Guest Post: It's Time to Restore All Things in Christ

The motto of Pope St. Pius X was "To restore all things in Christ." Bring it on, Lord!

By Greg Diefenderfer

Looking back over the past 120 years at the tumultuous 20th century, two inflection points seem to stand out. One was World War I, which began 30 years after Pope Leo’s locution in 1884 and 3 years before Fatima. “The Great War” started the carnage that would eventually kill over 100 million souls. The second was the middle of the 20th century, when, seemingly out of nowhere, western Christian society started to go crazy. Compare anything you wish – music, TV, movies, education, clothing and dress, politics, economics, sexuality, your choice – and everything started deteriorating. We went from Doris Day and Frank Sinatra to Jefferson Airplane and Jimi Hendrix, from Leave it to Beaver to All in the Family. And so on. What happened?