The origins of the nanotechnology narrative. by Sasha Latypova
Repetitive messaging is the only technology ever needed for mind control. Seductive sci-fi narratives are a particularly insidious version of this "technology".
Thank you Sasha for this excellent overview of what I would describe as a "mass psychosis" phenomenon, akin to the condition we witnessed during Covid, and for the same reason: fear of death. It's all the same, whether you believe you can insert "code" into human cells that will make them do something you want them to do without bad side effects, or nonsensical ideas about loading one's "mind" (how do they even define that?) to the "cloud," and the nanobot-5G-chemtrails-internet-of-bodies thing that I can never get anyone to actually explain to me (how does it work? what are the mechanisms? what is the science? no answer!). In my experience, a lot of it has to do with little to no education in/understanding of biology, chemistry, physics nor any exploration of philosophy, literature, religion, etc. I also agree that it seems like the vehemence with which this nonsense is being promoted on both sides (globalists vs the rest of us) feels like a psy-op. But I do not discount the mass formation tendencies we witnessed during Covid.
BREGGIN, 9:20 Malone is an extremely wealthy man, who parades on horses on his website wearing the garments of what looks like a king, maybe it's something other than a king, but crowns and big robes, and stuff. This is an elite appearance or optics.
LEIGH, 9:38 I don't think that it's constructive to have personal attacks . . .
BREGGIN, 9:42 I think it's important. We have to identify who the real people are that are harming us. Malone made $10 billion dollars in grants in 5 years. We've documented that. We've found his old biographies. We found commentaries. He took in $10 billion dollars from the Deep State up to 2017 over a mere 5 years, $2 billion per year. He is currently, and he had to tell the truth because he had to sign an affidavit for a case where he is a medical expert. He is currently involved in what is called NIH ACTIV, which stands for Accelerated COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines. That is the heart of the worst of the Deep State. It's at the NIH. The membership includes basically the Great Reset, Bill Gates's organization is a part of this group. All the top drug companies are there. All the major health agencies are there, and the DoD is there. He is a part of this, and as some of his activities he actually did research on treating COVID-19 with a currently available drug . . .
LEIGH, 11:42 Getting both sides, which I think is important. That's funny because just a few minutes ago she was saying, "I don't think that it's constructive to have personal attacks . . . ." So, Kristi, which is it? Do we have a discussion, or do we limit free speech to more convenient sentiments? She continues, . . . Speaking of debate, do you think it will be constructive, or have you offered to have a debate on this mass formation topic with Mattias Desmet or Dr. Malone?
BREGGIN, 11:55 Actually, we made formal invitations to both of them, starting with the platform of America OutLoud by Malcolm Teasdale, who runs it, and he got really nasty emails back from Malone telling him not to ever contact him again, whereupon Malone sent him 4 or 5 more emails. I've made public announcements to debate them in Europe no less, including Desmet in Europe. They have not taken me up on that. And this is what is important about making issues like this. Several people in Europe who we'd previously trusted made sure I couldn't get up one of the interviews that was done of me in Europe where I was critical of Malone. It is not me who is personal. I mean I just couldn't bare but to tell you about the pictures on his website about his horses and his crown. But they have been trying to keep me from even getting my stuff out. Malone actually threatened on the phone to do a letter of cease and desist on writing anything about him. These people are deadly serious disrupters of our movement. Just looking at what they are saying in their writing, which is what I've done so much on my website. BTW, for all the information in the world on this, we set up a dedication portion of our website with a very simple URL. It's 123masspsychosis.com. In his book, Desmet not only tries to say, as I think you may have quoted him, or somebody did, that we've got to deal with ourselves, not with the dictators. He actually says that "those of us," on pages 126-128, those of us who are looking for meaning beneath mistakes being made, which are innocent, those of us who are looking for intention, there's harm, those of who, in his words are "conspiracy thinkers," we are basically mentally disturbed. We have severe anxiety. We have confusion. We have bewilderment. I don't think I communicated those things at age 86. And because of these needs, this is the language, we go and we invent theories about bad people so we can blame someone
other than oneself. He's trying to sweep away any legal or personal responsibility on the part of the people attacking us. Now, I went ahead and said, at least in one of my reports, "At least Malone isn't doing this," and then he went ahead and did it on
Out of the box, however, he mentions Ametai Eztioni, a sociologist advocating for communitarianism for 20-plus years, born Verner Falk in 1929-2023. His family moves all over the place, ends up in Israel, and adopts the name Ametai Eztioni, papers that he wrote, about building community. whole ideology is around the idea that community forms the person. People within have a responsibility and privilege to participate in a/the community. Is Hillary Clintons "It takes a village to raise a child" from Etzioni? It's the village that forms the person and parents seem to be cut out of the loop in terms of the formation and character of the ethics within a community which is kind of what we're seeing now in our political and cultural lies it seems like these communitarians are really taken over through the schools trying to take over not just learning but the culture and the belief system of children and young people. Only it's not working out very well because the community is rather perverted at this point
