Crusade Magazine, Vol. 180, November/December, 2022 - The Crusade of the Twenty-First Century.
We can, and must, pray and act to free the world not only from the errors of communism and Islam, but also those of the cultural revolution sweeping the West. Medieval crusaders shed their blood to free the sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the hands of the infidels and to establish a Christian kingdom in the Holy Land. Today the blood of Catholics still flows—in communist China, Nigeria, Cuba, and many other countries where religious persecutions continue to claim the lives of thousands without most of us even being aware of it. But for what purpose? The vast majority of these have died under the continuing onslaught of communism and Islam, both inveterate enemies of our Faith and of Christian civilization. It is to be hoped that this torrent of blood, like that of the early Christian martyrs, will be a seed of even greater numbers of new Catholics and of a restoration of Christendom in all the world. Those…