With all the issues going on in the world, the Catholic church needs to weigh in on athletic-wear...
The "Catholic Church" is not "weighing in" on anything. This is Msgr. Pope's personal blog, which his own thoughts. Or are you saying he has no right to express an opinion?
In "chonmage dramas" (Japanese movies or TV shows set in the samurai era), the climactic scene is generally one or two "good guy" samurai surrounded by a greatly-outnumber-ing circle of "bad guy" samurai. (For an example of this, go here, starting around 2:10.) This is a fairly accurate picture of the church surrounded by the forces of sin, and we can't discount any of them: while we attack the antichrist forces of Islam, and the antichrist forces of Marxism, and the antichrist forces of homosexuality-worship, we cannot allow ourselves to be blindsided by the antichrist forces of immodesty and temptation to adultery, which Christ Himself defines as looking at a woman with lust in your heart.
And I would take this a step further. One reason some are being lured into the antichrist heresy of jihadism is the unnecessary immodesty and sex-soaked culture that is what used to be Euro-American Christian society. They replace a truth, that indeed Western society is immodest and sex-soaked, with a giant lie, that the solution is to destroy the West and replace Christianity with Islam. It is not by any means the only reason for jihadism, but remember the analogy of the surrounded samurai, that the church is beset by hordes of devils, and all of them must be fought, all the time, with the weapons of the Spirit.
This had enough prime-time exposure (double entendre intended) to make comment worthwhile. Plus, it gives the church leadership a break from supporting left-wing causes and peddling false doctrines, so taking a biblical position on something is a welcome change.
its a start...
With all the issues going on in the world, the Catholic church needs to weigh in on athletic-wear... >>>
Just because Msgr. Pope’s last name is Pope, that doesn’t mean he was elected Pope by the college of cardinals. He is one of 40,000 priests in the USA giving his opinion.
Oh, and read what Jesus said in Matthew 19 about committing adultery just by thinking about it...
Msgr. Pope is right on target..