By REY FLORES
“And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” — Matt. 16:18
You better believe it. Jesus was not kidding or playing around when He said this to Peter, so let’s take solace in this before continuing our column here.
Perhaps the gates of Hell shall not prevail against her, but Hell sure is trying to do everything in its power to hurt as many within the Church as possible.
Case in point. In 2015, the Pew Research Center (which in my opinion is more dedicated to swaying opinions than actually collecting and sharing truthful information), released the results of one of their surveys about Catholics in America in anticipation of last year’s papal visit to our nation.
Pew “reported” all sorts of depressing statistics and information about how Catholics are leaving the Church in droves and how the few of us who are left are contracepting ourselves into obsolescence. Except of course those of us who will remain will be getting married to people of our same gender . . . by priestesses no less, as the Church conforms to the dark lord of this world.
While the Pew survey didn’t actually say it in these exact words, they might as well have. In the overview they write “This may be in part because Francis’ American flock is experiencing life in all its modern complexity.”
Complexity is one way to put it. I however would call what is happening to our Church today, or better yet . . . what is being perpetrated against our Church today nothing less than an all-out demonic assault on every single Catholic in the world today.
It’s really not that complex. It’s either good or evil, God’s or Satan’s. These pointy-headed, long-winded academics at these think tanks like Pew think that they know everything and can basically encapsulate our Church by surveying a bunch of fallen mortals.
Our God is greater than anything any one of us of His creations could ever fathom or even foolishly try to explain. The answers collected in this so-called survey aren’t even worth the paper they are printed on.
Surveys like these about something so absolutely divine and majestic like our Lord and His Church are an exercise in futility and nothing but a collection of worthless answers from a bunch of deliberately malformed sinners like you and me.
How dare anyone think that they can take something so powerful and grand as our Church and break it down into worthless bits of data and information? These absurd surveys and studies only serve to plant doubt in the minds of already wavering Catholics, and further empower those outside the Church with more smears, lies, and negativity.
Pew reports that the Catholics they surveyed say that while traditional families are ideal; other family “arrangements” are ideal. As if we were some kind of floral bouquet or “arrangement” where one can pick and choose what kind of “family” they want, custom made to our own liking regardless of what God has to say about any of it.
What these other so-called arrangements are include unmarried parents living together, homosexual couples, husbands and wives who do not want children and use contraception, and co-habiting couples of any combination; man-man, woman-woman, woman-man, man-man-woman, woman-woman-woman-woman-man, etc.
Pew also reports that Catholics who regularly attend Mass are less accepting of what Pew calls “non-traditional families.”
No, Pew. All of your elitist wonks do not understand our Catholic faith, or any form of Christianity for that matter, because you are going by the secular standards the world goes by. We Catholics go strictly by the book, at least those of us who are more interested in Heaven than this world.
It isn’t that we don’t just not “accept” these “non-traditional families”; there is something called sin which you snobs do not know anything about. It’s the breaking of so many commandments and rules set forth by God Himself that we are opposed to.
Where did Pew find these “Catholics”? Did they visit their local Democratic Party office, or perhaps they visited the folks over at Catholics for Choice?
It isn’t surprising that the numbers Pew reports also say that, “Fewer than half of Catholics say homosexual behavior, remarriage without [an] annulment, cohabitation, and contraception are sins.” Only 17% said that they view contraception as being a sin, and only 44% said that homosexual behavior is also sinful.
With anti-Catholic propaganda and deliberate misinformation like this, no wonder the Church is in such a state of disarray. I would love to see what results Pew would have come up with had they conducted their survey specifically at Institute of Christ the King and the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter churches throughout the United States.
The Pew Research Center methods team, and others who provided guidance and advice all listed at the end of this study reads like a who’s-who of Jesuits, academia scholars, and policy wonks who know about as much about repentance and humility as someone like vice-presidential Democrat Party nominee Tim Kaine does.
Let us rest assured that despite the scourging, beating, and crucifixion which our Lord Jesus suffered, He prevailed victoriously, and so will the Church after this beating from Pew.
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(Rey Flores is a Catholic writer, speaker and a conservative activist and trainer. Contact Rey at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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