To change the laws, you have to change the values in a society.

To change the values in a society, you have to change the culture.

To change the culture, you have to change the thoughts and behavior of people.

To change the thoughts and behavior of people, you change academia and the entertainment.

To effect the change in academia and entertainment, two things have to happen: 1) you have to want to change these two institutions and 2) you have to know the changes. These may be two insurmountable problems facing Catholics, and others who want a culture of life, these days.

The current culture creators, those who fund (and hence control) academia, and those who own the entertainment industries (that is, the engines of culture), do not want to change anything. They are in cahoots with those in businesses and finance to create, encourage, and pander to every individual human craving, idea, want, and desire. They work to create markets by appealing to every idea and craving, desire and want. In doing this, they isolate us in our individuality with the false ideas that are put forth as human progress, freedom, enlightenment. They knock down every barrier to better maximize sales and to optimize profits while enhancing their control of the markets, of the people. They effectively exercise control by elevating the individual and separating him or her from all reference or connection to others, to history, to logic, to Truth. Surrounded and cutoff, given every material reason to submit, the result is a malleable, exploitable, controllable, docile population. So, a change in academia and in entertainment, a change in the culture, is simply not something that the wealthy and the powerful want, for it threatens their power. And people who want change make them uncomfortable.

But many people who say they want the change in culture needed to make it a Catholic culture (that is what we are driving at here at Roman Catholic Report), though some may call it a culture of life, are also uncomfortable, and scared. Why? Well, many of these putative changers are afraid of the unknown. They have not taken the time or the energy to look to the future and see just what a Catholic culture should look like and how it should work. They know only the individualistic, materialistic society in which they find themselves and which allows them to exist, if not prosper. And, many of them lack faith because the materialism of this society of death informs their minds to the point they do not, they cannot, allow themselves to trust, truly trust, in He who is the Truth, the Light and the Way. This lack of trust is one reason that those who call themselves believers think they are going to heaven regardless of what they do, or don’t do. Many others who call themselves believers simply think that believing Christ is the Son of God is enough to get them to heaven, or having "a personal relationship" with Christ is enough for heaven. The net result is that many who call themselves believers do not think that what they do in this life makes a whit of difference, so they have no motivation to see things differently, and will always take the easy way out.

To change the culture, we have to first accept a very basic idea – that we all die, and that the purpose of life is to know, love and serve God in this life, so that we may be with Him in the next.

Once we all, I mean, all who call themselves Roman Catholic and sign up for the heavy lifting needed for cultural change, hold to this simple, but fundamental, idea, then we go to the next step. We all must accept, and hold to, the one world view that comes from the One, True, Faith – the Roman Catholic Faith. To do otherwise is to create division within the pro-culture of life ranks, and it is simply not reasonable in light of the overwhelming historical evidence. In other words, to think that you can effect a real, lasting change in this society of death by cobbling together different religions and religious groups is fallacious. By allowing everyone to hold to their own beliefs before proceeding with the needed work of reconstruction, the pro-culture of life movement is D.O.A. because it has just submitted itself to one of the preeminent principles of the culture of death – that every individual makes God in their own individual likenesses by following the dictates of their "conscience" which is undoubtedly not formed by the Roman Catholic Faith. And, they also ignore overwhelming historical evidence.

The Arian heresy arose and flourished in the Fourth and Fifth centuries. It swept through the barbarian tribes and North Africa. Roman Catholicism was weakened in North Africa and around much of Western Europe so that when Islam finally arose in the Seventh century, the once vibrant Catholic centers were swept away. (Remember, St. Augustine was from North Africa.)

Then, there is the schism of 1054 when the Byzantine Church broke from Rome. Within 20 years, at the battle of Manzikert in southeast Turkey in 1071, the Empire’s armies were crushed by armies of the East, and the Crusades were called a quarter century later, for large part, to bail out the Byzantines.

Luther. 1517. Germany. Incessant wars, false philosophies, heretical "religions." And the rise of the nation-state, secularism, national and racial claims of supremacy, ideologies of hate and extremism, wars on a massive scale, social injustice as never before, and now a culture of death where population is declining, disease is rising, the rich are richer and the poor are poorer, the dictatorship of relativism, and on and on.

See the connection? Like dominoes.

The only way is the Roman Catholic Faith. The greatest organization on earth is the one founded by Christ – the Roman Catholic Church.