K evin Joseph Farrell,  appointed Bishop of Dallas and later Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life (elevated to Cardinal in 2016) Why is this significant? Cardinal Ferrell was once an auxiliary to "Uncle Ted" McCarrick in Washington, D.C. Farrell was sent to Dallas to deal with the mess left by retired Bishop Charles Grahmann . Then he went on to Rome, to work in the Curia, elevated to cardinal by Pope Francis. Cardinal Farrell is in charge of next month’s big  World Meeting Of Families   in Dublin, which will be attended by Pope Francis. The meeting is intended to celebrate the Holy Father’s “Amoris Laetitia.” There has been controversy over whether or not LGBT families should be included. Gay couples were included in the original promotional materials for the event, but removed after an outcry from conservatives. Still, the foremost US advocate for LGBT inclusion. Jesuit Father James Martin, is a scheduled keynote speaker in Dubl...

In recent years, the statesmanship of FDR (who I rank behind Washington and Lincoln), in his handling of Soviet affairs, has come under attack in historical studies. As we know, FDR’s performance at Yalta is the topic of much historical writing. Those who perhaps hyperbolically argue that FDR “gave away Eastern Europe” fault him for his supreme confidence in his own powers of persuasion, his profound ignorance of the Bolshevik dictatorship, his projection of humane motives onto his Soviet counterpart, his determined resistance to contradictory evidence and advice, and his wishful thinking based on geopolitical designs. Together these elements shaped a false view of US-Soviet relations and fostered a policy loosely connected with reality. As an illustration, they induced the President to walk into a surveillance trap, not once, but twice. Normally, US presidents stay in their own country’s embassies or other diplomatic buildings, swept by instruments able to discover listening ...

As I have documented on these pages, people  are being seriously hurt because of the words of false prophets in the Church like Fr. James Martin.... Fr. James Martin, S.J. Recall that Humanae Vitae taught that, alongside  true sexuality properly ordered toward procreation, there was a perverse non-procreative  heterosexuality  that needed to be condemned (feelings, desires-stemming from libido ). With the sexual revolution, the impulse to normalize sexual desire and satisfaction not ordered to the unitive and procreative functions of sex succeeded. Separating the procreative from the unitive function of God’s gift of sex became the new “normal.” Once heterosexuals successfully severed any meaningful connection between sex and procreation, the “homosexuals could unite without fear of retribution from its newly-freed heterosexual counterpart. Remember—the main reason both  groups were once viewed as disordered is that they were both  non-p...

Some 25 years after its collapse in Eastern Europe and Russia, many Americans, especially college-age students, once again see socialism as best amongst political economies, even  American Catholics. Let us remember, though, that Saint John XXIII  reaffirmed  the instruction of Pope Pius XI that “no Catholic could subscribe even to moderate socialism.” Saint John Paul II  pointed   to  “the fundamental error of socialism,” specifically, that it “maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice.” Nevertheless, these days we see good and intelligent people styling themselves “democratic socialists”, or “Christian socialists.” Why? Many people find socialism irresistible. Life is unfair, as we all know, but unfairness can often be remedied over time, as the American story demonstrates. When one thinks that life is unfair, justice demands a solution. The key questions here: isn’t it the responsibility o...

On Aug. 31, 2012, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., died at the Jesuit infirmary in Gallarate, near Milan. Before his death Cardinal  Martini eerily called himself an “ ante-pope ,” a “precursor and preparer for the Holy Father.” (Pope Francis) Martini was the leading  antagonist  to Popes John Paul II and Benedict—a Jesuit famous for groaning that the Church was “ 200 years behind .” In  Night Conversations with Cardinal Martini,  he cringed at the “major damage” caused by  Humanae Vitae . The Church spoke “too much” about the sixth commandment and sin. He said legal abortion was, ultimately, “ positive .” Now, we see a diabolical development in this.

I n the book I noted that a grave moral crisis facing the Church, of which the public is misinformed, is not a "pedophile priest" crisis, but a crisis which stems from an inordinate amount of  active homosexuals as ordained priests and some inattentive bishops who have run interference for them, all the consequences of a failure to uphold and live the Church’s sexual moral teaching. For the doubting Thomases out there, please read Rod Dreher's recent piece.