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Dancing With Mr. D: The Pink Palaces

There are those who say that the current crisis in the Church is the result of... clericalism.... Ahem. I challenge anyonbe to read the 2011 report on the gay subculture in the Archdiocese of Miami   and follow on with Vanity Fair's piece on the homosexual subculture inside the Vatican, and maintain that the proble is clericalism.... The Lord is permitting Satan to work in the darkness at the moment, but Satan is afraid of the light soon to follow....

Catholics Don't Sin...

... how else do you explain the disappearance of long Confession lines??  Seriously, In my book I recounted the story of how lack of faithfulness to Catholic teaching on our fallen human nature resulted in, among many other things, the demise of the California Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters in 1967, which went from 600 nuns and 59 Catholic schools to two schools and no sisters (see Chapter 5). William Kilpatrick has penned an interesting perspective on the loss of the sense of sin amongst the faithful since Vatican II.  

Libido Redux: Told Ya

I n 2015 I wrote of ....a direct correlation between a failure to uphold and live the Church’s sexual moral teaching and the present phenomenon of the sexual abuse of minors by homosexual Catholic priests and inattentive bishops running interference for them. I will never understand how one could fail to see this as anything other than the fruits of a protracted failure to uphold and live the Church’s sexual moral teaching in the United States since Vatican II. -The Smoke of Satan In the Temple of God The former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria ViganĂ²,  has written a letter alleging systematic coverup  of the disordered and abusive behavior of the former Archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, who has resigned from the College of Cardinals and awaits canonical trial on charges he molested at least one minor. Since that charge became public on June 20 th , other accusers have come forward, some of them alleging they suffered abuse in seminar