Mit Brennender Sorge pt 6

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The truths of Catholic primacy are here stated with scriptural justification. The national churches are a seduction to the faithful and the myth of race and blood perverts the moral order of G-d,so is asserted here. Other national churches are evidence of their own paralysis and sterility, so the encyclical is stating. Distortion to profane use of revelation must be guarded against at all times. Revelation distorted for the use of race and blood to irradiate a people's history is equivocation of revelation . Immortality is part and parcel of the moral order and cannot be limited to terrestrial existence.

22. Faith in the Church cannot stand pure and true without the support of faith
in the primacy of the Bishop of Rome. The same moment when Peter, in the
presence of all the Apostles and disciples, confesses his faith in Christ, Son
of the Living God, the answer he received in reward for his faith and his
confession was the word that built the Church, the only Church of Christ, on the
rock of Peter (Matt. xvi. 18). Thus was sealed the connection between the faith
in Christ, the Church and the Primacy. True and lawful authority is invariably a
bond of unity, a source of strength, a guarantee against division and ruin, a
pledge for the future: and this is verified in the deepest and sublimest sense,
when that authority, as in the case of the Church, and the Church alone, is
sealed by the promise and the guidance of the Holy Ghost and His irresistible
support. Should men, who are not even united by faith in Christ, come and offer
you the seduction of a national German Church, be convinced that it is nothing
but a denial of the one Church of Christ and the evident betrayal of that
universal evangelical mission, for which a world Church alone is qualified and
competent. The live history of other national churches with their paralysis,
their domestication and subjection to worldly powers, is sufficient evidence of
the sterility to which is condemned every branch that is severed from the trunk
of the living Church. Whoever counters these erroneous developments with an
uncompromising No from the very outset, not only serves the purity of his faith
in Christ, but also the welfare and the vitality of his own people.
23. You
will need to watch carefully, Venerable Brethren, that religious fundamental
concepts be not emptied of their content and distorted to profane use.
"Revelation" in its Christian sense, means the word of God addressed to man. The
use of this word for the "suggestions" of race and blood, for the irradiations
of a people's history, is mere equivocation. False coins of this sort do not
deserve Christian currency. "Faith" consists in holding as true what God has
revealed and proposes through His Church to man's acceptance. It is "the
evidence of things that appear not" (Heb. ii. 1). The joyful and proud
confidence in the future of one's people, instinct in every heart, is quite a
different thing from faith in a religious sense. To substitute the one for the
other, and demand on the strength of this, to be numbered among the faithful
followers of Christ, is a senseless play on words, if it does not conceal a
confusion of concepts, or worse.
24. "Immortality" in a Christian sense
means the survival of man after his terrestrial death, for the purpose of
eternal reward or punishment. Whoever only means by the term, the collective
survival here on earth of his people for an indefinite length of time, distorts
one of the fundamental notions of the Christian Faith and tampers with the very
foundations of the religious concept of the universe, which requires a moral
order

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