Dear Editor,

I refer to letter by Horace Levy published in the Jamaica Observer on February 27, 2019, titled ‘ cover-Ups Only Make Matters Worse’.

While I agree with him that cover-ups only perpetuate the evil conduct of both Catholic and non-Catholic clergy who engage in such conduct, I must address some of the points he made which show either a lack of understanding or extreme prejudice.

1. The Catholic Church has regulations in place embedded in canon law and other rules intended to serve as a deterrent to evil conduct. So when they happen these regulations are broken. Unfortunately, they get away with it because the people who are supposed to enforce them are guilty of breaking them; therefore, what is needed is strong sanctions against wrongdoers and independent authority to enforce these regulations.

2. Any honest person commenting on the issue would take into account the forces at work. Bella Dodd, in her book School of Darkness, relates her’s and Douglas Hyde’s confession before the House Un-American Committee and how the then Communist Party of America planted 1,100 perverted young men into the Church to advance to senior position in order to destroy the Church from within.

Many of the names who figure prominently in this saga are products of that era as they advanced to senior positions, such as cardinals, and being in charge of seminaries where they systematically recruit certain types of people and facilitate the infiltration of the church by LGBT and so-called Modernists. this is what is playing out now because the Church fails to root them out effectively.

So this has nothing to do with hierarchical government and doctrine, as Horace Levy is trying to suggest. Jesus established a church with authority to teach what was handed down to them. The first leaders, the Apostles, appointed their own successors, whom they invested with their own authority.

There is no record of one pope contradicting the doctrinal teaching of his predecessor for the 2,000 years of Christianity; compare that with Martin Luther and his accomplices, Calvin and Zwingli, who broke away from the Catholic Church in the 16th century, before long breaking away from each other because they could not agree on much of what the Bible means. They went as far as removing books from the Bible.

Today we have more than 30,000 denominations which broke away from each other with no two agreeing on what much of the Bible means although they all cry out Bible alone, which is a contradiction of what the Bible teaches.

It is a grave error to think that doctrine and government have anything to to do with the problem. It is a human problem animated by Satanic forces.

A James

alvalj@cwjamaica.com