Humanity hungers for justice. We the People ARE the government and are responsible for ensuring it is delivered. https://t.co/wbXWjXJ93t
— John Guandolo (@JGuandolo54271) January 14, 2026
SUMMARY FROM GROK,
The sermon by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen featured in the linked X post is a clip from his televised episode titled "False Compassion," originally broadcast in 1965 as part of The Fulton Sheen Program. Its central theme critiques the rise of "false compassion" in society—misdirected pity extended to criminals, degenerates, and wrongdoers (such as muggers, murderers, and perverts) at the expense of victims and the innocent, leading to increased crime and moral decay. Sheen contrasts this with true compassion, which hates sin but loves the sinner.
TRANSCRIPT FROM CLIP ABOVE
And this is what we're in today, false compassion. False compassion, which is gradually growing in this country is a pity that is shown not to the mugged but to the mugger. Not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer. Not to the woman who is raped, but to the rapist. Not to the poor girl who was given a shot of dope, but to the rich boy who happens to come from a fine family. There are some judges, some in some of our courts. There are some social workers, not all. There are sob sisters. There are the social slobberers, who insist on compassion being shown to the muggers, to the dope fiends, to the throat slashers, to the beatniks, to the prostitutes, to the homosexuals, to the punks, so that today the decent man is practically off the reservation. This is a false compassion.
How did it start? It started in literature. In the novels of William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, where pity was extended in the novel through good-natured slob. Then the novels of George Mandel, James Jones, and others in which pity is shown to every kind of pervert and degenerate.
As one character says in the novel, the girl said, "He called me a tramp. Imagine that. He called me a tramp."
And the other girl says, "I don't understand it. Just because you go out and do all the things that a tramp does and steal and so forth doesn't mean that you're really not a nice, fine girl."
[Most likely from the 1952 novel by George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers.
Finding solace only in one-night stands and an increasing dependence on drugs, Diane spirals into a world of violence and drug abuse, leaving her destitute and addicted to heroin. Struggling to stave off the addiction, Diane searches for help from the various people who move in and out of her life. Diane’s mother tells her daughter she must reject the sins of the Village and turn to God]
Now with what result? With the result that crime is increasing. That clemency of a false kind they show unto criminals. And we have this crime picture . . .
