faithful admonition and spiritual direction we have had an echo chamber of politicized, Marxist thought, and sexual liberation. So while we can rail against these sisters (and by all means, go ahead), I think it’s important to realize that they are victims as surely as the abused children. Victims of the same infiltrators.

This led to many of them abandoning their charisms that included orphanages, hospitals and schools that served the least of society. This also happened with men’s religious orders (eg the Jesuits) who had influence and far reaching charisms. I’m sad over what was lost to their turning inward and the willing sabotage of the youth of the Church.

The path had been laid in the modernism of the 40s and 50s, the 60s just finished building thewent out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine