Posted on 07/21/2017 11:11:52 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
So the international fallout from the Vatican's hit piece against Trump, America's political conservatives and us, here at Church Militant, continues. Father Antonio Spadaro's bloated and nonsensical article last week made the almost unprecedented move of actually singling out this apostolate as an example of what is wrong in the Church these days.
Now, that's rich, coming from a priest who has openly backed ordaining women as priests and is good buddies with practically every lover of the agenda of sodomy in the Church that exists. The essence of his condescending article is that an ecumenical effort has formed between ultraconservative Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants, who want to take over the United States and turn it into a theocracy. He labels this effort as an ecumenism of hate because it is not tolerant of any other idea.
As an example of this use of religion to promote a political agenda aimed at a theocracy, he specifically names this apostolate, Church Militant, to which we say, Father, have you ever actually watched anything we've done? But this is how the Left operates, always, without ceasing. They charge in emotionally-fueled language that you are mean, and sinister — labels which describe their agenda precisely — and turn them around on you. They have no shame in their accusing you of the very tactics they use themselves.
Whatever weird reality Spadaro is referring to about a joining of forces between fundamentalist Protestants and Catholic "integralists," his term, meaning something not entirely clear, his vision in no way could apply to this apostolate. Fundamentalist Protestantism sees the existence of the state of Israel as some kind of harbinger of the end of the world, through a distorted reading of Scripture and builds an entire false theology around that mistaken notion. Church Militant has often called out this error and even produced one of our apologetics videos on the absurdity of such an idea.
The fact that those who hold this twisted view also happen to believe abortion is murder and that the traditional family is established and ordained by God does not make us joined at the hip in some political goose-stepping. In fact, Church Militant has repeatedly warned that the shared political agenda of largely authentic Catholics and some Protestants needs to be looked at with a wary eye in such an environment. It is Catholics who tend to stay mum about larger theological issues such as the need for Protestants to convert, thus sublimating Catholic truths to a more political agenda.
That Spadaro and his Protestant pal, who co-authored the excessively long and error-riddled article, would single us out as an example of any kind of ecuemical effort shows their extremely poor scholarship. The only ecumenism we believe in is the only ecumenism the Church believes in, and that is everyone should be Catholic, period, a belief by the way, not shared by a good number of people at the Vatican these days. But hey, they will have to answer to the King of Kings, who instructed His Church to make disciples of all nations.
So aside from the possibility of slipshod scholarship and a disjointed ill-informed view of the world from high atop Mount Vatican, could there be another reason for singling out Church Militant in their article? Well yes, there could be. Remember, for a Vatican agency to ever single out an individual Catholic effort for scorn is almost unheard of even with you extending mercy and all that.
Well, this article happens to coincide with the recent arrival of Fr. James Martin, sodomy-promoting Jesuit, as a consultor to the Vatican communications efforts. Martin's loved for sodomy and all things LGBT is lauded by many in powerful posts in the Church these days. Martin has mixed it up a lot on social media with us here at Church Militant, especially on Twitter, as he promotes his sick, psychologically disturbed view of theology, if you can call it that...
More at Church Militant.
Bkmk
Why is hate in quotes? Hate is the fuel that fuels everything the left says and does.
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