wolf in sheep's clothing

Britannica.com defines a recusant as an “English Roman Catholic from the period about 1570 to 1791 who refused to attend services of the Church of England and thereby committed a statutory offense.” Recusancy is alive and well in 2022, but now it is alive and well inside the Catholic Church itself. However, I and other Catholics, like many non-Catholics, refuse to accept a world view, the one circulating now, that is not benign (as claimed), not historical, not logical, and not educable.

​​In America, it began with the removal of prayer from the public schools. In Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), the Supreme Court ruled that school-sponsored prayer in public schools violated the establishment of religion clause of the 1st Amendment. Common sense says, “No state church. That’s all.”

Hence the slow rise of the traditional Latin Mass and homeschooling.

Neither of my students is Catholic, and I love both of them. One is homeschooled, and the other was just received by a Catholic high school whose outlook is very broad. He will be supported and protected.

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (2016)
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The documentary tells the story of Saul Alinsky, father of community organizing, and the rise of his Cultural Marxism in the Catholic Church and America. Parts 1, 2, and 3 are on YouTube.​ The entire documentary can be purchased from EWTN. I watched it all the way through on EWTN. Among other things, the film exposes Kinsey’s unscientific research. There is an adult content warning on that portion of the film. I highly, highly recommend the documentary from Arcadia Films.

What does the rise of Cultural Marxism in the Catholic Church and America mean and how does it relate to contemporary recusancy? I and a growing number of Catholics, as well as many non-Catholic Americans, who reject the world view that is circulating, which is Marxism, are recusing ourselves. Our means to resist the Marxist insurgency are somewhat limited, so we recuse ourselves, but not in the legal sense, i.e., we stay away from it in every way we can.