Like Being Called Ugly By a Pig
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I realize that we cannot comprehend God’s ways, only trust Him. But it’s sure getting harder too do that.
The Chosen People struggled with disobedience and apostasy for thousands of years before the Word was made flesh, and most of them still missed it. And even after the founding of the Church, we know there were times during which much of the hierarchy were formal heretics, the Arian period being probably the most widespread, as far as I know. So we know God allows this sort of thing to go on, for his own inscrutable purposes, and for what seems to us to be a very long time. Okay, again, I understand that, in theory at least. But how are we supposed to stay strong and on track ourselves, much less help other souls to be saved, when the institutional Church is overrun from top to bottom with open and vocal practitioners of a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance? I gave up my once-cherished role as an RCIA catechist because I can no longer explain how these things can be true in the True Church. I am unable to drink the Bergoglio kool-aid, or to play the “nothing to see here, all is well” game like most of the Apologetics, Inc. crowd have done for years now. I find myself praying that God will just pull the plug and be done with it all. That doesn’t seem healthy, but our options seem to be disappearing quickly. I genuinely fear we will reach a point very soon where believers in the Faith handed down from the Apostles will no longer be welcome in the “Catholic Church.”
Sorry to be so negative. The bad news just seems to be accelerating at a pace I could never have imagined. God wins in the end, but when is the end? Do I have to leave this life to see it? I hope not.
The usual suspects barking the party line.
A church comfortable with complexity could abide the TLM along with the NO, but they’ll be damned if they’ll let that happen.
They demand dialogue and tolerance until they can impose their will. Note how little “parrhesia” is used these days.
Look, as long as the laity docilely look to the hierarchy as godlets, they’re going to get sent to the slaughter by the wolves who infest it. Don’t lay down for this garbage.
Tobin is an embarrassment to the Roman Catholic faithful. I have to ask if he is even educated.
Don’t lay down for this garbage.
I have always lived by that maxim Dale!
As a responsible Catholic, I remind my myself about the true rubrics of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, stay in awe about the Rosary and the formal Stations of the Cross and continually ask for the the Graces to stay the course. Today, RCIA and CCD teachings are a real challenge and at times almost impossible to defend. Zipping it versus “Whom am I to judge” is an everyday challenge where the end result tabulates Social Media Opinions as the winner over the Cathoilic Church. Life ain’t easy but in the end each and every individual will have his day in front of the SUPREME COURT.
Good points, all. Joe H especially, thanks for timely reminders. 🙂
Good advice/comments all.
Briefly, AC/DC’s “Highway To Hell” comes to mind.
Pray constantly.
What do you expect from a fat cat who spent a good number of decades doing jack-all. Who has time for Synods and talking rubbish? Only a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. That’s who.
Frank — great comment.
Thank you, Patrick.
@Frank
This is a series of onslaughts against humanity. A confrontation beyond measure and widely ignored by millions who are asleep or indifferent.
Too you and a handful of others, it’s a time of opportunity to never stop speaking of our reason for Great Hope. This is it. Take a look at this trend;
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/new-trend-naming-babies-lucifer
And it’s all fun and games, as it was in Noah’s time. But you have the Ark.
Mary.
And you with your daily Rosary and blessed Sacramental’s will help the blind regain their sight.
Lead them to the Ark Frank.
“ Morality is always dreadfully complicated to a man who has lost all his principles.”
GKC
Not capitulating to bishops embracing dreadful complication is certainly NOT heresy.