Milo Yiannopoulos - Diabolical: How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims Like Me—and Why He Has To Go

If you thought he was dangerous on campus, just wait until you meet him in Church.

Monica Crowley, columnist and New York Times bestselling author

A blunt, funny, searing, and accurate depiction of the failed papacy of Francis.

Leon J. Podles, author of
Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

Milos readers wont be scandalized by his devilish attacks on identity politics and its victim tropes. These are signatures of his comedic and literary wit. But like me they may be surprised to learn that his disdain for leftist materialism is based on faith in God and love for His (un)holy Church. In Diabolical , Milo turns his wrath on the social justice infiltrators of the Catholic leadership, and especially on the chief culprit among them, Pope Francis, the Pretender. Incendiary.

Michael Rectenwald, New York University

Weve seen Milo the troll, the stand-up comedian, the political operative and the snappy dresser. This is Milo the scholar and Catholic. Its his best incarnation yet.

Roger Stone

He might prove almost as dangerous as he wants us to think he is.

Vox.com

I stopped believing in God years ago. Milos book has me questioning my lack of faith, because it proves the Devil exists.

Mike Cernovich

A powerful testament from a courageous warrior, whom the left has done everything it can to silenceand failed.

David Horowitz

There is no little irony in a gay icon calling out the Vicar of Christ for the wickedness of the Church. But as it is written, the Lord works in mysterious ways.

Vox Day

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Diabolical:

How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims
Like Meand Why He Has To Go

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This book, like all my books, is for my husband, John, who has promised not to read Chapter Two.

Is the Church not simply the continuation of Gods deliberate plunge into human wretchedness; is she not simply the continuation of Jesus habit of sitting at the table with sinners, of his mingling with the misery of sin to the point where he actually seems to sink under its weight? Is there not revealed in the unholy holiness of the Church, as opposed to mans expectation of purity, Gods true holiness, which is love, love that does not keep its distance in a sort of aristocratic, untouchable purity but mixes with the dirt of the world, in order thus to overcome it? Can, therefore, the holiness of the Church be anything else but the bearing with one another that comes, of course, from the fact that all of us are borne up by Christ?

Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity

Contents

FOREWORD

I am a Catholic in part because Milo Yiannopoulos encouraged me towards Rome. I know that will surprise a lot of readers, but its true. From the moment I became aware of him causing a ruckus on American college campuses, I saw in Milo a depth and seriousness he only hints at in his mischievous and provocative lectures.

Milos talks got attention because his fearlessness and flamboyance were new to conservative politics. But examine the contents of his talks, beneath the pyrotechnics, and you find a surprisingly orthodox set of commitmentsto beauty, to masculinity, to the life of the unborn, and to God. No wonder the Left finds him so confounding and dangerous.

None of his critics on the Right acknowledge that at the heart of Milos pranks and provocations has always been his fidelity to beauty, universal truth, justice, and his faith. But without those things he could not have written this book. At its heart lies a profound sadness at the corruption of the Catholic Church, an institution which no longer prizes the heroic manly virtues that Milo encourages his student audiences to embrace, and which, he explains, the priesthood must rediscover.

I started life as a Presbyterian, so I was used to seeing female clergy. But I was drawn later in life to a Church with only male priests. Ive been meditating on what it means to have a male priesthood that some would say excludes women, but I realize now this perspective is wrong. Ive concluded that priests should be men, and that they should be celibate, precisely because the Church recognizes that men and women are equal, yet not the same.

Among the many difficult, dangerous jobs men do, so women dont have to, is a lifelong calling to serve God at the altar. Its a daunting commitmenta vocation that takes discipline and courage in which a man forswears becoming a husband and father to devote his life to prayer and to the Church. It isnt supposed to be easy. As we have lost reverence for the family, the magnitude of this sacrifice appears smaller to us than it should.

Joining the priesthood ought to take something awaynot present the ambitious young college graduate with a path to an easy life in a grand home, with minimal work hours and a boss who looks the other way at rampant sexual misbehavior. The great demands and great seriousness of the priesthood have been diluted, which might be why feminists want women let into the club: it looks like a prize to be won.

Yes, it is baffling that an impish, occasionally foul-mouthed gay Brit best known for trolling campus feminists into viral meltdowns should reflexively understand all this, and take the priesthood more seriously than a lot of people actually doing the job. But he too lives an unconventional life, and has sacrificed his physical safety, among other things, to become a truth-teller. He knows what it means to live on the edge of society for the benefit of the rest of us.

Milo was wrongly accused by the worlds media in February 2017 of being soft on pedophilia, because hed spoken loosely about his own experiences with an abusive priest and told a few off-color jokes. I had never seen such a cruel attempt at a public execution on the basis of nothing. It shocked me. I realized what the world was prepared to do to smother unsayable truths, and how dangerous the power of laughter is to despots.

They did not break him. Milo is still fighting. His millions of fans still hang on his every word. This book is just as caustic and funny as his college talks and newspaper columns, and it reminds me of what I have always seen in Miloa holy fool who travels the world in a tour bus with his face on it, dressed in outlandish clothes, needling his enemies with a cheeky smile and mirth in his heart.

I have been attacked by feminist colleagues for mocking their preoccupation with straight white males. I survived because I followed the prescriptions set down in Milos introductory memoir, Dangerous . Milo showed me, as he shows all of us with this new book, that rather than apologize, and tiptoe around enemy combatants, we should confront them head-on in joyful warfare. Because we are right. And because western civilization is worth savingjust as, wretched though she currently appears to us, the Bride of Christ deserves forgiveness and renewal.