The Manifesto that was Missing: Who is speaking up for them, while the Bishops abandon Christ?

Fritz von Uhde
Christ with a Farmer's Family (1887-8)
Musée d'Orsay

Professor Esolen, thank you for expressing what so many of us felt but somehow could not put into words. There is so much hurt, so much pain, so much loneliness and death... and Church hierarchs wedded to Mammon have forgotten these truly lost sheep.

Friends throughout the world: translate this, send it to all your priests and Bishops, to Archbishops and to Cardinals. This is the Manifesto that was missing. They have no wealthy German Bishops to speak up for them  -- and you could well be one of these victims, let them know who the lost sheep  really are, the sheep they have willfully overlooked as they dance around with the princes of the world in empty assemblies.

Who Will Rescue the Lost Sheep of the Lonely Revolution?

Anthony Esolen

Crisis Magazine

November 6, 2104

[Excerpts]

Forgive me, Lord, if I use your words for an admonitory parable. ... That is why you came among us, to call sinners back to the fold. Not to pet and stroke them for being sinners... . ... We do not have Pharisees who preen themselves for having followed the letter of the law and missed its soul. We have Pharisees who preen themselves for disobeying the law, even the most serious admonitions of the law, even your own clear words on marriage and divorce, while presuming to have discovered a soul-of-the-law whose existence has eluded two thousand years of martyrs, saints, popes, bishops, and theologians.