On The Trail Of The Wolf
“As the Church goes, so goes the world.” Since Vatican II, the non-Catholic and secular world has been experiencing a gradual moral decline. The 1960s saw a cultural revolution that was horrific to the God-fearing baby boomers who watched it happen. Drugs, moral depravity, left-wing politics—it all went from being a small whispered minority to the front and center of secular life, overthrowing ancient traditions and institutions, and paving the way for what we have ended up with today. As the hippies and other revolutionaries gradually grew up, they seemed to disappear off the radar screen for a while during the 1980s. But they never really went away. They grew up and started having children even more ferociously immoral than they had ever been. They infiltrated their way into politics, the media, higher education, the legal system—every institution that could influence the minds of the population.
It cannot be a coincidence that all this started with Vatican II. The fact is, the Catholic Church was the single greatest influence on man’s behavior up until that misguided experiment to reverse her role. Instead of influencing the world to be a better place, they “opened the windows of the Church”, allowing the fetid stench of what they imagined to be the fresh air of a brave new world into our sanctuaries. Every facet of the Church’s moral authority was abandoned, while our clergy desperately sought for truths outside the walls of the one Church in which truth could alone be found.
The result on the world was immediate and significant. Catholics were the first to feel betrayed. The Light of the World shining from the Christ’s Mystical Body was extinguished almost overnight, and we were left aimlessly floating in dark waters, unable to avoid the rocks of immorality and falsehood in which we floundered. With the absence of any spiritual light to guide us, there was nothing but spiritual darkness wherever we turned. Our popes and bishops publicly proclaimed falsehoods and heresies, our priests turned for comfort to the whisky bottle, the golf course, or unspeakable immorality, and the faithful left the Church in droves. Non-Catholics were confused by the disappearance of the Church’s shining light of truth and virtue. Whether they believed everything the Church taught or not, they had come to respect and acknowledge the moral beacon she represented. And so when that light went out, any half-hearted sparks of faith or virtue they possessed went out with it.
It’s frontpage news when Bergoglio is ill and goes in the hospital. Not so if the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem is sick, or the Patriarch of Constantinople, or the President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Most people don’t even know their names. But for some reason, even the most vehement of anti-Catholics know the name of the pope and watch with eager curiosity when one dies or is elected. People instinctively know that the Catholic Church founded by Christ is important, and that when it’s being run by a false prophet who wears the clothing of a sheep but is in reality a ravening wolf, something extremely important has gone very, very badly wrong. Why then, do so many insist on following the trail of the wolf?