He's got it right.
Wonder if he and Cardinal Tim ("Chuckles") Dolan are on speaking terms?
The cardinal is raising a critical issue that will be troubling to Catholics and other decent people of conscience in the future. If indeed the constitution of the United States allows the wholesale killing of innocent human life (more than 50,000,000 since 1973), should people of conscience take an oath to uphold and defend such a document? Can a decent person sit on a jury in the courtroom of a black robed federal judge knowing what horrors have been sanctioned in that chamber? The early Christians as a matter of conscience refused to serve in the Roman army or participate in civil proceedings. Has America reached that point?
He’s right, and I reject this “creed”.
Dolan needs to be defrocked for his actions
Other than his eschatology, this cardinal is 100% right. It’s wonderful that a Cardinal is saying these things.
“Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.”
Pope Leo XIII, 1880
He warned about the civil authorities defining marriage 130+ years ago. To the state in the modern era, marriage can only be what judges, pols, or the voting majority think it can be at any one time, and that’s the bottom line.
Freegards