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*Image: Gothic Church in Ruins by Carl Blechen, 1826 [Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany]

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing, Aug. 4, 2023

David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island, and the author of The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, Three Sexual Revolutions: Catholic, Protestant, Atheist, and most recently Atheistic Humanism, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Church.

If you’re a general and you wish to break the enemy’s line of defense, you find his most vulnerable point and attack him precisely at that point with an exceptional concentration of forces. When you break through at that point, there’s a good chance his entire line of defense will collapse. You will have won the battle, maybe even the war.

Catholicism’s most vulnerable point, as it defends itself against the assault being made against it by present-day atheism, is its ancient teaching that homosexual practice is a great sin. Many of our nominal defenders don’t truly believe that this point in our line of defense is worth defending, at least not with heroic energy. Some of our “defenders” are even quite willing to allow the enemy to pour through a gap at this point. …

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