Posted on 06/03/2020 6:51:50 PM PDT by ebb tide
It was not the head of the Catholic Church who finally condemned the tyrannical decrees of various state governors that churches are to be “nonessential,” while marijuana dispensaries, liquor stores, and abortuaries can remain open. It was President Donald Trump. He said that he is “correcting this injustice and calling houses of worship essential.”
In earlier times, the Church willingly submitting to state decrees in gross violation of its freedom to practice the faith would have been a scandal of epic proportions. A public outcry, beginning at the top, would have ensued, and a contingency of priests no doubt would have gone into the catacombs to continue uninterrupted the 2,000-year-old celebration of the Mass with the faithful.
Now, with a few noteworthy exceptions, the Church has accepted its shameful public demotion and “nonessential” status. Incredibly, Pope Francis urged “obedience” to civil protocol after Italian bishops complained about the continued closure of churches while other businesses were permitted to reopen.
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I think it was a calculated move.
Trump supporters who want to play it safe aren’t going to abandon Trump for Biden because Trump advocates for opening the churches.
Trump was in danger of losing those that most wanted to open. Freeper NoLibZone is an example of someone who has turned against Trump because of the lock downs.
On the other hand, Trump has acknowledged God more than any other President I remember. Maybe it wasn’t calculated. Maybe the Holy Spirit told him it was time.
Don’t know.
Heh... I was gonna post this article too....
Awesome essay by this writer.....
Time for the laity to step it up....protest, boycott Bishops appeals, whatever it takes to get the clergy to understand the Church and the Mass IS NOT theirs to hijack from the people.....
“Pope Francis seems to have inherited the legacy of Maritain, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John XXIII... thinkers who demonstrate kinship with the progressive Social Gospel desire to bring about spiritual change through the political apparatus... presumably, to further a spiritual mission.”
That presumption may even be wrong, the goals often have been social, political, ecological or psycho-social, not spiritual.
Oh, really?
ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER PAUL VI TO THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION* October 4, 1965
For us, first of all. You know very well who we are, and whatever your opinion of the Pontiff of Rome may be, you know that our mission is to bring a message for all mankind. We speak not only in our own name and in the name of the great Catholic family, but also in the name of the Christian brethren who share in the sentiments we are expressing here, and especially of those who have been kind enough to designate us explicitly as their spokesman. This is the kind of messenger who, at the end of a long journey, is handing over the letter that has been entrusted to him. Hence we have an awareness of living through a privileged moment - brief though it be - when a wish borne in our heart for almost twenty centuries is being accomplished. Yes, you recall it. We have been on our way for a long time and we bring a long history with us. Here we are celebrating the epilogue to a laborious pilgrimage in search of an opportunity to speak heart to heart with the whole world. It began on the day when we were commanded: «Go, bring the good news to all nations.» You are the ones who represent all nations.
Permit us to say that we have a message, and a happy one, to hand over to each one of you Our message is meant to be first of all a solemn moral ratification of this lofty Institution, and it comes from our experience of history. It is as an "expert on humanity" that we bring this Organization the support and approval of our recent predecessors, that of the Catholic hierarchy, and our own, convinced as we are that this Organization represents the obligatory path of modern civilization and world peace.
In saying this, we are aware that we are speaking for the dead as well as the living: for the dead who have fallen in the terrible wars of the past, dreaming of world peace and harmony; for the living who have survived the wars and who in their hearts condemn in advance those who would try to have them repeated; for other living people too: the younger generation of today who are moving ahead trustfully with every right to expect a better mankind. We also want to speak for the poor, the disinherited, the unfortunate, those who long for justice, a dignified life, liberty, prosperity and progress. People turn to the United Nations as if it were their last hope for peace and harmony. We presume to bring here their tribute of honor and of hope along with our own. That is why this moment is a great one for you too.
Now fast forward to Bergoglio, 2019:
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