God created the entire universe. He intended that all things would be useful to the Church; the universe is a pedestal for the Church.
He intended human society to be a beautiful wall upon which the torch of the Church would cast its light.
And when God created human society, of course, He had no intention that men would say: "our society is so beautiful that we don't need the Church."
Man is natural. But divine grace enters his soul by a special gift of God. Therefore, man has his natural life and a participation in God's supernatural life.
That is why man needs to ponder supernatural things as reflected in natural things. Man desires the natural to mirror the supernatural. He has the need for both to form one and the same ensemble.
The Church can only be seen in all its beauty inside of Christendom.
In a family of nations that are Roman, Catholic and Apostolic, where everything is Catholic, man feels at home in contemplating the Catholic aspect of thing, from the shape of the keys of the city to the design of the rooster atop the spire of the castle.
The Church is at the center of Christendom like a housewife is the center of her family and home.
The Church is the queen full of suavity, sweetness, and majesty that explains all the rest; that give meaning to Christian Civilization. The eyes of the sons of Christendom shine when they behold the Church.
For this reason too, the Church in a secular nation somehow gives one the impression of being a soul without body. On the other hand, a well organized secular nation gives one the impression of being a body without soul.
The Church does not and cannot live at ease in a secular society that does not consider the moral questions.
The Church is not in its natural ambiance amid a secular society that treats it like it had nothing to do with society.
The separation of Church and state kills the Catholic spirit, makes it atheistic and leads to apostasy. This is because the human spirit is called to live in the ineffable union between the natural and supernatural.
The more these two pyramids -- the Church and State -- are united, the more the soul of man grows.
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira.
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