The Horrific Consequences Of Sexual Impurity

In Friday's Washington Times, Frank Kacer wrote a piece entitled, "Sexual Impurity and the Corruption of Our Nation's Soul".  I commend it to your reading for I think he makes important points.  Many of us see that the acceptance of contraception paved the way for the acceptance of abortion.  Mr. Kacer touches upon some factors that made contraception appealing to the less-principled citizenry.

He states that prior to the sixties our nation held onto a "thin veneer of sexual propriety".  Therein lies the problem; sexual propriety was merely a thin veneer.  In some cases it was so transparent as to be non-existent.  I would hold that by and large, Americans lost sight of the eternal things and sought only to enjoy "the good life".  Gradually, with less emphasis on seeking after the kingdom of God first, people became slowly corrupted and compromised.

Those people included Catholics - and Catholic clergy.  By then, young priests who would later act out as homosexual pederasts were in place; some, like Father Hesburgh, occupied places of great influence.  They failed to reach out to the Protestants to bring them back to the One True Church.  Instead of the Catholics influencing the worldly culture, they allowed the worldly culture to influence them.

In partial answer to Kacer's question, "Can the slippery slope be stopped?", I'll venture to say not, unless the Catholics wake up and start acting like Roman Catholics and not some "am-church" counterfeit.

Illegal Immigrants And AmChurch

Today's Vortex raises some questions that should be broached to our prelates. I'd like to see emphasized the question of why the USCCB puppets are so quick to take up the Washington oligarchy's talking points on these matters (gun control is another in which the bishops are allowing themselves to be the Minions Most Mindless of the White House).

Sentimental Journey To Hell

This Vortex echoes a lot of what I've been thinking as I look at many in the Church myself.  I suspect one reason why Father Guarnizo was tossed under the bus last year was that he refused to pander to sentimental considerations disguised as "pastoral considerations".  Now Father Shaffer is staving off the same "sentimental" monsters although the archdiocese is standing with him.

The Noxious Legacies Of Bernardin And Mahony

Today's Vortex delves into the wreckage foisted on the Church by these two prelates.  Now Cardinal Bernardin has gone to his eternal reward (whatever that might be) and Cardinal Mahony recently had his wings clipped.  Still we must deal with the aftermath of their reigns of terror and dissent.  Let us pray that Cardinal Mahony respond to the grace of repentance.

A Translation Aide

If a faithful Catholic is going to speak with a hapless soul who is entangled and bewitched by Amchurch gobblygoop, they need to understand the rarified jargon of that strange institution.  I thank my blogging colleage, The Last Papist Standing, for producing this much-needed translation aide.

Here it is.  Enjoy!  He welcomes suggestions for any cult-speak that he may have inadvertently omitted.

Pope Versus American Bishops - Different World Views?

Michael Voris, in today's Vortex, compares the Holy Father's warning (see yesterday's post) versus Archbishop Dolan's rosy portrayal of the status of today's Church.  Frankly, I cannot see how anyone with two brain neurons that fire correctly can be blind to the immense crisis facing our very civilization.  However, it's there all around - from the vapid grins of many in the pews to the happy-pap-crap that fills the pages of the diocesan newspapers (including both the Catholic Standard and Our Parish Times).

As a new year draws near, perhaps we may want to spend some time in prayer rather than useless revelry and beg God's grace for a revived and restored Catholic Church that is faithful to God, His Laws and the Magisterium.

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