Posted on 07/09/2020 1:46:59 PM PDT by Marchmain
A California bishop challenged Catholics online to “cut it out” and better represent their Christian faith through their social media engagement.
On Tuesday, Bishop Robert Barron, an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, issued a “pastoral cry of the heart” to encourage Catholics to stop tearing each other apart online and instead provide well structured and charitable arguments.
“I understand that people are passionate, especially about religious matters, but when it comes to this commentary we always must keep truth and love in the forefront,” he said.
Speaking of social media, Bishop Barron said that “I must admit the vitriol, negativity, personal attacks, and outright calumny that come regularly from self-professed Catholics is dismaying and disedifying in the extreme.”
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“I was called spineless, gutless, cowardly, and that’s just to mention the most benign and unobscene remarks.”
Wisdom from another poof bishop.
That’s what happens when you call ppl racists and bigots because they refuse to bow down to BLM or the homosexual lobby. They get mad and fight back.
They provocateurs were probably hired to give Bishop Barron the ability to point to “anonymous” Traditional Catholics to smear them as all angry, radical and extreme.
The Traditional CatholicsI know will never engage in such tactics — it just is not in the spiritual DNA of people steeped in prayer and patience.
Thus, Bishop Barron needed a way to anonymously smear them.
Disgusting!
Tell you what, Bishop Barron, when the bishops cut out their heresy, homosexual proselytizing, theft, diversion of church funds to support Marxist and terrorist groups, racebaiting, etc., I’ll cut out the flaming. Until then: flame on!
It’s not a smear if it’s true.
He (Marshall) wanted them to go to the places where they were torn down, pray, perform exorcism, and call it desecration.
This Bishop said it wasn't his job.
Video of Taylor Marshall here.
Marshall made a compelling case for religious to do this (publicly pray and defend statues)IMO.
Imagine the awesome image it would make if they would do this.
People need to see the Church.
The devil is trying to make it invisible.
The devil doesn't want people turning to Christ.
The devil wants Christians to be afraid, hide, and be silent.
This guy is a phony through and through. Advice to the Bishop: Shut Up.
That's all accurate so maybe some of the obscene remarks were as well.
“Bishop Barron said...” Who cares? I don’t listen to Barron, since I reject wolves in sheep’s clothing. Barron wants to be Pope and will do anything to get there: anything, whether ethical or unethical. Funny how the dynamics in the New Testament are still with us today.
“This Bishop said it wasn’t his job.”
No he didn’t: https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/article/why-what-are-the-bishops-doing-about-it-is-the-wrong-question/27757/
Thx for posting re: Taylor Marshall. You beat me to it.
Could be, it’s called the sin of detraction.
I had to look this up
“detraction is the sin of revealing another person’s real faults to a third person without a valid reason”
This is a very public argument about public actions and inaction. I don’t see how it applies. Calling the Bishop “spineless” may not be pleasant but that that can be a valid opinion of his attempt to shift responsibility.
I agree that people need to respectfully disagree, and not hurl insults at each other . (Social media is notorious for mud flinging.)
That said, Taylor Marshall was not disrespectful, and he said what many Catholics are really thinking.
To sum up, the Church has an opportunity to stand up, be seen, and speak out against desecration.
Where is the Church?
Doesn't anyone see that there might be forces of darkness at work?
And not just in the desecrations, but with the Church closures, and telling people they can't sing, in England even praising God is forbidden?
Something is wrong with this whole scenario.
Praying for the Church...
“the article basically outlines why he thinks it’s not his job to defend the statues, that the laity should do it.”
False. From the first paragraph: “I will gladly admit that there are certain practical steps that bishops can and should take in regard to such a situation. We can indeed lobby politicians, encourage legislative changes, and call community leaders together, all of which bishops have been doing. But what struck me again and again as I read these rather taunting remarks is that these folks, primarily lay men and women, are putting way too much onus on the clergy and not nearly enough on themselves.”
But what have they exactly been lobbying for? Open borders, socialized medicine, distribution of wealth, baiting race wars, etc.
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