Dear Ann —
I don’t always agree with you, and sometimes I even get angry and tell myself never to read your material again. But I always return, and one of the reasons for that involuntary loyalty is that when you write an essay like the one about “Sodomites and Power: Either You Let Us Destroy The Church, or We Will Destroy The Church,” I am struck with a recognition of truth so brilliant and illuminating that it hits like a bolt of lightning.
It’s not that the facts presented in your essay were new to me, or that I wasn’t aware of the sodomitical penetration of the Vatican and much of the Conciliar Church as a whole. Anyone with a functioning brain knows that James Martin and Tucho Fernandez are the new public face of institutional Catholicism, and that they are out to disembowel whatever remains of genuine Catholicism in the hierarchy, the seminaries, and the pews. But your essay put a diagnostic finger on precisely what motivation is behind it all, what the chosen strategy and tactics are, and how successful the entire enterprise seems to be.
What really fired me up, however, was your unflinching and unsparing analysis of the essential stupidity and myopia and continuing “I-don’t-get-it” attitude of the typical Catholic pew-warmer, who still professes to be baffled and confused about what is happening. Despite an earth-shattering upheaval in the institutional Church, and the visible ascendancy of perverts, heretics and two antipopes into positions of vast power, influence, and control, these simple-minded sheep ask stupid questions like “Why doesn’t a bishop speak up?” or “Why doesn’t the Pope do something?”
Can they really be that dim-witted? Are they blind? Don’t they know that the bulk of the hierarchy are in bed with what’s happening, and aren’t going to speak up at all? Are they unaware that Antipope Prevost is fully behind synodality, and that he won’t lift a finger to discipline the Germans, the Dutch, or the Irish? Can these pew-warmers really think that the current Conciliar Church is the Church of their grandparents? It’s not just the little old ladies in the pews, who unthinkingly follow whatever their pastors say, or whatever the diocesan chancery dictates. It’s posturing buffoons like Michael Matt, who live in a completely absurd state of cognitive dissonance, or his house intellectuals like Robert Morrison and Peter Kwasniewski, who work hard to make sure that the troubled pew-warmers don’t get too inquisitive.
I’ve reached the point where I can’t work up much anger anymore against the hierarchy, the clergy, or the Vatican. They are simply the enemy, and they are acting as one expects them to act. My real rage is against ordinary Catholics (whether Novus Ordo zombies or R&R jerks) who are too dumb to see what the situation in the Church is, or who are willing to live in cognitive dissonance like Michael Matt.
Your still loyal reader,
Dr. J