3:27. and it's also diffuse and there's no responsibility. It's kind of like the Jamestown Colony right when they first started it was socialistic "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs." Farming wasn't anybody's particular job so everybody assumed that everyone else would do it and and everyone starved and then when they remade the colony they gave everybody their own plot of land and said now if you don't work you don't eat and production explode with all these extra surpluses. So yeah when you're depending on this vague Idea Idea like the community is stranger loves my child as much as I do or more than I do I remember one school administrator words to that effect we were casting about for a school for a son and a public school administrator was like acting like she cared more about our child than we did and even said words that affect. No I'm pretty sure we care more about our child. And then you'll hear the teacher cop out after, "Oh no I don't get paid enough to care about . . . ." No, wait, I thought you cared more about the kids than the parents? Oh, you don't get paid enough to care about the kids? So there's this disconnect. I'm going to give my kids to strangers, and the community will love my kid or do the character formation for us and the formation never happens. And the kids grow up without values. It's an inversion. In Aristotle's Politics, he talks about how the family unit is the building block, the atom of civilization, and he says when you have a bunch of cousins living around the initial family, you have a tribe; when you get enough tribes, you get a nation. That was the historical way to look at it. Individuals created the nation, as opposed to the nation creating the individuals; that's the inversion.
5:25. Yeah it is an interesting inversion, and based on what we're seeing in the United States it's not working out very well. I just started looking at communitarianism and when I saw who was involved in it, one person in particular, William Ruckelshaus, 1932-2019, as being instrumental in the communitarian, Agenda 21 takeover. He was the first head of the EPA. I always look at the people involved in something to be able to know how much or how seriously the organization is and what connections they have, how much power they have to actually implement what it is that they're talking about. And Ruckleshaus is a very influential person. He was the first administrator of the EPA he was also moving up in time he was involved in Bill Clinton's President's Council on Sustainable Development, 1993, that through their task forces basically redesign the government functioning, the systems of government, and basically moved us into globalization. So Ruckleshaus is very key person. The fact that he was involved when the communitarian network was formed in 1990 and Clinton's president's Council on Sustainable Development was initiated in 1993. Close time frame. You could say that the President's Council on Sustainable Development was the implementation of communitarianism in the United States.
7:37. It sounds like [communitarianism is] a rebranding of communism. There's that quote from Talleyrand the French diplomat from the 18th century who said that one of the chief jobs of the politicians is to come up with new names for old Concepts that have been odious to the people, "An important part of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public." So Liberal gets replaced by Progressive, the New World Order gets replaced with Building Back Better or the Great Reset, or whatever. So communitarianism sounds very suspiciously evocative of communism.
8:08. Yes, yes and I think it is when they redesigned our government; that was when the internet was just coming into place, being opened up, you know, the telecommunication system for the country was being opened up for everybody to jump on the internet, bring your ideas forth. But what it did was to provide a forum, a network capability for communitarians. Plus the fact that the reinvention of government was all encompassing, all inclusionary. It meant our schools, our healthcare systems, our law enforcement and justice system, entirely across the board without any thought to the security of the country and what that was going to mean. I guess these people are truly believers in "Democracy," which is mass chaos.
9:31. One of the things I was thinking about was how the organizing principles of the society. If you were to ask Queen Isabella in 1450, whatever, what are you? Her reflexive answer would be Christian. Her designator, her idea of the world was Christian, Muslim, Jew, whatever, and then the church stops ruling. Christendom goes away and becomes the West, right? Christianity gets stripped out of it, we stop saying BC and AD in the calendars, and it becomes a before Common Era. They systematically strip away all of the religious underpinnings of and then the nation state comes in, and the nation state's organizing principle is different than the church. The nation state's organizing principle was race, like Albert Camus said. He said that Bismarck had trouble bringing together this modern German nation because they were so disparate: they had different languages and cultural habits and all these different things, and he said only when they introduced the concept of race could they cobble together this nation. Modern political Zionism is like that. It was formed at the same time, under the same influences, so they get a lot of heat now because they're forming Israel, but you have to remember that Israel was formed in 1948. So they're at the very beginning stage of the creation of a nation-state, which means they're going to put a lot of emphasis on group cohesion, ethnic solidarity, which is actually normal for the creation of a nation. So we're at the end- stage ourselves because we're now going away. Stage 1 was Christendom. Stage 2 was nation-state, and the organizing principles are different. One that you're a Christian, the other you identify by race. Now we're entering this 3rd iteration of Rule by Corporation, or what? The organizing principle of that is . . . I'm not sure and I think that communitarian answer to that would be what, the internet, like technology kind of linking us together? What would be your, as an expert on technocracy, what would be your decided opinion about the organizing principle?
