Please send comic books back to a time when they had no pretensions and merely provided a straight-forward reassurance to every reader that good triumphs over evil and to every problem there is an answer. Fortified with those lessons, I was ready to take on almost everything life threw at a kid. Every child should be so blessed. By the way, I fondly remember reading Treasure Chest comics in the sacristy in between masses, at which we altar boys were on hand, ready to serve. Happy times.

Unfortunately, 'livid' doesn't do much good in such a repugnant instance as this. While it is never too late to speak out, O'Malley's silence is nothing short of complicity since it has always been the silence which has protected the abusers. Our Lord had eleven followers who deeply regretted not speaking out in His defense when He needed them to do so. Those in authority who do not vociferously challenge what is wrong, by not doing so, permit what is wrong.

Many of the writings from Vatican II, and post Vatican II, are filled with 'weasel words' which, upon first glance, can 'sound good' but, when astutely analyzed, do not stand up to theological or doctrinal scrutiny. The majority of Catholics are not aware of the content of these documents, nor are they equipped to analyze them as well as they should be analyzed (I do not completely exclude myself from these shortcomings). The malignant branches which have sprouted from these bad roots, however, are too pervasive and evident not to be challenged and severely pruned to make the Faith tree of Catholicism a healthy one again.

@Tony Smith I think you are largely correct. This woman, no matter how well intentioned, and I thank her for her witness, is being used by the puppeteers on the sidelines to calm and divert the majority of the faithful from storming the barricades before the genuine nefarious ideological and unorthodox reforms are introduced as being 'the voice' of a rather coerced ersatz 'holy spirit' (aka known as 'the people'). Virtually all of the topics they have raised at this preposterous Ex-Synod were raised before in other papacies with the reassurance every time that they had been dealt with and would no longer need to be raised again. Fat chance.

As someone who has studied the topic of World War I and II intensely with respect to the participating nations, this is ideological insanity, and an insult to the memories of the majority of soldiers, both indigenous and non-indigenous, who fought and died and were very much invested in the Christian values upon which their countries were founded. They did not serve for the purpose of seeing those, or any, values be scuttled by those whose inclination to find fault and injury in everything is within the psychotic range. My instincts tell me that it has little to do with the 'feelings' of these 'useful idiots' as it does with erasing a valiant and important part of the West's cultural memory.