The secular media is at it again: "The Pope And The Devil: Is Francis an Exorcist?," an (AP) headline said recently. The reporter wrote as much because the Holy Father has mentioned the devil "on a handful of occasions" within a two month period. Bethany Blankley retorted not: "He's Just a Christian who Believes in the Devil." What would Francis have Catholics think on the reality of Satan? No doubt, he would admonish listeners to take the advice of his predecessor, the first Pope:  "Keep sober and alert, because your enemy the devil is on the prowl like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour;" and to listen to the Apostle, who encouraged Christians to "Put on the full armor of God so as to be able to resist the devil's tactics." As I discussed at length in The Smoke of Satan , Jesus and the apostles had much to say about the reality of the devil. Thus the Pope rightly writes and speaks about the realit...

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I remember reading Fr. Enrique Rueda's The Homosexual Network , and Malachi Martin's Windswept House . Fr. Rueda's book documented the pervasive penetration of the Church in the U.S. by active homosexual priests long before the scandals broke in Boston. Mr. Martin's fictional account hinted at precisely what Pope Francis has recently confirmed here . Oremus .

Fr. Regis Scanlon has recently pointed out in his take on Vatican II that Ultra traditionalists take great offense at this Vatican II statement: Those who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ and His Church, but who nonetheless seek God with a sincere heart and, moved by divine grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation. Nor shall divine providence deny the assistance necessary for salvation to those, who through no fault of their own, have not yet arrived at the explicit knowledge of God, and who, not without grace, strive to lead a good life (Lumen Gentium, no. 16). Fr. Scanlon writes:  " Traditionalists counter with Boniface VII’s statement in his bull,   Unam Sanctam , that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (Nov. 18, 1302,   Denz.   No. 468, 30th edition). Of course what Boniface said is true. But how God introduces His C...

'Huge homosexual underground in the Church' BY  JOHN-HENRY WESTEN ·         Tue Feb 26, 2013 18:29 EST KRAKOW, February 26, 2013, A   recent paper  by a Ph.D. priest from Poland has been circling the globe in recent weeks and given heightened prominence by the recent revelations of a Vatican inquiry into a “gay mafia” inside the Vatican. “Standing with the Pope against homoheresy,” was written in late 2012 by Fr. Dariusz Oko, Ph.D., a priest of the Archdiocese of Krakow and Assistant Professor at the John Paul II Pontifical University in Krakow. Fr. Oko notes that his discovery of a “huge homosexual underground in the Church” came from his work in philosophical criticism of homosexual propaganda and ideology, a study he was encouraged to undertake by various bishops and cardinals. “I began my work as a struggle against a deadly, external threat to Christianity, but then gradually discovered,” he said, that “the enemy is no...

Pete Jermann has penned a fine piece putting sodomy, fornication, adultery, and contraceptive sex in perspective as 1) unnatural, 2) disordered, and 3) unloving.  Given that human libido is perhaps the most common way in which Satan seeks the ruin of our souls, it should not surprise us that Catholics who remain unpersuaded by Gospel teaching on the sanctity of marriage take issue with teaching bearing directly or vicariously on their sexual lives — homosexuality, same-sex “marriage,” premarital sex, adultery, contraception, masturbation, population control, abortion, divorce, remarriage, in vitro fertilization, etc. Remember Our Lord’s words on this: "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man."   Recall too that dissent fro...