
ER Editor: And in addition to all the factors Cesare Sacchetti considers below, we now have the sterilizing genetic injections of the Covid period to contend with.
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The Italian birth rate decline, secularization and the disastrous legacy of divorce and abortion
CESARE SACCHETTI
The answer is obviously not in the mainstream media as these are the means through which the infection of liberalism and the modern world that has reduced Italy to this state has been propagated.
Italy is no longer the Italy of the past as this extraordinary country has undergone a tremendous cultural revolution together with the rest of Western Europe.
Over the course of the last century, there has been an advancement of the civil religion of liberalism which in the 1960s launched its most ferocious and scientific attack on Italy’s values.
The assault started precisely where there should have been defense against it. The attack started from the Catholic Church when, at the end of the 1950s, one of the greatest pontiffs of the last century, Pius XII, died, still gravely defamed today by the usual progressive world which accuses him, falsely, of not having saved the Jews during the Second World War, when the Vatican was the state that was most committed to saving the persecuted Jews, and as proof of this there is even the written thanks of the rabbi of Jerusalem, Isaac Herzog, to Pope Pacelli.
Liberals, as we know, are no strangers to the practice of accusing others of the misdeeds they have committed and if we wanted to talk about the specific case of the Jews and their persecution, we could remind these whitewashed tombs that in reality it was the Zionist movement world to make agreements with Hitler, sending many poor Jews to the slaughterhouse just to see the birth of the Jewish state so ardently desired by the Ashkenazi financial lords, the Rothschilds.
Vatican II: the secularization of the Church and Italy
Unfortunately, as regards the Church and its defection, we cannot fail to examine the Second Vatican Council, as it was strongly desired by Masonic and Jewish circles to give birth to a Church that is no longer what it once was.
A Church which, rather than defending Truth and Tradition, ended up embracing modernism and its errors, to the point of declaring that salvation no longer passes exclusively through the Catholic faith but that it can also be reached by other religious paths such as Buddhism, Islam and even modern Talmudism, which directs the most horrendous insults at Christ in its “sacred” book, namely the Talmud.
The defection of the Church, or rather its apostasy, is what paved the way for the unfortunate revolution of 1968.
Italy is starting to change its face from a healthy patriarchal and Christian country founded on large families.
The 1968 virus begins to rapidly infiltrate the bowels of Italian society. The Frankfurt school, which expressly gave birth to this cultural revolution conceived to overthrow the old traditional institutions perfectly summarized by the trinity of God, homeland and family, replaced it instead with a liquid and anarchic society.
’68 was the entry into the void of values where a generation of mediocre liberal and Marxist intellectuals was raised who occupied schools and the university world, and transformed both into a factory of liberal-Marxist propaganda.
This “cultural” process has transformed educational institutions into real monuments to mediocrity and repositories of “teachers” largely co-opted by various progressive political clientele who have placed on the chairs not teachers, but agents of modernist and anti-Catholic propaganda .
And the revolution studied by philosophers of Jewish origin such as Adorno and Horkheimer in order to be successful, especially in Italy, could not fail to start from the assault on the first great bastion on which Catholic civilization is based, which is none other than the family.
Divorce and abortion: the origin of the birth rate decline
Divorce was the first stake driven into the heart of Italy and it is the first barrier to fall, favoring the birth rate decline in subsequent years.
The idea that marriage is a sort of contract that can be terminated at will is certainly not a product of the Catholic world but of the Protestant one.
It is in this environment that prenuptial agreements are even written to clarify how the assets of one of the two spouses should or should not be divided in the event of the end of the marriage and if one of the two has been unfaithful towards the other.
In the Protestant world there is a clearly economic conception of marriage and not a moral and spiritual one as there is, or rather there was, in the Catholic one.
In Catholicism, marriage is not a contract but a sacrament that cannot be arbitrarily terminated by men.
In Protestantism it is money and its allocation that dominates this relationship, and it is not surprising that a very particular affinity has existed between the Protestant and Jewish worlds since the 17th century.
In 1970, the law passed with the votes against of the DC, the monarchists and the MSI and the subsequent referendum to ask for its repeal did not exceed 40% of those against.
Even today it is believed that a decisive role was played in that passage by the lack of tenacious opposition to the divorce of the post-conciliar Church by Montini, a pontiff registered with Freemasonry according to Don Villa, who some say expressed “bitterness” for the negative result of the referendum but a favor to which he did not actually make a great contribution.
Italian society was becoming secularized because the Church itself had begun to secularize after Vatican II through the replacement of Catholicism with the Enlightenment religion of human rights.
Not all the cardinals and bishops were silent. Some openly denounced the post-conciliar heresy like the late Monsignor Lefevbre against whom the new false Masonic church announced by Padre Pio had declared an all-out war.
Others like Cardinal Ottaviani were isolated from the new course undertaken first by Roncalli and then by Montini, since bishops and cardinals began to be placed at the top who, rather than attending churches, were more at home in Masonic lodges.
How could the Church, in this situation of revolution and banishment of the truths of tradition, defend Italy from such an assault if it itself was unfortunately a full participant in it?
