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Entry: Ron Paul and Pius IX Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/ron_paul_and_pius_ix#16247 Post contents: Sid et al: let me assure you that I am not Frere Andre Marie, but I do find his remarks on target. The one thing that traditional Catholics do need to rmember is that the ideal (the "thesis" in Catholic theology) of a nation and a people who accept publicly both the individual religious and social sovereignty of Christ the King remains a teaching of the Catholic Church (q.v., Quanta cura of Bl. Pius IX, Quas Primas of Pius XI, etc). That in our day and age practical considerations may dictate other praxis, avenues of action does not in any way change that teaching and that ideal. Too many Catholics, I fear, especially since Vatican II, have given up on Christinizing the milieu and the laws and the culture in which they live. In so doing, they also turn their back on the Church and Our Lord, who remains King of both men's hearts AND of society. The popes and the Church have consistently taught this for hundreds of years. And just recently Pope Benedict XVI reaffiremd that fact that Catholics MUST evangelize and convert society (not by force) to the point where the laws of society reflect Christ's Kingship. Sent at: 2008 10 07