[Catholic Caucus] The Wheels Are Coming Off

The Wanderer Press ^ | August 17, 2023 | FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK

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[Catholic Caucus] The Wheels Are Coming Off

Prophets are a pain. They bother us incessantly with the same somber warnings of doom. We don’t like prophets because we fear they will take away all the fun and pleasure of life.
If you think that sin is fun, you would be right. But, because what we see is not all there is, because time flies and eternity await, because the way of all flesh is death and corruption, this world and the flesh must be submitted to other and higher, eternal considerations. 


The role of the prophet is to stand before others who have forgotten they are more than flesh and bone, more than appetites and wants, and to confront them with their own deeds and words which deny, and war against, the soul and eternal life. Against God.


Prophets in fact do us a favor: They give us the means to judge and condemn ourselves now and turn our lives back to God before we face His divine and final eternal judgment. Prophets, it turns out, are all about love and second chances. By forcing us to hear and consider matters we find disagreeable, by confronting us with the unsavory truth of our repulsive sinfulness, they do us a favor of eternal proportions.

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Today the Pope is not separated physically from the Apostolic See. Through his episcopal and Vatican appointments, his documents, his words and actions, however, he is distanced spiritually from the charism of Peter and the office of Pope, “saying and doing things a Pope should never say or do,” according to Fr. Gerald Murray, author, speaker, and canon lawyer.

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These young priests are Catholic and want to be Catholic in every sense of that word. They want no part of the synods on sodomy and the wholesale promotion of fantasies that have nothing to do with Scripture and Tradition and, in fact, contradict Tradition. These unrealizable and false promises include “ordination” of women to the diaconate or the priesthood and “blessing” sin such as simulation of marriage through any sexual activity pursued outside of holy matrimony exclusively between one man and woman, for the whole of life and open to bearing children.

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Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.