11:45. Well there is no organizing principle. What happens is that people separate often into groups of like-minded people, but they are not within a single jurisdiction or you know geographic area; they're spread out across the world, and so what you end up with is chaos, you know, because you have this network of people, like the communitarians, and they have this belief system and they are linked into, hooked into government. Government has been converted to think along the lines of communities. That was one of the concepts of the reinvention of government was that the government would step back and, of course, they didn't entirely step back; they became the handmaidens of business that had globalized. So you have a government working with business and power rolled back to your local communities, your local states where they are trying to implement what I would call a global value system, where ESG and all this kind of stuff yeah yeah ESG and LBGTQ Sustainable Development, Equity Inclusion just all the things that are really incompatible in an organization of people because they are trying to be everything to everybody and you can't do that it just doesn't work out because everybody has different belief systems and when you try to merge all of those different belief systems it simply doesn't work.
13:54. When you create a nation-state, one of the things you want to do is bring people together, you want to unify the people, whether it's Oktoberfest or Passover celebration in Israel. But you have these different things that you bring people together, the 4th of July in the United States used to be that. Under the new technocracy, the corporate technocracy, whatever you want to call it, they seem to want to keep people separate, because they're afraid of a revolution. So everything seems to be to ghetto-ize people, put them in their different silos. You're not an American, you're an African-American, go in this corner. You're not an American, you're a gay American; go in this corner. And the strategy like we just saw through the last global event that we lived through was to keep people separate, keep you afraid of your neighbor. "My neighbor might give me cooties. I better stay away from my neighbor, he's got germs." Like these things are designed to keep everybody apart. So it's interesting the silo effect of technology. We were told it would be used to bring us together, but as you just pointed out, your so-called community might be this virtual community, online, where you're a foodie or you're a vegan, or whatever, and you might "Oh, my friend is in the Netherlands," or "My friend is in Brazil," or wherever. But you never physically meet them. They are secondary relationships; they're not primary relationships, like family or church. That seems to be the M.O., the methodology of the new . . . I think this is why they so stigmatize racism; that racism . . . because racism brings people together, unifies them it makes them a monolithic group and that's dangerous. That's when you have nation-states. But they don't want nation-states; they are breaking up nation-states. So now, they're treating racism like how in the earlier iteration the church under Christendom treated paganism, "You're a witch if you worship the old gods." "You're a witch," because that was their way of displacing antiquity, right? So when the Christian period comes in they had to destroy, utterly erase the past. And then this happened again when the nation-state got rid of the church. And then that became stigmatized, "separation of church and state," you know. "Church is bad," you know. Now that the nation-state is being destroyed, racism is the new "you're a witch," because they don't want people coming together. You have to be separate; you have to think of yourself as an individual. I think that's what you were kind of talking about as well, you were worried that, on the one hand, we have communitarianism, but, on the other hand, pitted against that, is radical individualism, which is just as toxic. And I was wondering what your thoughts were on the radical individualism that our generation was kind of introduced to through libertarianism.
16:48. That's what I thought was so interesting about amatai espione's not just his paper but in the forums that he organized and sponsored that was the dialectic communitarianism versus libertarianism and that was the what I perceived to be the intent: to be able to divide people between those who insisted on individuality and those who wanted to form communities. And for communities, you might think small tribes, more of a tribal thinking with all of its efforts focused toward building the community. I saw that dialectic play out with Libertarians at the beginning of my research where all the Libertarians were saying, "Free trade! Free trade!" Well, free trade gutted our economy. Began in 1962, it was the trade agenda that began in 1962 when Kennedy changed the paradigm of trade. Prior to 1962, trade policy was based on tariffs the prices of terrorists and whether or not we let Goods into the country after 1962 they included non-tariff issues which means they opened up our entire economy which caused changes in domestic law when you're talking about clothes for example textiles if you open up your economy to textiles you're going to you're going to get massive Imports and you're going to put your own textile industry out of business
Nation-states use different forces to organize people. For the U.S. it was race that began to coalesce the population, dividing them from groups deemed un
Pitting people against each other with radical individualism was introduced through libertarianism, which is just as toxic as racism.
