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The 4B Movement is a Cult of Death, by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The 4B Movement is a Cult of Death, by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D.

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By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report

John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) was former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He publishes regularly in the National Catholic Register and in theological journals. All views expressed herein are exclusively his own.

The threat to America comes not from so-called “Christian nationalists” but from a religion that wants to be a theocracy while hiding as a non-religion.

Many people watching the post-election meltdown of the Left on social media view it with some measure of Schadenfreude and I suspect the average American dismisses it as silly. In some sense, it is silly. But, in a deeper sense, it’s serious, even deadly serious. It’s a death cult.

Almost 30 years ago, Pope St. John Paul II wrote about the fight between the “culture of life” and the “culture of death.” Evangelium vitae talked about how these two “cultures” are contending for control in modern life. It was hardly a new insight for the Polish pope. As Karol Cardinal Wojtyła, he said basically the same thing to Pope St. Paul VI during the Lenten retreat he preached for him in 1976 (subsequently published as Sign of Contradiction). …

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