The Problem is the Bishops - Dr Janet Smith.

 

Dr Janet Smith is a true gift to the Church. She is an American classicist and philosopher, and former professor of moral theology at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. She is now retired and works helping victims of the sex abuse crisis where she does amazing work.

It's my great pleasure to count her among my friends and I can assure you she loves Jesus and His Church with an incredible depth and honesty. She is wonderful company especially in that she is as sharp as a tack but also extremely warm and funny.

This is a talk she gave recently at the Coalition for Cancelled Priests Conference at the end of June in Chicago. It's a must listen talk if you want to know the painful reality of the corruption in the Catholic hierarchy, corruption of all kinds, sexual, financial and spiritual/ theological.

Having defended the Church during the paedophile crisis she was devastated when, after the Dallas Charter, the McCarrick scandal broke.

She addresses the criticism of Pope St. John Paul II & Pope Benedict XVI's appointment of bad bishops. She suggests that if you want to know who the good priests are you have to look to those who have been marginalised in a diocese.

Her experience in seminary was of good men being broken down and taught to keep quiet and do what they are told.

What do we do? We have to prepare to underground. This is happening now, I know people are making preparations.

The faithful will not put up with this. The fightback is underway.