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Introduction

Beginning in 2002, known as the year of the church scandals, your editor questioned disturbing events at our family’s Catholic parish that demanded answers.  Why did my priest at the time (our family has changed parishes) believe and follow the Myers-Briggs Personality test?  Why was I called a bigot at that parish because I disagreed with same-sex “marriage?”  Why wasn’t a photograph of the pope in the rectory?  Why wasn’t there a crucifix in the church?  Why was praying the rosary considered old fashioned at the parish?  Why didn’t the parish have a Respect Life Committee?  Why did the Justice and Peace Committee run the agenda at the parish?  Why did the priest pay $5,000 to join the Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good, a Saul Alinsky-ite community organizing group?

I watched EWTN and discovered the true Catholic Church through Mother Angelica, Fr. Mitch Pacwa, Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Benedict Groeschel, Fr. Corapi, Marcus Grodi, and Johnnette Benkovich.   I searched and found material by traditional-leaning (sometimes referred to as orthodox) Catholics available in books and on the Web.

Catholics and The New Age

I heard a talk given by Fr. Mitch Pacwa taken from his book of the same title, ‘Catholics and the New Age.’  I bought his book.  At long last I had a resource to explain why the parish pastoral associate, a 60-year-old nun who didn’t wear a habit, truly believed in the pagan Enneagram, exclaiming to me,  “I wouldn’t know who I was without my number!”  Fr. Pacwa’s book  helped me understand why parishioners went to retreats at the Shalom Center, staffed by non-habit-wearing Catholic nuns who gave classes on the Enneagram.  Parishioners also go to the Center for Contemplative Outreach.  St. Mary’s Academy has a labyrinth walk on the gymnasium floor – an occult practice.  During a funeral for a lesbian, four female parishioners performed a pagan ritual by forming a circle, raising up a large black bowl of burning incense they lit on fire — in front of the parish priest.  We left the parish shortly after that.

I’ve been drawn to studying and exposing dissenters ever since.

The Dangers of Catholic Dissenters

• Progressive Catholic dissenters, influenced by progressive theologians from the Liturgical Reform Movement at Vatican II, are responsible for the use – by Catholics – of artificial birth control methods condemned by the Church.  The rate of abortion by Catholics is the same as the rate for non-Catholics.  Pro-abortion Catholics have a long history which is directly tied to feminism within the ranks of nuns over 50.
• Dissenters act as “change agents” within the Church institutions, universities, elementary schools and chanceries to change attitudes toward abortion, artificial birth control, homosexuality and ordaining women priestesses.
• Dissenters agitate for “social justice” issues – with the exception of defending life of pre-born babies - utilizing Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals.’  There exist hundreds of social justice organizations.  They are all interconnected like one big radical feminist network.

The Dangers of Apathy

We believe that apathy is not an option for Catholics concerned about preserving the traditional faith.  What are the solutions to this crisis?  Know your faith, pray, and take action.  Vote pro-life, write to your legislators, your bishops, the press, the blogs.  Stay informed.  Subscribe to traditional Catholic publications such as First Things, New Oxford Review, Latin Mass, Crisis, Our Sunday Visitor, National Catholic Register, or The Wanderer. Know which publications are the “progressive Catholic dissenters” like National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, and America. Subscribe to those Catholic web sites you see listed here and at those site where we refer you to.

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Exposing Dissenters who threaten the right to Life, Trad Marriage, Religious Freedom, and Traditional Catholic Education