that is against the Anti-Globalist Bloc. To, unlike their targets, dominate both hemispheres, and turn the whole world into Sodom and Gamorah.
He was not talking about those who glorify war for its own sake, but rather those claiming there is or can be a side of righteousness in fighting a just and godly war, in which it can be said God wills and supports one side over the other in the fight. Any pope-splaining (Lofton) explanation of what he meant would be reduced to the absurd.
If he had meant (or explicitly said) war itself per se for its own sake is not holy, which would be a true statement, that would be saying something irrelevant to those who are saying today there ARE holy wars, yet who would generally agree war is not intrinsically in itself good. Therefore it would be absurd to consider he only meant that.
If no war is holy, that is no side of any war or conflict can be waging a holy war, that is one approved of by God (per the declaration “Deus vult!”), and by the Church as it officially did of the Crusades, then there is no ultimate Truth worth fighting for, or dying for. All is just niceness and conformity to a false, relativist, pacifist, empty system, which is not of God.
Catholicism and Christendom would not be worth fighting for, or dying for. A free society that upholds human rights, especially protecting the rights of the Church and families, and the unborn, would not be worth fighting for, or dying for.
God Himself would not be worth fighting for, or dying for.
Wife and children and nation would not be worth fighting for, or dying for. The Crusades would then have been unjust, peace in the Holy Land, the rights of Christian pilgrims to visit there, and the preservation of Christian Europe would not have been worth fighting for, or dying for.
The Cristeros fight would have been unholy, the rights and therefore divine mission of the Church in Mexico not worth fighting for, or dying for, including Christ the King Himself!
And it would be deemed a sign of mental instability and “toxic masculinity” to confront the playground bully for making a long game out of terrorizing the more mild mannered or reserved, after the school administration ignores it, by settling it with a well prepared public fight.
To render the bully bloody nosed, bruised, knocked out, and humiliated by their shame.
To STOP the injustice!
Not to rejoice per se in the injuries themselves, but in God giving us courage, to “overcome evil with good” as Scripture teaches us.
So the injustice stops.
This is especially why God created traditional masculinity, the inborn emotion of anger, and hands that form fists as weapons, where ALL men are by design to be protectors and defenders.
Pacifism
Pacifism is the ethical system of sniveling, spineless, soulless jellyfish who wear the mask of faith and morality hiding their complete cowardice and nihilism. The pacifist is more dangerous than the warmonger, because they hide their own secret war behind a facade of peace, which is much more sinister.
They want to see destroyed a world of absolute Truth, and universal divine order, in which God is Lord, which concludes with a state of modernism and liberalism. And the communist globalist system.
Theirs is a diabolical spiritual war that truly is unholy. They are trying to destroy anything that is left of the Old, Perennial Order that is Catholic Christendom.
And they must be fought! Not tolerated, ignored, or approached with servility. The War for Catholic Tradition—divine, ecclesial, and cultural—IS the current Crusade, or truly Holy War within the Church AND outside of it, which others started. Not us!
Even enabled by the current Pope in so far as this statement would poison young minds with confusion and Error. As do all the Errors of the conciliar era.
Our weapons are the ancient Mass, the true traditional doctrine, the rosary, the penitential sacrifices of traditionalist, cloistered, contemplative monks and nuns around the world, traditional pilgrimages to Rome, holy respectful protest and rallies, public resistance, righteous only apparent “disobedience” to lawful authority only when it issues evil dictates, the internet or public forum, the power of the pen, a godly, moderated Christian nationalism (for lack of a better word), that is that fights the powers of secularist globalism that threaten national sovereignty, and a refusal to consciously compromise one iota to the ungodly New Order, both in its secular and religious dimension.
Our Current War
This war on our side IS holy. We are ALREADY fighting to defend our nation, the rights of the Church, basic freedom, the heritage of western Christian civilization, the social kingship of Christ the King, and the true Faith and true Church. That is from the ever emerging forces of Anti-Christ and the Ape of the Church.
Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a man killer, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil.
