Father Ed and some dude.
Posted on 12/24/2021 2:26:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Many will be gathering in church, celebrating the birth of Jesus over the next two days, for one of the most joyous times of the year.
But a CNN religion commentator, Roman Catholic priest Fr. Edward Beck, has some thoughts on the subject that seem contrary to everything I learned about the love of one’s neighbor as a Catholic. He’s telling people to stay home, effectively telling them they are not welcome in the Church — on one of the most important days of celebration for Catholics — if they are unvaccinated.
Yep. I said it. I don’t think unvaccinated people should be gathering in churches for Christmas Eve / Day Masses. “Love thy neighbor,” says the Savior. @EricaRHill @jimsciutto @NewDay @cnn pic.twitter.com/3iCghHpV4I
— Father Edward Beck (@FrEdwardBeck) December 24, 2021
I remember growing up as a child being taught how the door of the Church was always open for all who wish to come in, whatever they thought, whatever condition they were in, whatever sins they may have committed. Indeed, that is one of the things that has been true but is perhaps one of the things least recognized about the Church and one of the greatest things about it historically: all are welcome.
It sounds like Fr. Beck doesn’t understand the Church that way and has been spending more time studying at the knee of CNN. He believes churches should require vaccination for entry and that it’s a “social responsibility” of people to get vaccinated, if they are to follow Jesus and “Love thy neighbor.”
First, trying to claim you know the mind of Jesus is always a challenging place to go and just a bit presumptuous. Yes, Jesus did preach, “Love thy neighbor.” But that doesn’t sound at all like ‘Encourage them to stay away if you don’t like the actions they take,’ which is what Beck is pushing. You don’t “show mercy” to each other by demonizing your neighbor.
I might think he has a “social responsibility” to not be on a network like CNN that seems to have issues with people who have sexual allegations against them — from their fired former anchors to their fired former producers. Not to mention the misinformation that the network constantly dishes out. But if I were a priest affiliated with a church, I still wouldn’t deny him entry to that church for the poor choices he has made. When you start doing that, you aren’t preaching “love thy neighbor.”
But Beck didn’t leave it there, after people pushed back against what he said. He compared the unvaccinated to people with leprosy, not helping his cause at all.
All this talk about what Jesus did with lepers. He CURED them! He didn’t tell them to go rub against other people and transmit their leprosy. Vaccinations are part of the cure of Covid. #GetVaxxed
— Father Edward Beck (@FrEdwardBeck) December 24, 2021
Your neighbor is all those who are unvaccinated as well, Fr. Beck, and you don’t seem to be showing much love to them. Trying to use Jesus to justify propaganda is not a good look. He should also know that the vaccinated can spread the virus, but they’re acceptable in Beck’s mind because they’ve complied with the proper edicts.
This kind of attitude drives people away and presents the wrong view of what the Church is actually about. No, it isn’t the Church of CNN propaganda. Notice while he says he wants to impose this on people, churches aren’t doing what he is suggesting; the churches are open to the unvaccinated, despite what Beck wants.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Father Ed and some dude.
My take is the priest is out of work recently and CNN needed someone to tell Catholics not to go to Mass, so they came to some arrangement on a narrative.
He, however, usurped the authority of every Bishop in the USCCB by doing that so he’s going to be in big trouble soon.
Tell it to the vast numbers of people who have been killed or injured from your emergency use authorization experimental drugs, Beck, you moron.
How ‘bout you do something about the predatory homosexuals in your church, Beck, instead of harassing the faithful who didn’t take your poison?
He works for CNN. What did you expect?
Were they having a gay old time?
I seem to remember something about Jesus and Lepers.
Apparently this joke of a priest has forgotten that.
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Well, it may be time for serval to try out a new church . . .perhaps Divine Intervention.
Revelation Ch 3 v 20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Why is Jesus knocking at the door of HIS church?
Because Jesus is NOT in the church in the last age of the church.
This story would seem to confirm that we are in the last age of the church.
How many children has he molested?
CNN’s resident queer pedophile priest tells unvaxed to stay home.
Glad I’m not Catholic.
Good one!
I had some trouble getting past “CNN priest.” Probably should have stopped there.
God will not be mocked, CNNPriest.
There’s positive tests left and right now, seems everyone has a positive covid these days. What difference would it make?
I guess that Jesus’ healing of those lepers and then mixing with others, must have just been wrong, and not ‘loving thy neighbour’.
This ‘preacher’ must have missed learning the history of the church, during seminary. During Justinian’s plague, many of those suffering from the plague, were carried out of their homes and placed on the street by family, not wanting to contract the disease. The only food, water, comfort and nursing provided, was by the Christians, who risked THEIR lives to help these (ofttimes) dying people. They were the ONLY comforters that many of these people had.
Methinks the ‘padre’ needs to re-examine his views, in light of the God-man, whose human birth we are celebrating. A great deal of meditation on the Word would be helpful to him.
Fear is a sin but sin normal for a catholic priest.
A fair weather priest? Certainly no Father Damian.
More likely a CNN Priestess...
A New York diocese’s decision to effectively remove a priest who is a well-known CNN contributor from his posting at a Long Island church has roiled the local community and led the priest’s religious order to end its association with the parish.
Passionist Fr. Edward Beck, who has recently expressed criticism about the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the cable news network, had been serving for about a year as a priest in residence at St. Therese of Lisieux Church in Montauk, New York. . .
Beck received a letter, dated July 28, from Auxiliary Bishop Richard Henning, the new diocesan vicar for clergy, thanking him for his work and informing him that his assignment would be ending on Aug. 31.
Beck received the letter less than a month after he published an opinion essay for CNN in which he criticized the Catholic prelates who voted at their June 16-18 meeting to draft a document on “eucharistic coherence” that grew out of the calls from some conservative bishops to deny the Eucharist to President Joe Biden and other pro-choice Catholic politicians.
“The almost hostile display of disunity among the bishops has been disheartening for many of the faithful,” Beck wrote on June 19, in which he also described Biden as “a practicing Catholic who goes to Mass even when he is traveling in foreign countries.”
On June 21, Beck discussed his essay on the air with CNN anchor Jim Acosta, in which he said that Catholics he spoke with were “furious” and that the document was the “final straw” for many of them. That same day, conservative EWTN anchor and Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo attacked Beck on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, saying that Beck needed “a refresher in the catechism.”. . .
I hope we live to see Nuremberg 2.
I found this video link on Dr. Robert Malone’s twitter feed.
DR SUCHARIT BHAKDI: ORGANS OF DEAD VACCINATED PROVES AUTO IMMUNE ATTACK - 22/12/2021
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fHIT55iM4Zv9/
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