I was educated in Catholic schools when they still had nuns and Latin and diagramming. I had an excellent foundation—lots of logic— but the Church was starting to lose its confidence because of separation of Church and State and aggressive silencing and ridicule in the public square. The CC quit monitoring the movies which they strickly critiqued so that immoral ideas wouldn’t be transmitted to children. That ended in the later 60’s. They didn’t have any legal power, but the CC controlled public opinion enough that studios listened.
That was the start of the outright persecution of Christianity by the State by Progressives to destroy it. Of course, Marxists were infiltrating the Church to create these “Christian” Liberation Theology Churches to get control over South American and Latin America. Marcuse and everyone knew that the Catholic Church was too powerful for them to create socialism unless they perverted the religion and used the religion to create the collective—collective salvation.
Then, of course, the APA took homosexuality off of the mentally ill list and that forced the Church to treat gays as normal people who just strayed, instead of being inherently disordered and damaged. The Church was damned if they treated homosexuals too harshly (un-PC) and then, we saw what happened by only requiring counseling. The infiltration of the Church by homosexuals who can’t control their base urges even when it comes to children has done great harm to the Catholic Church.
Thanks... I’ve learned a lot tonight. I had no idea who Marcuse was (excuse me while I vomit). I do know about the DSM that declassified homosexuality as a disorder in ‘73 (yet now maintains “homo-phobia” ((a made up affliction)) as a disorder in the DSM-IV.
I am not a Catholic, but I have great respect for the Church. She is a great cornerstone of God’s presence in this world.