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Bishop Friend of Cardinal Pell Has Written a Book Tracing the Ideological History of the Sexual Revolution...

FAMILY CIRCLE
"The strength for souls will be found in the family circle." - Our Lady, December 31, 1972

GREATEST ATTACK
"Evil creations from hell--all manner of abominations are entering into the homes of your nation and the countries throughout the world. It will be an absolute necessity now for all parents to act as a director, a leader in the homes. The greatest attack from satan shall be upon family life. If you break down the family, you will break down the nation." - St. Joseph, March 15, 1978

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LifeSiteNews.com reported on October 11, 2023:

by John Ballantyne

“Ideas, Mr Carlyle, ideas, nothing but ideas!” scoffed a no-nonsense businessman over dinner with Thomas Carlyle, the 19th-century Scottish historian of the French Revolution. The businessman was dismissive of Carlyle’s interest in how ideas influenced history.

Carlyle replied, “There was once a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.” Carlyle was referring to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract (1762), a book that inspired the French Revolution of 1789 and the bloodbath that followed.

The French Revolution was a sudden, violent political eruption; the sexual revolution has been more a process of subversion by stealth, decades in the making and seldom properly understood. Dr. Peter J. Elliott, a retired Catholic bishop based in Melbourne, Australia, has produced a definitive book on the sexual revolution, particularly the ideas which inspired it and the calamity it has wreaked throughout the world. Called The Sexual Revolution: History • Ideology • Power, it has been recently published by Ignatius Press. The book is based on lectures Bishop Elliott gave at Melbourne’s John Paul II Institute of Marriage and Family, of which he was director from 2004 to 2019.

Elliott, a theologian and historian, is eminently qualified to chronicle and explain the unfolding of the sexual revolution. He read theology at the University of Oxford, where he was a contemporary of the late Cardinal George Pell (1941–2023), a fellow Australian who became a lifelong friend. In the 1980s Elliott undertook doctoral research at the Lateran University in Rome and gained a Doctorate in Sacred Theology with a thesis on the sacramentality of marriage.

During his long and distinguished career, Elliott has acquired decades of pastoral experience, served as Vatican envoy to a number of UN conferences concerned with global population issues and the status of women, and headed religious education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.

In The Sexual Revolution, Elliott traces the pedigree of the ideas from which the sexual revolution sprang, starting with Rousseau and proceeding through Thomas Malthus, Charles Darwin, and the eugenicist Francis Galton to a 20th-century rogues’ gallery of libertine ideologues, such as Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, Wilhelm Reich, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Herbert Marcuse, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Mead, Betty Friedan, and Germaine Greer. He also shows how both Marxism (on the political Left) and Ayn Rand-inspired radical autonomy (on the political Right) have, despite their differences, united in aiding and abetting the spread of the sexual revolution.

Sexual libertarians, in concert with cultural Marxists and radical feminists, have misused state power and subverted laws in order to wage a three-pronged assault on civilized norms.

First has been their attack on marriage and the family, which they have undermined by the following: introducing easy divorce and non-marital cohabitation; redefining marriage to include same-sex couples; promoting so-called gender fluidity and transgenderism; destroying parental rights; and undermining and marginalizing the role of the father.

Second has been their relentless attack on education and their erasure of “inconvenient” (i.e., politically incorrect) truths. Our anointed elites have used every trick they know to quarantine schools from parental or Church influences so that the state has almost unchallenged power to indoctrinate the young, especially in matters concerning sexual morality.

Elliott warns of what a Leftist “cancel culture” portends for future generations and the survival of what’s left of Judeo-Christian civilization. He writes: “When our historical memory is erased, any organic continuity with our past perishes. Those taught to hate or scorn their own heritage become oblivious to what went before them. Then they no longer know who they are. Robbed of their past, they can be manipulated, re-educated, reconstructed and controlled.”

Third has been the targeting of religion, which Elliott describes as “the most potent vector of culture and memory”. He lists no fewer than 13 freedoms that the political Left, in common with communists, fascists and Nazis, seeks to eradicate. These include freedoms a) to express one’s beliefs in public, b) to quote the scriptures of one’s religion, c) to pass on one’s faith to one’s children, d) to run faith-based schools and universities, and e) to run hospitals where a pro-life ethical code prevails.

