Posted on 09/03/2009 6:57:00 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
Gee Cardinal, thanks for letting everyone know that baby butchery isn’t really that big a deal for you when it comes right down to it. Also thanks for enforcing that way of thinking amongst Catholics everywhere. Keep on trying to teach what the Church believes without ever using discipline to show you mean what you say, you seem to like the results of such efforts.
T.Man: I always thought this Arroyo guy was a stiff, he seemed like a bad used car salesman. I was wrong, he nails it. The lack of discipline from the church as concerns the issue of baby butchery is a scandal that will be looked back at as dwarfing the homosexualist priest scandal.
Freegards
His mission in life is not to be popular but do the right thing which is unpopular. Strip off his fancy robes and he’s a ‘nothing’ but a PC politician. He stands for nothing biblical and everything secular.
All;
I was just curious, How many people on this thread think they are better, more righteous, than Ted Kennedy?
Apparently, you haven’t had much experience with bishops, archbishops and cardinals.
Remember this is Boston. And in Boston, everything is political.
Not me. I’m just a sinner trying to find my way through this life, and get to heaven by the Grace of God.
No kidding.
I see the Communist propaganda is alive and well.
You mean you are a beggar for grace? Sort of in God’s soup kitchen?
How many Catholics on this thread think they should be complicit in another's (O'Malley) sins ?
I totally agree but there is no follow-up. They come out against it but condone it - Notre Dame, Georgetown, O’Malley.
Nine ways of being an accessory to anothers sin.
1.By Counsel
2.By Command
3.By Consent
4.By Concealment
5.By Defense of Evil Done
6.By Partaking
7.By Provocation
8.By Praise
9.By Silence
So the role of the church should be moral policemen for unbelievers?
Notice that no one has reported Ted receiving the sacraments before death, or reconciling with the church, unless one counts those mealy-mouthed and defensive "letters" as penance. The Cardinal is typical of many Catholic "Thinkers" (Like Bill O'Reilly, Tim Russert, even Chrissie) who see the Democrat Party as the embodiment of Christian Social Justice, which for them is Christian Socialism as practiced in Europe and which is what led to the EU. They combine this with fervent admiration of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Party.
This is 19th C thought. IOW, "Let's make all of those attractive communist social reforms for society, but with Christianity as the key, not the atheism of the real communists. That way, we'll keep those nasty real communist killers out of here and build a perfect society for Jesus! KOOMBAYAH" The real commies think they are fools ... and they have a point.
Mercy and Justice are not mutually exclusive. God is merciful AND just.
We can and should pray for Ted Kennedy's immortal soul. I pray to God he will be merciful. I don't want anyone to go to Hell but that is a reality for some. Hell is real and you can end up there.
We should not canonize notorious sinners nor afford them public spectacles. It scandalizes the Church, weakens believers faith among other things. That is not just nor merciful.
That's absolutely untrue, and is a lie invented by the East German secret police and the KGB.
I didn't read the word "mercy" in any of his public pronouncements. Maybe I missed it. If he wanted to use the Kennedy funeral as a "teaching moment" he could have recounted the reasons for mercy and urge prayers for the repose of his soul. Instead we see attribution to what was a scandalous life by the eulogies presented in Kennedy's send-off.
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