processions...we always had processions...Knights of Columbus..
..we once in a great while have the priests up to the house...
my mom's favorite pastor was a Fr. Donnelly, who brought a nice decanter bottle of whiskey for my father, and it has a music box in it....
so trusting...so believing....
I think most nuns and priests were okay back then.....something happened in the 60's...too many funny men were allowed into the seminary....they destroyed them...
it started in the 1930’s...
Douglas Hyde revealed long ago that in the 1930s the Communist leadership issued a worldwide directive about infiltrating the Catholic Church. While in the early 1950s, Mrs Bella Dodd was also providing detailed explanations of the Communist subversion of the Church. Speaking as a former high ranking official of the American Communist Party, Mrs Dodd said: “In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within.” The idea was for these men to be ordained and progress to positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops. A dozen years before Vatican II she stated that: “Right now they are in the highest places in the Church” – where they were working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church’s effectiveness against Communism. She also said that these changes would be so drastic that “you will not recognise the Catholic Church.”
https://avoicefromthedesert.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/communist-infiltration-of-the-catholic-church/
Spot on! Keep the faith hopefully we get through this.
For all Catholics and others interested - “Goodbye Good Men” is a great book, the reviews give more info. A great FReeper sent me a copy years ago and I am searching for it, maybe I lent it to someone and didn’t get it back.
https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Good-Men-Liberals-Corruption/dp/0895261448
Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church Hardcover – May 1, 2002
Goodbye, Good Men uncovers how radical liberalism has infiltrated the Catholic Church, overthrowing traditional beliefs, standards, and disciplines.
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Written shortly before the current scandal broke upon the Roman Catholic Church, Rose’s book seems almost prophetic as he documents the systematic rejection of pious, orthodox seminary applicants in many dioceses and the encouragement of questionable attitudes and agendas. Rose (Ugly As Sin), who was editor of St. Catherine Review for seven years, is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books that question the wisdom of contemporary liberal Catholicism. Here, he discusses the causes of the chronic priest shortage, including the misuse of psychological screening and what appears to be blatant discrimination against the kind of young men who were once considered ideal candidates for the vocation. He gives a disturbing glimpse behind the scenes that may go far in explaining the church’s present difficulties. Based primarily on interviews, the book is carefully footnoted and contains a bibliography of sources cited and consulted. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this prominent topic, and for public and academic libraries. C. Robert Nixon, MLS, Lafayette, IN