Being personally opposed to the slaying of innocents, but willing to tolerate it, actually is a worse moral position than those who see nothing wrong with killing innocents.
PopeWatch: Personally Opposed, But
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.
As my dear husband always says, everything before “but” is BS. In other words, Paglia is personally opposed to Jack-all.
This is why we can’t play nice.
I’ve had a devout democrat [he thinks he’s a good Catholic] tell me not even to try to say the fetus is human life.
Personnel is policy.
Francis could dismiss this wretch +Paglia whenever he wishes,
and yet he remains as President of the Pontifical Academy for Life. What is Francis’ excuse for not sacking the Archbishop?
Perhaps he’s waiting for the Archbishop to do something truly beyond the pale, like state that he was personally opposed to the Traditional Latin Mass, but that it was his opinion that a ‘legal mediation’ was possible for its decriminalization.
Now That would have Paglia fired so fast it’d make his head spin. But euthanasia? Nah, he’s good.
Let’s see all those who were personally opposed to a moral evil. At one time, Biden was personally opposed to abortion, ss marriage etc. now he says it’s almost sinful if you pass laws saying underage kids can’t sterilize themselves or have puberty blockers.
Now Paglia wants us to think he’s just for the decriminalizing of it. Yeah. We’ve seen this before in those like him.
“But even if we, or an angel from Heaven, preach any other Gospel to you than the one we have preached to you, let him be anethma.”
“ I am personally opposed to chattel slavery, but- “
This is why the increasingly-shrill conservative Catholic argument that “doctrine hasn’t changed” is failure theatre on steroids.
A magisterium that is only “honored in the breach” teaches very clearly, indeed. The Roman pontiff and Paglia (and Hollerich, and McElroy, and Cupich, etc.) understand that perfectly, and are deploying it to good effect.
But yeah, the teaching is still there on paper somewhere. It gives the degenerate hierarchy something to titter at.
“This is why the increasingly-shrill conservative Catholic argument that ‘doctrine hasn’t changed’ is failure theatre on steroids.”
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I honestly don’t know what to think anymore, and all the anecdotes about how the Church must be divine because it is so corrupt (and has been since Judas) but still exists just doesn’t cut it anymore.
I honestly don’t know what to think anymore, and all the anecdotes about how the Church must be divine because it is so corrupt (and has been since Judas) but still exists just doesn’t cut it anymore.
It does for me actually. How many organizations from the time of the first Caesars are still functioning ?
“ It does for me actually. How many organizations from the time of the first Caesars are still functioning ?”
Me, too. I understand all the difficulties and have them myself almost daily. I watch in morbid fascination as the ever more rapid destruction of all morality and regard for God goes without effective opposition from the hierarchy, who would rather focus on wiping out any liturgy or devotion practiced before 1965. But I still know God is real and Jesus is real and that He established a Church, because nothing else makes sense. And no number of corrupt, Marxist, Modernist, Peronist, Universalist, two-faced Jesuit, and/or any other category of false shepherds is going to change my mind. That doesn’t make me any smarter or better than anyone else, just more stubborn. My friends will attest to that last part. 😁
Seems I recall that that it was Catholic politicians who invented the “personally opposed” position in an effort to please all voters. Was not very successful and I doubt it will transfer to Vatican matters any more successfully.
The problem with questioning the decriminalization of assisted suicide is that this position is a green light for those who favor assisted suicide. So, until assissted suicide is proclaimed to be a mortal sin deserving of hell and excommunication, the assisted suicides will be acted out. Of course Dr. Kevorkian went to prison for assisted suicides. Maybe Francis and Paglia ought to do a couple of terms in prison, before hell that is.
I am personaly opposed to hell but my people demand it.
“Biden was personally opposed to abortion, ss marriage etc. now he says it’s almost sinful if you pass laws saying underage kids can’t sterilize themselves or have puberty blockers.”
Biden’s position on puberty blockers and sterilization of minor children who have not reached the age of emancipation and informed consent incinerates all law public and private, manmade and natural. Who has the authentic authority to proclaim a minor child an adult with informed consent? The man who owned the world told the world to stop spinning. “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely” Lord Acton.
There is no such thing as absolute power on earth. Only God “their Creator” has absolute power.
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