Perhaps no local Church in the postconciliar age has owed so much to the sustained effort of one publication. Week in and week out the 'so-called Catholic press' in Britain spreads error and doubt and wastes its time appeasing or praising the enemies of Catholicism. Month in and month out Christian Order defends and propagates the Faith with conviction, while not hesitating to publicly rebuke wayward and recalcitrant bishops as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas insisted we must do when the Faith is endangered. Indeed, since Father Crane's sudden death in 1997, we have become even more outspoken in response to the catastrophic scale of dissent throughout the United Kingdom and the impending demise of the local Churches, which some English bishops have admitted will come to pass within the next generation. While others keep their heads down and await with the best of British reserve some kind of miraculous bail-out, Christian Order is more bellicose about the situation.
Christian Order leaves the rest to worry about the celebrated 'conversion of England'.
That is the natural order of things ordained by God. All the heartfelt social justice documents and fretting about the state of the world by churchmen will come to nought without a self-confident, orthodox Catholic laity faithful to Tradition. Christian Order contributes to that eventuality by feeding its readership a steady diet of Catholic truth. By pulling no punches in its assessment of the present Catholic malaise, it also provides readers with a better understanding of the negative ramifications of dissent and disobedience on the life of the Church - thus motivating them to even greater prayer and work as part of the Catholic restoration. Unless the Church is militant, She cannot thrive and flourish.