Scandals There will Be, but Have Peace…
Paula Adamick has a take on a powerful new book by Jennifer Roback Morse, ‘The Sexual State’, outlining the government’s role in aiding, abetting and outright fostering the revolution of our morals and customs in the sexual and marital sphere, and almost all for the worse. The transvaluation of all values, as Nietzsche put it, calling men, women, fornication, sodomy and all sorts of other aberrations ‘true love’, and good, evil, and evil, good.
As Ms. Adamick, following Dr. Morse, argue, the State, ironically one might think, is using sex, something ordered directly to children, to reduce the population. But by making sex sterile, used only for pleasure – even if that pleasure is rationalized in the context of mutual friendship, or, as they say now, between transitory ‘partners’ – babies are now often seen as ‘enemies’, a product to be avoided, or terminated if that fails.
One way to ensure that sex is sterile – besides contraception and its fruit, abortion – indeed never produces the babies for which it was ordained by God, is to promote homosexuality. And this incipient disorder is fostered by the State even amongst the youngest of the young, especially by means of the (State funded) educational system, and now by our (State funded) health care. Just imagine a psychiatrist trying to ‘cure’ same-sex attraction or a gender-confusion in a child, normal actions that are now illegal.
Is there a vast conspiracy, a veritable ‘lavendar mafia’ infecting even the very Church, the Bride of Christ, against whom the gates of hell were promised not to prevail? Archbishop Vigano seems to think so – there is evidence thereof in the last half-century, and the Archbishop has the means to know first-hand. In his most recent letter, responding to Cardinal Oullet’s response to his original letter, he has doubled down on his claim that there is a homosexual ‘network’ within the Church, which very few in authority – even those who profess full orthodoxy – want to name and deal with.
To ‘conspire’ means to ‘breathe together’, to have a common pursuit, to plan to achieve a goal, which all of us do – hopefully for non-nefarious purposes – and there is evidence that the Church, from seminaries to chanceries to youth offices, has been infiltrated with a rot that must be exposed and cast out, one way or the other, even if we must wade through a mountain of scandals, so the Church may breathe again the pure air of clear doctrine. We have a grave duty to hand on the truth untainted to the next generation, not just the hierarchy, but also us laity, as teachers and parents.
And as was said in the homily this morning at our Alumni Mass, we must in all of this avoid anxiety, complete what tasks we have been given, andn speak out as we must, keeping our loins girded and our lamps lit, firmly convinced that after what travails there will be, the victory is Christ’s.
Carney’s Amoral Majority
After five defections – euphemistically described as ‘crossing the floor’ – and three by-elections, Mark Carney and his Liberals how have their coveted majority. One wonders what bowls of pottage were offered in back-room deals. In the archaic monarchical system that is the Dominion of Canada, this majority allows the newly-minted Prime Minister to rule[…]Continue reading→
Saint Kateri , Canada’s Protectress
This was the title given to Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, by Pope Benedict XVI, when he canonized her on October 28th, 2012, along with six others, in Saint Peter’ Square (she had been beatified by Pope John Paul II back in 1980). With Saint Joseph as our protector, along with the Canadian martyrs, we seem to[…]Continue reading→
A Closed, Unsustainable, Descending Loop
As a follow-up to my thoughts on Payette’s payout, here be a stark image of where are here in Canada. As the graph shows in, well, graphic terms, since 2025, the public sector has contributed to 95.5% of economic growth. The private sector – which funds the public sector, or is supposed to – has[…]Continue reading→
A Tale of Two Benedicts
A grace-filled Holy Week to all our readers! As we await and prepare for the Resurrection about to dawn upon us, we might keep in mind two Benedicts: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, requiescat in pace, elected on this day in 2005; and today’s commemoration of the mystic pilgrim, Benedict Joseph Labre, who died on this[…]Continue reading→
My Name is Bernadette
April 16th is a propitious day, for besides the anniversary of Father de Valk’s death, who founded Catholic Insight in its print form decades ago, and the commemoration of the ‘two Benedicts’, mentioned in accompanying posts, today we also recall Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the young visionary to whom the Virgin Mary appeared numerous times at[…]Continue reading→
Presidential Pardon of Weronika Krawczyk
As a good news, follow-up to our story from Poland, of the persecution of Weronika Krawczyk for her pro-life views, we heard that she has been granted a presidential pardon. One might still wonder why one needs a presidential pardon for simply holding the long-held belief that the child within the womb is a child,[…]Continue reading→
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380 – 1433) was one of the countless and glorious ‘victim souls’ in the history of the Church, those whose lives are filled with suffering, often of an unimaginable intensity, but who suffer joyfully. She was a fifteen-year old Dutch girl, out skating one day, when she fell and broke one[…]Continue reading→
The Glorious Martyrdoms of Martin and Maximus
As we enter into Eastertide, we recall on this 13th of April Pope Saint Martin I (+655), one of the noblest, if most tragic, of the successors of Saint Peter. Born in Umbria, Italy, he was of noble lineage, with great intelligence combined with charity and love of the poor and the Church. While still[…]Continue reading→
Pope Leo and a Rosary for Peace
Pope Leo XIV has asked Catholics across the world to join him in a Rosary for peace today, at 18:00 Rome time (6 pm), which would be noon from where I write (EST). If you are able, whether at that time or another, and in whatever way you pray, to join in intercession with the[…]Continue reading→
Payette’s Payout
I was glancing through some headlines, and noticed a mention of Julie Payette – engineer and astronaut and sometime the Queen’s representative in Canada – which brought back vague memories. She was appointed Governor-General by Justin Trudeau in 2017. Ms. Payette resigned in 2021, amidst claims that she created a ‘toxic work environment’, with allegations[…]Continue reading→