Vast amounts of money have been mobilized to finance this revolution. Elliott lists some of the usual suspects: the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros. Simultaneously, International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International have promoted and funded population control by way of contraception, sterilization, and abortion (which radical feminists misleadingly call “reproductive health”).

Huge sums from various sources were poured into Ireland to both legalize same-sex “marriage” and repeal the country’s constitutional prohibition against abortion.

Elliott shows how the sexual revolution, in certain ways, has become self-funding and self-reinforcing. He observes that “once any government succumbs to the revolution and becomes the instrument of ideological social engineering, our taxes can flow readily into the sexual revolution, funding causes, groups, institutions, and organizations that eagerly claim more and more State subsidies.” As a result, we — the innocent taxpayers — are conscripted to “feed the ongoing sexual revolution.”

Elliott also describes the spread of pornography via computers and smart phones. The social media, a relatively recent phenomenon, is responsible for “literally placing access to pornography in the hands of everyone.”

“Pornography has become the major force in the sexual revolution,” he writes “… What was once hidden and restricted now became widespread and normal. … What was once a secret realm with a limited market became a multi-million-dollar industry. … The material is aggressively explicit, with no topic forbidden, including that dangerous mixture of sex and violence.”

When Elliott describes the overwhelming financial, cultural, and political power wielded by the enablers of the sexual revolution, one is immediately reminded of Aragorn’s admonition to the irresolute King Théoden of Rohan in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: “Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not.”

So how can we wake up church-going Christians to the reality of the war that is being waged against them and their values? And, most of all, how can we fight the good fight?

Paradoxically, Elliott prefers Christians to refrain from using the popular term “culture wars.” In saying this, he is by no means retracting his descriptions of the cosmic nature of the conflict between what he calls “the culture of life and the culture of death.” Instead, he offers important pastoral advice on how Christians should comport themselves in these trying times.

He writes: “Amidst the gloom and shadows described in this book, we are bearers of divine light, like candles shining brightly in the night. … That is why our struggle against the sexual revolution should never be negative, aggressive or destructive. … We do not seek to defeat anyone. Rather we invite conversion.”

Godly homes, he says, can be beacons to surrounding communities: “The strong family also becomes a place of healing and hope for people denied a decent family life. … [This] never means shutting morally-wounded people out of our homes. When they knock on the door, they are seeking an atmosphere of security, safety, peace, joy and a welcoming love that listens. They may not know it, but they are seeking the Lord God.”

These are just a few of the many profound observations and reflections to be found in Bishop Elliott’s book, which deserves the widest possible readership.

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GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

THE FOUNDATION
"My child, you are observing the foundation for all life and dedication to the Eternal Father-the home and the family. In your world today that has been caught in the snare of the wiles of satan, many families are heading to oblivion, disintegration, and destruction. The forces of evil, the agents of 666, have now infiltrated into the very heart of mankind: the home, the family." - Our Lady, July 24, 1976

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BRING BACK PUBLIC PRAYER
"Your country must bring back public prayer. Your country must make atonement for the offenses being committed against the God, your Lord, the King of Heaven and earth, your Creator.
     "Man upon earth has chosen to give honor to man. After the great cleansing, the fruits of man's hands shall fall! Much will be reduced to ashes and rubble. He will rebuild in the manner the Father directs, under the direction of the Father.” - Our Lady, August 21, 1973

TO REMOVE CHRISTIANITY
"My dear parents, please! Listen to your Mother. Listen to what I have to say to you, for I tell you the truth. The Eternal Father sees all, and makes us knowledgeable as to what is happening upon earth that will bring its eventual destruction. Your children are being educated in the schools to take all Christianity from their lives, and believe not in the supernatural things of God, but the diabolical processes of satan, in cults.” - Our Lady, June 18, 1987

PRAYER OUTLAWED
"My child and My children, prayer has not become a way of life for many. That is why communism has got such a foothold in your country and in other countries of the world. The prayers given to you in your childhood will be remembered always, I know, My children; but there are those who have not received these prayers in their schools, for prayer has been outlawed in many areas of your country and the world. It took but a few without faith to bring down the flag, for even your country's flag is being defiled, My children.” - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

THE BIBLE
"You will go forward with the cross in your right hand and the Bible, the Book of life, in your left. And all who deny this Book are not of the light." - Our Lady, May 22, 1974 

