It seems to me that the Church “gave up” with the death of Archbishop Fulton Sheen. They gave up on the “culture war” (also with Vatican II).
Whittaker Chambers (ex-KGB) wrote extensively on the war between Man v. God in the 50’s in the USA and knew of the insidious Marxist ideology being put into all the institutions—particularly schools, and media, to promote “secular humanism” in the worldview of children. The Catholic Church even recognized the infiltration into Christianity with “Liberation Theology”—that evil Marxist ideology of zero.
Tolerance of evil (and sin) is evil. By bending over backwards for sinners—and not condemning the sins, for the evil that they are and do-—the Church tried to become “popular” with the masses and especially wanted media to like them. It was a “wink, wink” to sin.
This “tolerance is a virtue” comes right out of Marx and moral relativism....and the idea that “tolerance is good” is EVIL. You NEVER tolerate evil.
As the great Bonhoeffer said,
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
That being said, I like the current direction of Archbishop Timothy Dolan and the Pope. There is a need for a reawakening.
Hmm?
We never gave up, ma’am.
Why do you think the church has been attacked over her stance on abortion, on contraception, on homosexuality, on sex out of wedlock, on divorce.
Because we resisted and continue to resist all of these.