Reclaim June: The Sacred Heart Against the Spirit of the Age

The Crucifix and the Culture of Death
Only within Catholicism — and not in generic, watered-down Christianity — can the doctrine of Divine charity be properly grounded and proclaimed. While much of the modern world recoils from the crucifix, and while broad Protestantism has stripped it from its walls, the Militant Church — the Catholic Church, together with the Orthodox — clings to her crucified Savior. There is no cross without Christ, and no Christ without a cross.
Our Lord Jesus Christ stands as the living antithesis to the values of our secular age, an age conspicuously devoid of love. His own words anticipate our moment with unsettling precision: “because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold” (Mt. 24:12). Saint Paul is equally unsparing in his description of the spirit that would characterize the last days:
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant …