[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I spoke to a number of Catholics about Obama speaking at Notre Dame. Not one had a problem with it. Some shrugged their shoulders as if to say, “Oh well, what are you going to do?”

That's a big problem. If 50+% of Catholics voted for Obama, then 50+% of Catholics are cultural Catholics. When people speak like this, with a spirit of defeat, and when bishops fail to excommunicate such unrepentent, public sinners as Nancy Pelosi, I feel that a great spiritual oppression is affecting the Church.

I think it was Paul VI who said, "“from some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.”

[Heart-Rest]

One problem is the considerable number of "CINOs" (like "RINOs"), who really just pretend, and go through the motions as Catholics, and are actually clueless as to their Church's beliefs and what they entail.

However, I think it is at least encouraging that the US Catholic Bishops are finally starting to speak up strongly against B.O. with a much louder and clearer and more united voice, at least about these current disgraceful and despotic efforts to restrict our US freedoms (particularly the freedom of conscience).

The final chapter of this battle has not yet been written.