The Irish are busily killing the most innocent among them. Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts gives us his thoughts:
Abortion in Ireland and the Number of the Beast
I know, it’s just coincidence. Of course our silly superstitious forebears would have thought it was significant that the number of abortions in Ireland the first year after abortion was legalized was 6,666. Us fancy and sophisticated science era types know it’s just a cosmic coincidence. We live in a material universe that obeys the laws of nature, and generally those strange things that old timers would have applied religious significance to we know, for a fact, are just coincidence.
Of course the real story is that Ireland is seeing what almost always happens. Legalize abortion, and you get waves of abortions. True, in America, abortion was already picking up steam by the time of Roe v. Wade. Despite only a handful of states having legal abortion, the rates were increasing at an alarming rate beginning in the 1950s. By the end of the 1960s we were approaching the close to one million human lives aborted every year that has marked the body count ever since Roe.
For reasons I don’t know, the Church has now chosen to insist this is all due to socioeconomic problems and injustices, perhaps a dose of sexism and, when needed, a pinch of racism and good od-fashioned misogyny. But the fact remains, we see happen in Ireland what always happens, and that is the link between the collapse of a Christian culture with its Christian virtues regarding human life and sexuality, and the skyrocketing rate of abortions and the logical consequences thereof.
I realize this is touchy ground, and the Church as a whole (not just Pope Francis) prefers to focus on the ‘sin’ when it comes to things like abortion, rather than the sinner. The latter it leaves for things like racism, antisemitism, corporate greed, arms manufacturers, and others who oppose things like open immigration or government run healthcare systems.
Nonetheless, since there is nothing in Catholic theology that suggests when we sin certain sins, we can enter the confessional with variations on ‘bless me Father, for those reprehensible reprobates made me sin’, perhaps it’s time to be a little more consistent in how we address the issue of sin, and the awful nature of the culture of unimaginable death and killing for the sake of our libidos (since, in the end, that’s what this is about) we have constructed. Just saying.
“For reasons I don’t know, the Church has now chosen to insist this is all due to socioeconomic problems and injustices, perhaps a dose of sexism and, when needed, a pinch of racism and good old-fashioned misogyny.”
Actually, abortion spreads where there is technological affluence and wealth. Where people are richer and empowered with all manner of technological gadgetry, that’s where abortion dominates. This is simple: babies get in the way of me pleasing myself and having a life of comfort and ease. They cost money. They require time and energy and resources. And I want to party at night and have the good life and be able to have sex without consequence.
Socioeconomic equality, social justice, women’s equality in function with men, and covert hidden racism – those are all the reasons for abortion.Just look – percentage wise more black babies are aborted than white ones! Make blacks more affluent and they murder more of their own children in imitation of affluent whites. It’s affluence that causes this – the feeling that I am powerful, more powerful than God because I can press a button on my cell phone and get instant response – packages from amazon, pizza from the pizzeria, and even a visiting prostitute to comfort me at night. But I’ll wear my COVID-19 mask at night to protect myself from that evil virus.
Loss of individual morally is the main reason for abortion. Situation ethics dominates. The Catholic Church largely remains silent on sexual morality probably due to revenue loss implications.
To fix the abortion problem the first step is to fix the Catholic Church. This means Vatican II must be abrogated in its entirety. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen before the Great Chastisement. Such is our current state of affairs.
Amen to both LQC and Michael. Also a big factor in the silence of the “shepherds” is the elephant in the room, i.e. the unknown but likely huge percentage of the hierarchy who are homosexual or homosexualists. So long as sexual intercourse is linked to procreation, same-sex activity is more obviously unnatural and a perversion of God’s purpose. Break that link, by the twin sins of contraception and abortion (and they always go together), and it becomes far easier to attempt to justify homosexuality as “love.”;of course, this is exactly what the “sexual revolution” has so devastatingly accomplished in the affluent parts of the world. Those who share the SSA affliction (and/or refuse to identify homosexual activity as mortal sin) will do almost anything to avoid the truth about these issues.
Amen to both LQC and Michael. Also a big factor in the silence of the “shepherds” is the elephant in the room, i.e. the unknown but likely huge percentage of the hierarchy who are homosexual or homosexualists.
Dunno about that, but the Church in Ireland strained at gnats and then had to swallow an elephant. In the U.S., it’s a reasonable inference that most bishops had no idea prior to about 1983 how much sexual misbhavior was ongoing in their dioceses. Every once in a while, though, you encounter a situation where a lousy clergyman was shuffled around and did damage everywhere they were posted. Examples would be Maurice Grammond in the Archdiocese of Portland (who was a known deviant prior to 1960) and John Geoghan in Boston (who was a known deviant by 1980). Ireland is a small country and they had a number of these scandals as well (the most notorious being a Norbertine priest). As in the U.S., the Church was robbed of the possibility of defending its general conduct in these matters and the public was easy meat for all kinds of smears (e.g. the Magdalene Laundries). The public standing of the Church is ruined in Ireland, so the usual timeservers are trotting out strategies which not only amount to a betrayal of the Church’s mission, they don’t even stanch the institutional bleeding.
The source for my negativism concerning the hierarchy, at least in the US, is Randy Engel’s work, “The Rite of Sodomy.” I thought she must be exaggerating when I first read it, but that was before the truth started trickling out about McCarrick and his cadre. Perhaps her conclusions are still over the top, although her research seems sound.
I’m surprised Bishop Barron hasn’t jumped this thread & take issue with you that Cromwell is actually in Hell.
Give him time Tito, give him time.