Table of Contents

Correlation and Causation Fallacy

As the Family Goes — So Goes the Culture

Satan’s First Battle Front: The De-moral-ization of the Church (aka the Beast from Out of the Sea)

Beginning the Decisive Battle with Satan Over Marriage & the Family

The History of Artificial Birth Control

Epigenetics, Artificial Birth Control, and Sexual Perversions

Short Epigenetics Tutorial

The epigenetics of homosexuality

Clergy Abuse Scandal

The Impact of Birth Control on the Church

ENDNOTES

1). It must contain a null hypothesis that directly links the decline of Mass attendance with 2VC and NOM.

2). The null hypothesis must be shown to be statistically significant (i.e., p=<0.05).

1. Did Vatican II Cause Mass Attendance to Decline?

It is clearly the case that fewer Catholics attend Sunday Mass now than they did at the time of Vatican II (1965). But is that a decline which was caused by Vatican II?

There is some evidence that Mass attendance was already declining before Vatican II. Stephen Bullivant’s, Mass Exodus notes that in parts of Italy, Mass attendance had dropped to around 50% by 1961. He also refers to a 1960 report about Irish Mass attendance in England, which was considered so explosive that it was suppressed for 50 years.

Christopher Ferrara (et al.) in The Great Façade notes that French Mass attendance fell from 27% in 1965 to 4.5% in 2009. But wasn’t the pre-Vatican II figure of 27% already representing decline as compared to pre-World War II figures, and as compared to Italian Catholics 51% Mass attendance?

We also know that Pope Pius XII recognized that there were issues with Mass attendance in the 1950s. One of the objectives of his 1956 reform of the Easter Week liturgy was to make the liturgies more accessible, so that more people would attend. [Doesn’t that automatically point to the conclusion that the Latin Mass was considered less accessible and, therefore, leading to declines in Mass attendance?]

If there were concerns and issues about Mass attendance prior to Vatican II, then Vatican II can hardly have been “the” cause of decline. But could it have been a contributory cause?

To explore that question we can look at Protestant worship. If Vatican II were partially or wholly to blame for decline in Catholic Mass attendance, then we would expect to see Protestant Church attendance remaining unaffected over the same period of time. Bullivant’s book indicates that the opposite occurred. In the decade after Vatican II, Catholic Mass attendance dropped by a third, but it dropped by a half in Protestant Churches. [if correlation does equal causation, then wouldn’t we would have to conclude that Protestantism caused Catholic Mass attendance declines — or vice versa]…

2. Did Vatican II Cause Priestly Vocations to Decline?

CARA data shows that in 1970 there were 419,728 priests worldwide, and there were 414,065 in 2018. That represents a roughly 1% drop in absolute numbers over almost fifty years.

However, as the Catholic population has doubled in that period, the data also indicates a halving of the number of priests per Catholic. Was this caused by Vatican II?

Data analysis of English Diocesan statistics (provided by The Latin Mass Society) shows that the number of priests per Catholic (in England and Wales) was 1 per 268,000 in 1950. Each year after 1950, the proportion of priests per Catholic dropped, although it stabilized somewhat during the Pontificate of John Paul II. Even though raw numbers of ordinations continued to rise until the time of Vatican II, ordinations were already declining from 1950, when compared to a faster rising Catholic population.

A similar pattern is also evident in the Pillar’s data. It looked at the raw data of ordinations from 17 of the world’s largest dioceses, and it found that between 1950 to 1961 there was a 28% decline in ordinations.

From the 1950s to 1961, the number of diocesan ordinations in those seven sees decreased by 28% — from an average of 12 annual ordinations per one million Catholics during the 1950s to nine in 1961, the year before Vatican II was called.

Pope Paul VI writes a letter that will remain unpublished until 2018, when its content is revealed in the book The Barque of Paul (“La barca di Paolo“), by Fr. Leonardo Sapienza, regent of the Pontifical Household.

It’s June 29, 1972. Paul VI has a clearer and clearer impression that there is something deep and negative that is increasingly afflicting the Church. The path towards secularization and the lack of internal unity are becoming two great problems for the Church throughout the world.

