Thank you for this post—I’ve tried to access it from the link and cannot.
Wonder if someone’s trying to block this....hmmmmm.
I never thought that you would be bamboozled into the old media trick of shifting blame, but oh how you have! So, it’s the Catholic Church’s fault that the Obama administration is compelling forced abortion/concentration on the nation? That’s rich!
Have many U.S. bishops fallen prey to liberalism in the last 50 or so years? Unfortunately, they have, as have too many Americans. Yet to posit that the Church is in bed with the modern Democrat party is a joke. The Church is the only worldwide entity that stands athwart their main pillars: abortion, gay marriage and euthanasia.
By the way, the Church’s main goal is not, as you have claimed, charity. It is the saving of souls...you can look it up.
As far as Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, etc., it is also the job of the Church to call sinners back to the Faith, not to drive them away. Do I wish the aforementioned politicians were publicly excommunicated? Sure, but according to Canon Law, they have already incurred what is called latae sententiae excommunicatio, which is the same sentence, but self-imposed. It doesn’t matter where they sit in Church or even at a Papal audience; their reception of the Sacraments is illicit and can only lead them into further sin.
The author of the piece you are reading should try and find a devout Catholic parish if he wishes to hear the Faith taught in the proper way; there are many, many in this country; even right here in the liberal Northeast. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem he has tried too hard.
Rush, the new leadership of the USCCB is very much anti-socialist, as has been the Universal Church worldwide. Before you read out an indictment against a fading breed of 1960s American bishops as representative of the Church, do some research please!
There are very many conservative Catholics in this country: just look to the SCOTUS or to the many recent converts to the faith among the conservative punditry or to two of the four remaining presidential candidates.
Please, don’t fall prey to the liberal media tactic of blaming the victims. The Church, going forward, may indeed lose many, many members who wear their Catholicism like a piece of clothing to be changed and discarded at a whim, but those of the true Faith will continue to uphold and defend it, come what may.
Great article. Thanks for posting
bump for later
They had to find some way to get the employees on ObamaCare without these dumb people catching on.
What better way?
Another thing... whole incident changed the national conversation for one or two days from economy/jobs to healthcare for the religious.
NOW, the Dems are trotting out vacuous Jackie Kennedy's papers ... like anyone cares about her anymore except the moonbats of Massachusetts.
Not quite as wordy but the same point.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2844361/posts
Rush cited this article on his show today. Good job Rush!
I am a staunch Catholic and a defender of my faith. But there is so much I agree with in this article. I love my Church, and I believe it is the one true Church. But the Church is made up of mortal people who are corrupt. The Church as was founded by Jesus Christ is a strong entity that has survived centuries of many heresies, trials and tribulations. But the people who make up the Church are corrupting it. I have been very distressed how only one month a year is put aside for the murder of babies. Calendars are sold, bumper stickers are handed out. And look where it’s gotten us today. Abortion is so ingrained in our culture, that even Rush Limbaugh continues to use the term “pro-choice” on his radio show. Babies are still being slaughtered by the millions 39 years after the Roe v Wade ruling. Catholic politicians openly flaunt their debauchery by going to Holy Communion and the Church says nothing.
My husband used to run a crisis pregnancy clinic next door to a notorious abortion clinic. We had problems getting volunteers to work at the clinic. Access Pregnancy, which is the official pro-life clinic of the Archdiocese (supposedly) was only a few blocks away. We asked if we could send some of the women who we could talk away from the abortion clinic to them for counselling because we were short-handed. They said no. Our clinic, because of its proximity to the abortion clinic, was the target of much harrassment by the clinic “deathscorts” that were hired by the abortionist who owned the clinic. We were told that we would get no help from any of the Right to Life counselers because they didn’t want to risk being sued. So much for caring about the killing of babies and wanting to stop it.
I hope someone does an equally good article on how the majority of non-Catholic Christians voted democrat for the past sixty years right along with Catholics.The South was so solidly democrat for so long that even now it's news worthy when a State Legislature stays in the hands of Republicans for more than a term or two.
It's all well and good to focus on the Catholic Church, and the Bishops who wanted to be a distinctly "American Catholic Church" did sell out, first to having their own version of Catholicism, and only afterward to liberal causes they thought would ingratiate them with the majority. And that majority was for sixty years solidly democrat no matter who managed to win a Presidential race.
Look around, there are Baptist, Methodist, Nondenominational, Lutheran, and all sorts of other flavors of non-Catholic "Christian" churches ordaining queers, marrying queers one to another, preaching that contraception is no big deal, and even that abortion isn't a problem. So, single out the Catholic Church all you like, their problem in this country was trying to keep up with a non-Catholic populace that decided Christ should follow them rather than their having to follow Christ. For the most part, Americans put self indulgence ahead of all else and revised their version of Christianity to fit with their indulgence.
That fundamental moral failing isn't due to the failure of the the Catholic Church or the non-Catholic Churches in this country, they all reacted poorly to the moral collapse, but they didn't lead it. The collapse of morality and moral leadership are the real real legacy of that bunch labeled, "The Greatest Generation" who taught their children and grand children that the greatest virtue was going along to get along.
JMHO
bttt
I truly believe that Bernardin and his boys tried to destroy the Catholic Church, perhaps, unwittingly. But were they Freemasons, and did this all come from inside the church?
PS. Receive the Eucharist on your tongue, never in your hands — the hand thing was an idea of the Freemasons to steal hosts!