[siunevada]

While what has happened recently is no day at the beach, the past is no month in the mountains. There are seven Capital Sins and every age has seen an abunance of it in our Church.

Persecution, therefore, will never be lacking. For, when our enemies from without leave off raging and there ensues a span of tranquility—even of genuine tranquility and great consolation at least to the weak—we are not without enemies within, the many whose scandalous lives wound the hearts of the devout... So it is that those who want to live piously in Christ must suffer the spiritual persecution of these and other aberrations in thought and morals, even when they are free from physical violence and vexation.
St. Augustine

As a Catholic, my faith tells me that the Church has a divine origin, but my own experience tells me that it must be divine because no human institution run with an equal mixture of ineptitude and wickedness would have lasted a fortnight.
--Hilaire Belloc

[bornacatholic]

excellent quotes, brother. Ol' Rod has gone off the deep end. Good thing for him he wasn't alive early in the 11th century when the public pederasty and homosexuality of clerics was so scandalous that St. Peter Damien had to write Gomorrah.