Fr. Campbell, "The Greatest Escape"
An
amazing event occurred over two thousand years ago that has
consequences for every human being. That event was, of course, the Birth
of Jesus Christ, the God-Man, Son of God and Son of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. The human race had fallen from the grace with which it was endowed
by God at its first beginning. It descended into the depths of sin and
alienation from God. But God had promised a Redeemer, and when the time
was right He sent His only-begotten Son into this world to be born a
man, taking His human nature from the Immaculate Virgin Mary. Mankind
was being given its second chance. Jesus Christ is the New Adam, and
Mary is the New Eve.
Every
human being now has a choice – to remain an heir of Adam and Eve,
inheriting their sin with its punishment, or to be born again through
Baptism, thus becoming a member of the new race of which Jesus Christ is
the Head. St. Paul tells us in Romans: “…death reigned from Adam until
Moses even over those who did not sin after the likeness of the
transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come. But not
like the offense is the gift. For if by the offense of the one the many
died, much more has the grace of God, and the gift in the grace of the
one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many” (Rom.5:14,15).
False
prophets try to convince us of the doctrine of the brotherhood of all
men. There is no such thing as Original Sin, and we will all share the
same eternal destiny. But this is a false doctrine, because although we
all share the same human nature, unredeemed human nature is selfish and
self-seeking, inclined to start wars and preach a false peace and
security. The Fallen have their own plans for the world, and are
unwilling to accept God’s plan because they hate God’s Divine Son, Jesus
Christ, who has become a “stone of stumbling” for them.
The
Globalists want a New World Order, not the one intended by God. They
want to reduce the world’s population, and that by any means available,
be it by promoting abortion, birth control and sterilization, by
provoking wars and natural disasters, or by causing famines and
pandemics. They call it “Population Control”.
Margaret
Sanger, a racist and elitist, the founder of Planned Parenthood, where
unsuspecting women are victimized, was one of them. She considered some
races inferior, and called for the “elimination of human weeds.” She
believed that what she called the “dysgenic races” should include
“fundamentalists and Catholics” in addition to “blacks, Hispanics, [and]
American Indians.” “Birth control,”
she said, “appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to
undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to
seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than
Capitalism.”
The
famous Jacques Cousteau, another advocate of “population control” wrote
in the Unesco Courier, 1991: “the damage people cause to the planet is a
function of demographics-it is equal to the degree of development. One
American burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes... In
order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people
per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say
it.” (Dr. Stan Monteith, M.D, The Population Control Agenda, http://www.khouse.org/articles/1997/93/).
One
of the recommendations in the “Kissinger Report” of 1974: Develop
alternatives to children as a source of old age security. Now we know
where all the children have gone.
Well,
I guess we know where we stand. Catholics will not be welcome in the
Brave New World of the future. But we have already been separated from
the world. St. Paul tells us: “Do you not know that your members are the
temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and
that you are not your own? For you have been bought at a great price.
Glorify God and bear him in your body” (1Cor.12:19,20).
He
tells us in Romans: “Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed
in the newness of your mind, that you may discern what is the good and
acceptable will of God” (Rom.12:2).
Our Lord Himself tells us:
“If
the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you. If you were
of the world, the world would love what is its own. But because you are
not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hates you. Remember the word that I have spoken to you: No servant
is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will
persecute you also; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours
also. But all these things they will do for my name’s sake, because they
do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they
would have no sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. He who
hates me hates my Father also” (Jn.15:18-23).
What
a relief to know that we do not have to follow the example of the
world. We do not have to love what the world loves, we do not have to
wear its immodest fashions; we do not have to watch its creepy movies
and corrupt TV and computer programs. We do not have to be condemned
with the world. We don’t have to spend our eternity in Hell with the
fallen angels and damned souls. They talk about “The Great Escape”. But
we have executed the greatest escape in the history of the world. Those
who reject Jesus Christ and His Church are trapped, condemned to live
their lives in sin and despair, unless they repent and turn to Jesus
Christ. But we are free to follow the Prince of Peace into His eternal
Kingdom. God grant us the grace to be true to our great vocation! For:
