Waving the Bloody Fetus

The NYT/Siena College poll released a few days ago showed women independents turning to Republicans by a +18 margin— Probably why Obama gave a public interview/warning about Democrats becoming “buzz kill” by ignoring economic issues and monomaniacally focusing on abortion. A story at The Hill .com quotes several political operatives saying the same— namely, what most of us know, that most Americans do not favor in the least Democrat mantra of unrestricted abortion, and want it left to be decided at the state level. Democrat politicians and consultants have thoroughly misinterpreted the Kansas abortion vote and presumed “a mandate.”

So, all Democrats and putrid failures like Biden have to run on is abortion—and “Jan. 6th!!!.” A total strikeout for most voters.

These infant souls, created in original innocence have Guardian Angels and are the standard of Justice for all nations.innocent. One of the questions asked at Roe was : “Do the unborn have any purpose?”

How has Biden not been officially excommunicated?

“How has Biden not been officially excommunicated?”
According to the Modernists, excommunication is one of those nasty things Catholics used to do in the Dark Ages, aka before “The Council.” But now we’ve opened the windows and let in…something else. There may be a handful of bishops left in the hierarchy who understand that excommunication is actually the charitable thing to do, as it puts the onus on the subject to repent and reform in order to receive Holy Communion again. But in a time when it appears that most bishops don’t even believe in the fundamentals of Eucharistic theology, that’s never going to happen to any pro-abort politician, especially at the hands of someone like Wilton “Queen of the Nile”* Gregory.
*His unofficial nickname in seminary, according to many trads.
The only excommunications we see today are of traditionalist priests who anger their Lavender Mafia bishops.

News crew in front of the residence of Wilton Gregory;

Why is it that your fellow Catholics are staging this protest?

They say that Catholic politicians who support “pro-choice” legislation shouldn’t be allowed to receive Holy Communion until they recant.

What DO YOU BELIEVE reverend?

In my opinion, THIS IS THE TIME for the laity to spring into action. Abortion is THE only issue that the Democrats have chosen to win votes.

Ok. Then let’s make it clear once and for all. You can’t be considered in union with Christ at Holy Communion until you turn your back on abortion legislation.

Now is the time.

We should not be afraid to turn this issue against democrats. I’m pro-life for the most selfish of reasons, and it has nothing (or little) to do with my religion. As a law-abiding black man, I’m over 100 times more likely to be killed by a lawless black man, than by anyone white–police or otherwise. You know why? What do you think young men—black and white – LEARN when they see their mothers, sisters, girlfriends kill their unborn brothers/sisters, nephews/nieces, sons & daughters? They hear “human life is NOT sacred, but cheap and exists for my convenience, and if she’s not convenient, it’s ok to remove her by any means necessary, including killing”. So black boys do drive-bys to protect their drug corners or gain street cred, and white boys shoot up schools where they’re being bullied. Why NOT, if I’m being inconvenienced?! Everyone who promotes abortion are complicit in these killings! You never heard of kids shooting up their fellow students in schools before the 70s. When Martin Luther King Jr spoke about work black people had to do on themselves he cited the fact that in the 1950s blacks committed 35% of the murders in the US, despite being only 10% of the population. Now it’s over 50%, at 13% of the population. Despite the MANY things that have gotten better for black people, the state of things in that respect, has gotten worse—because abortion clinics in the black community and the high abortion rate among blacks HAS ENCOURAGED young black men to view human life as existing for his convenience. The death culture promoted and encouraged by “Shout your abortion” and “Abortion on demand and without apology” teaches that “human life is not sacred, and not even distinguishable from animal life” (which I had a counter-protester at the annual March for Life tell me, and commenters in comboxes write at me!)

How has Biden not been officially excommunicated?

Because none of the four men who’ve sat in the Bishop’s chair since 1984 could not be bothered. See Fr. Mankowski’s “Tames in clerical culture”.

BPS,

That is one of the most insightful and important statements on life that I have ever read.

God bless you, Sir.

And he said, “Sit down here while I go over there to pray.” And he took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. He began to feel sorrow and grief and fear and weariness. Then he said to them, “My soul is sad unto death. Stay here and keep watch with me” (Matt. 26:36-38, Mark 14:32-34).

The image of Christ in prayer, wracked by sorrow, grief, fear, and weariness, inspired Thomas More’s final work, which is often referred to as The Sadness of Christ. As More awaited his own trial and execution, he addressed “the story of that time when the apostles were sleeping as the Son of Man was being betrayed.” Astonishingly, More claimed that this scene in the gospel was “a mysterious image of future times.” More justified a figurative and even prophetic reading of Christ’s betrayal for a single reason. He believed that Christ was “betrayed into the hands of sinners” whenever “an imminent danger” threatened “the mystical body of Christ, the Church of Christ.” As a result, More intended to provide his readers with a universal, perennial message that could be applied to any age.