The dialectic was communitarianism versus libertarianism. That was the
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Dr David Martin discusses the next planned event that we should all be ready for. This is a short 10 min clip but you should definitely watch the entire 45 minute interview. pic.twitter.com/syFs949HUX
When you look at the Rockefeller Foundation's [founded 1913] selection of him [Canadian, Dr. George Brocks Chisolm, 1896-1971] as the first Secretary General for the World Health Organization [created April 7, 1948] you can ask a very simple question, why would the Rockefeller Foundation, of all places, why would they pick a Dachau prisoner to be the one that they would put at the head of the World Health Organization at its inception? And why was it that in 4 short years after that decision was made the World Health Organization became known for its official statement that the role of the World Health Organization, beyond health, was for the control of the population of the earth? This was a eugenics continuation. And by the way, that's their written policy statement. By 1955, this was written policy. And one of the things that we have to examine is the entire purpose behind that was the promulgation and distribution of vaccine-oriented technology. The entirety of the World Health Organization was based on vaccination and based on providing for, at the time the Wellcome Trust, who by the way was the architect of the pandemic; so let's be clear on the fact that this is not a late arrival into the world. This is actually something that we know the Wellcome Trust had in play for an exceptionally long time and fully intended to deploy without any question every bit of what was going on the World Health Organization at Inception was the welcome Trust being given the permission the remit to go about out making sure that the human population was subject to Universal dependency on vaccines this is not once again as I have been criticized many times this is not an allegation this is an accusation and we have to understand the difference I am not suggesting that this is inferred from anything I'm literally going back into the charter formation and The Smoking Gun in the formation for the World Health Organization they actually gave themselves a permanent and absolute exoneration for all criminal activity that they engaged and not just exemption from being prosecuted for the activity actual exemption from being investigated into the activity itself so you're not only not allowed to question the Dogma you're actually not allowed to suggest there was a question to it and Sasha I've said this many times if a criminal organization gets to write its own laws and then you read the law and in the law they say by the way we can break the law with impunity and it's illegal to even investigate that I don't have to infer from that that there might be some bad actors Somewhere In The Weeds that is overt statements of a self-aggrandizing consideration that says I'm going to give myself in this case the World Health Organization and all Affiliated organizations I'm going to give them an immunity from inquiry not just immunity from prosecution you don't do that if you're not intending to do harm.
3:26. Q4 2023 going into q1 2024 are we through this or are they still able to concoct variance and continue their
3:41. This was the trial run this was the Let's test out to see how frail this thing we call humanity and human systems actually are this was a dry run if you look at the fact that right now we have over 70 identified biological weapons at an equal Readiness level that we were around what we call the coronavirus by a weapon program we have a host of optionality that's available at any moment and once again what we've done is we field tested and number of systems and let's go through the systems we tested . The easiest one to both see and indict is the gullibility of the public right the idea that one third of humanity lined up and said please save me from the thing that you created and give me the thing that you created to save me from the thing that you created right a third of humanity fell for it a third of humanity was coerced into accepting it but those individuals were not wanting to do it they were actually put in a position where their choice was get the shot or don't go to work don't travel don't see your kids don't do whatever else and so that third coercion group I don't necessarily see myself in a position where I go well you know they're exonerated because they were pressured into it I still think they could have they could have held out but the fact is they wouldn't have fallen for it but for the coercion so let's put an asterisk next to that group and the third that didn't fall for it one of the things that became very clear was we were part of a psychological operation a lot of people talk about this is the psychological warfare operation to see what level of intimidation coercion or manipulate manipulation would make us break and Sasha one of the things that I celebrate every single day is that an enormous number of humanity said no and meant no that was not part of their plan that was not at all part of their plan and the reason why we're going down the AI cbdc all of these other kinds of digital currency digital current communication controls censorship everything else the reason why we're going down all these pathways is to see where our breaking point is where are we going to give up and go okay you got me I need my Twitter feed I need my social media I need my fill in the blank and the fact of the matter is a third of the population has stood its ground saying we will not bend the knee that's too big a number by the way for the incumbency to control if it was 3% or 5%, maybe but a third they can't control it which is the reason why I think that they're going after Ai and why they're going after currency because those two are the one assault they haven't tried if they do it but if they do it without a proximate reason remember go back to the 2015 acknowledgment by Peter Dash you need to create a crisis and you need to get the media to hike the crisis so if we do not have a crisis they know the public won't fall for it so we have to create crises and look at what we've been doing over the last year over the last year we created allegedly a war which is not a war when the war in Ukraine wasn't working we created Another War which