Well, 2018 was a horrific year for the Catholic Church, with the summer of shame and all the

scandals beginning here in America with Cardinal, Ex Cardinal McCarick, and scandals all the way into the walls of the Vatican.

In 2019 will most likely be a similar year with more revelations and there have been hundreds of people who have been

writing me emailing me tweeting me saying what do we do as Catholic lay people how do

we fight this battle this war do we fight this battle, this war? Do we withhold money at the collection?

Do we write letters to our bishops? Do we tweet our bishops? What do we do?

Those are all reactive strategies. There's a place for them, but the most powerful

strategies in a battle in a war are proactive strategies.

And so today I'm going to lay out those proactive strategies

for the Catholic layperson in 2019.

I'm going to do it with St. Thomas Aquinas and his theology of goals. Now a lot of people are

for and against New Year's goals. I'm going to take this opportunity to be in favor of goals, but I'm not going to do it in the cheesy lame way that most people at New Year's write down and practice goals because over 90% of the time those fail.

And I'm going to explain to you philosophically why people fail in their New Year's

goals and I'm going to do it with Thomas Aquinas in his theology of teleology literally the study of

goals the study of ends I wrote my PhD dissertation on a topic related to the

teleology of the human person in St. Thomas Aquinas as

relates to natural law. We're not doing that today, but we are going to talk about

goals that we're going to explain why people miss their goals and then at the end I'm going to give you

goals for the new year to wage this battle not against human persons but against demonic

forces the principalities as St Paul calls them.

And I'm going to lay out for you the classic traditional Catholic piety, the plan of life

for daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, and yearly goals,

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