Go here to read the rest. The idea that a law passed by a government elected by a majority of the people, no matter what it says, is beyond harsh criticism, is absurd. All politicians one day answer to a far higher authority than the transient majorities of their countries.
It’s too bad Vatican intervened w Biden’s excommunication- saying all US Bishops had to agree not just his.
There is a schizophrenia w what he says and who now leads PAL
By PM De Croo’s “logic”, when Pope Pius XI and Cardinal Pacelli (the future Pius XII and then Nuncio to Germany) wrote the encyclical *Mit Brennender Sorge*, that condemnation of nazism was “absolutely unacceptable”. After all, Pius XI had Pacelli smuggle thousands of copies into Germany, and had it read from the pulpit at Sunday Mass. The nazis weren’t happy, and I suppose De Croo would defend their subsequent retaliations as just and understandable…
Wait!!
what is the demographic of Belgium? What is their population growth rate? Do they have same sex marriage? How many times have they been invaded in the last 224 years?
Prime Minister de Groos does not know history. His liberal party legislation will morph into euthanasia of the “unfit” and other evil programs. Kudos that Pope Francis finally called a spade a spade. Abortion is murder and whoever performs it is not “honorable”. Anybody will be able to perform it.
Cardinal von Galen was critical of National Socialist Party in his homilies. They were printed by his secretary and distributed underground. Von Galen, the nuncio to Germany Cardinal Pacelli (future PiusXII) together authored the anti-Nazi encyclical under Pope PiusXI, “Mit Brennender Sorge” (With deepburning anxiety). It was not written in Latin but in German so Catholics and others could read it. To avoid censorship it criticized Hitler’s unlawful and inhumaine programs but did not use his name or the National Socialist Party outright.
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Ah, the usual tactic. We will justify our current sins of sexual lust by highlighting failure to confront…another form of sexual lust.
He has a point, after a fashion, I suppose.
On the whole, he and Ted Kennedy, Mario Cuomo too, would seem to have lots in common.
I could wish our prelates and priests would be much more vigorous about teaching that sin does exist.