MANHATTAN PRIEST SHREDS CUCKS, CALLS FOR NEW CRUSADE TO SAVE THE WEST
“To shrink from the moral duty to protect peace by not using force […] is not innocence — it is naiveté.”
He wrote: “The dormancy of Islam until recent times, however, has obscured the threat that this poses — especially to a Western civilisation that has grown flaccid in virtue and ignorant of its own moral foundations.
“On the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, there were over 60 speeches, and yet not one of them mentioned ISIS.
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It states: “Legitimate defence can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others.
“The defence of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.”
Father Rutler has argued this would not have been controversial in previous centuries.
He said: “Saint John Capistrano led an army against the Moors in 1456 to protect Belgrade. In 1601, Saint Lawrence of Brindisi did the same in defence of Hungary.
"As Franciscans, they carried no sword and charged on horseback into battle carrying a crucifix. They inspired the shrewd generals and soldiers, whom they had assembled through artful diplomacy, with their brave innocence.
“This is not obscure trivia: Were it not for Charles Martel at Tours in 732 and Jan Sobieskiat the gates of Vienna in 1683 — and most certainly had Pope Saint Pius V not enlistedAndrea Doria and Don Juan at Lepanto in 1571 — we would not be here now. No Western nations as we know them — no universities, no modern science, no human rights — would exist.”
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Father Rutler said the West has grown complacent and has lost touch with its Christian roots.
He said: “The priest in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvrary in Normandy, France, was not the first to die at the altar — and he will not be the last.
“In his old age, the priest embodied a civilisation that has been betrayed by a generation whose hymn was John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ — that there was neither heaven nor hell but ‘above us only sky’ and ‘all the people living for today’.
"When reality intrudes, they can only leave teddy bears and balloons at the site of a carnage they call ‘inexplicable’.”