The most tragic thing is that evil appears to
men’s eyes as something good. The condemnation, which is not imposed by God
but into which man falls by himself, will not be a destruction or some
nuclear annihilation as people imagine. Actually the death of the body would
be a very small evil for humanity. But that which is about to come will be
something unimaginably more harsh and inhuman. … There will no longer be
a place for God in the hearts of men. «In the abounding of iniquity, the
love of the many shall grow cold» (Mat. 24:12). The Source of life will no
longer have a place among the great majority of people. The Gospel will have
been preached to the whole of humanity, «unto a witness to men». All will
know it, and almost all will have essentially rejected it.
In the luxury of the cities, amidst the
creations of the human brain and the signs and wonders of the Antichrist,
there will circulate human creatures without life, dead men who think
they are living the most intense life ever was, but who in truth will
be biting with mania their own flesh. They say the Pope is optimistic
about the future of mankind. And he certainly should be! Humanity has become
what for centuries he has been dreaming it to be. Let him marvel, therefore,
at the work of his own hands. …
