{"id":4769,"date":"2020-12-29T22:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T22:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejosias.net\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2020-12-30T06:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:21:01","slug":"st-thomas-becket-integralist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejosias.net\/2020\/12\/29\/st-thomas-becket-integralist\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas Becket, Integralist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On December 29, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury and martyr. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. Thomas Becket, like all true saints, endorsed the Gelasian proposition that the civil authority has no right to interfere in matters conferred exclusively by Christ to the Catholic Church.  Although the saint is often commemorated as a defender of “religious liberty,” he was martyred specifically for defending the libertas Ecclesiae<\/em>, or the liberty of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement to King Henry II, St. Thomas asserted that \u201cGod willed . . . that those things which must be administered by his Church pertain to his priests, not to secular powers, which if they are faithful, he willed rather to be subject to the priests of his Church.\u201d Furthermore, he declared that the \u201cChristian religion [is] to be ordered and examined\u201d by bishops and priests, not by secular powers. Temporal rulers, he went on, ought to subject their own policy preferences to the bishops of the Church in matters of spiritual jurisdiction. In support, he cited Gratian\u2019s Decretum<\/em> which set forth that civil authorities \u201cought not give judgment concerning bishops.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For St. Thomas, the purpose of the distinction between temporal and spiritual power<\/a> was to allow the Catholic Church to exercise, without impediment, its jurisdiction over spiritual matters and to direct civil power toward its perfective end, the common good, and to censure its bearers with spiritual and temporal punishments should they deviate from this proper ordering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The saint was ultimately martyred for defending Gelasian Dyarchy, that is Integralism<\/a>, from an overreaching civil authority. St. Thomas Becket\u2019s example is critical for us today in a time when liberal regimes worldwide seek to regulate the administration of the sacraments and even define the nature of authentic worship. Just think of all the judges and governors\u2014effectively banning the Mass\u2014telling us that private worship is the same as public worship whilst exempting various secular purposes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Trump administration’s proclamation<\/a> commemorating St. Thomas’s feast day put it: \u201cA society without religion cannot prosper. A nation without faith cannot endure\u2014because justice, goodness, and peace cannot prevail without the Grace of God.\u201d On this feast day, Catholics, adherents of the true<\/em> religion and faith, should imitate the example of St. Thomas Becket, who died defending the rights of the Church and subjecting all things, including the political order, to Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan Whitehead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On December 29, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury and martyr. St. Thomas Becket, like all true saints, endorsed the Gelasian proposition that the civil authority has no right to interfere in matters conferred exclusively by Christ to the Catholic Church.  Although the saint is often commemorated as a … <\/p>\n

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