Fr. Tom Collins: The Seamless Garment of Evil

Triumph of the Virtues - Andrea Mantegna 1502

Editor's note: When Mary appeared at Fatima, she told the children that more people go to hell for sins of the flesh than any other reason. It was clear from her overall message stressing purity and modesty that she largely was referring to the deadly sin of lust. And it's easy to see how that sin, in all its ugliness while calling itself "love," has transformed society into a coarse, vulgar, and animalistic jungle. Fr. Tom links the "sins of the flesh" into what is essentially a garden of vice or the seamless garment of evil. We need the angels, led by St. Michael and our 12-star general, the Blessed Mother, to drive out these evil vices and restore the garden of virtue. Pray the rosary that we may see it!

It is interesting to note that the seeds of the transgenderism movement were sown over sixty years ago. Specifically, contraceptives and the genital mutilating sterilization surgeries (e.g., vasectomies and tubular ligations) were introduced to degrade, desecrate and divorce the sacred conjugal embrace from covenantal marriage and the begetting of children. This lie was further promulgated by a change of popular terminology, whereby many no longer use the term, the conjugal embrace, but rather embrace a more profane and degrading term, sex - as well as the metastasizing evils being perpetuated by the widespread us of “the f-bomb”.

Secular society promised us that such chemical and surgical suppression of human fertility would lead to happier marriages, more well-adjusted children and a more stable society. In opposition to such lies, St. Paul VI, in Humanae Vitae, prophetically warned us that the evils spawned by such suppression of the gift of human fertility would have completely opposite consequences. And the veracity of his warnings are becoming more tragically and traumatically evident each day.

It is worth noting that God gave us an important admonition in Deut 18:21-22 – a prophet’s veracity can be discerned by determining whether what he asserts comes true. It would be wise for all of us to discern more carefully whose prophetic utterances have been verified by the trends of the past several decades.

Fr. Thomas R. Collins

Hot Springs VA