Far-Right Modernism: A New Kind Of Modernism
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Far-Right Modernism, A Reaction To Leftist Modernism
Far-right modernism is the inverse of far-left modernism (which rejects Church teaching in favor of left-wing politics).
I have written about modernism before, so read that article, since I won’t rehash it all here.
Instead of putting leftist politics before God and His Church, far-right modernism puts right-wing politics before God and His Church.
Far-right modernists put ideologies of race, nationalism, and fascism over God and Church teaching.
I talked about this before, in an article promoting Catholic nationalism, but I don’t think I communicated my point well.
The problem is that it’s hard to figure out whether people are crossing the line or not not based on the ambiguous definitions of these ideologies.
So I am going to be precise with language here, and say what is consistent with Catholic teaching vs what is not.
Far-Right Modernism Statements That Should Be Condemned
On Fascism
Do you call yourself a “fascist” and “Catholic” at the same time?
If what you mean by being a “fascist” is that you want to create a Catholic autocratic state that subordinates itself to the Church on faith and morality, then that’s fine.
However, if what you mean by being a “fascist” is that you want to create a totalitarian state, which wants to subordinate the Church to the state, then you’re putting politics over God and His Church.
Pope Pius XI called such a totalitarian fascist state:
a regime based on an ideology which clearly resolves itself into a true, a real pagan worship of the State – the “Statolatry” which is no less in contrast with the natural rights of the family than it is in contradiction with the supernatural rights of the Church.
Non Abbiamo Bisogno
Also, Pope Pius XII, writing of the errors of moral agnostics, says:
But there is yet another error no less pernicious to the well-being of the nations and to the prosperity of that great human society which gathers together and embraces within its confines all races. It is the error contained in those ideas which do not hesitate to divorce civil authority from every kind of dependence upon the Supreme Being – First Source and absolute Master of man and of society – and from every restraint of a Higher Law derived from God as from its First Source. Thus they accord the civil authority an unrestricted field of action that is at the mercy of the changeful tide of human will, or of the dictates of casual historical claims, and of the interests of a few….
…The idea which credits the State with unlimited authority is not simply an error harmful to the internal life of nations, to their prosperity, and to the larger and well-ordered increase in their well-being, but likewise it injures the relations between peoples, for it breaks the unity of supra-national society, robs the law of nations of its foundation and vigor, leads to violation of others’ rights and impedes agreement and peaceful intercourse.
…A disposition, in fact, of the divinely sanctioned natural order divides the human race into social groups, nations or States, which are mutually independent in organization and in the direction of their internal life. But for all that, the human race is bound together by reciprocal ties, moral and juridical, into a great commonwealth directed to the good of all nations and ruled by special laws which protect its unity and promote its prosperity.
…Now no one can fail to see how the claim to absolute autonomy for the State stands in open opposition to this natural way that is inherent in man – nay, denies it utterly – and therefore leaves the stability of international relations at the mercy of the will of rulers, while it destroys the possibility of true union and fruitful collaboration directed to the general good.
Summi Pontificatus
On White Nationalism
Do you call yourself a “white nationalist” and “Catholic” at the same time?
If what you mean by being a “white nationalist” is that you have a pious love and filial preference of what you consider to be your own people over others, preferring close relationships with them over others, prefer to live in a society mostly surrounded by your own people, but you don’t hate non-whites, or treat them with contempt, and put the supranational Social Kingship of Christ before a homogeneous nation, then that’s fine.
However, if what you mean by being a “white nationalist” is that you believe that having a white ethno-state is the most important social priority, believe that the Church condemns miscegenation, believe non-whites are inferior, believe non-whites must be forcibly removed from society, and/or believe non-whites must be treated with hatred and contempt, then you’re putting politics over God and His Church.
Again, Pope Pius XI writes:
Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community – however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things – whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds….
None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts of a national God, of a national religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe, King and Legislator of all nations before whose immensity they are “as a drop of a bucket” (Isaiah xI, 15).
Mit Brennender Sorge
On Racism
Do you call yourself “racist” and “Catholic” at the same time?
If what you mean by being “racist” is that you acknowledge there are differences between races in biology, appearance, aptitudes, and tendencies, but you believe all races are equal in human dignity and you love all races, then that’s fine.
However, if what you mean by being “racist” is that you think some races are “subhuman”, that races don’t have equal dignity, and/or you even hate some races, then you’re putting politics over God and His Church.
Pope Pius XII, writing of the errors of moral agnostics, says:
The first of these pernicious errors, widespread today, is the forgetfulness of that law of human solidarity and charity which is dictated and imposed by our common origin and by the equality of rational nature in all men, to whatever people they belong, and by the redeeming Sacrifice offered by Jesus Christ on the Altar of the Cross to His Heavenly Father on behalf of sinful mankind.
