Our Socratic forbears taught us through their “Seeds of the Logos” that the reasoning man does not have to be an expert in a given field to be able to make a competent judgment regarding whether he is dealing with leaders whose advice he should heed or reject as fraudulent. Frauds demand absolute faith in their claims, treating the confused doubter with contempt for his invincible ignorance. Such imposters may seriously believe that they are omniscient experts. But when they tell young or otherwise healthy persons that they are in the same condition as the weakest of the elderly or the already ill; when they say that in order to protect itself the vast mass of the population has to abandon its livelihood, the well-being of its country, the cultural life of its civilization, and the tools required for its eternal salvation they must be dismissed for what they actually are: quacks.
Ellen,
Thanks for posting this excellent article by John Rao. It’s one of the best I’ve seen. I hope visitors to our site will read the whole thing.
I am going to start collecting articles like this so that when our Churches reopen we will have an arsenal at our disposal to call to account our Bishops who have betrayed us and abandoned us. We should reopen the Churches not only for Mass and the Sacraments but also to give the people an opportunity to air their grievances and fully debate the question of why Church leaders failed so miserably. This must be fixed and it must never happen again.
Doug Fuda in Boston