And So It Begins

Ruth Gledhill in the Times is reporting on the bankruptcy proceedings of the Delaware Diocese. What we see at work here is the familiar pattern of the confiscation of Church property, selling off cemetery plots with the bones of departed priests and bishops, to meet the terms.

Of course, interwoven in this tragedy are the lives of victims who come with legitimate complaints against churchmen, who've failed in their office, promoting strange liturgical practices and demeaning the traditional moral teachings of the Church, may be lost in the reorganization shuffle. Is it any surprise then that the Church's enemies have been assisted by the episcopal Judases who've orchestrated this travesty?

No doubt this will leave behind an increasingly hobbled Church and speed the defections from Her ranks, multiplying the indifferentism which infects the land like a terrible cancer.

Despite this, the Catholic Church is still at work in the world. Good can come out of evil, but there are also victories as in the case of the Anglican Communion in England which has joined the Catholic Church today. It might be ironic to some, but they are fleeing the same liberalism and moral turpitude that many of us are trying to escape in the Catholic Church with regard to our own bishops and religious orders.