Ping
I’m not Catholic, but thank you for the article. You probably know that the Protestant churches are limping also crawling along. The world certainly appears to be in it’s last days.
Sad, and True. I have seen a Priest making a sexual joke in his homily about Christ being “hung” on the cross, and worse. Nuns displaying pornographic “art” of Angels and the Eucharist.
Meanwhile, Godly Priests, and Nuns are persecuted by Bishops, and Rome. There is an “Underground” Church of sorts for the faithful in the Archdiocese in which I reside.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Years ago I read an article that said John Paul II, who lived through the takeover of Poland and WWII with death camps in Poland, had seen men falsely accused of homosexuality for political reasons, knowing that they would be sent to their deaths in the camps. For this reason, he made a personal policy of turning a deaf ear to suggestions that a priest may have been gay. It sounds naive to us today who have been immersed in gay ideology since the 1980s, but it seems plausible that he may have had a misguided but terror-induced intention in refusing to hear about it.