Catholic Church

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Bureaucratic elites desire more than compliance. They want our hearts, souls, and minds. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” training officers behave like KGB agents (or the dread “flying monkeys” in The Wizard of Oz). They monitor expressions of dissent on the job and social media and administer pedantic training modules to ensure “best practices.” Corporate executives are also captive to politically-correct interests because they fear the effects on their careers, company profits, and reputations. ...

By Joan Frawley Desmond, EWTN News - Bishop Daly was among a number of U.S. Church leaders who worried about whether the faithful would view the new framework as both effective and credible... “My concern initially was that you have to involve laypeople with a level of competency in law enforcement,” he said. “Because even if a metropolitan archbishop is well-intentioned, some of the public will still see the ‘old-boys’ club” at work — a concern he deemed to be reasonable, given the recent scandals.

By Tim Jackson, LifeSiteNews - “How do we deal with the homosexuality of priests?” he asked. “Not everyone is forced to declare [to others] their own sexual inclination, whether he is heterosexual or homosexual. He must decide that [whether to declare it] for himself.”... “But if he does [declare it], then that is to be respected and then this is not a restriction on his ability of becoming a priest,” Marx continued. “That is my position and we have to stand up for it.”

By Elizabeth A. Mitchell, The Catholic Thing - There is a social phenomenon known as the “spiral of silence.”  This spiral is based upon fear, fear of being set apart or ostracized for our views, fear that causes us to remain silent instead of voicing our convictions.  We remain silent out of insecurity or a mistaken belief that no one shares our viewpoint, thus enabling the “spiral” of silence... In this vacuum of silence, however, a counter-narrative takes the megaphone. The louder, bolder voice dictates the rules and the agenda.