The political landscape in this land of e Pluribus Unum continues to dissolve into a tapestry of absurd images and surreal gestures, as evidenced by the Democratic National Party Convention in Chicago this past week. Nothing was quite so disturbing, however, as the image of a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Blase Cupich, leading a pious invocation for “peace” even as a hundred feet or so away a mobile abortion clinic was busy offering blood sacrifices (free of charge) to the demons of death. Is Cardinal Cupich blindly unaware that the Democratic party has enshrined “womb-slaughter” as the defining plank of its campaign, because abortion in their eyes is no longer a “necessary evil” but a “positive good” and basic human right? So how does he ever imagine that “peace” will somehow flower out of the soil of this party’s genocidal campaign of cold blooded killing? If he had any personal doubts as to whether his vaunted “peace” could somehow flourish amidst such industrial scale slaughter he clearly kept those misgivings to himself.

Does the cardinal even realize that this same party of death, for which he so heartily carries water, is equally committed to walking all over the conscience rights of those who find abortion to be a reprehensible evil? His own state of Illinois recently passed a law which mandates that all insurance carriers must cover abortion services and likewise prohibits any employer, even religious ones, from firing or disciplining any employee who may have had or is planning to obtain an abortion. Illinois bill #4867 was enthusiastically signed into law by J.B. Pritzker, considered the most pro-abortion governor in the country, who actually proclaimed this past March 10 as “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,” while incoherently thanking abortion providers for their “life saving work.” Yet such twisted logic has become the norm among the progressive left political establishment, a faction which can no longer even define who is, or is not, a woman. None of this rhetorical lunacy seemed to phase Cardinal Cupich as he blithely invoked the blessings of God for “peace” upon unrepentant and murderous zealots who have publicly proclaimed that they will stop at nothing to impose their perverted ideology on the rest of mankind, by force if necessary.

It should by now be apparent to all that the 250 year experiment in a liberal world order has failed miserably. As Chesterton was keen to point out, it becomes clearer by the day that there is nothing so illiberal as liberalism. Modern liberalism is based upon the premise that all beliefs and values are basically equivalent, which is to say that there is no such thing as any absolute truth, and so we must accept contradictions of the truth as somehow being true as well. But in reality this leads into subjective quicksand as everyone pursues his or her own truth. Consequently, as society sinks deeper and deeper into the muck of relativism, people become desperate for a solution to the unfolding chaos. At that point there remain only two options. We can return to God and the eternal moral truths which planted and nurtured a Christian society for centuries, or we can double down and look for some political savior possessing the power and charisma to bring order out of the anarchy that liberalism first created. In that case, the biggest gun in the room will naturally prevail by imposing its will upon the rest. Thus the modern liberal order is merely a stepping stone to eventual enslavement and tyranny, by default of course.

The alternative to such a depressing outcome is to work for the Kingdom of Christ, which is the only kingdom where men can be truly free. Our nation will only find freedom if it first accepts the sovereignty of Christ. John Adams once remarked that the American Constitution was designed for a moral and religious people and will not work for any other kind. In effect this means that our national sovereignty is subject to, and dependent upon, the reign of Christ to the degree that the people are willing to recognize His sovereignty. Yet today in America one is bitterly criticized and denounced, as were Candace Owens and Harrison Butker, for boldly proclaiming Christ as king.

Unfortunately, in bowing to the pressure of the Masonic cults, Cardinal Cupich never even once mentioned Christ during his invocation at the Democratic convention, a telling and disturbing omission. For if a prince of the Church is not willing to proclaim Christ as the true source of political power in a room full of politicians who fanatically advance their program of unrestricted womb-slaughter, he has failed in his sacred duties to both admonish the sinner and uphold the truth. Worse, he has failed to remind them whence their power ultimately derives, which is not some super-pac or the ballot box but Christ the King.

Evil has never been so palpable as it is today when five year olds are being subjected to perverse sexualization and women athletes are publicly brutalized by men posing as women, because when you expel Christ from society you are expelling sanity as well. The time has long passed for our prelates to recognized this reality and address it forcibly, not with their typically ineffective pastoral letters but with concrete action. Get on the front lines and speak truth to power for a change, even if it costs you some government handout or privileged tax status. Withhold communion from the Joe Bidens and Nancy Pelosis of the political world. Declare to all lawmakers that Christ is the true King who will hold accountable all those who impugn or defy divine law when making human laws. There is precious little time left to act. We are perilously close to the position of Nineveh when the prophet Jonah proclaimed, “forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed.” The time to repent is rapidly winding down for God will not be mocked indefinitely. And what we recently witnessed in Paris and now in Chicago is nothing less than the blatant mockery of God.

Francis J. Pierson +a.m.d.g.