Your message is quite startling. Of course you are right to object strenuously to this level of degeneracy. Over quite some time, there has been an erosion of civility in our society and a new elevation or acceptance of what is rude, crude, and actually evil. This is seen not only in the hard core of our sub-society. It is also found openly in the entertainment industry, in the financial industries, and especially in government.

It is right, proper, and helpful toward salvation to object in many ways and to a broad spectrum of what passes as "business as usual".

I am a practicing Roman Catholic. While the basest criminal behavior of pedophilia has been found much more extensively in our priesthood than most of us in the laity ever supposed it would be, that is not even the heart of our problem. Our problem would be small, actually, if all we had to do is cure the predatory and criminal behavior of a small percentage---although very large number---of priests. The core of our problem is the active complicity of their supervisors, the bishops. To this time, the Catholic bishops have shown no open taste for cleaning up the filth of their own house. The only glimmer of light that has appeared on our horizon is the resignation in complete disgrace of Archbishop Cardinal Law. It is an act that goes in the right direction, but it is a tiny droplet where an ocean is needed.

So, while you object that elements of the greater society need to be cleaned up and purified at least to the extent that we don't glorify violence and rape, I tell you in a brotherly way that some of us have great need to clean up matters that come closer to our own homes than just the video games marketed at the store. We need to clean up our own churches. We need to clean up our own neighborhoods. We need to clean up even our own minds.

If nothing else, I certainly agree with you.

Regards,
Jim

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