Posted on 02/26/2021 7:17:39 PM PST by MurphsLaw
Here's a homily you aint gonna hear everyday.....
https://fb.watch/3VoLH8JWc6
(Its worth a cut and paste)
Hear, hear!
We have a demonic administration who are doing wholly evil acts and who are ravishing Christians and it is a virtue to pray for a well defined evil to come and destroy them. We are to hate their evil:
Hatred (two species of)
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07149b.htm
Excerpt:
This second kind of hatred, as involving a very direct and absolute violation of the precept of charity, is always sinful and may be grievously so. The first-named species of hatred, in so far as it implies the reprobation of what is actually evil, is not a sin and may even represent a virtuous temper of soul. In other words, not only may I, but I even ought to, hate what is contrary to the moral law. Furthermore one may without sin go so far in the detestation of wrongdoing as to wish that which for its perpetrator is a very well-defined evil, yet under another aspect is a much more signal good. For instance, it would be lawful to pray for the death of a perniciously active heresiarch with a view to putting a stop to his ravages among the Christian people.
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