Attacks on our Civilization

We have had examples of heresy, working from without and forming a new world in that fashion, of which Islam is the great example.

We have had examples of heresy at work attacking the root of the Faith, the Incarnation, and specializing upon that of which Arianism was the great example.

We have had the growth of the foreign body from within, the Albigenses, and all their Manichean kindred before and after them.

We have had the attack on the personality that is the unity, of the Church which is Protestantism.

And we now behold, even as Protestantism is dying, the rise and growth of yet another form of conflict the proposal to treat all transcendental affirmation as illusion.

The schisms are as much attacks upon the life of the Catholic Church as are the heresies; the greatest schism of all, the Greek or Orthodox, which has produced the Greek or Orthodox communion, is manifestly a disruption of our strength.