[Loyalist]

I would recommend reading AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle , credited to a French priest who was a Communist infiltrator. It explains how the Comintern planted countless agents into seminaries with the long-term goal of subverting the Catholic Church, a goal which saw its fruition in the 1960's.

Also of note is the Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita , which outlines a similar Masonic plot to subvert the Church.

So confused Catholics like myself are left to pick which conspiracy theory best explains the current state of the Church. Maybe even the possibility that the Holy Spirit is working through all this.

[Polycarp]

So confused Catholics like myself are left to pick which conspiracy theory best explains the current state of the Church.

Careful who you relate your frustrations to or your thoughts on the origin of the crises.

You might find yourself branded an extreme trad schismatic integrist.

[ninenot]

which conspiracy theory best explains the current state of the Church.

Satan.

[sneakers]

"I would recommend reading AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle"

THATS the book! (See my post 345) I remember that it was a chilling read.

I'm sure communists were not the only ones trying to bring down the church - but add in the modernism, homosexuality, and the changing cultural climate, and it has made the church more vulnerable. However, as somebody else posted, the groups who want to see the church fall are "prematurely blowing taps". Pope Benedict is turning this ship around!

God bless Pope Benedict!