Episode 3166: Highway to Hell: The Music of Rebellion the Silence of Bishops, and the War for Souls

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St. Dominic: Preacher of the Rosary and Founder of the Dominican Order
Author: Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P.
Publisher: TAN Books
Overview:
This is one of the best traditional biographies of St. Dominic, emphasizing his holiness, his founding of the Order of Preachers, and his promotion of the Holy Rosary. It is written in a reverent and engaging style, suitable for adults and older teens.
When I was growing up our influencers where primarily the Church, Parents and Friends. Today SO many people are influenced by people they know nothing about. The scary part of social media is the influencers gain great respect and yet nobody asks who or what are they. Since our prelates and priest no longer feel it’s is proper for them to influence or convert souls they leave all our children to these influencers that embrace the world and even worse Satan. If you leave a spiritual hole who do you think will fill that void?
When you hear so many young people say “Oh I don’t believe in organized religion” where do you think they pick that up? Do you really think any of these kids have their own mind or have ever learned how to decern? Nope. What was once considered perversion or pornographic or evil is now considered to be opened minded and everything is relevant. It’s the sin of relativism and the young are being escorted to the highway to hell and really don’t know or care.
“Highway to Hell: The Music of Rebellion, the Silence of Bishops, and the War for Souls”
Welcome back to Faith of Our Fathers, where we speak the truth of Christ the King without compromise. In today’s episode, we expose the spiritual corruption running through the bloodstream of modern culture specifically, through satanic music glorified by the mainstream and excused by the Church hierarchy.
This isn’t just about entertainment. It’s about music as a catechism of the devil, and how bishops like the Archbishop of New York are lending legitimacy to artists like Ozzy Osbourne, who glorifies occultism, and worse, remaining silent as songs like “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Highway to Hell” shape the worldview of our youth.
We will not remain silent.
Segment 1: Plato, Lenin, and the War for the Soul
• Plato, the philosopher, once said:
“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”
• Vladimir Lenin, the Marxist architect of modern revolution, declared:
“Let me control the children, and I care not who writes the laws.”
Why? Because they knew that music and youth formation are the most powerful tools for cultural transformation.
What these men understood, the devil understands even better. And today, he controls the songs and the screens, while the bishops issue statements on ecology and inclusion.
Segment 2: Sympathy for the Devil: Lyrical Apostasy
• In “Sympathy for the Devil”, the Rolling Stones place Satan in the first person. He boasts of inspiring the murder of Christ and world revolutions. The song ends by inverting Christian morality:
“Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints…”
This is not subtle. It’s diabolical inversion evil presented as good, and sin as virtue. And millions chant these lyrics every day.
This is the new catechism. It’s not found in classrooms but in headphones, concerts, and entertainment. And it’s working.
Segment 3: Mr. Crowley and the Glorification of the Occult
• Ozzy Osbourne’s “Mr. Crowley” is a love letter to Aleister Crowley, a man who embraced Satan, called himself the Beast 666, and declared:
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
• Osbourne’s entire image is based on mockery of Christianity biting the head off a bat, using upside-down crosses, and flashing the horned-hand sign.
And now, bishops shake his hand and offer smiles. Not confrontation. Not correction. Just…acceptance.

Segment 4: Highway to Hell: An Anthem of Damnation
• The 1979 AC/DC hit “Highway to Hell” has become an anthem of defiance:
“Hey mama, look at me / I’m on my way to the promised land / I’m on the highway to hell.”
• The song continues:
“No stop signs, speed limit / Nobody’s gonna slow me down…”
There is no repentance in this song. No sorrow. Just boastful pride in going to hell.
And yet, this song is sung at stadiums, pep rallies, sporting events even weddings and funerals.
Imagine that: A song glorifying damnation being played as people celebrate life.
And where are our shepherds? Why haven’t they condemned this publicly? Why are priests silent while youth wear “Highway to Hell” shirts to confirmation retreats?
Segment 5: Cardinal O’Connor’s Warning and Hierarchical Silence
• Cardinal John O’Connor once courageously said:
“Our young people are being spiritually and psychologically damaged by the music they consume. Some of it is openly satanic, and we must say so.”
He was right. He had spiritual clarity and moral courage.
But today? That clarity has been replaced by ambiguous smiles and photo-ops with rock stars.
What Cardinal O’Connor condemned, his successors have embraced or at best, ignored.
Segment 6: Archbishop Sheen and the Counterfeit Church
• Fulton Sheen foresaw a counterfeit Church one that would look Catholic but deny the Cross.
He said:
“The Church will have to face a time when the Church will be torn by internal dissent and heresies will be accepted from within.”

