Thought For The Day
- 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.
I’ve heard more coherent exposition on how a loving, omnipotent God could permit Auschwitz from a late night freshman dorm room bull session.
Archbishop Gustavo has a peculiar writing style, often using incomplete sentences. At first I thought that English might not be his first language, but now I believe the man just thinks in incomplete sentences— and incomplete thoughts.
I used to think the Lord would not Permit men like Archbishop Gustavo from reaching such high levels in the hierarchy. I was wrong. Free will is real for everyone AND the Lord Is Omnipotent.
He sounds like a Jesuit. Looks as if Gustavo is bucking for the red hat that should have gone to his predecessor, Jose Gomez, when he went to Los Angeles.
Next pope needs to do a little housecleaning.
Openly heretical clergy must be cut off from the feed trough.
Replace him with the first man to come to daily Mass the next day and you would do better.
There is no such thing as an omnipotent being not being “perfectly” omnipotent, as the very term “omnipotent” entails a perfection of power. That is, one is either omnipotent or one is not. There’s not a sliding scale of omnipotence, unless one has a very crude understanding of God’s power as if we’re in a video game where God has 99 pts of power and everything else has 25 or 35 or 7 or whatever.
In charity, perhaps he means that God permits evil within his omnipotence; fine. That’s not a difficult thing to grasp or to say. But God permitting something is not the same as God not being “perfectly” omnipotent, and a little bit of logical analysis would easily clear that up.
Physician, heal thyself.
God becomes “small voiceless and powerless”. As in the Supreme Being who created everything in existence. Including the bumbling Archbishop. Oh how sweet it would be to be a fly in the wall when this man meets his Creator. Let’s then see who becomes small, voiceless and powerless.
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You will learn all in the general Judgement.
Good short quip, Mary DeVoe.
If God is not omnipotent, then I’m “out.” Then all this is just pure religious sham. Elmer Gantryism. “Archbishop Gustavo-ism.”
What a double-digit IQ-minded disgrace.
Archbishop Gustavo has since deleted that Xweet. Although he didn’t offer an explanation to why he wrote it in the first place.
I am lost for words. How was this man ever allowed to ordained in the first place? These thoughts about GOD did not suddenly come to this infidel’s mind, they were always there, but those responsible for his vocation ignored the many signs of his faithlessness. They did care enough for the Priesthood or the Catholic Church.
Hence we have so many cowardly infidels caring for the children of GOD. We are in a sad state, for excepting a handful, a remnant, of caring and faithful Shepherds, Holy Mother Church is filled with progressive, heterodox , cowardly and worldly Shepherds clothed in white garments but are really true wolves. They despise the Church and lack manliness. The Church needs MEN. MASCULINE MEN. MEN OF GOD.MEN OF PRAYER SERVANTS OF JESUS CHRIST. MEN OF SOLID CATHOLIC CHARACTER. MEN COMMITTED TO CHASTITY AND TO TEVERENT CELEBRATION OF MASS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GIRM BEFORE ALL THE SINFUL NOVELTIES WERE INTRODUCED.
Thumbs up, Stephen F.
I have hardly been an example in my life of virtue, nor of appreciation of the graces I have bountifully received; but never in all my wayward life did I for a microsecond think that God was not fully omnipotent and abundantly able to drag me out of my delightful little swine wallow—if I would just consent to His grace and Truth.
I just get so angry at comments like these by Archbp. Gus, just giving up on God and Christ’s redemptive plan because it’s too haaard to admit it’s far from being a matter of a “limited” God’s “failings,” but in fact it is a superabundance of my precious much denied, much caressed own ones.