happens to be the war allegedly over Gaza and Israel and everything else but this is not a war either this is actually a giant theatrical distraction that happens to have the inconvenience of killing people who are in fact in the way of the elephants that are seeking to mate right now. But this is not a war this is a conflict for the or of instability and we need to understand those things very clearly because what is coming on the back of this and you know this is going to happen when I and as you know when I was asked to go to Iran in the early 2000s and go to the National biological engineering conference it was held in Tehran one of the things that I remember talking to you about was the fact that there were an enormous number of biological agents that were being worked on for all manner of Good and Evil at that conference there's no question that what we want to do is draw Iran into a conflict and then we want to go haha I ran has and then we're going to fill in the blank they're going to have a toxin they're going to have biologic they're going to have both and we're going to throw them under the bus going look we found that these are bad guys we will never look at the fact that every single thing that I run has in development right now the United States not only has in development but has published the list of those toxin agents under the compliance with 18 us code which actually defines biological weapons we already have the list but we're going to blame an outside party for using that list and one of the things that I've been trying to alert people to through this current alleged conflict is do not be surprised when you hear an announcement having Iranian made biologic agent it is not Iranian that is going to be a distribution of one of our scheduled toxins which we have armed and ready to go and I'll tell you how I know it's going to be from us United States military patented a blast resistance toxin propeller which was actually which was actually an RPG a rocket propelled grenade fin stabilized round that would allow a blast to distribute a biological or biologic agent or toxin without deactivating it so it could Mass spread over population and mark my words in the next few weeks it is highly probable that that is going to be alleged to have come from the United from Iran but the fact is the United States on the technology built it patented it and talked the world how to make these things
Absolutely nails how propaganda and brainwashing are used by politicians, media & corporatists to convince the masses of indulging in mass formation behavioural patterns that serve to line the pockets of the rich and powerful.
All governments, left, right, and center, are always trying to ban history, overwhelm you to try to distract you from your own history, and make it easier to steer you away from your traditions, religion, culture, language, food, or otherwise. It's been claimed that The Odyssey by Homer was passed down through history by oral recitation. And certainly, speech among friends, colleagues, neighbors, and acquaintances helps keep memories of the past alive. But in politics, in that spiritual battle of good versus evil, speech is weaponized. Weaponized speech is often used by people with no power. People use it to go after, to hunt their neighbors. because their own lives are so petty. It's like they're masters of the universe of Yelp. With COVID, the government was telling you how to maintain hygiene during a fake outbreak by washing your hand. You knew that. You didn't need to be told. You knew that if you were sick, you wash your hands. But in the absence of being sick, the government had to become its full nanny and tell you to wash your hands even though you weren't dirty or sick. Stay 6' apart they said. Wear a mask, they said. They tried to convince you that you had no proper functioning immune system, and instead rely on these external "immune suppressors," like a mask, like 6' apart, like a vaccine. Ah, last time I checked, health does not come from a needle. The government worked to make you forget about what works for you. And they created mass formation to put that added pressure on your thinking that made their messages more persuasive and throw your good sense into question. This is what they do in war. This is war.
The far left city of Burbank, California, where Biden beat Trump by 40-60 points, banned “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Of Mice and Men” and other books because they said they were racist https://t.co/qdlvO5zxKq
Written by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani during preparation for the Second Vatican Council that began in 1963.
Why is knowledge of traditional Catholic doctrine on the proper relationship between Church and State important for men and women working to dismantle the globalist police state revealed through Covid-19?
The people who planned and launched the Covid-19 cull-and-control war on humanity, allied with Satan in opposition to Almighty God, could not have done it if the Roman Catholic Church had not been eviscerated beforehand, to remove the Church as a worldwide force for societal and spiritual protection of human beings.
Covert inversions of Church authority, teachings, traditions, laws and liturgy were necessary preconditions for the covert inversions of civil authority and civil law that followed, just as the inversion of civil authority and civil law were necessary preconditions for the establishment of fraud, theft, torture, slavery and murder as global State policy and practice.
Corollary:
The globalists’ project — to continue using fraud, torture and murder to consolidate earthly power, ruin human lives, and damn human souls — will advance and spread for as long as the Roman Catholic Church remains in a corrupt state of moral incoherence about the proper relationship between Church and State.
Put another way, the Roman Catholic Church is the only human institution on the face of the earth that has ever had, and still has, the capacity to stand in pastoral defense of the temporal lives and immortal souls of human beings, against the depredations of Satan and the idolatrous technocratic State.
Specifically, “public health” laws are, in truth, anti-laws that falsely claim to legalize fraud, theft, torture, slavery and murder by using false rubrics about the common good, charity, justice, civil authority, and the relationship between man and society.
