How this situation became possible is another one of History’s mysteries. Maybe God has permitted this in light of the transformation of Christianity into Paganism. This is why these words of the Apostle have once again become relevant and more current and incisive than ever: What fellowship has light with darkness? And what concord has Christ with Belial?[1] And yet the opposite prodigy seems to have taken place, only now having nothing in common nor any kind of harmony; darkness has simply expelled light.

Then, is there no hope left for the pusillus grex? Of course there is, for it is precisely now that the moment has arrived for hope and confidence in God. The suffering and prayers of this tiny flock will not go unanswered: Now, will not God see justice done to His elect who keep calling to Him day and night. And will He have patience in their regard…?[2] In the world you will have hardship, but have confidence: I have conquered the world.[3]

The Golden Age, projected into the past or supposedly realized in the present, is nothing more than a tremendous lie. Nevertheless, some time in the future it will be a reality. Though not now, nor at any time before the second and definitive coming of our Lord: What we are waiting for, relying on his promises, is new heavens and a new earth where justice dwells.[4] The Golden Age is a mere utopia, both when you try to establish it in the present and when you try to find it in the past. But if in that Joyful Age that is still to come, justice will at last abide, according to Saint Peter, then the Apostle recognizes that now justice among men does not exist. And Jesus Christ himself, as we have seen before, promises that when the time arrives, he will provide justice for the chosen ones. Let us not pretend to find in the present what has been promised to us only for the future. And let us not want to raise anyone’s enthusiasm with recipes for justice and social welfare based more on dead-end precepts and procedures extracted from purely human philosophies than on the ultimate and consoling truths of the Gospel. 

That is why Christians live always looking toward the future, which means they live on hope. And since the present is decisive for them, only to the extent that it delineates and determines the future, they cannot believe in utopias of the past, and even less in those that pretend to be the definitive solution for shaping the present. Therefore, they commit a tremendous error who try to make up a Christianity only for this world because they do not believe in the next. They have stopped raising their eyes to Heaven, thinking that they have arrived at last at the end of the way when, in fact, they are still in a passing shelter.