Thought it might be interesting to research what Bud himself wrote about divorce less than two years ago. Should serve as a warning to all of us not to put our faith in man (including ourselves) but in God alone.
-Start-
THREE UNIONS
Steve eventually came up with three answers: The Pope, No Divorce, and No Contraception. Steve had an additional insight regarding what all three truths have in common, and it has electrified me ever since. Steve pointed out that all three teachings are fundamentally about UNION. The Pope unifies the Body of Christ in authority and teaching. The indissolubility of marriage ensures the union of man and woman in "one flesh" and is the foundation for all family life and civilization itself. Openness to the transmission of life in the marriage bed ensures that the biological and supernatural union between man and wife will bring new life. The fruit of this last union is literally awesome: the marital act may bring forth a unique child who is eternally ensouled. I beg you: ponder these realities. Write down UNION=LIFE on a post-it note and put it on your mirror. There is no "life" without "union." There is no salvation without union. There is no authority or truth without bishops who teach and govern in union with the Holy Father.
CONCEPTION
Conversely, the evil one will always try to destroy supernatural unions by tempting us to divide from each other; by tempting us to divide from the truth and tempting us to divide from the Church. He will even try to divide us from our wives and our husbands and children. He will try to drive a wedge between Christ's bishops and their flock. Beware of dis-union. Another word for "union" is "conception." Contra-ception is literally a dis-union between love and life. Conception, on the other hand is life-from-love. The Immaculate Conception, Our Lady, is the fruit of the Holy Trinity's love for us which bore Jesus into history, and gave the world both the hope and means for eternal life and eternal union with His Father. The Holy Trinity is a union. Even unto Himself, God is both One and a Union of Persons.
CatholiCity Message from
Bud Macfarlane, MI
Founder of CatholiCity
Volume VI, Number 9
May 14, 2002
http://www.catholicity.com/catholicitymessage/archives/wm2002-05-14.html --End--
IMHO, this sad state of affairs arises because the clergy have sunk to such depths that lay people are taking up apostolates that they are neither temporally or spiritually inclined to succeed at. Sites like Catholicity should be being run by nuns, brothers and priests which clear lines of authority.
Family men are not really in a position to do this sort of work and resist the efforts of the devil to pull it all down.
Let's first and foremost pray for the MacFarlane family. There but for the grace of God go all of us. But also let's try and learn an object lesson in humility and our own limitations according to our God given vocation in life.
Dr. Michael Duke
Wise insights.