Episode 939: Liberal Catholicism Leads to Persecutions of the Church

We are experiencing today, when we see Modern States dictating to Catholics authorities what the latter should or should not do, the results of what Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany called Liberal Catholicism or Catholic Liberalism. By denying the traditional doctrine ruling the relations between Church and State, Catholic Liberalism denies to the Catholic Church her fundamental rights in temporal society. The State is left free to legislate as to what she can and cannot do. The liberal doctrine of separation of Church and State in reality subjects the Church to the powers of the State, especially in times of crisis.