Let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness—pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the State, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world .... So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
Ronald Reagan’s famous designation of the USSR as an ‘Evil Empire’ was no doubt an apt description of the Communist Totalitarian regime of the time. So apt, that it was not uncommon to contrast Communism with its opposite, the ‘Free World’.
For Reagan, the USSR embodied everything that impinged upon man’s freedom, it stifled creativity, it threatened violence without limits and posited a doomsday concept of permanent revolution and global control.
Yet Reagan could scarcely have foreseen the depraved moral descent of his United States at the turn of the Twentieth First Century. Illegal wars in the Middle East, as barbaric and unjustifiable as anything that Joseph Stalin committed, coupled with a permanent degeneration of basic morals with a concerted effort to corrupt every other nation in the process, have made the USA anything other than a shining city upon a hill. It is less a beacon of hope and more a bad example not be emulated.
As per Our Lady of Fatima’s warnings, the legalisation of abortion by Communists in Russia in 1917 set in motion events that would eventually lead to the Roe vs Wade ruling by the USA’s Supreme Court in 1973. Russia indeed spread her errors throughout the world in the Twentieth Century, but in the Twenty First, it is the United States that carries the heavy load of continuing the work of against the unborn that was started by Vladimir Lenin. It dangles money in front of poor countries if only they will abandon their family values and murder their own children in the womb. It asks of countries in Africa and South America, and one could say even Ireland, that they join the United States in killing their own babies in the womb. Its means of ‘asking’ are of the kind expected from a pimp or a drug dealer, it is the company sought by the miserable, it is the desire to unite the despondent by means of iniquity.
The USA’s love of abortion has seeped across the world, its prominence in the world has helped to make the violent act a staple of the West’s decline. Take for example the United Kingdom, where 1 in 4 pregnancies now ends in the destruction of the baby by the NHS. In nearby Ireland, the birth rate has completely collapsed with the advent of abortion, to the point now where it is well below replacement levels.
The numbers of abortions in the United States are simply staggering, they stand at almost one million per year. These depraved numbers recall the worst regimes in history, eclipsing even the worst crimes of the Americas under the human sacrifices of the Aztecs, both in volume and violence. That is not to even mention the depths to which some of these abortionists have sunk, such as mass murderer Kermit Gosnell who clipped the spines of babies with a scissors and kept their remains in jars that were found seeping onto the floor of his practice. One would be hard pressed to hear such stories on a guided tour of a concentration camp or a gulag. The excesses of violence that occurs in the abortion industry of the United States are of the sort which were predicted by Archbishop Fulton Sheen as being the logical result from the usage of the atomic bomb in 1945, with it the justification of unlimited evil as a means to an end. This is the evil that led to Abu Ghraib and other recent atrocities.
After almost a half century of genocide against their own unborn children, the first chink of light in trying to undo this great evil occurred in 2016, with the unexpected election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. Much of the crazed and irrational overreaction and opposition to his term in office was motivated in both temporal and spiritual terms by opposition to his ability to elect Supreme Court Judges willing to put and end to Roe vs. Wade. Think of the many openly demonic forces who declared their opposition to his presidency in no uncertain terms, with many openly declaring their affinity for invoking occult practices in trying to bring about an end to it.
Now, despite the election of pro abortion Joe Biden and the mostly underwhelming contributions of apparent ultra Catholic Supreme Court Judges Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, Roe vs Wade is close to being aborted. Instigated by recent prolife successes in Mississippi and Texas, the Supreme Court judges now appear ready to tell the US abortion industry that they are ready to exercise their choice over them. Abortions could very well be limited to the point of being virtually illegal.
It is safe to say that pro abortion campaigners in the United States are not taking this well, reduced to babbling humourless messes in their efforts to articulate opposition, such as this reprobate low IQ effort from a once popular tv show. Such depraved and unimaginative propaganda will be studied for centuries to come. Sin has stifled the creativity of the United States more than any Communist edict ever could.
After a half century of massacring innocent babies, the United States might finally be ready to grow up and behave like a civilised nation, rather than as an Evil Empire committed to the physical, moral and spiritual destruction of human beings, of the kind that Reagan could scarcely foresee.
Perhaps now, the scales with fall from their collective eyes and they will cherish their children, from womb to natural death. Perhaps now, they will save themselves trillions on blindly annihilating the children of the Middle East. Perhaps now, those who prayed and prayed for an end to this enduring crime will see this evil stopped.
Each of us is loved, willed and necessary from conception until we return to the hands of the same God who created us.
In Luke’s Gospel, it is an unborn baby that is the first to recognise Our Lord’s presence upon the Earth. God can use the weak to shame the strong.