"The instinct of justice in the human heart is so deep that, even in great deeds of injustice, the villains wear the mantle of justice." - Life of Christ, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1954)
At the same time, it’s become far more discernible — as revealed by Covid-19 and strong participation in the global fraud, torture and mass murder campaign by Catholic institutional leaders — that reforms to Church doctrine, teachings, and liturgy adopted since the 1960s are, in truth, covert mechanisms that have almost completely eliminated the earthly, pastoral power of the Church to cooperate with divine grace, uphold divine law, and protect the flock of the Good Shepherd from being deceived, tortured, killed and eternally damned.
More succinctly: Conversion of civil law to civil anti-law was made possible by intentional, planned changes to Church doctrine and function, and civil laws have failed to protect victims from State criminals, because the Church has failed to properly guide the State in the exercise of legislative, executive, judicial and law enforcement functions.
In an appendix, Archbishop Lefebvre published a translation of a theological schema written by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani during two years of preparation for the Second Vatican Council, which began in October 1963.
The Ottaviani schema proposed a framework for the council to transmit many centuries of Catholic teaching about the proper relationship between Church and State in both Catholic and non-Catholic countries, from antiquity and the Middle Ages into the modern world.
The Ottaviani schema was set aside during council deliberations in favor of alternatives that untethered State civil authority from Catholic doctrine but obscured the untethering through deceptively-worded theological documents.
Just as public health laws have untethered State civil authority from its proper function (protection of the temporal well-being of citizens and support for their moral and spiritual development) to instead exercise false liberties (theft, enslavement, corruption and murder), and obscured the untethering from public view through deceptively-worded legal instruments.
Archbishop Lefebvre was a vigorous participant in Vatican Council deliberations, fighting at Cardinal Ottaviani’s side for the preservation of sound Catholic tradition against indifferentist, liberal, modernist, Communist, and other errors. He witnessed the infiltration and corruption of the process and incisively anticipated (and then documented) the rotten fruits that would be borne of the disfigured branches in the decades that followed the close of the council in December 1965.
To the extent that a “re-set” of human civilization is underway, the Ottaviani schema is a useful moral and historical benchmark buried by 60 years of intentional sand-kicking by Bank for International Settlements (BIS) owners, Freemasons, and their colleagues in many other transnational secret organizations.
As Archbishop Lefebvre wrote in his introductory note:
“[The Ottoviani schema] represents the state of Catholic doctrine on the eve of Vatican II and expresses substantially the doctrine that the Council would have had to propose if it had not been turned away from its purpose by the coup d'Etat of those who made of it the "States general of the people of God," a second 1789.”
On the Relations Between the Church and the State and On Religious Tolerance. (PDF)
Most Eminent and Reverend Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Chairman
N.B. The doctrinal schema presented by Cardinal Ottaviani comprised in its original Latin version was 7 pages of text and 16 pages of references, going from Pius VI (1790) to John XXIII (1959). It was set aside from the first session of the Council, to the benefit of the schema drawn up by the Secretariat for Christian Unity under Cardinal Bea. This latter schema, which was intended to be pastoral, extended to 14 pages, without any reference to the Magisterium1that preceded it.
The Ottaviani schema does not enjoy a magisterial authority, but it represents the state of Catholic doctrine on the eve of Vatican II and expresses substantially the doctrine that the Council would have had to propose if it had not been turned away from its purpose by the coup d'Etat of those who made of it the "States general of the people of God," a second 1789!2
Let us add finally that the Council would have been able to bring to this statement all useful points of precision or improvements.
1. Principle: Distinction between the Church and civil society, and subordination of the goal of the city to the goal of the Church.
Man, destined by God for a supernatural end, needs both the Church and civil society to attain his full perfection. Civil society, to which man belongs because of his social character, must watch over earthly goods and act in such a way that, on this earth, the citizens can lead a "calm and peaceful life."
The Church, into which man must incorporate himself because of his supernatural vocation, has been founded by God in order that, always expanding more and more, it may lead its faithful by its doctrine, its sacraments, its prayer, and its laws, to their eternal end.
Each of these two societies is rich with the necessary resources to accomplish its own mission as it should. Each is also perfect, that is to say, supreme in its class and thus, independent of the other, holding the legislative, judicial, and executive powers. This distinction of the two cities, as a constant tradition teaches it, rests on the words of the Lord: "Render therefore to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
Nevertheless, as these two societies exercise their power over the same persons and often with regard to one same object, they cannot ignore each other. They must even proceed in perfect harmony, in order to flourish themselves, no less than their common members.
The Holy Council, with the intention of teaching which relations must exist between these two powers, according to the nature of each of them, declares in the very first place the firm obligation of holding that both the Church and civil society have been instituted for the usefulness of man; that temporal happiness, entrusted to the care of the civil authority, nevertheless is worth nothing for man if he is going to lose his soul.
