Christian civilization is not utopian.
It is something possible and, in a determined epoch, effectively achieved.
Finally, it is something that in a certain manner endured even after the Middle Ages, to such a point that Pope St. Pius X could write:
“Civilization has not yet to be founded, nor has the new State to be built in the clouds. It existed and exists; it is Christian civilization; it is the Catholic City. The only question is that of reestablishing it and restoring it without delay on its natural and divine foundations against the continually repeated attacks of the wicked utopia of revolution and impiety” (Apostolic letter Notre Charge Apostolique, August 25, 1910).
Therefore, Christian civilization has ample, living vestiges even in our days.
Plinio Correa de Oliveira
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