One of the practices of the so-called Catholic leftism consists in acting as if the matter of social justice and welfare has been addressed for the first time only in our own days, as if the preceding centuries had completely ignored the obligations of justice and charity regarding the poor.
This concept is totally discredited by any serious historical study of our own and every other epoch. But lies have a long life. Consequently, this revolutionary fraud continues to circulate.
The waters of the Regnitz run tranquilly through the noble city of Bamberg, former residence of sovereigns and bishops. The façades of these old four-storied homes, both pleasant and serious, are reflected in the water.
Excellently well-cared for, adorned with cheerful plantings, they reflect an unpretentious, full and stable tenor of living, a strong, intimate and calm family life. In short, everything about them would surely attract contemporary worker‒despite such alluring bourgeois comfort.
These, however, are not the homes of magistrates, professors or public officials. These are the residential homes of fishermen! How this charm, serenity and harmony differ from the vulgarity, squalor and hubbub of so many suburbs in today’s modern Babylon.
We could illustrate so many other similar examples, but to do so would reap little profit. Looking at the picture and reading the commentary, our “leftist Catholic” would not argue. Rather, he would restrict himself to his habitual defense and say: “The man who writes this is just so reactionary.”
Then he would continue to repeat his same old misrepresentation of the past.
Ambience Customs & Civilization, No. 164 ‒ August 1964
