According to the Plinio Côrrea de Oliveira Institute, this resembles a planetary version of the Stockholm Syndrome by which a kidnapping…
Each of the individuals who attended the disrupted Mass received a reprimand from the police for participating.
Christianity has always addressed both individuals and nations. Abortion, euthanasia, the destruction of human embryos, divorce, homosexual adoptions: these are the “structures of sin” described by St. John Paul II. Together they form a deposit of individual sins that become social evils. This is why it is critical the Church goes back to preaching about conversion. And not just the conversion of man, but of society as well.
In God’s Providence, a man addressed this crisis and its fallout: the bishop of a rather small diocese in North Africa named Augustine…
