In the Pedophile Priest Crisis, the Church (specifically its internal corrupters, the pedophile priests and their superiors in the hierarchy who refused to take responsibility) was in the wrong. The world helped correct it. That is, the news media, law enforcement, and especially the lawyers of the plaintiff’s bar. They publicized and sued and brought the scandal to public attention, forcing the Church to deal with it.
In the present Homosexual Crisis, the world stands enthusiastically on the side of the Church’s internal corrupters. The media love the current pope and his “See No Evil” approach (along with his breezy off-the-cuff airborne theology). The media and other elites all shared in the near-universal horror at pedophile child abuse; but they all equally support the Homosexual Agenda, from normalization to gay marriage to transgenderism.
The only voices being raised against this grooming-and-groping-and-worse behavior of some bishops come from the much-despised “Traditional Catholics”, smeared by their own pope as “Pharisees”.
G.K. Chesterton wrote somewhere (I think in Orthodoxy, but I don’t have a copy handy so I am quoting from memory) that when the world becomes too worldly, it is the church’s role to turn it around. But when the church becomes too worldly, the world cannot save it. Only the church (through the Holy Spirit) can save itself.
There will be no outside help, no cheering from the sidelines. The press coverage will be terrible. We already see the calumny against the traditional church as a homophobic institution, a bunch of haters in Knights of Columbus uniforms.
It will be a lonely battle. There will be no one on our side…except the Holy Spirit.
O Ben Finiti 