Posted on 11/26/2022 2:01:01 PM PST by ebb tide
Christopher Manion points to a few historical problems with the US Bishops (and the USCC bureaucracy as a whole).
...Today, [the Bishops'] agenda features a vast array of government programs and policies as the authoritative teaching of “the Church,” while they fall silent on the magisterial teachings of Humanae Vitae on contraception, Romans 1:26-27 on sodomy, and Matthew 19:3-6 on marriage and divorce....
That 'vast array of government programs and policies' is translated "Distributive Justice." That's the claim, anyway: that the 'distributive justice' portion of 'social justice' is served by Federal programs. (You'll recall that 'distributive justice' is a project of the mother of Ponzi-Man Bankman-Fried--the mom who has a very pricey Vacay Home in the Bahamas.)
...The death knell for Catholic demographics came long ago, with the massive wave of opposition to Pope Paul VI’s promulgation of Humanae Vitae in 1968. Alas, the core of that opposition was within the Church herself, including the hierarchy....
...But even that opposition had precedents. Throughout the 60s, as historian Donald Critchlow recounts, America’s bishops had already refused even to oppose taxpayer funding of contraception in government family planning programs at home and abroad.
Their abdication of that consecrated duty persists today.
In 2010, Bishop Howard Hubbard, as chairman of the USCCB’s International Committee on Justice and Peace, joined with other secular lobbyists at the federal trough to support half a billion dollars in funding for contraceptives, and $65 million for abortion, in foreign aid “family planning” programs....
+Howard Hubbard, like +Jos. Bernardin and +Roger Mahony, stands next to Cdl. Ted McCarrick on the All-Time Truly Evil American cleric list. The Wanderer's old "Agony in Albany" series, describing the horrendous homosexual abuser culture during Hubbard's reign, could curl your hair.
Going forward, what can we expect from the USCC?
In their annual meeting this month, bishops reaffirmed their support for the Schumer Doctrine by electing Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso to head the USCCB’s Committee on Migration.
+Seitz is strongly opposed to the Rule of Law vis-a-vis immigration.
...At the same meeting, they elected Richmond Bishop Barry Knestout to head their Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People.
Some twenty years ago, Knestout lived in the same apartment as then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and served as his secretary in the Washington chancery. When McCarrick was removed years later, Knestout wrote: “Throughout the time that I was in Washington, I can tell you that I was not approached by anyone with any allegations or evidence of sexual harassment or abuse involving the cardinal.”
Unfortunately for the bishop, the question in the minds of the people was, “But what did you know?”...
That's a question he'll never answer until he gets to St. Peter at THE checkpoint.
Individual Bishops in a number of places such as Tyler, TX. and Madison, WI. (there are others) will hold fast to that which is good. They need prayers to overcome the USCC's 60+ year tradition of deliberately-vague infidelity to Catholicism pure.
There is a simple solution: abolish the USCC, which is merely a creation of +Jos. Bernardin, another member of the "most infamous Bishop" club. Keeping the USCC is like keeping a memorial to Beelzebub.
Why would Catholics do that?
Ping
Leftist infiltrated the church long ago with the specific intention to destroy it so people would be disillusioned and worship the state
You are so right.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
Jesus said, “The gates of Hell will not prevail against His Church”. This is true. The unanswered question is what will His true Church look light in 25, 50, 100 years?
Problem with bishops is they are not Catholic, in the sense of upholding the teachings of the Church, anymore. They are Socialists.
Abolish the USCCB? Sure, but it’s not a creation of Bernardino. It’s a creation of the Second Vatican Council. The USCCB is the manifestation of “Collegiality”—the core subject of Lumen Gentium.
So yes, by all means do away with it…but take the other 15 documents with it on the. Way out.
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