[history_matters]

What I would offer is that Stephen Brady and RCF have been battling the demon and have become more harsh and even shrill because no one in the hierarchy was listening. Fighting against evil in the Church takes its toll on souls -- I know how I feel in this latest crisis and without recourse to Perpetual Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament I don't know what I would do.

God calls all sorts of people to his service and He makes use of the civility of one and the rough manner of another.

I think our model in seeking cleansing of the Church should be St. Catherine of Siena IMO because she was a lay woman, a 3rd order Dominican, and did not flinch when God called on her to speak the truth to Pope, cardinals, clergy, politicians, laity. She also never lost sight of the dignity that attends the office of Pope, bishop, priest, deacon, religious. She raised high the standard and called to individuals in those offices to live up to the high calling of Christ Crucified and Risen.

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If Brady continues to write letters like this no one will ever listen. Ask any public figure what happens to letters written like this. The author's correspondence gets circular filed without reading after a while.

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[eastsider]

I think our model in seeking cleansing of the Church should be St. Catherine of Siena IMO because she was a lay woman, a 3rd order Dominican, and did not flinch when God called on her to speak the truth to Pope, cardinals, clergy, politicians, laity. She also never lost sight of the dignity that attends the office of Pope, bishop, priest, deacon, religious. She raised high the standard and called to individuals in those offices to live up to the high calling of Christ Crucified and Risen.

A timely suggestion: St. Catherine of Siena's feastday is this coming Monday, April 29. She was a "holy anorectic" who rarely slept, virtually lived on the Eucharist, and was highly instrumental in convincing the Pope to return to Rome from Avignon.

No, St. Catherine did not flinch from the Truth, which she properly understood to have a force of its own. Mr. Brady, would be well advised to emulate St. Catherine's faith in the intrinsic force of Truth to make his point and less on histrionics.