and he was right...
Posted on 12/10/2019 6:26:42 PM PST by marshmallow
PEORIA, Illinois, December 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) -- As controversy continues to swirl over the Vatican’s decision to postpone the beatification of the Venerable Fulton Sheen, archival video has surfaced showing the famed televangelist condemning “false compassion” for drug addiction, crime, and homosexuality, among other social ills.
In a video recorded in the early 1960s, Archbishop Sheen lectured television viewers about what he called “false compassion” for criminals, prostitutes, drug addicts, and homosexuals. “False compassion, which is gradually growing in this country, is a pity that is shown not to the mug, but to the mugger; not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer.”
It is the “social slobberers,” said Sheen, who “insist on compassion to the mugger, the dope fiend, the throat-slashers, to the beatniks, to prostitutes, to homosexuals, to the punks, so that today the decent man is practically off the reservation.” He reiterated, “This is a false compassion.”
A former professor of theology, the archbishop identified the origins of false compassion. “It started in literature,” he said. It was in the work of William Saroyan and John Steinbeck, for example, “where pity was extended through their novels to the good-natured slob.” It is in such novels that pity is shown, he said, “to every kind of pervert and degenerate.”
Sheen said false compassion leads to increased crime. Judges are not immune to false compassion: “Clemency of a false kind is shown to criminals,” he said. On a blackboard, Sheen provided crime statistics for New York City and the United States and added, “Part of the blame for this crime picture has to be laid at the door of all of those who committed and have shown false compassion.”
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They pulled something he said from the 1960s.
That is the only concern I see here.
btw, Did I ever tell you how much I love your name on here?!
It is fun just saying it.
and he was right...
Words of wisdom.
It’s a wonderful teaching. Love the Archbishop.
It’s a wonderful teaching. Love the Archbishop.
I had an opportunity to meet Archbishop Sheen many years back. He was a wonderful orthodox Catholic. A great man. He would have made a wonderful pope.
Ping
How lucky you were to have met him. We listened to him on the radio 34580 years ago. . A terrific speaker and clear, logical thinker.
I’m still a big fan of logic.
Veto!
(The girl)
It does not surprise me, in the least, that Fulton Sheen had that solid of a grounding in life to have said the obvious truth on this matter.
What he calls “false compassion” I would call “misplaced compassion.” Same thing, same examples, though.
‘Some are made eunuchs for the Kingdom of God’ . I have been associated with a church in south Texas that has three married priests.
It should serve as the poster child for why celibacy is the only way. It’s not for everyone and like other teachings a ‘hard saying’ that few can accept but certainly wise. The issue of sodomy is completely separate from the debate over married or celibate clergy,
Wow that’s a heck of a good speech. Still relevant today
Bump
“not really reflective of the general social order”
The Church is not supposed to be reflective of the general social order.
L8r
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