With Archbishops Like This, Who Needs Satanists?
- 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.
Oh my goodness. Does he even know what he is saying?
What? Decision about the name? What??
Not-The-Bee Bishop speaks again..
The man is an embarrassment.
“If I am going to have a child, I don’t want the government to have any say (about) it. It is a gift from God.”
Context is key here. If the Archbishop is addressing some kind of government mandate regarding how many children a married couple can or should have — such as the one-child rule in China, or the 5-child rule in Ceaucescu’s Romania (hence the high number of Romanian orphans after his fall) — or about some attempt to reward smaller families and/or penalize large families via taxes, etc., then what he’s saying would make sense. IIRC Paul VI said something along those lines in Humanae Vitae — i.e., the government should stay out of family planning decisions — which was issued at the height of the “population bomb” scare when many governments were encouraging smaller families. If this is about state mandates regarding abortion, however, that’s another story.
Thank you Elaine Krewer.
I was having difficulty with his pronouncement.
More information is needed to decipher his intent.
Not sure what His Excellency is trying to say here— and the ambiguity of this tweet might be intentional. After all, orthodox Catholics could read this as a declaration that the state has no right to decide how many children couples can have. And pro-abortion folks can read this as suggesting the state shouldn’t restrict abortion.
His Excellency has a history of emitting fatuous tweets like this. So I’m for hoping he’s just a rather dim, irresponsible man who doesn’t care enough about his audience to strive for clarity and orthodoxy; rather than a cynical man who’d use ambiguity to appeal to both sides of the abortion divide.
I don’t think he’s talking about abortion. He may not be making the pont well, but he’s making a good point: keep the government out of family planning.
One point the Archbishop is making to me: it’s a bad idea to theologize in a tweet.
That’s all good and well to say: “keep the government out of family planning”. However, when the population isn’t replenishing itself and mass immigration is making up the short fall in the workforce, then government incentives to have more children is what governments do to fix the decline in population. We had a Federal Treasurer in the 90’s who did exactly that when he said : one child for mum, one child for dad, one child for country : he was trying to increase the homegrown population because people weren’t having children. Thanks to access to the Pill and/or abortion, cost of childcare, individualism etc…it becomes a national economic problem which makes it everyone’s problem.
The Archbishop tweet is just a prime example of someone who has no concept of reality, because he has lived his entire life being fed, housed and taken care of. It would be wise for the Archbishop to stick to teaching on matters of Catholic Morality and stop dishing out advice on government policy, of which he knows nothing about. And I’m not completely convinced he wasn’t wondering to the abortion advocates…just saying…
The government is instituted by the sovereign personhood of each and every citizen; sovereign personhood endowed by “their Creator”. It is government’s job, duty, privilege to guarantee freedom; the freedoms enumerated and unenumerated according to our Founding Principles and our Foundign Fathers.
It is time to re-establish our Founding Principles and rid ourselves of morons, misogynysts, moral midgets and all evil.
Priests might give out copies of our Founding Principles in the confessional to read as penance to our good.
OK, so I read somewhere else that this tweet was about abortion, so that changes the game completely.
The giveaway is his use of PF’s favorite noun-used -as-a-verb: dialogue. That is a sure sign of Modernist subjectivism rearing its ugly head. Still looking, by the way, for all the places in Scripture where Jesus talked about “dialogue.” 🤦🏻♂️