Posted on 07/15/2014 7:55:43 PM PDT by marshmallow
Being on the wrong side of what nature teaches leads to social ruin and historical failure
Francis Cardinal George, in his most recent column in Catholic New World, reflects on the nature of religious freedom in the United States, and masterfully connects a number of important, related points in doing so:
In this country, we do not fear being killed for our faith. What, then, are we afraid of? We are afraid that the institutions that perform the works of mercy that have been integral to the church’s mission for centuries will be forced to become, effectively, government institutions, given permission to exist only if they do not act as Catholic. At stake are Catholic hospitals, Catholic universities and Catholic social services, precisely as Catholic. At stake also is a society that once permitted many different voices and faiths to contribute to the common good without compromising their collective conscience.
The issue has clustered around the HHS mandate that insists that any institution serving the public must treat women’s fertility as an enemy to be suppressed for the sake of women’s freedom. In fact, the government has made many exceptions to this rule, but has steadfastly refused to exempt Catholic institutions. The issue is therefore in the courts.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicworldreport.com ...
"Cardinal George: Our "vaunted American liberties" are "all being traded off in favor of freedom of sexual expression"
He’s correct.
The French Revolution was a godless one and led to dictator Napolean. The American Revolution was just the opposite in seeking religious and faith based freedoms. We are approaching a French style revolution sometime in the future and its gonna be a messy and godless debacle.
Now that perversion and dope are both being legalized it's only going to get worse, too.
Just how long after pot is legalized will it be until coke, heroin, and everything else is legal? Look at Amsterdam; not long. Consider the Brits and the Opium War, too. If it brings in significant tax revenue it'll become accepted by the fat cats and politicians in spite of their professed moral objections.
Exactly like abortion, they'll just say they have to represent all the people in spite of personally objecting to it. Then they'll belly up to the trough with the rest of the swine to split the loot.
Most Americans have always thought they could take a reasonable degree morality and all their Constitutional freedoms for granted but unless people Cowboy Up and fight for a return to the Christian values America was built on there won't be an America in another generation.
Telling the truth.
Who was it that said speaking truth will become a revolutionary act.
Thank you, good Cardinal George for announcing the revolution. You are now a revolutionary.
Yes, very messy and very bloody. I expected it back in the 70s. It did not happen then, but I still expect it to happen. I just don't see any alternative to it. The communists simply will not stop pushing their evil agenda.
Great photo at the link, too. There is Cardinal George, and Archbishop Cordileone in the foreground!! Two of the good guys.
Catholic universities and hospitals started a dance with the devil the first time they accepted government funding like student aid and Medicaid-Medicare. Unfortunately, the fruits of Vatican II left the schools and medical facilities dependent on government money as the convents and seminaries were emptied of the types of self-sacrificing sisters and brothers who did their work for the love of the Lord.
Dear Cardinal George:
If the Church had remembered the principle of subsidiarity, and had not over the last fifty years allied itself so firmly with those who advocate the expansion of federal government power over so many aspects of Americans’ private lives, it might not now find itself fighting this desperate delaying action on the issue of sexual morality.
Rather a second American style revolution.
Rather we are going to see an American revolution 2.0. The conservative side has had enough.
Revolt is coming.
BINGO!
It needs to come very soon while I can still drag myself and my weapon to the sandbags one more time. Better me than my grandkids, and their kids.
That was rather bloody.
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