…In fact, the first page of the Scripture, with magnificent simplicity, tells us how God, as a culmination to His creative work, made man to His Own image and likeness (cf. Genesis i. 26, 27); and the same Scripture tells us that He enriched man with supernatural gifts and privileges, and destined him to an eternal and ineffable happiness. It shows us besides how other men took their origin from the first couple, and then goes on, in unsurpassed vividness of language, to recount their division into different groups and their dispersion to various parts of the world. Even when they abandoned their Creator, God did not cease to regard them as His children, who, according to His merciful plan, should one day be reunited once more in His friendship (cf. Genesis xii. 3).
…The Apostle of the Gentiles later on makes himself the herald of this truth which associates men as brothers in one great family, when he proclaims to the Greek world that God “hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation, that they should seek God” (Acts xvii. 26, 27).
…A marvelous vision, which makes us see the human race in the unity of one common origin in God “one God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in us all” (Ephesians iv. 6); in the unity of nature which in every man is equally composed of material body and spiritual, immortal soul; in the unity of the immediate end and mission in the world; in the unity of dwelling place, the earth, of whose resources all men can by natural right avail themselves, to sustain and develop life; in the unity of the supernatural end, God Himself, to Whom all should tend; in the unity of means to secure that end….
…And the nations, despite a difference of development due to diverse conditions of life and of culture, are not destined to break the unity of the human race, but rather to enrich and embellish it by the sharing of their own peculiar gifts and by that reciprocal interchange of goods which can be possible and efficacious only when a mutual love and a lively sense of charity unite all the sons of the same Father and all those redeemed by the same Divine Blood.
…The Church of Christ, the faithful depository of the teaching of Divine Wisdom, cannot and does not think of deprecating or disdaining the particular characteristics which each people, with jealous and intelligible pride, cherishes and retains as a precious heritage. Her aim is a supernatural union in all-embracing love, deeply felt and practiced, and not the unity which is exclusively external and superficial and by that very fact weak.
…The Church hails with joy and follows with her maternal blessing every method of guidance and care which aims at a wise and orderly evolution of particular forces and tendencies having their origin in the individual character of each race, provided that they are not opposed to the duties incumbent on men from their unity of origin and common destiny….
Summi Pontificatus
On Anti-Immigration
Do you call yourself “anti-immigration” and “Catholic” at the same time?
If what you mean by being a “anti-immigration” is that you believe that your country has a right to regulate its borders, keeping out those who will do harm, and also has a right to manage the capacity of intake for needy immigrants of good moral character, then that’s fine.
However, if what you mean by being “anti-immigration” is that you want to reject all immigrants because you don’t believe people have a right to migrate, even if they are in need of a better living situation and have proven moral character, then you’re putting politics over God and His Church.
(Note: Regarding the right to migrate. Don’t misunderstand. Migration as a natural right has limits, and does not mean that the Catholic Church condones the Great Replacement in any way, shape or form).
Pope Pius XII, writing an authoritative apostolic constitution, writes:
…On June 1, 1951 in a radio address on the fiftieth anniversary of the Encyclical Rerum Novarum, we did speak of the right of people to migrate, which right is founded in the very nature of land….
The natural law itself, no less than devotion to humanity, urges that ways of migration be opened to [immigrants]. For the Creator of the universe made all good things primarily for the good of all. Since land everywhere offers the possibility of supporting a large number of people, the sovereignty of the State, although it must be respected, cannot be exaggerated to the point that access to this land is, for inadequate or unjustified reasons, denied to needy and decent people from other nations, provided of course, that the public wealth, considered very carefully, does not forbid this.
…We have condemned severely the ideas of the totalitarian and the imperialistic state, as well as that of exaggerated nationalism. On one hand, in fact they arbitrarily restrict the natural rights of people to migrate or to colonize while on the other hand, they compel entire populations to migrate into other lands, deporting inhabitants against their wills, disgracefully tearing individuals from their families, their homes and their countries.
Exsul Familia Nazarethana
Far-Right Modernism Is Contrary To The Church
Well, I hope that all clarifies things.
If you are one of those people that put far-right politics before the Church teaching, you are in danger.
I would strongly consider fully reading the Magisterial documents I quoted if you are still unconvinced.
My guess is that some of you won’t be convinced, and you will continue in your errors.
But it is what it is. I tried. And I at least planted some seeds that the Holy Ghost can fertilize and grow.
May God bless you and Mary keep you.