- St Bernard of Clairveaux
As we enter officially into WW3 very possibly in the weeks or months ahead, this is the true holy war we must be prepared to fight, spiritually and materially. Not war with Iran or Russia. But a war with globalism, modernism, and liberalism in the attempt to destroy what is left of the traditional Order of the Catholic Church and Christendom.
The Final Battle
After the present post-conciliar apostasy and the forthcoming nuclear Great Chastisement (if you aren’t already, become a prepper pronto) and then probably a relatively short period of peace foretold by Our Lady (to strengthen our faith and material defenses), the Anti-Christ will officially emerge. I’m inclined to think he is already alive. Then it is the final battle against Christ, Christians, and His Church.
If we are still alive then, we will be martyrs who refuse the Mark of the Beast, spiritually and for many physically being martyred. BUT God WILL be on the side of His Church, and defending it!!! Therefore God will be on the side of the greatest and final HOLY WAR. With Christ, and His Mother, we will fight principally with prayer and penance.
And when necessary by the sword.
Because the main war will be spiritual, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church do not discuss the final battle in terms of a physical war. BUT, it WILL secondarily be a physical war!
We are after all both soul and body. The Final Battle will involve the material dimension.
This is because the persecution of Christians in the end is through forced starvation by the government loyal to the Anti-Christ, of those without the Mark of the Beast without which you can’t buy food, and murdering Christians. But because we have a general duty to try and avoid being captured by the enemy, including our loved ones, and to defend ourselves and the innocent, then for some there would be a duty to physically wage a holy war of DEFENSE against the forces of Anti-Christ.
The goal is not ourselves to topple the Anti-Christ, since Christ will do that by merely breathing upon him the Divine Logos, while descending from heaven in His Second Coming, riding a white horse, as foretold by St. John in the Book of the Apocalypse. Our goal will be to prevent ourselves and others, weakened by sin, from falling into the hands of the enemy, to avoid the temptation of rejecting Christ in order to live, under coercion and threat of death.
We will have to ward off the armies of Satan the best we can, to escape, hide, and survive the 3 1/2 years of the reign of Anti-Christ before Christ comes.
Before the Anti-Christ announces himself to the world, the current great apostasy in the Church (which combined with a major increase in war, killing, and natural disasters in the modern age is a sign we are in the End Times), it will have evolved into an ecclesial nightmare we can’t even begin to imagine. That level of apostasy will make the current level look like the glorious, pious High Middle Ages in comparison.
Women priests, the Church allowing birth control and abortion, a new, New Age version of the Novus Ordo, etc, will be the tip of the iceberg. The Revolution of the modernists who highjacked and used as a Trojan Horse Vatican II and the post-conciliar reform, has one ultimate end: the total destruction of the Church of Christ and it being replaced by the Church of the Anti-Christ THROUGHOUT its ecclesial institution (the non-divine aspect of the Church).
To damn as many souls as possible.
So until the very end, the enemy will not stop its war against Christ, His Church, and Christian society. We imitate the martyrs, but not as pacifists.
We will need especially to physically guard every remaining orthodox priest who remains within the Church, wheat hosts, and wine, to offer the true Mass. And bishops to ordain priests.
Those few who don’t follow the masses, which hopefully includes you and yours, and me and mine, need the Eucharist, Confession, the catechism, and priestly counsel. AND Christian friendship and community! Even if it is reduced to a tiny Remnant hiding out in caves in the mountains living off the land. First and foremost engaging the spiritual battle for our souls which most certainly IS a holy battle.
Viva Cristo Rey!
References:
Colonel MacGregor on Judge Napolitano’s Podcast
Canadian Prepper
Our Lady of Akita
The Book of the Apocalypse
Pope Urban II
Archbishop Vigano’s Essay in 2022 After Putin Came to the Rescue of the Dunbas (i.e. “invaded Ukraine”).
Star Wars
Warren Carroll’s History of Christendom
Mr. Alan Weyland, History teacher, formerly at Bishop Kelly High School
John Senior, Death of Christian Culture
Archbishop Lefebvre’s Open Letter to Confused Catholics