We would say that, through some mysterious crack — no, it’s not mysterious; through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the Church of God. There is doubt, uncertainty, problems, unrest, dissatisfaction, confrontation.[1-b]

The Church is no longer trusted. We trust the first pagan prophet we see who speaks to us in some newspaper, and we run behind him and ask him if he has the formula for true life. I repeat, doubt has entered our conscience. And it entered through the windows that should have been open to the light: science [emphasis mine].[2]

1). In 1917, the year of Fatima, when Mary warned us of the errors of Russia, another event also occurred. That event was the beginning of the publication of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Review. Statistics reveal that the consequences of her advocacy immediately produced effects. For fifty-two years prior to the NOM (during which the so-called superior Tridentine Mass, using the Roman Missal, was the only Mass offered), the Church was virtually silent about this birth control-induced moral decline. I remember one homily at Mass about the evil of Communism. I heard none about the evils of artificially-induced sterility.

2). One of Marxist Communist’s immediate goals were to sexualize the young — including children. This tactic was introduced in Revelations (2:14) and should serve as a warning about the tactics Satan would use in the end times.

3). In 1963, a list of goals formulated by the Communists to achieve the downfall of any country they wished to conquer was entered into the Congressional Record. Many of those goals dealt directly with activity and behavior that were intentionally or inherently sterile, thus removing man from the state of being in the image and likeness of God. Where were all the TLM attendees and the TLM clergy? Where were they when the Church desperately needed help fending off the evils of intentional unfruitfulness? NOTE: I am not saying the TLM was not a perfect sacrificial offering to the Father by the Son. I am merely pointing out that Mass attendance losses were likely not the direct result of the 2VC and/or the NOM. The problems already existed long before 1970 — while the TLM was still the only Roman Rite offered at the time. Further evidence of that will be presented later.

As the Family Goes — So Goes the Culture

1). Did the decline of Church attendance start in the early 1970s immediately after the 2VC concluded and the NOM became the Ordinary Form of the Mass?

2). Could the attendance decline of the faithful have been avoided had we just kept the TLM as the Ordinary Form of the Mass?

3). Was the pre-conciliar Mass the proximate cause of the glory days of the Church in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries?

4). When did faith start to decline in the Church, and what likely caused it?

5). Had Artificial Contraception already begun to significantly erode the morality of the Church long before the 2VC?

1). The relative validity and efficacy of the NOM versus the TLM have been shown in the article “Novus Ordo Versus Latin Mass”. It was demonstrated that both are equally perfect sacrificial offerings of the Son to the Father. Consequently, choosing one over the other represents a personal preference that in no way affects the perfection of the sacrificial offering made by the High Priest, Jesus Christ, to the Father.

2). On the other hand, partaking in the act of conjugal sex while simultaneously rendering said act intentionally/inherently sterile destroys within us the likeness of God. It doesn’t destroy the image of God within us, but it does destroy the likeness. How consequential is that fact? Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden because their sin of disobedience rendered them no longer in God’s perfect image and likeness. They were rendered spiritually dead because of their sin. No one can be in a nuptial relationship with the Son of God (neither in the Garden of Eden nor in the Eucharist) with any stain of sin on their spiritual soul.

And falling thus from disobedience into death, when they [Adam and Eve] knew they could sin [thanks to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil — SML], they discovered sin’s sweetness [two sections down, we will learn more about the meaning of sweetness–SML]. And in this way, turning My rightful institution into sinful lust, although they should have known that the commotion in their veins [i.e., hormones] was not for the sweetness of sin but for the love of children, by the Devil’s suggestion they changed it to lechery; and, losing the innocence of the act of begetting, they yielded it to sin. This was not accomplished without the Devil’s persuasion; for that purpose he sent forth his darts, and it did not come to pass without his suggestion; as he said, “My [The Devil’s] strength is in human conception, and therefore humanity is mine” [emphasis mine]![5]

Over the last several decades, the decay in our society has flowed almost exclusively from the rotten state of the family, confusion over proper approaches to human sexuality, gender, and more, all of which is the result of the sexual revolution.[7]

