Having long washed its hands of any concern over the jabs being abortion-tainted, the Vatican unquestioningly went along with the powers-that-be followed by most of the world’s bishops. That might have been understandable at first but this position did not change.
Never mind the gross injustices, unnecessary hardships, and suffering caused to millions by the madness of lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
The Church’s leaders remained silent on the policies, but not before becoming complicit: committing injustices against the souls of their flocks by closing churches for long periods, enforcing restrictions on worship, banning the unvaccinated from the sacraments in some cases, and most recently backing grossly unjust, state-sanctioned vaccine mandates.
The sheep felt abandoned by their shepherds as their bishops fixed their gaze on physical health and mass groupthink rather than the eternal well-being of souls and commons sense — a this-worldly orientation that has been in the making for decades but which came of age during COVID.
History will not look kindly on the leaders of the Church during this period, even less so if they remain silent and complicit as more details of unjust and dishonest public health policies of the past two years continue to emerge.
Go here to read the rest. Our current group of successors of the Apostles emulate only their cowardice on the night Christ needed them most.
“…a this-worldly orientation that has been in the making for decades…”
“Sez it all.” When we have a pope who never (or hardly ever?) even mentions salvation, the commandments, and bishops that nod in silent approval, and hardly a priest that dares to openly worry about the trend…all this while they so often replicate the tainted feel-good talking points of the Godless political left.
I hardly recognize my church where people had to stand for want of a seat at mass and the Saturday confessional lines went the length of the church, and each and every one of us knew that life was really about attaining heaven or spending eternity in Hell.
Most of our bishops are actually swishops. They are not men. Thus, they have no supernatural faith. Everything else follows.
A Pope approved (tainted) potion that does nothing except possibly (unproven, with no clinical studies backing) ameliorate symptoms for a man made virus with a 99% survival rate that is labeled a pandemic (while the flu is not) and has been (mis)handled in a manner inconsistent with long-standing protocols…isolating the healthy.
Government and pro jab fanatics will cite low percentage of vaxx injuries and deaths. I humbly submit that is a ruse and not statistically valid: each new human experiment has a 50-50 chance of a severe reaction and/or death.
One thing that the pandemic certainly did was separate the wheat from the tares.
Let me tell you a story of two local priests. The first immediately canceled all masses and locked the doors of his church, cancelling all sacraments (including confessions, baptisms and anointing of the sick.) The second worked hard to find ways to provide the sacraments while not getting shut down by government authorities. He had the church open 24/7 for people to pray, offered confessions in larger rooms, had “parking lot” masses.
Before the pandemic I thought both priests were equally trustworthy. Now if there is a time of persecution I know exactly who I will go to.
RH – your priest must be a brother to my priest. I have the feeling that he may have sailed as close to the wind as possible, at times, but he has carried us through. And may the Lord reward him.
@ DonL: This Pope also rarely mentions Jesus or the Blessed Virgin in any personal relationship way—meaning as if they are real living persons.
Of course, he makes passing reference on rare occasion, such as in Laudato Si, to bulletpoint a political narrative.