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The Catholic Church is the beloved Bride of a God no grave could ever hold.
It will not survive; it will die.
Today, looking at the debris of the Church’s reputation all around, I can only but agree: The Church will not survive; it will “die” — and the sooner the better.
For now is an apt time to revisit the final chapter of G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man (1925) entitled: “The Five Deaths of the Faith.”
Chesterton explains in this chapter that Christendom has experienced a series of revolutions and in each one Christianity has died — died many times, in fact, and then risen again, for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
Down the centuries at the end of countless wars and revolutions the same religion is to be found standing. It is not an old religion that persists, however, but, rather, a new faith that is resurgent, always attracting and converting anew the next generation in each age.
On more than one occasion, in the history of Christendom, the soul, said Chesterton, seemed to have gone out of Christianity. The world looked on expecting to witness its end, seeing the Church as wedded to whatever political or social system that was then imploding. As Chesterton states, if the Church was so wedded then it has been widowed many times, and yet, remains “a strangely immortal sort of widow.”
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It will not survive; it will die.
Today, looking at the debris of the Church’s reputation all around, I can only but agree: The Church will not survive; it will “die” — and the sooner the better.
For now is an apt time to revisit the final chapter of G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man (1925) entitled: “The Five Deaths of the Faith.”
Chesterton explains in this chapter that Christendom has experienced a series of revolutions and in each one Christianity has died — died many times, in fact, and then risen again, for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
Down the centuries at the end of countless wars and revolutions the same religion is to be found standing. It is not an old religion that persists, however, but, rather, a new faith that is resurgent, always attracting and converting anew the next generation in each age.
On more than one occasion, in the history of Christendom, the soul, said Chesterton, seemed to have gone out of Christianity. The world looked on expecting to witness its end, seeing the Church as wedded to whatever political or social system that was then imploding. As Chesterton states, if the Church was so wedded then it has been widowed many times, and yet, remains “a strangely immortal sort of widow.”
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G.K. Chesterton Was Right: The Church Will Rise Anew
The Catholic Church is the beloved Bride of a God no grave could ever hold.
