It makes no sense for the Vatican to punish or pressure the PEOPLE because of the behavior of the bishops, because the people don’t pick the bishops. The Pope picks the bishops.
“It makes no sense for the Vatican to punish or pressure the PEOPLE because of the behavior of the bishops, because the people don’t pick the bishops. The Pope picks the bishops.”
Bingo!
We have a winner!
I was merely raising the ideas for discussion...do the righteous of this nation still have any power politically and spiritually to affect change....can it be leveraged so that it honors God, proclaims Christ, and heals our political systems?
If for a given week, a large proportion of Christendom of every denomenation simple pulled back from every kind of public service other than the most neediest services to our sick and poor,withheld spending, fasted, prayed, would it make a difference? Would it put worse persecution on us?
I don’t know, these are questions I have. I do suspect that the LA mayor would have a flood of angry phone calls from very religious and moral hispanic Catholics who discovered that they couldn’t receive communion because of the actions of their mayor. Yeah, I know, it’s not very realistic and given church history, it’s not wise that any church denomenation should tinker with politics in such a direct fashion.
Someone had a point in another post that many of the folk that put these politicians in office are only nominally attached to the Catholic church and are in full agreement with these politicians’ policies. So more direct church discipline wouldn’t even phase them anyway...the same sad situations exist in many protestant churches as well.
The state of Christendom in this nation needs a “come out of her my people”, a kind of “who is on the Lord’s side, let them come to me” kind of separation...but I am mindful of the parable of the wheat and the tares. Won’t happen until God deems the harvest ready.