THE SPIRIT OF JUDAS IN THE CHURCH

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'SPIRIT OF JUDAS' INFILTRATED CHURCH IN WAY OF SECULARISM AS WELL AS REVELATIONS OF ABUSE

The Holy Catholic Church founded nearly twenty-one centuries ago is currently incurring a bombardment that might be compared to what London endured during World War Two.

The rumble in the distance, the nightly sirens, are not, of course, actual aerial strafing, but each new revelation and surprise and disappointment is a bomb and seems devastating.

It is also, as the great mystic Maria Esperanza might have said, a good purification.

The Lord is moving in His Church to remove very dark elements. He is removing what might be called the "spirit of Judas."

It is interesting that earlier this month, within a week's time, two different high Vatican officials made remarks about the horrendous and unprecedented clergy-abuse crisis.

One was Pope Benedict himself, who urged young people not to abandon their faith in God because of the "attacks of evil" within the Church. "Carry intact the fire of your love in this Church every time that men have obscured her face," said the Pope in a foreword to a new catechism edited specifically for young people.

Here's a rumination: would the Church in the West not improve if every member of the clergy and hierarchy emulated the humility and acuity of the Pope?

http://vultus.stblogs.org/Ben%20XVI%20SS%20Sacr.jpgAdded Vatican Cardinal Jorge Medina, in Chile: "Any informed Christian knows we are prone to weakness because of our human fragility. The devil gets in where he can. Priests are not immune from his snares."

Another official lamented over how clergy far too often fail to admit their guilt, and once they have, to seek forgiveness from their victims.

Sad it is that officials have to issue such statements, but it is not surprising for those who have long expected our time to be one of tumult.
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