Anti-Catholic Revolution and Catholic Revival (French Revolution and Beyond)

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-05 13:32:20 | Updated at 2024-11-05 23:14:11 10 hours ago

Anti-Catholic Revolution and Catholic Revival (French Revolution and Beyond)
Crisis Magazine ^ | Joseph Pearce

Posted on 11/05/2024 4:47:36 AM PST by Chicory

In 1789, the French Revolution erupted. After simmering and festering for a while, it finally boiled over into the murderous Reign of Terror. The anti-Catholic and proto-communist nature of the Revolution was encapsulated admirably by Church historian H.W. Crocker:

The state had its own church. It began with priests whose vestments included the tricolour of the Revolution. It moved on to a cult of Reason, and Reason’s altar replaced Christ’s at the cathedral of Notre Dame. The state also endorsed a cult of Nature…and of course a cult of the State. Heroes of the Revolution replaced the saints of the Church. In all this, the French Revolution presaged the state religions of Nazism and Communism, and, indeed, in its mass murders, nationalist uniformity, militarism, and lootings in the name of the state and of equality, it embodied the same principles.

By 1799, the Revolution had consumed itself in its own blood, the revolutionaries putting each other to death in a diabolical debauch. Napoleon emerged from the ruins of the Revolution as a military dictator.

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1 posted on 11/05/2024 4:47:36 AM PST by Chicory

To: Chicory

The French Revolution is a fulfilment of prophecy in that the great false church , this counterfeit religious power suffered her “deadly wound”.....the pope taken captive in 1798. For the previous 1260 years, she ruled joined with the state in persecuting killing perhaps 100 million.

But her wound has healed.....

2 posted on 11/05/2024 4:53:04 AM PST by vespa300

To: Chicory

As I read this, I realized that the Left has been demonizing us as being like Hitler but the reality is that the emergence of the French Revolution shows that now the far left extremists are leading us into an evil situation.

I pray that our nation can navigate this moment to a peaceful and correct resolution!

3 posted on 11/05/2024 4:56:07 AM PST by Chicory

To: vespa300

Please elucidate.

Did they literally take the pope captive, or did they contrive a way to control him, as the article suggests.

4 posted on 11/05/2024 5:06:23 AM PST by OKSooner (First they came for peanut... )

To: vespa300

Perhaps I should have labeled this as a Catholic Caucus thread, but I didn’t want this to focus on the Catholic aspect.

I wanted to focus on the fact that in the USA nowadays, we seem unwilling to call out the far left for going down a road which in France led to the deaths of tens if not hundreds of thousands in France alone.

5 posted on 11/05/2024 5:06:45 AM PST by Chicory

To: Chicory

It was not a reign of “reason”. Reason without truth is less than a half measure of the mind. The main driver was not reason but just pure vengence.

In the British colonies in North America the founders had reason on their side, and truth guiding the reason, and without a reign of vengence on the loyalists remaining among them. The French abandoned resaon when they abandoneed truth and loved vengence (”vengence is mine sayeth the lord).

6 posted on 11/05/2024 5:08:31 AM PST by Wuli

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