The Bride of Christ Michael Bolerjack It is embarrassingly and pathetically apparent that the Catholic Church cannot be the

Bride of Christ. That Bride is without spot or wrinkle or blemish. What have we then? We have the Body of Christ, which as in the vision of Anne Catherine Emmerich is torn, gangrenous, diseased, altogether at the point of death. They have re-crucified Christ in the modern world. By they I do not mean capitalists or communists or sinners or the world, I mean the church itself. Christ said, where the body is, there the vultures will gather. Over the corpse, or the body near to dying, the cardinals fight for a share. One will be selected leader of the throng. I think some pray to have the Mind of Christ, but if the Body dies, where can the Mind instantiate itself? The church says the Pope is infallible, has the charism of the Spirit, and thus is guaranteed truth and accuracy in faith and morals, at least. But Benedict obviously had not this charism, nor the Magisterium at large, for the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Soldano, lied during the mass at Easter 2010, in defense of Benedict, by saying the rumors of sexual abuse were petty gossip. Benedict did not demur. The teaching authority of the church is invalid, because of this. The desolation of abomination was set-up in the holy place, on the holiest day of the year, because of this. The church is in danger of damnation because of this, and what led to it, the filth that led to the falsehood. Even Cardinal Schonborn of Vienna lamented Soldanos remarks. But nothing has been done about it. Even today Soldano still lies, referring to the papacy of Benedict as a glittering success, during the mass before the conclave began, when it is obvious that it was a spectacular failure, forcing him to resign. How long will the Catholics of the world tolerate official lies, much less the sexual abuse of children? Even if this rotten body were the Bride, would or should the Groom still have her? Perhaps she can still be saved, by the Physician Christ, who must cut away the gangrene, the disease, the rotten members, the cancers eating at her, in order to save her, to save this Body being abused. That He may, I pray, but who has known the mind of the Lord, and who has been his counselor? To whom more has been given, more will be demanded. The Church had it all, and is in danger of losing it all, forever. The only unpardonable sin, perhaps, is one that is not repented of. If the Church repents, it may be saved, even yet, after all this. Even men on death row have been saved, and we all love a death bed conversion, I hope. The Catholic Church, in this year of faith, need not worry about re-evangelizing territory that has been lost in Europe or America. The Catholic Church must repent and be converted itself.