[Polycarp]

Very good article...pinging (again)...

[Barnacle]

But why?

To silence the lone international voice for morality, that's why. Hate the Catholic Church or love it, it must be admitted that it publicly teaches and preaches against the totalitarian, utilitarian worldview. The Catholic Church insists on the dignity and value of every person, born and unborn.

This article explains so much of the insanity I've seen in the Church during my lifetime.

We're taking our country back from the Bolsheviks. It's time to take back our Church too.

[EODGUY]

It is a great article.

Thanks for the ping.

[Brices Crossroads]

This is indeed a very good article. I did not realize that the Holy Father had written the Pastoral letter in 1899 to the American bishops warning them not to try to accomodate the Faith to American culture. From my limited knowledge of pre-1950 America, I do not believe that there were any concrete manifestations of this drift. I really wonder if Leo XIII, the author of this letter and a mystic, did not foresee the confusion which has befallen the Church in America in the latter half of the 20th Century.

My only criticuism of the article would be its failure to acknowledge the receding influence of modernist influences in the Church. All articles which refer to any potential for "hijacking the Keys of Peter" should contain the mandatory qualifier that Christ established His Church on the Rock of Peter and that we have it on His Authority that the Gates of Hell will not break that rock. The idea that a few modernists, whose ranks are dwindling, will succeed in capturing the See of Peter(as if it were some Chicago precinct) should be dismissed as an impossibility. The Church in America has floundered, and the Church in the world is under attack in many quarters, but the See of Peter will not only survive as the visible representative of Christ on earth. It will prevail. As the Holy Father has said, we are even now "crossing the threshhold of hope."