The ugly side of the cleansing of the Church

I think I said somewhere - I know that I have been worried about this for a while - that the necessary cleansing of the American Catholic Church from "liberal" infiltrators, heretics, and pagans, risked involving a great deal of uncharity and mental violence. The cleansing will be carried out largely from below, by angry and organized conservatives who have spent the last decades watching the rats take over the ship. That means that it will have many of the features of lynch law. There will be, one hopes, no bodies swinging from trees. But you do not need nooses, torches and hoods to be a lynch lawyer.

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