The banks had collapsed at least ten years earlier, and the approval of divorce is not only the natural consequence of 1968, but above all that of the desertion of the Vatican.
In place of the principle of family unity and the good of the offspring was the principle of the interest of one or both spouses, who believe they can put an end to what was initially an essential bond only because one of the two, or in fact both, no longer feel they have to continue or more than anything else they are tired of wanting to continue a life together, thus handing over their children to the drama of separation and a life in which the father is estranged from the family.
The war on patriarchy wanted and wants this, too. It wants to ban the figure of the father because, without him, the family simply cannot exist through his guidance.
The radicals, always present when the modernist infection began to spread in Italy, used the extreme cases of domestic violence as a picklock to undermine the institution of marriage and the family despite the fact that these were, and still are, a small minority today. and even though at the time the Church also provided for separation from a spouse guilty of abusing the other.
Secularization had reached its first goal only to achieve a few years later, in 1978, another even more important and more inhumane act, that of the law on abortion, possible this time only with the betrayal of the DC and once again with the the absence of the post-conciliar Montinian Church, which had no interest in hindering the de-Christianization process underway in Italy.
The subsequent referendum in 1981 was another failure, even more resounding than that of divorce, with 68% of Italians saying yes to infanticide.
In the minds of public opinion and of many women, the idea was, and still is, established in part that having the life of a child was a sort of prerogative entirely contained in the power of life or death that feminism has given to women, even though they cannot be the holders of it.
“The uterus is mine and I manage it” best expresses the inhumanity of feminist violence which, in the name of an alleged personal freedom, completely removes responsibility and ends up killing another defenseless human being and consequently this person’s right to life.
It is a desert of values. It is the place where man and woman themselves become the measure of all things and one should not be surprised if this deadly pairing subsequently produced the subsequent birth rate crisis.
Abortion has killed at least 6 million children to date. It is a silent massacre not denounced by the false prophets of human rights, who had the courage to define this horror as a “conquest of freedom”.
The birth rate decline could only be the natural consequence of the killing of children. Modernism smothered babies in cribs in the name of “freedom.” Isn’t this a truly enormous holocaust?
Some are deceived in good faith by a purely economic reading of the birth rate decline and here we do not want to deny in any way that the loss of monetary sovereignty and the consequent wage deflation, accompanied by taxation that is nothing short of usurious, have seriously affected the possibility of growing a family.
However, these are not exclusively the main causes of the collapse in births, but they are the contributing causes and the proof of this statement can be found in the data.
When divorce and abortion passed, Italian society was already de facto secularized. In place of the Christian religion there was a secular one that absolved men and women from any responsibility and instead put only their own individual drives in the place of family, homeland and God.
If in 1971 the number of children per woman was still equal to 2.41 per woman, even above the minimum threshold to keep the number of the population stable, in 1981 it had already dropped to 1.60.
We had not yet entered any economic crisis. We had not yet entered the euro and there had not been any heavy deindustrialisation.
There had been, this is true, the divorce between the Treasury and Bank of Italy, plotted and implemented illegally by the Ciampi – Andreatta couple, but the negative effects of the loss of control of the central bank will be felt in the years following 1981 and not in 1981 itself.
Among other things, even at the end of the 70s when secularization was already galloping undisturbed, one can see the decline in the number of children per woman falling below the threshold of 2 per woman and reaching 1.76 in 1979 .
The statistics, if read well, are revealing of a cultural and moral process even before a merely economic one, and if we look into even earlier decades, we will see that in the 1920s during the much maligned fascist era, the number of children per woman was equal to 3.81 in 1924 .
Italy was strong, healthy and growing because it had a culture and a tradition, the Catholic one, instead of another, the current secular and liberal-progressive one of post-68 where Italy is instead weak, lost and above all not growing.
The birth crisis was already underway, therefore, because the cornerstones of the society of the past had been attacked.
The feminism that said it wanted to “liberate” women has transformed them into an angry and unhappy monad who is only now discovering that they have been deceived and deprived of the joy of having children. (ER: Now, biological women aren’t even supposed to exist because of the ideological and mental health idiocy that ‘men can have babies’.)
The man, on the other hand, if he has gone through the “cure” of divorce often finds himself sleeping in the car in order to pay maintenance to his ex-wife, who unfortunately often denies him even the right to see his children.
Secularization has only generated unhappiness, pain and loneliness, and this world could only arrive at the natural consequence of the birth rate decline because it has worked incessantly to destroy marriage and the family.
There can only be one cure. If Italy wants to emerge from its demographic winter, it must first abandon secularization.
The subsequent adoption of a national currency and an economy based on the principles of the entrepreneurial state will have to be the necessary tools to support families and demography which certainly needs targeted public spending interventions and an increase in wages.
However, this objective will not be achieved if we do not first shake off the unfortunate legacy of ’68 and the apostatic post-conciliar Church.
There seems to be a desire among the people to return to the healthy tradition of the past. The rise of those political and religious figures necessary to complete the work is missing.
The end of the Bergoglian pontificate, however, seems ever closer and liberal democracy in Italy is now gangrenous.
The return to the past does not seem so far away after all.
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Featured image source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/births-italy-heading-new-record-low-2023-stats-office-2023-10-26/
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