Therefore the end of civil society must never be sought by excluding or by endangering the ultimate end, namely, eternal salvation.
2. The power of the Church and its limits; the duties of the Church toward the civil authority.
As the power of the Church thus extends to everything that leads men to eternal salvation; as that which concerns only temporal happiness is placed, as such, under the civil authority; it follows from this that the Church is not concerned with temporal realities, except to the extent they are ordered to the supernatural end. As for the acts ordered to the end of the Church as well as to that of the city, like marriage, the education of children, and other similar things, the rights of the civil authority must be exercised in such a way that, in the judgment of the Church, the higher goods of the supernatural order do not undergo any injury.
In the other temporal activities which, divine law remaining unharmed, can be considered or accomplished legitimately and diverse manners, the Church does not interfere with them in any way. Guardian of its own rights, perfectly respectful of the rights of others, the Church does not reckon that there belongs to it the choice of a form of government, or that of the institutions proper to the civil domain of the Christian nations: of the diverse forms of government, it does not disapprove of any, on the condition that religion and morals are safe. Likewise, indeed, as the Church does not renounce its own liberty, in the same way it does not prevent the civil authority from freely making use of its laws and its rights.
What great benefits the Church procures for civil society while accomplishing its mission, the heads of nations should recognize. Indeed, the Church itself cooperates in the citizens becoming good by their virtue and their Christian piety. If they are such as Christian doctrine prescribes, in the testimony of St. Augustine, beyond any doubt, great will be the public welfare. The Church also imposes onto the citizens the obligation of complying with legitimate orders "not only through fear of chastisement, but from a motive of conscience."
As for those to whom the government of the country has been entrusted, it warns them of the obligation to exercise their function, not through the desire for power, but for the good of the citizens, as having to render an account to God, of their power received from God. Finally, the Church inculcates the observance as well of the natural laws as of the supernatural ones, thanks to which all civil order, and order among citizens and among the nations, can be realized in peace and in justice.
3. Religious duties of the civil authority.
The civil authority cannot be indifferent with regard to religion. Instituted by God in order to help men acquire a truly human perfection, it must not only supply its subjects with the possibility of procuring temporal goods for themselves, either material or intellectual, but besides favor the abundance of spiritual goods, permitting people to lead a human life in a religious manner.
Now, among these goods, nothing is more important than to know and to recognize God, and then to fulfill one's duties towards God: here indeed is the foundation of all private and, still more, public virtue.
These duties towards God oblige, towards the divine Majesty, not only each one of the citizens but also the civil authority, which, in its public acts, incarnates civil society. God is indeed the author of civil society and the source of all the goods which flow down through it to its members. Civil society must therefore honor and serve God. As for the manner of serving God, this can be no other, in the present economy, than that which He Himself has determined, as obligatory, in the true Church of Christ; and this not only in the person of the citizens, but equally in that of the Authorities who represent civil society.
That the civil authority has the power to recognize the true Church of Christ is clear from the manifest signs of its divine institution and mission, signs given to the Church by its divine Founder. The civil authority also, and not only each of the citizens, has the duty of accepting the Revelation proposed by the Church itself. Likewise, in its legislation, it must conform itself to the precepts of the natural law and take a strict account of the positive laws, both divine and ecclesiastical, intended to lead men to supernatural happiness.
Just as no man can serve God in the manner established by Christ if he does not know clearly that God has spoken through Jesus Christ, likewise civil society itself cannot do this, if the citizens do not have at first a sure knowledge of the fact of Revelation, just like the civil authority, to the extent that it represents the people.
It is thus, in a very particular way, that the civil authority must protect the full liberty of the Church and not prevent it in any way from integrally carrying out its mission, either in the exercise of its sacred Magisterium, or in the arrangement and performance of its worship, or in the administration of the sacraments and the pastoral care of the faithful. The freedom of the Church must be recognized by the civil authority in everything that concerns its mission, especially in the choice and the formation of its aspirants to the priesthood; in the election of its bishops; in the free and mutual communication between the Roman Pontiff and the bishops and the faithful; in the foundation and the government of institutes of the religious life; in the publication and propagation of writings; in the possession and administration of temporal goods; as also, in a general way, in all those activities which the Church, without disregarding civil rights, judges appropriate for leading men towards their ultimate end, not making an exception of secular education, social works and so many other miscellaneous resources.
Finally, it devolves seriously upon the civil authority to exclude from legislation, government, and public activity everything which it would judge to be capable of impeding the Church from attaining its eternal end; indeed further, it must apply itself to facilitating the life which is founded on principles that are Christian and consistent at their highest point with this sublime end for which God has created men.
