where do monsters come from

Atheistic Rolling Stone journalist Randall O'Sullivan wrote a book called The Miracle Detective.

During the writing of the book he developed a certain sympathy with the Catholic Church.

Since then Randall O'Sullivan has hovered for many years on the brink of conversion to the faith.

I don't think he'll ever jump.

While investigating Vatican procedures for the approval of miracles, Randall O'Sullivan was bemused by the scepticism and caution of Vatican officials in formally endorsing some clearly demonstrated and widely attested supernatural phemonmena.

In fact because of this honorable and righteous caution, most of what the Vatican is called on to consider as a possible miracle, will never be revealed to the general public.

One such miracle involved a burns victim whose family prayed for intercession to a Spanish holy man they believed to have been a saint.

The burns were all over their family member's body.

He was not expected to live through the night.

In the morning, according to the account in Randall O'Sullivan's book, the burns victim was entirely healed.

"He had skin like a baby's," Randall O'Sullivan quotes a witness as testifying.

What strange glory is hid within the ancient church.

The rest of us do not even know the name of the Spanish Saint who interceded with Jesus for this healing.

While writing his book, Randall O'Sullivan also became aware of certain other untold stories and unfolding dramas at the Vatican.

In particular he became aware of an intense battle going on behind the scenes in the highest reaches of the Curia.

A battle for power.

The Curia is the governing elite of the Vatican.

If a Pope is weak, they are the ones who will put words in his mouth.

Sometimes they will try to put words in his mouth whether he's weak or not.

Randall O'Sullivan discovered an ongoing battle between a liberal faction in the Curia which wanted to take over the church and another faction which wanted to preserve the ancient truths of Christianity.

I myself would style the liberal faction as left wing atheistic progressives. I would suggest they are seeking to usurp power and influence from within the church to themselves in order to make the church something it has never been, their creature.

The  other faction in my view isn't really a faction at all.

The other faction is the church.

The liberals are opposed by all those who stand for the ancient truth of Christ.

But these are my words not Randall O'Sullivan's.

Randall O'Sullivan merely stated that he had discovered a tremendous war was being fought out behind closed doors between liberal progressives and the traditional church.

Now to Ireland.

In Ireland the highest titular churchman is Cardinal Sean Brady.

But Cardinal Sean Brady is weak and defers invariably to the second highest churchman an ambitious liberal with strong media contacts called Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is the son of radical Northern Ireland parents.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is a brother of the former political editor of the Irish Times, Seamus Martin, an arrogantly pro Soviet writer whom many believe to have been a Russian communist agent during the Cold War.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is himself a former member of the liberal progressive (I say atheistic) faction within the Curia.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is a pseudo progressive who is seeking to remake the church in his own image for motives we can only guess at.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is in collusion with media entities in Ireland seeking to destroy the church.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has colluded with these entities in an attempt to force honorable Bishops from office through the contrived ascription of wrong doing in those Bishops' handling of sex abuse cases.

You know what folks.

It is not unprecedented for enemies of the church to hold high office within the church.

Remember when Mother Angelica founded the pro Catholic television station EWTN in America.

She was never threatened by atheists or abortionists or feminists.

It was Cardinal Roger O'Mahoney of Los Angeles who attempted to shut her down.

Since the ancient unity of the Catholic faith has always been protected at least in part by our loyalty to the hierarchy, it is a peculiar torture to contemplate an invidious infiltrator at the head of the church in Ireland.

But that is what we are contemplating.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has kowtowed to the current persecution of the church in Ireland because he is a part of it.

That's where monsters come from.