The Kingship of Christ and Organized Naturalism

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Fr. Fahey was a Holy Ghost Father like Archbishop Lefebvre, and they both studied under the great seminary professor Fr. Le Floch, C.S.Sp. * Fahey, C.S.Sp., Denis. “[A Brief Sketch of My Life Work](https://isidore.co/misc/Physics%20papers%20and%20books/Zotero/storage/LHYIF5SF/Fahey,%20C.S.Sp.%20-%202001%20-%20A%20Brief%20Sketch%20of%20My%20Life%20Work.html).” *The Angelus* , January 2001. * Maume, Patrick. “[Fahey, Denis](https://www.dib.ie/biography/fahey-denis-a2986).” In *Dictionary of Irish Biography* , edited by James Quinn. Royal Irish Academy, 2009. ←Despite calling him an "anti-Semite" (which he was not), this biography is good.Quoted in [*Why stand ye here idle?*](https://isidore.co/misc/Res%20pro%20Deo/Pro-Life/Why%20stand%20ye%20here%20idle%3F.pdf) p. 5, Fr. Fahey combines civil and religious duties; the Catholic is both a citizen and a member of the Mystical Body; cf. [fineprint here](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/101257/1787):> [p. 122, PDF p. 134:] > Other Catholics seem to be unconsciously influenced by the Lutheran separation of the Christian and the citizen and consider their spiritual life as a purely interior relation with Christ. Their spiritual life is, as it were, sectioned off from ordinary everyday life. They are in danger of allowing the world around them to be organized against Our Lord’s Program for Order, while they continue to practice their religion more or less unconcernedly. They do not sufficiently realize that we enter into vital relation with Christ, through being incorporated into a visible organism, and that we must take as the starting point of our spiritual life the objective fact of this incorporation [into the Mystical Body of Christ].> We must not initiate our spiritual life by the soul’s looking at it- self somewhat after the subjective fashion in which Descartes started intellectual life. The spiritual life is not the life of a “soul,” but the life of a member of Christ, composed of soul and body, occupying a place in an organic unity destined to mold the world for Christ.> [pp. 36-7, PDF pp. 48-9:] > Catholics succumb to the machinations of Our Lord’s enemies largely because they are not trained for the real struggle in the world. They leave school without adequate knowledge of the organized opposition they will have to meet and having very hazy notions about the points of social organization for which they must stand and against which attacks are being directed. They do not realize that the opposition’s ultimate aim is the disruption of Christ’s order. They are not accustomed to think that they must co-operate with other young Catholics for Our Lord’s program, that they must, for example, get control of the cinema and prevent it from undermining the Catholic concept of marriage and Catholic family life. Thus they display a lamentable lack of cohesion and a pitiable want of enthusiasm for Christ’s interests, so that Catholics that stand for integral Christianity can always count on finding other Catholics in the opposite camp.