The lives of the saints, the Imitation of Christ, the teachings of the great Doctors, in fact, the whole of devotional, didactic, meditative, hortatory and homiletic Catholic literature, tells us to be wary of our own thoughts, for the wisdom of Man is not the wisdom of God; it tells us to be child-like in everything, and not to claim that we are really mature in any respect. This is Christian wisdom: our freedom is a surrender; our thinking is fallible; our maturity is imperfect and open to question. Admittedly, this is a difficult ideal, but it is worth labouring for. In opposition to that ideal, Modern Democracy holds that we are "freethinking and responsible": our freedom knows no moral law; our thinking is wisdom itself; our maturity is "adult". "..such are the big words with which human pride is being exalted.." (St. Pius X) "Such is the exalted claim that it (Democracy) makes on the moral maturity of the citizen." (Pius XII - Christmas 1944) Such is - "the revolt in the depths of the human conscience ... the feeble and grovelling wisdom of Man ... is boasting of progress when relapsing into decadence ..." (Pius XII "Summi Pontificatus") Revolt against God's laws means disaster. There is no other cause to account for the decadence of the West.
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