America’s Grave Sensus Fidei-less Opinions, by Kevin Wells

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 18, 2022

Kevin Wells is a former Major League Baseball writer, Catholic speaker, and author of Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz (Ignatius Press). His best-selling book The Priests We Need to Save the Church was published by Sophia Institute Press in 2019.

In private conversations, off-the-record interviews, and moments of candor, Catholic journalists have known what German Cardinal Gerhard Müller recently revealed in plain sight when discussing the Synod on Synodality on EWTN’s The World Over television program: Our Lady’s prophecy to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa in her apparition at Akita, Japan, a half-century ago is now an irremovable part of the ecclesial landscape: The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops.

Of course, the first half of Mary’s prophesy has been widely and publicly made manifest (e.g., the McCarrick evil and its sustained concealment, Vatican bank/clergy sex scandals, seminary malformation, et al.); the second half of Mary’s words, however—bishop confronting bishop—are just now emerging, like the budding of a rare and foul-smelling flower. It is becoming evident to many now that for “the work of the devil” to be restrained and brought into the light, episcopal infighting and undisguised public opposition between members of the hierarchy must be fully brought to bear—as Paul took on Peter, and then wrote of it.  …the end of the worldwide synod may be another infiltration of which Our Lady warned—perhaps the most substantial one yet.

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