Are we not, by now, immersed in a new form of totalitarianism? A subtle, digital totalitarianism that—for the moment, at least—does not come dressed in uniforms or wielding batons, but cloaked in algorithms and opaque policies, enforced by the quiet power of automated censorship and “terms of service.” Yet it is precisely this silence that harbors its deepest danger. We no longer erase the person—we erase the word. And with it, memory. And with it, truth.
This censorship is not merely against a blog: it is a symptom of real hatred—the world’s hatred—directed at faith and at the freedom of Catholics. We have long entered a historical moment in which fidelity to Christ and to the eternal Church is not merely poorly tolerated, but actively persecuted. A mute Church is desired: submissive, molded to fit secular mentality, the rhetoric of inclusivity, and the logic of political and media power. But is this not precisely the worldly spirit the Lord sternly warned us against?