Imagine if every Catholic Bishop in the country did the same and dared the government to lock all of them up. Of course that would require us having bishops worthy of the name.
Martyr
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Speaking of Bishops, here’s my meditation last night:
Today’s OT reading for Evening Prayer on Tuesday in the 3rd Week after Epiphany is Ezekiel 33:1-9:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel+33%3A1-9&version=NCB
In this passage the Lord tells Ezekiel that the watchman (sentry or seer in some versions) is supposed to warn the people of impending danger, and if the people ignore the warning, then their death is on their own heads. However, if the watchman fails to warn the people of impending danger and the sword comes to take their lives, the watchman will become responsible for their deaths. The word used in the Greek Septuagint (photo below – apologies for the poor quality; my Greek Seputagint does not lay flat) for watchman is skopos (which goes into our English word scope). This word becomes the root in the phrase episkopos in the New Testament where epi means over and skopos means seer, hence the term overseer. Over time as the word episkopos was brought into English, the word became the diminutive bishop. Bishops, in other words, are supposed to be overseers and watchmen, warning the sheep of coming danger and protecting them. That was the whole purpose of this office in 1st Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:7-9. I think it is high time that episkopoi (the plural of the word) start doing their jobs, whether they are Orthodox or Catholic Bishops, or Protestant superintendents and overseers.
Venerable Fulton Sheen:
“Who’s going to save our Church? It’s not our bishops, it’s not our priests and it is not the religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that the priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and the religious act like religious.”
He’s right.
To be fair, most states don’t have laws that would give them the opportunity. Not to say that out bishops are great or anything, just pointing that out.
Really it says more about the jury involved.
To be fair, most states don’t have laws that would give them the opportunity.
Federal law in this area applies throughout the nation.
Cardinal Pell waived diplomatic immunity and faced down false charges, then he did time in solitary confinement when the corrupt court had no problem convicting an innocent man. He’s dead. Are there any other Bishops or Cardinals willing to risk their liberty like that? I doubt it. Perhaps God knows that as well and when He asked the question Father Fidelis said, here I am Lord, send me!
The last time I saw bishops have any spine was when they said they would resume masses in defiance of the COVID ban in Minnesota.
Yeah, they only did that after several months of having closed churches, and they only did it after Tim Walz said he was going to open up practically everything but churches, and even when they were defying the order they still insisted on enforcing pretty stringent “social distancing” rules (and accepted even harsher rules from Walz when he changed his edict to allow churches to open with his own set of rules.) But since I didn’t expect them to do any pushback ever, it still surprised me.
As a whole the Catholic Bishops are accessories to the greatest holocaust in world history, the murder of unborn babies. As a group, they had a good opportunity to stop it. Most chose to remain silent. The party of death could not win elections without substantial numbers of Catholic voters. When most of the hierarchy, and even the pewsitters, have no problem with baby murder and sodomy, is the
Church headed by
Pope
Bergolio still the Church found by Jesus? It’s going to get worse. A sincere question from a Catholic who believes all the Church taught before 1960.
Joan Andrews Bell spent two years in Florida jails for her pro-life work.
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