Family breakdown, cohabitation, domestic violence, prostitution, pornography, gender ideology all impact on women. Their children are victims of the sexual revolution, especially now that their cell phones show pornography and are used by predators. … [To what can we attribute the Sexual Revolution and, therefore, the breakdown/destruction of the family? Bishop Elliott tells us] In practical terms it can be summed up in two words: the Pill and abortion.[9]

Satan’s First Battle Front: The De-moral-ization of the Church (aka the Beast from Out of the Sea)[10]

The demons admit that they penetrate everywhere to bring about the ruination of souls, especially through impurity. Everywhere they are spreading “the blackest deceptions.” One demon who called himself “Luxuria” and who used the possessed person to imitate femininity, told me proudly: “I have by far more servants than your Virgin (Bl. Virgin) has.”[13]

Beginning the Decisive Battle with Satan Over Marriage & the Family

The History of Artificial Birth Control

In May 1960, the FDA approved the sale of a pill that arguably would have a greater impact on American culture than any other drug in the nation’s history. For women across the country, the contraceptive Pill was liberating: it allowed them to pursue careers, fueled the feminist and pro-choice movements and encouraged more open attitudes towards sex.

Among the key players in the development of the drug were two elderly female activists who demanded a contraceptive women could eat like aspirin and then paid for the scientific research; a devout Catholic gynecologist who believed a robust sex life made for a good marriage and argued tirelessly that the Pill was a natural form of birth control; and a brilliant biologist who bullied a pharmaceutical company into risking a possibly crippling boycott to develop this revolutionary contraceptive.[25]

1). In the late 1800’s, two women are born that will play a huge role in the spread of artificial contraception. In 1875, Katherine Dexter McCormick is born. In 1879, Maggie Louise Higgins (Margaret Sanger) is born. In 1884, Satan would have been well aware of both of them.[26]

2). The next person to be born would be Gregory Pincus in 1903. Incidentally, Satan’s 100-120-year period likely began in 1899, the year of the Consecration of the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.[27]

3). In 1917, Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick first meet at one of Sanger’s Boston lectures, and strike up an enduring friendship. Sympathizing with Sanger’s movement, McCormick makes small contributions to the cause and smuggles diaphragms into the United States for Sanger’s clinics.[28]

4). In 1918, condoms become legal in the U.S. Troops fighting in World War I ignored official Army advice to abstain from sex. They obtained condoms overseas — and brought them home.[29] [Note: This was only a year after Mary’s warnings to the world at Fatima].

5). In the 1920s, the U.S. birth rate drops by half [the contraceptive mentality is beginning to take root]. Condom reliability is still terrible by modern standards, but people achieved effective birth control by combining condoms, the rhythm method, male withdrawal, diaphragms, and/or intrauterine devices.[30]

6). Here’s the significance of Sanger, McCormick, and Pincus: Around 1951, Pincus formulates the first hormonal contraceptive Pill. McCormick funds its development. Sanger (eventually forms Planned Parenthood) promotes, markets, and sells it.[31]

7). In 1938, a case involving Margaret Sanger, a judge lifted the federal ban on birth control, ending the Comstock era. Diaphragms, also known as womb veils, became a popular method of birth control.[32]

8). By 1939, nearly 400 community-based and state-sponsored birth control clinics existed throughout the country.[33]

Also, by 1938, condoms become popular.[34]

9). “While in her 80s, Sanger underwrote the research necessary to create the first human birth control pill. She raised $150,000 for the project.”[35] Incidentally, 1950 is the year in which many modernized countries reached a peak level of personal happiness, then steadily declined immediately thereafter. Even though per capita incomes raised significantly, happiness progressively dropped.[36] [When a progressively large portion of the population voluntarily transitions into a state that takes them out of being in the image and likeness of God, unhappiness cannot help but be the result — SML]

