The most well known names of the resistance to the dissolution of the monasteries of England and Wales are remembered today. How many high-ranking clerics other than St John Fisher resisted the king and the reformation that began during his reign? We know that there were not many. How many of our hierarchs have resisted the denials of the life willed by God for us to live". Go forth and multiply was God's command but controlling our fertility is accepted as the norm now. Marriage is between man and man and woman and woman. Surgical operations alter the sex of those who request it and the life in the womb is a nuisance to be got rid of. Nothing can condemn fornication and no voices are  raised against the falseness of homosexuality. My Bishop claims that the mass he celebrated with the active proponents of homosexuality was full of a palpable "love". The Mass, the remembrance of Jesus passion and death was treated as a vehicle to celebrate "pride" in sin. What more are we to face as this mindset continues to lead us away from God and into the gates of hell. 

Dear Lord your saints in heaven were able with your help to overcome the dangers of their times on earth. Please send us priests and bishops who demonstrate that they truly believe in the love promised by you and are able to resist and condemn the sinfulness of these times.