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Infallibility, Decay of Ireland & Gaudi
Decay of Ireland - Synopsis
Thank you for sending that video of the decline in Ireland. It was a most chastening experience to watch it. "Baby killing women and do nothing men" or words to that effect. Indeed "do nothing" men who have given the power to women to kill their babies.
Priests who had such power when I was young who have ceded this power to an apathetic laity. Nuns who modernized their rules and convents and habits to the extent no young girl who truly had a vocation wanted to enter.
There were many milestones along the road to ruin, but I think overall, it has been the lack of male leadership and authority which has led to the social changes which played a big part in the destruction of morals and the Church.
I would go back to the granting of the vote to all women which placed all women on the same level as men. I would have thought it more prudent to restrict the voting rights of women to the most educated and intellectually competent minority.
Then there was the ending of the status of illegitimacy which placed bastard children on the same level as those born to married couples and led to the acceptance of the unmarried mother. This in turn led to the decline of some of our greatest Catholic institutions, where girls and women were re-educated and reformed.
The great decline in the numbers of Nuns and convents gave rise to a relaxation of the disciplines applied to girls. The supervision of the convent was no longer there.
Women's so-called rights proceeded accordingly. Availability of contraception, divorce, and the independence of the married woman filled her with pride and assertiveness, and this feminism mixed with a good degree of socialist propaganda has formed the woman of today who is nowhere near as religious and pious as she used to be. The virtuous pious woman was once the cornerstone of the Church and now she is no longer with us to give her own form of leadership, leadership by example, not by authority.
Of course our Priests were very weak. They had ultimate authority in the 1940s and within 30 years it had vanished. They brought it on themselves through their own stupidity and a desire to bring the Church "closer to the public".
They lost the respect of the public and that element of fear, so necessary for those in authority, had gone. The "grinning Nuns" of the 1950s and 1960s show us that this liberalism and lack of standards was already in the Church well before Vatican II.
So, the ground was already fertile and prepared, to maximize the seeds of Vatican II.
God bless you.
Yours sincerely.
C.P., Ireland
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Julian the Apostate
The bones of many saints
That were buried all around them
Bringing demons much restraint
The Oracles of Delphi,
And the Sibyls of Cumae,
Were silenced by the presence of
Saints sleeping in the clay.
Emperor Julian the Apostate
Renounced his Catholic faith.
He favored wicked Arius
When St Nicholas slapped his face.
He dabbled with the demons
Who were fearful just to speak.
So Julian ordered Christian graves
Be cast into the street
At the temple of Dodona
That Christians had destroyed,
Zeus appeared to Julian
And in him the god rejoiced.
“March back to old Jerusalem
And restore the sacrifice;
Rebuild the Second Temple
And bring down the Antichrist”
Legions then were summoned,
Civil engineers employed,
They headed for the Holy Land
Where the Temple was destroyed.
But as they cleared the rubble,
Flaming fire balls arrived;
The wrath of God erupted
And there was fear in every eye.
The Apostate used his legions then,
His boots upon the ground,
To attack the poor Iranians.
What a folly most profound !
As Julian marched against them
In the Battle of Samarra,
A spearhead struck him in the head
It would be His last Hurrah.
Patrick Fealy
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Was Gaudi a Giger’s Precursor?
I have finally been able to put words to what I dislike so much about the Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia Basilica: It is the "H.R. Giger Church." Giger was a Satanic visual artist whose work is a symphony of flesh and metal: "biomechanical," they call it: surreal, humanoid forms merge with machines in orgiastic rituals.
I get a similar impression from that Basilica. It seems like a combination of a factory and a corpse, with bone pillars and torn-flesh walls. Actually, the front of the church seems like an exposed ribcage, and this bone theme carries throughout.
I've attached some images for you to make your own comparisons. Beware, they are horrifying.
In Maria,
Dylan Catlett
Posted April 9, 2026
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I found your page by way of Fr. Nix. I am trying to better understand the ages of the Church from Ven. Holzhauser.
I was a Protestant seminarian and was confirmed two years ago. I am currently a youth minister, but I am on my way to law school this fall.
I am confused about how the holy pope of the Great Consolation will uncanonize false saints. Are not canonizations protected by the charism of infallibility?
Grace and Peace,
E.N.
TIA responds:
Hello E.N.,
Thank you for your question.
The processes of canonization, the Tridentine Mass and the Code of Canon Law were all at large included in the infallibility of the Church, based on the principle that a process of investigation, a liturgy or an ensemble of laws that remained untouched and ruled the Church for several centuries enjoyed the protection of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, this protection was the corollary of the promise of Our Lord – “Behold I am with you for all days, even to the consummation of the world.” (Mt 28:20)
However, when the progressivist reforms broke that continuity in the processes of canonization, in the tradition of worship, and in the ensemble of canon laws, the protection of the Holy Spirit left for a symmetrical reason to that which He had first protected the Church. That is, since there was a rupture with the centuries-old past, the mentioned presence of the Holy Spirit can no longer be identified.
In short, neither the post-conciliar canonizations nor the Novus Ordo Missae nor the 1983 Code of Canon Law are included in the infallibility of the Church.
Cordially,
TIA correspondence desk