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Woe to the shepherds of Israel
\nwho have been pasturing themselves!
\nShould not shepherds pasture the flock? <\/span><\/strong>
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IT’S<\/strong> clear the Church has entered a period of great confusion and division \u2014 exactly what Our Lady predicted at Akita when she said:<\/p>\n

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The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. <\/em><\/strong>\u2014to the late Sr. Agnes Sasagawa of Akita, Japan, October 13th, 1973 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It follows that if the shepherds are in disarray, so too, will be the sheep. Spend an hour or two on social media and you’ll find Catholics openly and bitterly divided in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n

When I began this apostolate nearly 20 years ago, the dividing lines were somewhat straightforward. There were the so-called “progressives” or “modernists” who wanted to see the Church liberalized and who frequently dissented from papal authority; and then there were the so-called “conservatives” or “traditionalists” who upheld Church teaching and readily united around the pope as “the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful.”[1]<\/sup><\/a>Catechism of the Catholic Church,<\/em> n. 882<\/span><\/span>