The America Our Children Will Inherit

Amidst the gloom of Year Five of the Obama Experiment comes some indication of how we got to this point, i.e. at which a supine and toothless Catholic Church is unable to resist the elimination of major elements of our First Amendment protections of Religious Freedom by the worst government we've ever had.

We know that - with a few shining exceptions - the realm of "Catholic" higher education has long been a hotbed of dissent from the Magisterium, but there is perhaps the tendency to feel that things had started to get better, and that some of the excesses of the Seventies were behind us. Alas not so... Two recent examples will serve to illustrate the situation.

1.) Notre Dame's recent history has been more than a little bit checkered, e.g. the Obama fiasco of 2009, but they may have reached a new low with the recent announcement that they were seeking an "LGBTQ Director" for their shiny new "LGBTQ" support organization. Does the name "Catholic" actually mean anything to these people?

2.) Gonzaga University, which might well be renamed "GoneGaga" owing to their even more radical deviations from the mission of their founders and the Church, has had a similar group for years - ho hum - but cannot abide at least one venerable Catholic group - the Knights of Columbus - because they restrict their membership to... Catholic Men only!

For far too long the majority of American bishops either tolerated or abetted this sort of lunacy, and now the bill has come due. "Catholics" brainwashed into accepting an adulterated version of the Faith by these diabolical dissidents see nothing wrong with voting for the most pro-abortion president ever, or "Catholic" phonies like his vice president and the most recent Democrat Speaker of the House (to name a few). Truly, these folks have gotten the government they deserve, but rest of us aren't so lucky. And it's only going to get worse: it came to light today that the U.S. Army Reserve has published training materials designating the Catholic Church as an "extremist" organization and specifically citing several traditionalist Catholic organizations as "hate groups". This is real, folks. It was only a couple of years ago that Cardinal George of Chicago was ridiculed by the elites for his comment that "I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square". It doesn't sound so farfetched now, does it? "Extremist", "hate group" and "bigot" - that latter gaining in popularity for those who commit the cardinal sin of "homophobia" - are just names, but who can doubt that there are sticks and stones to come...