A s I mentioned in my most recent post, we are on the eve of the Vatican summit on  The Protection of Minors in the Church . My intention was to point out that the New York Times, concerned that the homosexual orientation will be blamed as the cause of the crisis , mounted an attack priestly celibacy. The Times suggests that celibacy is the cause of the current crisis in the Church, having previously championed abortion on demand, “gay marriage” and transgenderism in arguing that sex—in any way, with anyone—is the final expression of individual desire and personal self-actualization.                                                                      ************ As I discussed in The Smoke of Satan , the big lie of the Sexual Revolution is that human beings must act on their sexual impulses, howeve...

The Holy Father has summoned the bishops for  conference on the homosexual priest crisis in Rome,  Feb. 21-24. Elizabeth Dias of the Times has used the occasion to  relate half-truths concerning the crisis brought about by the Mr. McCarrick unchastity of many, not all priests with homosexual orientations in the Body of Christ.  No doubt the idea that the homosexual sexual orientationis behind the abuse crisis will be of paramount importance in the discussions. Anyone wishing to fully understand the nature of the current crisis facing the Church brought about by not "gett(ing) it right sexually." (to paraphrase one priest interviewed in Dias' article), will be led further from the truth of things after reading the Times exposeˊ. In his work, Goodbye, Good Men , author Michael Rose documents the abuses that took place in American seminaries and diocesan vocation offices not long after the Second Vatican Council ended. Mr.  Rose did not set out to explai...

Often we get caught up in the things of this world to the extent that, as Catholics, we forget why God made us, and what our existence means, really. So, find 45 minutes, and enjoy!

Well I have not writtenf or some time, as I have been gettting reacquainted with the throes of ending the semester before the Christmas break, which I am now enjoying.... Lotsa stuff happening, but I found this piece capable of bringing the joy of CHRISTmas to souls.

Phil Lawler, whose research I cited in my book: https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Satan-Temple-God/dp/1624198686 has written a study of the most recent homosexual crisis in the Catholic Church: While much more narrowly focused than my comprehensive analysis of  the Post-Vatican II Church in the United States, it is well worth the read.  The sex-abuse scandal, which has erupted anew in 2018, poses the greatest challenge that the Catholic Church has faced since the Reformation. In   The Smoke of Satan , veteran Catholic journalist Lawler explains why the crisis is even more severe than when it first commanded headlines in 2002, and how the failure of Church leaders goes all the way to the Vatican.

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....

... 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.