RECLAMATION

ABOUT A 1000 YEARS AGO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FOUNDED ABOUT 1000 YEARS EARLIER BY CHRIST WHO ANOINTED THE FIRST POPE, ST. PETER, HAD GONE TERRIBLY WRONG. A CONTEMPORARY OF INNOCENT III IN 1289 SAID OF THE ROMAN CURIA: "THEY ARE STONES FOR UNDERSTANDING, WOOD FOR JUSTICE, FIRE FOR WRATH, IRON FOR FORGIVENESS; DECEITFUL AS FOXES, PROUD AS BULLS, GREEDY AND INSATIATE AS THE MINOTAUR." THE EXAMPLE SET BY CHURCH OFFICIALS CERTAINLY DEVIATED FROM THE IDEALS AND PRACTICES OF THE FIRST CHRISTIANS. WHERE ARE WE TODAY? WE WOULD BE HOLIER THAN THEN HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE 60'S. THE 60'S REVOLUTION WITH ITS FREEDOM RADICALS, INSPIRED THE SEX ABUSE SCANDALS OF PRIESTS JUST RECENTLY UNCOVERED AND PUNISHED. RADICALS NOT ONLY DEFINED DEVIANCY DOWN, THEY RAISED IT TO A POLITICALLY CORRECT ART. THIS ART FORM IS REFLECTED IN OUR PRESENT CULTURE OF IMMORALITY.


EVEN CHARLES DARWIN, THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST, KNEW THAT "THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STAGE IN MORAL CULTURE IS WHEN WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE OUGHT TO CONTROL OUR THOUGHTS." MAN BEING A CREATURE HIGHER THAN THE ANIMALS OUGHT TO BE CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING BOTH HIS ACTIONS AND HIS THOUGHTS. YET HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE WHEN ADULTS AND SOCIETY BEHAVE LIKE PERMANENT CHILDREN?


AT THE NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE CONVENTION, BEARDLSEY RUMI GAVE AN ADDRESS ON WORLD TRADE AND PEACE ON NOVEMBER 14TH 1945. "IT TAKES ONLY A PERIOD OF ABOUT A DOZEN YEARS, " HE SAID, "TO IMPLANT A BASIC CULTURE IN THE MIND OF MAN - THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE AGE OF TWO AND THE AGE OF FOURTEEN IN A PSYCHO-BIOLOGICAL SENSE, HISTORY TRADITION AND CUSTOM ARE ONLY ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD. "


IT IS NOT 2007, IT IS NOT 1007, IT IS NOT EVEN 1198 WHEN THE ABOVE COMMENTS WERE MADE ABOUT THE STATE OF THE CHURCH. IT IS YEAR 14, THE AGE WHEN WE HAVE CEASED TO ADVANCE MORALLY BECAUSE NO PROPER PRIOR PARENTING HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONS. IT WOULD ONLY TAKE A GENERATION OF RECLAMATION AND REPARATION TO SET AMERICA RIGHT.