Dear readers,
Monday is a holiday for many and so we LifeSiteNews will return on Tuesday.
It has been a very strange and heavy past few months with an unusual number of major, on-going, Catholic related developments, one after the other and some of them going on at the same time. We have not been able to keep up with it all.
In each case the situation became far larger than we could ever have imagined it would – the L'Osservatore Romano related scandals, the Notre Dame/Barack Obama scandal, the Development and Peace scandal and now the Ted Kennedy funeral scandal.
We will try later to put all this in a wider perspective of what seems to be going on. Suffice it to say for now all these disturbing developments are starting to look very related and the natural outcome of at least four decades of serious hidden problems in elements within the Catholic Church that have finally been brought out into the wider public realm.
As painful and uncomfortable as they are, these revelations and reactions will likely in the end produce much good.
Some, even amongst our friends, are accusing LifeSiteNews of going too far in what we write and of being too sensationalist or too judgemental. I would suggest that we might instead sometimes be guilty of being too timid and downplaying the implications of issues we report.
The vast majority of what LifeSiteNews publishes is simply a reporting of facts. Sorry, facts are facts – and unbiased or uninhibited reason determines that certain facts must lead to certain consequences, as much as we would like to believe otherwise. As well, we research and report on our particular issues of interest all day, every day, with information from around the world and from numerous sources and contacts. We have been doing this work for quite a few years. So, what we are exposed to and learn (much of which we cannot report) is usually vastly more than our critics are aware of.
We try to help the critics along but, as the saying goes, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.” That is, if they are determined to deny the facts presented and the reality of the dangerous current state of our culture, then there is nothing more that we can do. But we always continue to hope and try.
Let us all endure and keep proclaiming the truth and trust that it will surely win in the end.
Steve Jalsevac
LifeSiteNews.com