Red-pilled Catholics – The Catholic Thing

The 1999 movie The Matrix, a cult classic, is famous for its invention of the terms “red pill” and “blue pill”: anyone who takes the red pill can see beyond a simulation to recognize the ugly truth of reality and of humanity’s enslavement. Those who take the blue pill stay within the world of illusions, blissfully unaware of the truth. In common parlance, the term “red pilled” has come to mean anyone who sees beyond the façade of the carefully constructed narratives presented by those in authority and sees the real “man behind the curtain” pulling the strings. This also aptly describes the rise of a newly awakened Catholic laity who, in the wake of the priest sex abuse crisis and its various episcopal coverups, have been red-pilled into a clear-eyed realization that the Catholicism they had been taught and formed in is a blue pill illusion.