In the midst of the civil rights and anti-war movements, the young generation of the 1960s questioned authority and rejected their parents’ values. For many who came of age in this era, the traditional notion that a woman wouldn’t be able to find a husband if she weren’t a virgin was absurd. Though social conservatives blamed these sweeping changes in American values on the oral contraceptive, most historians now believe that in reality the Pill did not cause the sexual revolution in America. Rather, the two collided [i.e., the Pill facilitated the sexual revolution — SML].[40]

Epigenetics, Artificial Birth Control, and Sexual Perversions

I’d contend that the single important difference in the Church’s failure regarding abusive clergy and the failures regarding liturgy, catechesis, pro-life politics, doctrinal dissent and biblical translation is this: that in the case of the sex abuse scandal we’ve been allowed a look over the bishops’ shoulders at their own memos. Deviant sexual assault has accomplished what liturgical abuse never could … I would estimate that between 50 and 60 percent of the men who entered religious life with me in the mid-70s were homosexuals who had no particular interest in the Church, but who were using the celibacy requirement of the priesthood as a way of camouflaging the real reason for the fact that they would never marry.[42]

Short Epigenetics Tutorial

1. Food, alcohol, and other drinks;

2. Repeated behaviors that trigger fight, flight, or stress hormones such as norepinephrine, epinephrine, adrenaline, and cortisol;

3. Repeated behaviors that result in the production of reward hormones/neurotransmitters such as dopamine (often associated with addictions), oxytocin, endorphins, and serotonin;

4. Repeated behaviors that feed the three lusts described by St. Paul — the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life (1 Jn. 2:16). Typically, behaviors of this nature are also closely involved with numbers 2 and 3 above;

5. Traumatic experiences with parents, loved ones, and/or others;

6. Experiences that result in unhealthy and/or chronic levels of fear;

7. Both light and sound waves, and;

8. Environmental Factors.

The epigenetics of homosexuality

A new type of music (i.e., soundwaves) will be discovered [actually, it has been discovered], which, when combined with light (i.e., electromagnetic radiation), will heal the human body of illness and dysfunction.[49]

1) alcohol consumption (chronic/addictive);

2) the “reward” hormone, dopamine (one of the pleasure and addiction hormones, aka biological reward hormones), and;

3) SSA among male fruit flies.

Clergy Abuse Scandal

There was “no single cause of the sexual-abuse ‘crisis.’” Rather, the “deviant” practices of clerical predators were “consistent with patterns of increased deviance of society during that time [emphasis SML].” The social influence intersected with vulnerabilities of some individual priests whose preparation for a life of celibacy was inadequate at that time. Church-specific factors that were constant during that time, such as celibacy, were not causes of the abuse crisis.[50]

I would estimate that between 50 and 60 percent [those statistics would likely vary from one seminary to another] of the men who entered religious life with me in the mid-70s were homosexuals who had no particular interest in the Church,* but who were using the celibacy requirement of the priesthood as a way of camouflaging the real reason for the fact that they would never marry. [Perhaps an unknown percentage of homosexuals entering the priesthood had more nefarious motivations — SML]

The Impact of Birth Control on the Church

Even though John Rock [a Catholic scientist who helped develop the Pill and lobbied for its use] had lost the battle with the Vatican, Catholics around the world agreed with his view. A Gallup poll taken only a month after the encyclical [Humanae Vitae] found that only 28% of American Catholics favored the Vatican’s stance. Among Catholics in their twenties [emphasis SML], 8 out of 10 disagreed with the pope.

Within just two years of Humanae Vitae, almost as many Catholic women used the Pill as non-Catholics. By 1970, two-thirds of all Catholic women and three-quarters of those under 30 were using the Pill and other birth control methods banned by the Church. In 2002, Humanae Vitae still defined the Church’s position on birth control, and many observers of the Church believed that it contributed to the erosion of the Vatican’s authority during the last decades of the twentieth century.[54]

ENDNOTES:

Quote Source: Emma Young, "Rewriting Darwin: The new non-genetic inheritance," New Scientist, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926641.500-rewriting-darwin-the-new-nongenetic-inheritance.html: Reed Business Information Ltd., July 09, 2008 (accessed 02/15/2012).

The Global Development and Environment Institute Tufts University, The Consumer Society, ed. Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and David Kiron, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997), p. 26