DISCIPLINARIAN
"Parents, you must now become the disciplinarian in your home. You have the major responsibility now for safeguarding the souls of your family. Do not expect your children to be guided the right way in the light by the teachers in your school systems, for all have fallen to satan.” - Jesus, November 1, 1977

YOUTH INDOCTRINATED
"Your children must be protected from the evils that abound in your school systems in your country and most nations throughout the world. They are being taught immorality and a loss of faith in the supernatural and the knowledge of their God. All manner of heresy has been indoctrinated into their youthful minds. It is a diabolical plan of Lucifer.” - Our Lady, June 18, 1979

A FOUL SITUATION
"A foul situation has come about in the schools, both public and private. They are now teaching sex education, My children. And this is a debauchery of your young souls. Parents, are you so blind that you do not investigate, or ask your children what has happened in their classes today at school? Show you no interest as you go about the world gathering materialism, and seeking to break your home apart by husband and wife going in both directions; neither do they work together to hold the home together, but they work apart, many leaving the children astray by not having counsel over them.” - Our Lady, September 27, 1986

PRAY FOR LEADERS
"The leaders of your country and the leaders throughout the world have taken upon themselves a measure of sin creating insanity. 
     "In the light of the Spirit descending from Heaven, you shall be given the knowledge of truth, My children. Accept it and take it as your candle, for you must now go throughout your world saving your brothers, preparing them for what lies ahead.” – Our Lady, September 13, 1975

STOP CHANGES
"Pastors, those who have in their care Our sheep, you must stop now these changes that you seek in novelty, for they are destroying the young souls and scattering Our sheep.
    "I repeat, My children, the great Council in Rome of Vatican II, the promises were great, but satan sat among you and he played you like the chessboard.
    "You were given a foundation of Faith based on Tradition and knowledge of the prophets. You cannot start this new religion, for it will lead you to one religion that is not of My Son, that will not have His true foundation, and you will take My Son's Body and defame it, no longer giving the knowledge of His Divinity. What manner of foul escapades are you planning, O you of little faith? Whatever shall become of you? The Red Hats have fallen and the Purple Hats are being misled. Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth!"  - Our Lady, August 5, 1976

SAFEGUARD
"My child and My children, I need not repeat to you the necessity to retain tradition. It was like a valve, a safeguard from the eruption of My Son's Church, a schism, a division within My Son's House upon earth. I cry unto you, your Mother, as I hasten back and forth bringing you the Message, the counsel from Heaven. You must recognize--bishops, cardinals and pastors, you must recognize what is happening now in My Son's House. There is being rebuilt before your very eyes another religion, another church of man. No angels are helping in this building."  - Our Lady, September 7, 1978

 YOUR SIN
"Shall you stand, O Red Hats and Purple Hats, before My Son and say that your teaching has been pure in His sight? I say unto you: you cannot cover your sin. My Son looks into your hearts, and you too, who have received glory in your vocation upon earth--you too, without merit, shall be cast into the abyss of hell. Woe to the teachers who have gone forward with itching ears, implementing, experimenting with My Son's doctrines and teachings, casting aside all Tradition for a modern way. And this way is from satan!"  - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

NO COMPROMISE
"You must not, O pastors, you must not compromise your faith; do not be misled. O pastors, you have forgotten your teachings. You must renew in a manner that is not new. You must go back, I say, go back and start anew with Tradition! You cannot separate Tradition, for you held the truth. You were given the grace, the greatest of gifts to mankind, to be born into or come into by conversion, My Son's Church. And now you go about, O you of little Faith, to chip away and chop at the walls until it crumbles. But you shall not remove the foundation, for the foundation is My Son. You are re-crucifying Him in His own House."  - Our Lady, April 10, 1976

GUIDE CHILDREN
"The children must be guided by the family. The truth, the Faith, the Tradition, must be instilled in their hearts by the mothers and fathers of a family. Do not expect your children to go beyond your doors and be instructed in truth, for the world has been given to satan. Many who should be showing a firm and true example, have gone the easy way of the flesh, for they care more for the treasures and glory of this world, earth, than what the future has for them."  - Our Lady, December 6, 1975

ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY
"Parents will assume the greatest responsibility for keeping Tradition and Faith, the firm foundation of Faith in the hearts of their children. There will be much woe set upon the earth by the evil on. 666, the forces of hell, are now doing full battle against the children of God."  - Our Lady, June 16, 1977

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