A growing attitude under Pius XII’s reign began to view the authoritarian rule of the Holy Office, for example, as “oppressive” and “unhealthy” – as if a father should not watch over his children. “American homes overnight became child centered” viewing physical discipline as “psychologically unhealthy.” The concept that a father would act masculine and strong for his wife and children was summarily rejected by the new “science” of “psychoanalysis.”Ĭhurchmen in western Europe and the United States, feeling an inferiority complex in the face of “modern science,” took these false claims at face value, and began to adopt an attitude about fatherhood that emphasised mercy at the expense of justice. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care nullified the role of fatherhood as the authority and disciplinarian of the home. A weak and cowardly father can never raise a man out of an unruly “teenager.” Instead, such a father will forsake his duty and seek to rationalise his lack of fatherhood in order to avoid confronting his “teenager.” The Medicine of Mercy Destroys FatherhoodĪfter the Second World War punished humanity for their sins, fatherhood, already effeminised for generations, was broken by the mass slaughter of that war and rendered powerless over families. This made men of God weak and helpless against the machinations of the fallen angels in the 19th century.Īfter the industrial revolutions dismantled the family and created the reductionist institution known as the “nuclear family,” the First Sexual Revolution (1917-1945) effeminised men in the face of a new creation of Modernity – the teenager – who took Liberalism to its logical end: the revolt of the son against his father in every family. Their ancestors had destroyed the cult of Our Lady, and thus had created the seeds of Liberalism’s ugly daughter in Feminism. Photo by Allison Girone.Īt the risk of oversimplification, I do believe that the present crisis in the Church can be boiled down to a crisis of fatherhood.įirst, the fathers of the Liberal revolutions (beginning with John Adams and his wife in 1776) were effeminate against the rise of Feminism.
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