The chain of blame which began at the fall of mankind ends at the mea culpa, and is replaced with the “ideo precor” – the beseeching of Mary, the angels, the all the saints.
Have you heard? The world is going to Hell in a handbasket. Our politicians are devils, our hierarchs are often devils themselves, and Catholics are leaving the Church in droves. The media lies to us, and our institutions turn our children into post-modern pill-addicted zombies who can’t be happy in a society where they lack no creature comfort.
Marriages are failing, and a lot of men are addicted to vile images of perversion that they sneakily watch on their phones while standing in a corner on the metro on their way home to their families.
And who is at fault?
Why, it is the media, it is the bankers, the Hollywood elite, and the Democrats; the public schools are to blame, and the bad priests and bishops; if we look a little deeper, it is also the Freemasons and the Zionists; and, somehow, it is also Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy. The forces of evil have been unleashed against us and the real reason that the world is on the brink of implosion is because the bad guys have done bad things, and they need to be exposed!
Granted, there are many wicked and vile men in this world, and they do wicked and vile things. There is no excusing the behavior of the lizard people who rig our economies, rig our elections, and kill our kings.
But we must admit, no matter how painful, that those lizard people are us.
God is All Good; man is a sinner.
One venial sin makes us more like Epstein than Christ, and one mortal sin makes us more like the devil than St. Michael.
The reason why our world is going so rotten is because we are rotten, and we have the world we deserve. We do not deserve peace – because peace can only come with the peace of Christ, but we don’t want that; no, we want religious liberty and the freedom of speech, where Satan and the Son of God are equals in the public square.
We scream and shout about our national debts which cause inflation, and then we spend money we don’t have, to buy something we don’t need, and post on social media how the bankers are controlling civilization!
The food companies and big pharma are to blame for our obesity rates and heart disease because they keep us dependent on Twinkies and pills, so we need RFK to make us healthy again. Well, RFK isn’t going to stop us from putting too much KFC in our gullets, is he?
In reality, we are to blame for our societal ills and the ills in our personal lives because we are sinners and the wages of sin is death.
Worse than the death of our nations or even the death of civilization is the death of God, which we also caused, and continue to cause in some mystical way.
When Christ prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane while awaiting betrayal, he sweated blood in anticipation of what was to befall Him.
He saw the Passion in all its detail. He saw the blood, He saw the scourge, and He saw each and every splinter wedged into His shoulder from the rough wood of that Tree of Death. In a sense, He lived the Passion while awaiting the Passion in an interior way, thereby experiencing pain and suffering that none of us could ever understand.
He saw from Adam and Eve, right until the end of time; and sees every sin that men and women will commit and have committed. He saw your sins; He saw my sins; He saw each and every sin you or I will ever commit in gruesome and graphic detail. This means that while He was sweating blood, He saw just what vile creatures we all are.
Perhaps more painful than all this, Christ saw that so many souls would still go to Hell, despite all the merits and satisfaction earned by the Crucifixion. Innumerable souls have rejected Christ, knowing full well what He did.
You and I have rejected Christ with every sin and caused Him unspeakable pain. We may still go to Heaven, but we may not; we may be one of those souls who caused Him the greatest pain.
Keeping this in mind, perhaps we can look at the state of the world differently and with an eternal perspective. Yes, things are bad, and maybe some things will get worse; yes, there are bad actors who make things worse when they needn’t be. But, none of those things that they do to economies or governments are as bad as the things that we all do to Christ when we sin.
If the world is dying and the forces of evil are winning, it is because we have all contributed to deicide; we all killed Him.
May God have mercy on us all.
Written by Kennedy Hall for the Crisis Magazine ~ April 18, 2025