The Remnant Newspaper - The Roots of Francis’s Anti-Catholic Legacy Will Be Preserved By the Adulation for John Paul II

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In these first weeks of Lent 2025, many of us have likely heard or read holy wisdom about the need to tear out the roots of sin. In his classic
“As long as the root of this weed is not torn out, it will sprout again, and your virtue will perish. In time, you may discover that you are stripped of good habits and in continual danger of falling back into your former disorders. Never hope to acquire solid virtue unless you destroy your own particular failings by performing frequent acts which are directly opposed to them.”
This process would be much simpler were it not for the fact that we are often quite attached to the roots of sin and cannot easily uproot them. If we have the determination to eradicate sins, though, we will first need to identify their roots.
The same could be said about the great evils that currently afflict the Catholic Church. If we merely attack the superficial manifestations of these evils, without getting to the actual roots, our efforts will seldom result in …