More applied the story of sleepy apostles to the Church in England. In the Sadness of Christ, he compared Peter, James, and John, who were “buried in sleep,” with Judas, who remained wide-awake. More asked his readers: “Does not this contrast between the traitor and the apostles present to us a clear and sharp mirror image (as it were), a sad and terrible view of what has happened through the ages from those times even to our own?” The mirror image was sharp because the apostles represented negligent bishops while “other governors and other caesars,” like Cromwell and Henry, sought the destruction of the Church in England.

More asked a second question, “Why do not bishops contemplate in this scene their own somnolence?” More wished “that they would reproduce their virtues just as eagerly as they embrace their authority and as faithfully as they display their sloth and sleepiness!” Sleep, thus, becomes a metaphor for placing the faith in jeopardy. For many bishops “are sleepy and apathetic in sowing virtues among the people and maintaining the truth, while the enemies of Christ, in order to sow vices and uproot the faith (that is, insofar as they can, to seize Christ and cruelly crucify him once again), are wide awake—so much wiser (as Christ says) are the sons of darkness in their generation than the sons of light.” The sons of darkness are “wise” because of their energy, cunning, and daring in their assaults upon the Church, while the sons of light, Christ’s representatives through apostolic succession, remain disheartened, perplexed, and fearful.

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Yet bishops were not the only ones inclined to sleep during a time of crisis. More warned how ordinary Christians, too, can become “so fast asleep” in their vices “that even the calls and stirrings of divine mercy” will not “rouse” them to “wake up to virtuous living.” Others are so lost in worldly pleasures that they sleep “in a drugged sleep watching the dream-visions induced by mandragora.” And those who pray, the best of the group, often do so with minds “wandering miles away” from the God they address. In contrast to wandering minds, More was struck by the image of Christ lying prostrate on the ground “in humble supplication.”

More elaborated that feelings of weariness, fear, and sadness are temptations for all who struggle to be good and to remain close to Christ during times of crisis. Everyone who is “concerned (as they ought to be) about their souls,” More advised, “has sufficient grounds to be afraid that they may grow weary under his burden and give in.” Thus, More’s point about self-knowledge returned to the theme of Sadness: don’t fall asleep during times of temptation!

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For More himself didn’t leave the issues facing the Church to the clergy alone to solve. Though he recommended prayer before action always and emphasized his own need to struggle for holiness, he worked for the Church’s purification. From 1523 to 1533, More’s writings on the Church and related issues comprised a writing campaign that addressed everything from doctrinal questions to disputes between church and crown. His example illustrates the power and potential for good that the voices of informed, pious, and loyal laypeople can make.

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We will acquire such “genuine courage,” More urged, by contemplating Christ’s own feelings of inner turmoil. More was confident that if we “urgently beseech him,” just as “an angel brought him consolation in answer to his prayer, so too each of our angels will bring us from his Spirit consolation that will give us the strength to persevere in those deeds that will lift us up to heaven.” With prayer comes consolation.

As More awaited his trial and its inevitable outcome, he found consolation in the “mysterious image” of Christ’s agony. No doubt he asked himself what part he was playing in “the story of that time when the apostles were sleeping as the Son of Man was being betrayed.” In answer, More envisioned Christ speaking to fearful disciples like him, and fearful disciples in the future, people like us. And Christ’s message was this:

O faint of heart, take courage and do not despair… Trust me. I conquered the world, and yet I suffered immeasurably more from fear, I was sadder, more afflicted with weariness, more horrified at the prospect of such cruel suffering drawing eagerly nearer and nearer…. But you, my timorous and feeble little sheep, be content to have me alone as your shepherd, follow my leadership; if you do not trust yourself, place your trust in me. See, I am walking ahead of you along this fearful road.

From “Church Scandal Through the Eyes of St. Thomas More” by Travis Curtright – Crisis Magazine – Oct. 11, 2018

https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/church-scandal-through-eyes-thomas-more

I agree with Clinton about the excellent comments by BPS and Quotermeister. The only thing that I can add to what BPS wrote is that with the way that the pro-abortion extremists act that it would appear that there is sex to kill for.
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As to the Church hierarchy, they often act more like ecclesial politicians and bureaucrats than men of the cloth. Pope Francis’ buddies in globalism are neck deep in unelected, unaccountable bureaucracies, whether NGOs or government entities. i mean, what voting rights come with being a citizen of the world?
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Near as I see with Biden we have ecclesial politicians and bureaucrats covering for their fellow politicians and bureaucrats. I would love to be proven wrong.