The bishops brought this upon us. Decades of coddling openly-heretical, defiant, dissenting Dammocrap (and, in recent years, some Republican) politicians. Buying into cultural and economic Marxism. Execrable catechesis of the laity for decades and decades. Sheltering thousands of child-molesting priests, thus, at once, committing the murder of the souls of uncounted Catholics, creating scandal and division within the laity, disaffecting millions of lay Catholics. They are to blame. It is their crime.
But, just like with the priest-molestor scandal, we the laity will pay.
True.
What then must WE do?
1) Be active in your parish.
2) Get your kids out of the godless communist schoolags, and teach them yourself at home. God made PARENTS a child's primary educators, not the State. We will have to answer to Him for our stewardship.
I agree completely.
Don’t forget how silent they were when Terri Schindler Schiavo was being murdered by judicial fiat. Not a peep from them then either. I remember being amazed that my priest only spoke up about the sanctity of life AFTER she passed. Nothing beforehand. I still shake my head in shame about that.
We can have heart with the new Bishops that Pope Benedict is putting in place.
Keep praying. God’s vote isn’t counted yet!
5. Extreme debt seems likely to pile up. Well this may not be a specific issue the Catholic Church has spoken to, it remains a fact that we spend money we do not have, and this has moral implications. Little change in a very divided Congress, means there will be likely little progress in arresting a runaway debt. This will become an increasing moral problem that the Church will likely have to address at some level. This too draws us into the morass of debates about spending priorities etc. and may divide us as a Church between fiscal conservatives and those who emphasize the Social Doctrine.
Thus, the next years ahead, will likely draw the Church into increasing conflict with the political scene in general, and the Democratic Party specifically.
And while it is not the instinct to the Church to be drawn into one side of the political debate, moral issues are increasingly demanding from us an unambiguous stance, one which draws us into increasing conflict with the Democratic Party on issues which we consider non-negotiable. At the same time, issues that we may share with the Democratic Party, are less doctrinal or certain for us. We face difficult days ahead, and difficult decisions about strategy and how to engage a party in power that is increasingly at odds with our most central tenants.
The Central question for us is, How will the Church be able to articulate her positions, increasingly at odds with the platform of the Democratic party and be able to resist the (unfair) charge that we are merely the Republican Party at prayer. There are difficult days ahead for the Church.
Let us pray for great courage and prudence.