We are in that time now. A time where it is more “pastoral” to tolerate Satanic music than to call it out. A time when the bishops fear being unpopular more than they fear offending God.
Segment 7: What Must the Faithful Do?
It is not enough to point fingers we must rebuild. Here’s how:
1. Purge your home of diabolical music. AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne none of these belong in Catholic homes.
2. Educate your children about the messages behind these lyrics and symbols.
3. Replace worldly music with sacred music chant, hymns, and compositions that lift the soul.
4. Pray for and challenge your bishops. If they won’t protect the flock, they will answer to the Good Shepherd.
5. Support Traditional Catholic media and parishes that proclaim the full truth.

Closing Reflection:
The devil no longer hides. He sings in first person. He struts on stage. He is worshipped through lyrics, beats, and symbols. And while he evangelizes, many Church leaders dance in his rhythm rather than rebuke him in Christ’s name.
But you, dear listener, are called to be the remnant faithful to Christ, devoted to Our Lady, unafraid of persecution, and unwilling to tolerate evil in your home, your parish, or your heart.
Let us not walk the highway to hell. Let us walk the narrow path to heaven with the Rosary in hand, the Cross in our hearts, and Tradition as our compass.
Epistle Reflection – 2 Timothy 4:1–8
“For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine…”
St. Paul warns of a time when many will not tolerate truth. Instead, they will seek out teachers who preach what is comfortable, turning their ears from the truth unto fables. If that doesn't describe our modern condition, what does?
The post-conciliar Church is awash in ambiguity, moral relativism, and spiritual compromise. Few today want to be “instant in season and out of season.” Instead, we see delay, denial, or worse priests and bishops becoming entertainers or sociologists instead of men of God.
St. Dominic was given by Providence to preach against the Albigensian heresy. Today, we must rise in like fashion to combat the new errors: modernism, indifferentism, and the spiritual laziness that dulls the flame of faith.
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.” May this be said of us as it was of Paul, and as it surely was of Dominic.
Gospel Reflection – Luke 16:1–9
The Parable of the Unjust Steward
This parable challenges us to examine our stewardship—not of money, but of grace. The unjust steward, realizing his time was up, acted with shrewdness to prepare for the future. Our Lord is not commending his dishonesty but his urgency and foresight.
How many of us live as if judgment is far off? How many bishops, priests, and lay faithful act as if they will never be called to account for the treasure of truth entrusted to them?
St. Dominic saw that time was short and souls were being lost. His life was a constant labor for salvation, guided not by human approval, but by eternal wisdom. He wept for sinners, fasted for conversions, and preached with fire. Like the steward in the Gospel, he knew the hour was late and he acted.
Saint of the Day – St. Dominic (1170–1221)
Founder of the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans), St. Dominic embodied today’s readings in his very flesh. He battled heresy not with the sword, but with the Word of God and the Rosary, which tradition says Our Lady entrusted to him as a weapon against heresy.
St. Dominic formed preachers who were men of learning and holiness two virtues often divorced in our time. His Order became a bulwark of Catholic orthodoxy through centuries of darkness, raising up saints like St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena, and countless missionaries.
He is the saint of urgency and clarity, of study and prayer, of action and contemplation.
As traditional Catholics, we must reclaim his legacy. Study the Faith. Preach it to your children. Defend it in your homes. Do not be afraid to confront error. As the Dominican motto says: Veritas. Truth.
Key Takeaways
1. The Faith must be preached boldly, especially in times of compromise.
2. The urgency of the Gospel calls us to spiritual action, not delay.
3. St. Dominic models fidelity, prayer, and doctrinal clarity for all Catholics.
4. We are each stewards of grace and we will be called to account.
Conclusionary Prayer
O Lord Jesus Christ, truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament, who entrusted Thy Gospel to the Apostles and saints, kindle in us the fire that burned in the heart of St. Dominic. Make us preachers of truth in word and deed, defenders of the one true Faith, and lovers of Thy Holy Church.
Through the intercession of St. Dominic and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of the Rosary, protect the remnant of Thy faithful and raise up new voices of orthodoxy in our dark age. That at the end of our lives, we too may say, with St. Paul and St. Dominic: “I have fought the good fight… I have kept the faith.”
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.