COMMENTARY: Western society’s rejection of the natural comes from a rejection of the supernatural.
By Donald DeMarco, EWTN News, April 21, 2023
In his 1946 book, Preface to Religion, Venerable Fulton Sheen stated that “America’s greatest enemy is not from without, but from within, and that enemy is hate: hatred of races, peoples, classes and religion. If America ever dies, it will be not through conquest but suicide.”
Political solutions are ineffective because “they leave our hearts unchanged,” Venerable Fulton said.
From all indications, that hatred has intensified on each of the levels to which the archbishop refers.
In his 1973 book, Sexual Suicide, George Gilder argues that America is committing suicide because it has severed sexual intercourse from love and procreation. …