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These men were not just sick and not just sinful: they were evil. Has anyone noticed how, in many of these allt-too-graphic accounts we're reading these days, the priests not only sodomized the boys but did so in a way that would be particularly perverse and evil? That is, raping them on the altar, or making the boys do things to them while the priests were were fully vested, etc.

There's real evil here; Satan is definitely here. And the bishops simply ignore him, or have been bought out by him.
We need more than just lawsuits and jail time to clean this out. I think the Church needs serious prayer and fasting, and a major housecleaning.

Call it a new Inquisition if you will, but that's what I think is needed now. Strip away the hiding places of the Evil One, who has crawled in and is nesting in the most sacred places of the Church.

Sorry to sound so apocalyptic, but I am becoming more and more convinced that this is simply about sheer evil.

Sorry to sound so apocalyptic, but I am becoming more and more convinced that this is simply about sheer evil.

Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful bird...

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities..."

Revelation 18:2, 4-5

I think your points are spot on, livius. It is an apocalyptic time for us when we see so much corruption and evil in the very Church we love with all our hearts.

We are striving against the demon, and we need to be armed with all the tools God has given us in order to withstand and overcome the onslaught of the evil one.

We need to go to confession frequently. We need to assist at Mass anywhere and anyway we can. We need to commit ourselves to daily rosary and/or the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy. We need to step up and give ourselves to corporate works of mercy.

Immediately we need to start saying the "St. Michael the Archangel" prayer at the end of every Mass everywhere in our country. We must do it.

This is of course what our bishops should have said in Dallas but they didn't ask this Irish mom to advise them.

Call it a new Inquisition if you will, but that's what I think is needed now. Strip away the hiding places of the Evil One, who has crawled in and is nesting in the most sacred places of the Church.

Sorry to sound so apocalyptic, but I am becoming more and more convinced that this is simply about sheer evil.

It's interesting to recall that a number of years back, the priest who holds the office of primary exorcist submitted a report to the top level of the Vatican which asserted outright satanism at the highest levels within the Vatican. It got hushed up later.

Still, one can scarcely see such widespread public immorality within an institution without suspecting those at the top. And recall that Episcopal scandal (New York?) where they staged lurid orgies in vestal garments on their altars, apparently the blasphemy of the acts goaded them to greater perversity.

There are plenty of sex scandals in all the churches. The general suspicion which will likely be transferred to all clergy, not merely those of the Roman church, should make us all think twice about how the secular media will use this to create suspicion and distrust of the legitimate churches of the ancient Christian faith.