Posted on 06/08/2013 6:54:25 AM PDT by NYer
Ping!
this
I love this quote and wish we could ram it down the throat of every fag loving representative we have:
“Bishop Paprocki also recalled the Catholic Churchs experience with 20th century totalitarian movements which sought to remake family life to advance state goals of racial purity or Marxist ideology. This experience, he said, led to the more refined Catholic teaching that it is not legitimate for the state to interfere with the fundamental nature of the family.”
Amen.
States didn’t get involved in marriage for most of human history. The only reason for it now is property laws.
This is a GREAT article!
Thanks NYer.
God has blessed you Bishop Paprocki and I pray that he continues to bless you. Wish that more Bishops, who are the direct decedents of the original Apostles, had your good Catholic sense and the will to proclaim it! Keep up the good fight Bishop Paprocki as all true Catholics are 100% behind you.
BTTT
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The government started performing civil ceremonies as an adjunct to religious marriage. And now they claim to supersede them.
Pope Leo XIII saw this coming 130 years ago.
“Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.”
He was writing about civil divorce and remarriage at the time. His mitre would have spun off his head if someone would have explained ‘gay marriage’ to him. To the state in the modern era, marriage is simply whatever judges, pols, or 50% +1 of the voting public thinks it is at any one time. It was always a danger.
Freegards
goodl uck gettign that message past the mobsters in congress-
[[States didnt get involved in marriage for most of human history. The only reason for it now is property laws.]]
Thatr’s not hte only reason- the reason the govenrment took over marriages was for monetary purposes and for htep urpose of joining together two procreatign adults so they coudl create the next generation of taxpayers which woudl support the govenrment (which is precisdely why Gay ‘marriage’ shoudl NOT be allowed Especially if the govenrment insists on taking over the holy sanctity of marriage fro mthe church)
[[Bishop Paprocki also recalled the Catholic Churchs experience with 20th century totalitarian movements which sought to remake family life to advance state goals of racial purity or Marxist ideology. This experience, he said, led to the more refined Catholic teaching that it is not legitimate for the state to interfere with the fundamental nature of the family.]]
They can say it all they like- saying it does nothign to stop it- our govenrment HAS taken over the role of caregivers for our children and has taken over the role of parents- dictatign to parents whaT THEY can and can not do in regards to raisign hteir chuildren- they have been doign htis for decades now, even centuries i nsoem respects-
I know the State hijacked it. What I meant was the only real reason they should have is for property laws, and if people weren’t so messed up morally that shouldn’t even be needed.
Civil unions in Illinois have been legal for just under 2 years. Anyone have a count of the number of same sex civil unions?
That number could spell victory in the fight for normal marriage in Illinois.
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