Complicity.

From the National Catholic Register:

Cities around the world have staged LGBTQ parades, promoting an agenda that revolves around not only sexual depravity but also child genital mutilation.

But instead of being classed as a vulnerable group warranting protection from such evil insanity, children worldwide have been welcomed to such events while in their daily lives they are exposed to the depravity, even in schools where they face indoctrination

Only a few years ago this would have been considered child abuse and its practicers and proponents arrested. Now, among many, it’s a cause for celebration. Sadly also, only a few years ago, the Catholic Church would have been in the forefront condemning these monsters. Not any more.

Meanwhile, Catholic Church leaders, with very few notable exceptions, were silent about Pride Month throughout the month of June, and in some cases actively participated in what’s become akin to an annual “liturgical” celebration in the secular world.

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Adding to the complicity of some Church leaders were Belgium’s bishops, who publicly approved same-sex blessings and said the Pope was behind them. The Vatican responded with silence, while the working document for the upcoming Synod on Synodality spoke uncritically of welcoming LGBTQ persons. Newswires conveyed the impression that the Vatican was calling for the “radical inclusion” of LGBTQ people.

With Holy Church looking the other way and worse, does this news come as any surprise?

From the Catholic News Agency.

The Catholic Church in Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis, with more than half a million baptized Catholics leaving the Church in 2022, according to figures released by the German Bishops’ Conference on June 28.

This marks the highest number of departures ever recorded, with 522,821 people choosing to leave the Church, according to CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language partner news agency.

This is the case, to a greater or lesser extent, with most Catholic Churches in the West. Her liberal leadership, with their obsessive embracing of every left-wing cause du jour, no matter how contrary to Church teachings, are destroying our Church by driving parishioners out, thus depriving them of the sacramental graces necessary for salvation. Is this what they really want?

Depending on my mood, my answer to the above is: “No, they are only seriously misguided and must be brought back to righteousness,” or: “Yes, they are agents of Satan and must be removed from the Church, the sooner the better.” More and more, lately, I’ve been favoring the latter response.

h/t William Tighe.