Interesting:
Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA)
Promotes dissent against Magisterial teachings and questions the authority of said teachings. A "theological wasteland" according to Bernard Cardinal Law (June 18, 1997).
I was just talking to someone today who is married to the Director of Admissions to a big Catholic HS in Boston. The director and his wife often had the occasion to have dinner with and talk to Cardinal Law (who has, according to these people, received 5 or 6 very credible death threats that the FBI are investigating). Anyway, they love him and say that he is actually a very holy man. When the wife was pregnant with their first child, they were having tea with Cardinal Law in the Chancery. When they were leaving, Cardinal Law laid his hand on the wife's abdomen and gave the unborn child a blessing. The wife said she felt like she had an electical current put to her body and almost fell over, nothing like that had ever happened to her before (and since) that night. Just a little story.
I'm not defending Cardinal Law's actions, btw. This has nothing to do with that.
.... as does the pope. Keep in mind that he too is a victim ... of others within the church (like Cardinal Mahony) who wish to see him taken down. He and the other faithful servants need our prayers.
Only this evening, EWTN showed the story of Sister Agnes Sasagawa, a catholic postulant in Japan. The Blessed Mother appeared to her with many predictions. Perhaps the following will explain so much of what we are seeing and experiencing in our church today.
The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres... churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises, and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord. The demon will be especially implacable against souls consecrated to God.