The Catholic bishops in this country can't even figure out how to deal with prominent Catholics in our national leadership who are complicit in these kinds of abominations ... to the point where a Catholic family has to turn to the civil court system to deal with an abomination like this involving a CATHOLIC public official. Sorry to be blunt about this, but if these bishops had any b@lls they would have publicly excommunicated people like Nancy Pelosi and Kathy Sebelius by name years ago.
It's one thing to "engage the enemy," as you've said elsewhere on this thread, but the time for engagement is over when your institution is involved in lawsuits against that "enemy." Under no circumstances should a religious leader extend an invitation to a civil government official who has openly engaged in the exercise of his or her civil authority in a manner that udnermines the moral foundation of those religious believers and threatens to persecute them. "Rendering unto Caesar" does not mean inviting him to dinner (for a major fund-raiser, by the way) or showing up at his palace for a photo-op when he has already taken such an adversarial stance.
Can’t say I disagree with you on this.
Under no circumstances should a religious leader extend an invitation to a civil government official who has openly engaged in the exercise of his or her civil authority in a manner that udnermines the moral foundation of those religious believers and threatens to persecute them.
Says you
"Rendering unto Caesar" does not mean inviting him to dinner (for a major fund-raiser, by the way) or showing up at his palace for a photo-op when he has already taken such an adversarial stance.
Who said this was a photo-op? Do you also have the charism of reading souls like Ann Barnhardt does?