Posted on 03/23/2014 11:47:27 AM PDT by smoothsailing
I must say....it just flabbergasts me ... that some of the Bishops don’t seem to be on the same team... they’re supposed to be upholding Biblical teachings as the Church understands them (and RCC Canon Law which speaks directly to this issue)...
you are correct. when the flock sees that some of the Bishops don’t seem to care about these teachings one way or the other ... then the parishioners naturally conclude that its okay for them to choose whichever course, conduct, candidates they might want.
The non-acting Bishops are teaching exactly the wrong message, .. by their profoundly LOUD silence with regard to prominent politicians who openly and actively promote and espouse abortion-on-demand.
It is a very disappointing situation, and one for which I can find no explanation (at least in the most visible, aggrevous instances)
I doubt a newspaper in the country would have covered for a Republican KKK member for forty years...
Anyone who has doubts can research the mastheads of Southern racist Newspapers... the same folks were in the mastheads beginning, middle and end of the civil rights movement. They started as democrats and ended as democrats.
And what year was that? I thought in his older years he had made comments that were so much different than that..... But my memory ain’t what it used to be
At the nursing home I work at a young black single mom with an interest in history(talk about a rarity) was stunned when I told her the single greatest enemy to her people were and are the Democrats. I told her slavery, The Confederate States of America, The Civil War, the creation of the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws were all bought about by the Democrats. She had no idea The National Rifle Association was created by former Union soldiers to teach blacks how to use firearms to defend themselves from Klan violence. I told her this was necessary because the first gun control laws passed in America were passed by Democrats to prevent blacks from owning guns. She was equally shocked to learn Fredrick Douglas and Martin Luther King were Republicans. She didn’t own a computer but told me she and her daughter used one at the library. I told her to check out Fredrick Douglas Republicans.com She did. She thanked me profusely.
I suspect the above truth will never be included in a black studies class... Thanks for sharing.
I PRAY that I would do the same.... I PRAY I would have the courage to do that.
Father....the problem is that NO ONE KNOWS if she had a TRUE CONFESSION before her HOLY COMMUNION.
“And what year was that? I thought in his older years he had made comments that were so much different than that..... But my memory aint what it used to be”
That was in 64, but you may be right that he repented to an extent later in life. Or maybe that was Wallace.
Pelosi, and those like her, cannot just duck in and go to Confession. As long as she is publicly pro-abortion, any Confessions she does make are bad Confessions. No priest should absolve her, either.
In the case of someone like Pelosi, as long as she has not repented publicly, she has not repented, because the scandal she has given has been, by definition, public. The only way to end the scandal is to announce her repentance publicly.
Since Pelosi is accepting the Margaret Sanger Award this week, it is obvious she is still committed to promoting abortion.
By the way, this is why Ted Kennedy should not, IMHO, have had a Catholic funeral, because any faithful priest would have demanded, as a condition of absolution, a public statement of repentance for supporting abortion and other “non-negotiable” evils.
Simply because a mobster priest was hanging around, under canon law that qualified as a sign that Kennedy was a “practicing Catholic” when he died, so he had a Catholic funeral.
But it should have been without TV cameras, without celebrities, and with immediate family only. Cardinal O’Malley was not, however, going to miss a chance to slobber all over Obama, and mix with Domingo and other famous people.
Wallace apologized for his race-baiting past quite profusely. He was a changed man after years of agony.
In 1964 times were very different. Both Wallace and Maddox went through changes (as did many others) that brought them into the 20th century.
Byrd even in later years tried to deny that he was KKK or that it is was bad because it was wrong. But then Bobby Byrd owned W.Va. and felt he was the only one who knew anything. As much as I disliked him it would be a joy to have him hammering Harry Reid and Obama for their fecklessness
You’re welcome.While the Klan in and of itself terrorized and even killed blacks it’s real agenda was to prevent blacks from voting. The Klan knew blacks sure wouldn’t be voting for Democrats.
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