On the Pope's visit to the UK...

It's not often I find myself coming to the defense of a Christian denomination. I'm a Heathen, and I think that Nietzsche's assessment of Christianity bordered on the sugar-coated, not to mention my belief that the prominence of Christianity on the right ultimately hurts our cause, that what we as conservatives believe is more than defensible with logic and reason alone. That being said, I am also Polish, and while the West's liberal elite were salivating over how 'great' things were in the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War, and the people who actually lived there were trapped under tyranny, being tortured and murdered daily, it was the Catholic Church that was speaking loudest against that tyranny.

Of course on cannot escape the serious problem of Catholic priests molesting children and the subsequent cover ups of said incidents. There is no good or defendable argument as to why these cases should not have been handed over to the secular authorities. I do think it is worth mentioning, though, that current Catholic doctrine does mandate that these types of cases be handed over to the proper authorities. However, though I will not try to defend the Church's actions surrounding these horrific crimes, I will not hesitate to attack the motives of these endless protesters. Ignoring those actually abused by priests, I believe most of them were probably anti-Catholic long before the floodgates opened on the child molestation cases. Many of them clearly have and ulterior motive - be it abortion, birth control, LGBT equality or what have you - and it seems to me that many of these people are using the recent scandal as a pretense to go after an institution they have long despised. I wonder if these people, as concerned with human rights and dignity as they claim, are stood outside protesting every time a Saudi diplomat visits? Some of them may indeed be so, but I doubt the majority is.

I am very disheartened with all of the, at times quite vicious, anti-Popery and anti-Catholic nonsense I'm hearing and seeing from so many of my friends. It's terribly un-conservative. The Catholic Church has been a supporter of liberty in the face of international communism, and tradition and morality in the face of degenerate left-liberalism run amok. As more and more people turn their backs on anything resembling a system of moral values, and Islam continues its advances in the West, all of the so-called 'conservatives' who have attacked the Church so vehemently will wish to hell and high water they hadn't spent so much of their time and energy attacking on of the few Western institutions that still values life, liberty, and property. For shame.