As a Catholic who also spent a lot of time in the Methodist Church, I can tell you this: The Methodists are humanists who hate conflict, and I am embarrassed by those Catholics who voted for baby killers. Yes, I know it isn’t “civilized” to call it baby killing. But that is what it is. A murder of an innocent by any other name is still a murder. I too feel like one of the warriors this priest is talking about. My birth family and all my relatives voted for the democrat. I am so isolated in my Orthodoxy. However, I cannot help it. It has been this way for me since I was a kid. I have to walk this road.
“However, I cannot help it. It has been this way for me since I was a kid. I have to walk this road”.
Me too. Fortunately, I have like minded family. Hang in there.
Hang in there yldstrk, the number of strong Catholics is increasing.
Good signs:
1. My teenage daughter went to a retreat/conference this summer where there were 5,000 kids learning about real Catholic things like the beauty of chastity, and the practice of adoration of the eucharist. She came back so fortified in her faith, and has been reading her youth catholic bible on her own since then. Probably not all 5,000 kids were touched that way, but many, many were.
2. My womens bible study is very orthodox. They were pretty crushed by the election results, but they are prayer warriors and pretty used to storming heaven when the situation calls for it. Don’t underestimate the power of people like that. People like them are few and scattered around, but they pray like they mean it.
At the end of the day, Catholic Church leadership did not have the courage of their convictions. They shied away from a direct confrontation with Obama and anything that might have dissuaded Democrats from the collection basket.
They should have been wall-to-wall with one clear, unequivocal message. Either Obama backs down from this, or it is sinful for Catholics to vote for him.
They did not come anywhere even remotely close to that.