4. General principle of application of the doctrine set forth.
That the ecclesiastical authority and the civil power maintain different relations according to the manner in which the civil authority, personally representing the people, understands Christ and the Church founded by Him -- this is what the Church has always recognized.
5. Application in a Catholic City.
The whole doctrine, put forth above by the Holy Council, cannot be applied except in a city where the citizens not only are baptized but profess the Catholic Faith. In this case, it is the citizens themselves who freely choose that civil life be formed according to Catholic principles and that thus, as St. Gregory the Great says, "The road to Heaven be more widely opened."
Nevertheless, even in these fortunate conditions, the civil authority is not permitted in any way to compel consciences to accept the Faith revealed by God. Indeed, the Faith is essentially free and cannot be the object of any constraint, as the Church teaches by saying, "That no one be compelled to embrace the Catholic Faith unwillingly."
Still, this does not prevent the civil authority from having to procure the intellectual, social and moral conditions required in order that the faithful, even those less versed in knowledge, be able to persevere more easily in the Faith received. Thus then, in the same way that the civil authority judges that it has the right to protect public morality, likewise, in order to protect the citizens against the seductions of error, in order to keep the city in the unity of Faith, which is the supreme good and the source of manifold, even temporal, benefits, the civil authority can, by itself, regulate and moderate the public manifestations of other cults and defend its citizens against the spreading of false doctrines, which, in the judgment of the Church, put their eternal salvation at risk.
6. Religious tolerance in a Catholic city.
In this safeguarding of the true Faith, one must proceed according to the requirements of Christian charity and of prudence, in order that the dissidents be not alienated from the Church through terror, but rather drawn to it; and that neither the city nor the Church undergo any damage. Therefore, both the common good of the Church and the common good of the State always have to be considered, by virtue of which a just tolerance, even sanctioned by laws, can, according to the circumstances, be imposed onto the civil authority.
This, on the one hand, would be in order to avoid greater evils, such as scandal or civil war, a hindrance to conversion to the true Faith, and other evils of this kind; on the other hand, in order to obtain a greater good, like civil cooperation and the peaceful coexistence of citizens of different religions, a greater freedom for the Church, and a more effective accomplishment of its supernatural mission, and other similar goods.
In this question, there must be taken into consideration not only the good of national order, but the welfare of the universal Church (and of international civil welfare). By this tolerance, the Catholic authority imitates the example of divine Providence, which permits evils from which it draws greater goods. This tolerance is to be observed chiefly in countries where, for centuries, there have existed non-Catholic communities.
7. Application in a Non-Catholic City.
In the cities where a great part of the citizens do not profess the Catholic Faith or do not even know the fact of Revelation, the non-Catholic civil authority must, in matters of religion, conform at least to the precepts of the natural law. Under these conditions, this non-Catholic authority should concede civil liberty to all the forms of worship that are not opposed to natural religion. This liberty is not opposed in such a case to Catholic principles, it being given that it suits the good of the Church as well as that of the State.
In the cities where the Authorities do not profess the Catholic religion, the Catholic citizens have above all the duty to bring it about, through their virtues and civic actions. By means of these, united with their fellow citizens, they promote the common good of the State, that there be granted to the Church the full freedom to accomplish its divine mission. From the free action of the Church, indeed, the non-Catholic city also suffers no harm and even derives numerous and remarkable benefits. In this way, then, the Catholic citizens must do their best so that the Church and the civil authority, although still separated juridically, lend each other a mutual benevolent aid.
In order not to harm either the Church or the State through unconcern or imprudent zeal, the Catholic citizens, in the defense of the rights of God and of the Church, must submit to the judgment of the ecclesiastical authority: to it belongs judgment on the good of the Church, according to the diverse circumstances, and the directing of Catholic citizens in the civil actions intended to defend the altar.
8. Conclusion
The Holy Council recognizes that the principles of the mutual relations between the ecclesiastical authority and the civil authority must not be applied otherwise than according to the rule of conduct given forth above. Nevertheless, it cannot permit these same principles to be obscured by some false laicism, even under pretext of the common good.
These principles, indeed, rest on the absolute and firm rights of God; on the unchangeable constitution and mission of the Church; also on the social nature of man, which, remaining always the same throughout the centuries, determines the essential purpose of civil society itself, notwithstanding the diversity of political systems and the other vicissitudes of history.
Orvietto Cathedral. Painting by William Wiehe Collins.
[KW note] Magisterium. "The perennial, authentic, and infallible teaching office committed to the Apostles by Christ and now possessed and exercised by their legitimate successors, the college of bishops in union with the pope." Source.
[KW note] 1789 is a reference to the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which furthered the separation between Church and State to the detriment of both.
