Background
Louis Veuillot was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret) on the 11th of October 1813.
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Poems, Schemas, Introduction, and Chapter Summaries by Bishop Richard Williamson Louis Veuillots mid-19th century condemnation of liberal Catholicism throws a flood of light on the crisis of Church and world following on the Second Vatican Council. Catholics who read The Liberal Illusion will grasp, once and for all, that the crisis is primarily due not to Vatican II, but to a centuries-long struggle between Revelation and Revolution. Vatican II was merely a decisive moment in that struggle when power within the Church passed from the servants of Revelation to the deluded victims of the Revolution. This edition offers readers a pictographic overview and outline in the form of a unique fold-out insert to provide them with a thread to connect together the 38 chapters. Bishop Williamson helped us to prepare this book to be studied. The Schema at the front unfolds so the chapter numbers are exposed, giving the reader Main Parts, Subdivisions, Tickets for Chapters, and One-line Summaries. This chart gives a horizontal breakdown of the book. The Game Plan is available on the reverse side. This chart-like analysis is a vertical breakdown of the main principles (whether they be right or wrong) and their consequential sub-principles which have become the battle cries of modernity. Each short chapter is preceded by a crunch paragraph summarizing its contents authored by Bishop Williamson.
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Louis Veuillot was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret) on the 11th of October 1813.
He received a little education.
Veuillot early began writing for periodicals and developed his talents in provincial journalism. He was uninterested in religion until 1838, when he was converted while on a visit to Rome and immediately became involved in polemics. He became editor of L’Univers in 1843, and that newspaper subsequently served as the medium for his Ultramontane campaign. Veuillot quickly became disillusioned with the Second French Republic (1848–52) and was a champion of Emperor Napoleon III and the Second Empire (1852–70) until the emperor threatened Pope Pius IX’s temporal sovereignty by his military campaign in Italy (1859). Veuillot’s continued opposition to Napoleon’s Italian policy eventually led to the suppression of L’Univers (1860–67).
Veuillot lived in Rome during the First Vatican Council (1870), which asserted papal infallibility, thus representing a triumph for the Ultramontanists. He subsequently came to regard the restoration of the Bourbons as the best hope of the Roman Catholic church in France. His health failed in 1878, but his influence persisted in the French church until his death. Veuillot was an enemy of all conciliation and compromise, despised industrialism, and hated bourgeois institutions and all that stemmed from the French Revolution. He was a talented writer and was adroit in the manipulation of public opinion. Merciless toward opponents, including all he chose to call liberal Catholics, Veuillot finally drew a rebuke from Pope Pius IX for his “bitter zeal. ” His Oeuvres complètes (1927–38; “Complete Works”) include novels, biographies, correspondence, poetry, and polemical writings.
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Quotations:
"It is easy to see where North America stands at present, and whither it is tending. Its rapid progress, due to the most degrading works, has fascinated Europe; but the results of this progress, exclusively material, already appear. Barbarism, profligacy, general bankruptcy, systematic destruction of the native races, idiotic slavery of the conquerors, bound to the most trying and repulsive of lives under the yoke of their own machinery. America might founder in the ocean once for all, and the human race would suffer no loss thereby. Not a saint, not an artist, not a thinker has it produced, unless one may term thought the aptitude for twisting iron for the construction of freight trains. The priests who wear out their lives there cannot create a civilization. Thus far there is no civilization in America, and as far as appearances go, there never will be. "
"Newspapers have become such a danger that it is necessary to create many. You cannot contend against the Press, except through its multitude. Add flood to flood, and let them drown one another, forming no more than a swamp, or, if you will, a sea. The swamp has its lagoons, the sea its moments of slumber. We will see whether it is possible to build some Venice within it. "
"When I voted, my equality tumbled into the box with my ballot; they disappeared together. "
"If I could re-establish a class of nobles, I should do so at once, and I would not belong to it. "
"Amongst the amusements of Paris must be counted duels between journalists. "
Quotes from others about the person
Matthew Arnold said of him:
"M. Louis Veuillot is a polemic worthy of the golden age of polemics. He is singly devoted to ultramontanism; he lives on a small fixed salary from the proprietors of the Univers; he is a man of the purest and simplest domestic life; he is poor, and has a large family, but he has refused all offers of place and salary from the government, and maintains his entire independence. "
His wife was Mathilde. They had two children.