Purnity: From the Porn of Poverty to Unity and (P)Unity in Catholicism

Purnity is the zealous invocation and actualisation of the concept of unity with punitive measures to specifically instantiate exclusivity or primacy of political propagation of apparent modernist materialist solutions for poverty and exclusion instead of spiritual or supernatural ones.

Christian Churches fail when they become political materialists. Materialism makes us spurn God and the Catholic Church explained how. Enemies identified in encyclicals enter the Church body. So I suggest we need a new compound concept. It is inspired by my study of atheistic materialism and consumerism and its impact through modernism on present trends in the Church. It comes from a constant and sterile call to unity. I respect authoritative statements and there is type of statement about unity of belief every Catholic must support. But it must be in relation to Christ, cognisant of the Magisterium. The greatest critique of modernism comes therefrom. So from the highest teachings of the Church we must accept that prior commitment to reject philosophical modernism cannot be trumped by a call to unity which offends well-stated doctrine. Otherwise the political and mundane leverage of concepts of unity amount to no more that the calls of every tyrant.

The leverage of a concept of unity often seems related to a mechanism of enforcement and calls for absolute administrative obedience irrespective of higher duties. Unity can manifest as a tactic. We have been warned by many popes of threats to the Church. Discernment is the auto-immune response to detect enemy doctrines within and previous encyclicals the medical manual. When unity is levered to secure solidarity for example, detectors may be alarmed with respect to errors we have long been warned of from the popes and indeed Mary, if you believe in certain apparitions. With influence of Marxism and dialectical materialism we see an instrument to wound the supernatural mystic body and our souls through confusion with solely mundane considerations of material welfare masked as spirituality. We are asked for unity. But unity may be of the type that is prelude to a split. We are in power, we want unity, drop your differences with us. In that case unity is doublespeak for anticipated disunity caused by its proponents. As such unity may manifest by exclusion, them and us and punishment. Punishment may involve purges to secure purity of the pre-existing policy. Thus we have punity. This is where we aim for punishment. Administrative actors preach against exclusion while practising it, knowing they have impunity from adherents.

Concentration on the material world is not primary focus of Christ, though it should lead to a love of creation. His concerns are not those of atheistic materialists. The first port of call for them is to promote the horror of earthly conditions (often legitimate). Through propaganda, they invert propagation of faith as it originally was. God must be dismissed and promised land sought, whilst heavenly bread, manna and communion are ignored for communism and bread. We find a type of glorification of poverty in a type of pornographic way i.e. designed to arouse with detail. Christian Churches declined as soon as they eschew the sacramental, supernatural needs of the soul for exclusive focus on material welfare. Hence my semantic base of ‘purn.’ Everything becomes about the material and poor which Christ said effectively would never go away. Instead he found blessed the poor in spirit, i.e. open and receptive. The material poor can also be made spiritually poor through adopting resentment which amounts to a belief that triumph of the will in material terms answers all moral and existential problems. Grievance welfare replaces grace. Purnity also involves institutional divestment as in The Shoes of the Fisherman. The Church must be poor. When Church-focus shifts entirely to material welfare, then sacred gratia or grace as divine favour dissolves into gratia or free stuff as social benefit.