Shouldn't we be focusing on the real families?
Posted on 12/22/2014 7:55:57 AM PST by Salvation
Shouldn't we be focusing on the real families?
Monsignor Pope Ping!
This happened at the Synod for one reason and one reason only.
A leftist Jesuit priest by the name of Francis is now pope.
Nothing will improve in the church as long as he remains pope.
Barack Obama might as well be pope.
Bravo Msgr. Pope.
Would it be that your namesake were your office!
When I think of the most successful families I have known the father as well as the mother has a strong faith life.
This is not just a Church problem. In our society men have been marginalized and that is not doing anyone any good at all.
Excellent article!
**I don’t think there is anything more powerful for children then when they see their fathers pray and participate at Mass and at home. They don’t have to preach, the little eyes are watching them.**
Amen and a double Amen to that!
Check out any show on TV, man are portrayed as either goofuses that can’t tie their shoes without help or homosexuals. Women are the heroes in about all TV programs. This started in society with affirmative action programs for women to make the feminist happy. Women cops and firefighters are all over the country now, doing roles that most are not equipped physically or emotionally to do. Then it hit the military and now we have have woman in specialties that once again they are not equipped by nature to perform. Then of course it gets worse under the clueless Obama to the point now we have women in direct front-line combat roles, once again asked to do things that they are not equipped to do, physically or mentally. Many men have died as a result of women that were doing jobs that only a man should be attempting. If there’s a war on women it’s the democrat party, who wants them do die right along side man.
I was a criminal justice major. I work in a related field. I have taken quite a bit of heat for saying whereas I feel there is a role for women in LE, I don't think it's in big cities.
I think Msgr. Pope’s comments are useful, but he has missed the elephant in the room, in my opinion. I believe that everyone concerned about the good of families - not just the Catholic Church - has accepted a dangerously erroneous premise. This is, that genital gratification is not only the primary good of marriage, but the primary good of human life.
Why is contraception an issue? Because genital gratification is an unlimited good, but children are a very limited good, or even a non-good. Why is homosexuality a difficult issue? Because nobody wants to say, “Genital gratification is not, of itself, a good, no matter how strong your urge is.” Why is the Catholic Church discussing the acceptance of remarriage (while most churches have surrendered)? Because the moral and spiritual goods of life are on one side of the scale, and genital pleasure is on the other side.
Consider the classic “bona” of matrimony, as taught by the Church: indissolubility, exclusivity, and children. Consider “the good of the spouses.” As long as it’s believed that “the good of the spouses” is “maximum sterile sexual acts,” there will not be a chance at progress against our current degradation.
Very wise post.
...to focus only on the dysfunction and to make it the main matter of discussion is to miss the solution which comes from focusing on what is functional and healthy.
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So true. Msgr. Pope pens yet another powerful essay.
This is not just a Church problem. In our society men have been marginalized and that is not doing anyone any good at all.
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Well said!
+1 — from this woman.
The shoes alone would get them all killed.
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LOL! And, of course, the women are always gorgeous and done up in outfits that would cost a police detective about 5 months’ pay. Don’t get me started on the cleavage.
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