The Great Betrayal, by Henry Sire 

In the past few weeks we have received a great blessing: the demonstration that for a large section of the Catholic Church around the world Pope Francis has gone too far. All the indications until now were that there was no limit to the capacity of the faithful to accept this Pope’s paltering with Catholic truth; but we now see that the limit was there, and that with Fiducia Supplicans it has been overstepped. All the same, against this benefit there is a much greater evil: the state of the Church that made Francis think that he could get away with his shameful document in the first place. This low state includes many aspects, large among which is a time-serving and subservient hierarchy, but the one I want to discuss here is the failure of the Catholic Church in the past sixty years to put across to the faithful its teaching on the family and on sexuality.

The attack on the Christian ideal of the family began centuries ago, with the Protestant acceptance of divorce, and in the nineteenth century it began to assume a more ideological tone with the rise of Feminism. The impact of the First World War visibly shook traditional mores, as women began to abandon the standards of modesty that had prevailed since Europe became Christian;  ….