In a recent column in his archdiocesan newspaper, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick of Washington called Janet Jackson's Superbowl half-time exhibitionism “a sign of the decline and fall of a culture that made this nation great.”
He also cited the low American birthrate, anti-family judicial activism and the proliferating pornography industry as indicating “trouble ahead” for American society.
“What disturbs me the most,” he wrote in The Catholic Standard, “is that I see really wonderful young people falling for this pernicious anti-culture and losing their ideals and their values, with the resulting danger to our nation.” And his recipe for restoration is uncomplicated: “Let me oversimplify it. God is the answer, a return to the principles of faith and hope and love. All the values and the virtues come from these fundamental building blocks of a strong and sane society.”
Read the Catholic News coverage of the Cardinal's column and other prominent leaders' reactions
(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
