The devil wants it all destroyed because the strength of the church and those who are faithful to God is such a threat to the evil life he wants us to live. The devil is afraid of the goodness and power of truly religious spiritual people and he is trying to make his evil army larger and stronger. He is working overtime to create this unrest and make the weak give into these sexual temptations, and make other weak people accept the lifestyles that are not moral ones of God's desire.
I pray that the faithful find the strength to not give into these base desires when they are confronted with them. I also pray that those who do are exposed and removed and given the punishment that is deserved here on earth. Yet I hope that God helps them seek a way to repent and make restitution.
The strong presence evilness in the world today requires us to continually fight hard to rise above and not cave in, and it keeps getting stronger because the devil is so afraid of the power of those who believe in and love God and his Son, the saints, and all that is spiritual and good. As the faithful are more successful in bringing religion to higher levels of importance, the devil will continue to fight harder to bring it all down. This is the spiritual war that is raging like never before.
Yes, unfortunately, this is just another sad realization of the power of the devil and how weak we all are when temptation is so strong. With all this priest knew, with everything available to him to help him fight temptation, and with all he stood to loose, he still fell prey to the most sinful of desires that humans have the most trouble overcoming. That is how strong the devil is, and how his powers will always be used to destroy all that is good, and especially used most strongly against those who are supposed to be examples of good to bring them down and cause doubt and criticism and dismay among the good people. The devil only wants to and give power to the enemies of the church and all those who are of strong religious beliefs in God and God's laws.
He and the woman will be judged by God, not me....but they both still must pay the price and do penance on earth for their actions against morality and their vows. They cannot undo their past, and they both committed this crime knowing that doing so was illegal and immoral in the eyes of the Law and God. There is no escape from the price they should pay on earth and both have deserved to be exposed and should be thrown out of the church, as well as face the legal penalties. The rest is up to God.
We must all keep praying for strength to keep the devil away from our minds and influencing our thoughts so that he does not continue winning these battles for our souls.
“More souls go to Hell because of the sins of the flesh than for any other reason.”
“Priests must be pure, very pure. They should not busy themselves with anything except what concerns the Church and souls. The disobedience of priests to their superiors and to the Holy Father is very displeasing to Our Lord.”
- Our Lady of Fatima
Lose its stranglehold? Vatican II, the New Mass are all events in which the CHURCH turned away from GOD. When you water the way down the way you worship God, throw out the most reverent of Masses as handed down by Saints and Apostles and replace it with a Mass that was formulated by a known Mason and 6 Protestants you are only inviting the Devil into the sanctuary, as Pope Paul VI seemed to realize on his deathbed and on top of that then throw away the prayer to St Michael the Archangel(the Low Mass), prayer for the consecration of Russia as our Lady demanded at Fatiman (and the Vatican II church and JPII have the gaul to actually say Russia IS consecrated)the Devil can only come right on in. Our Traditional Priest teach us Hell is littered with the souls of countless religious, including Popes as the Evil one takes special pride in corrupting those and tempting those whom God has supposedly "called". And the Novus Ordo church still does not get it? JPII the Great? A Saint? After he covered up for 26 years one of the worse pedophila scandals in history, giving Cardinal Law one of the most cushy jobs in Rome? Kissed the Koran? I am no judge of man but I think where he is not where anyone would want to go. Our Lord warned harm the innocent children it is better a millstone be tied around your neck! And JPII "the great" just looked the other way. Pope Pius X would have had these seminaries cleaned out and those suspected of homosexuality kicked out or defrocked in a heartbeat.
They need to get back into the business of saving souls and not into playing politics and ecumenism.