Fathers & Monsignors - Come Out Swinging!

In the Courier Times of March 13th, we were reminded that "If you're a devout Catholic, and maybe even if you're not, headlines like the one that topped our Thursday and Friday editions - 'Suspended priests are named' and 'Suspended priests have Bucks ties' respectively - must tear at your soul." The Courier Times is delighted to stick in a dagger, twist it, and then disingenuously ask whether it hurts! Edgar Allen Poe was on the money, when he said that: "We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation - to make a point - than to further the cause of truth.”

It is unbefitting the Church of Jesus Christ, for her sons and daughters to cower in the face of calumny, gossip, and innuendo; it also makes absolutely no sense! Under pressure from the media and the Philadelphia D.A., some at "222" appear to be overreacting and unwittingly playing into the hands of those who oppose everything the Church counter-culturally proclaims about human life and marriage/family. What sort of dollar store attorneys are giving advice? Throwing men to the wolves NEVER satisfies the wolves. It simply makes them more bloodthirsty.

We must stand in opposition to any whitewashing of alleged child sexual abuse by priests - or anyone else, for that matter. Yet time and again, history has taught us the dangers of the media and/or government pushing the Church around. We've got your back, Fathers & Monsignors - Come Out Swinging!

There are enemies of the Truth who are using this moment, to try to silence you from speaking out against the onslaught of the Culture of Death. We need you to speak up, when Catholics in political life (e.g., U.S. Senator Robert Casey, Jr.; Pa. State Senator Chuck McIlhinney, Jr.) take positions which are absolutely inconsisent with the Truth which the Church proclaims.

We've got your back, Fathers & Monsignors - Come Out Swinging! In other words, Be Not Afraid. We need you to be fearless about proclaiming the Truth!