Ever profiles in expediency.
Our Hapless Bench of Bishops
- 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.
Gee, why are we not surprised?
Well if we only went berserk and rioted.
Shoot. A missed opportunity dang-it-all.
We, as Christians, must work on our civil disobedience strategy. I mean, come on man.
No arson on Worse than Murder outlets. No gathering Trans flags for a public bonfire. ( sarcasm )
Isn’t it strange though?
We take our lumps and keep going forward.
We try hard to love our enemy for tomorrow they might become our brother. We help the poor without fanfare and vainglory.
We pray, fast and attend the sacraments throughout the week if possible.
It doesn’t matter if anyone notices or what the Bishops do. God knows our hearts.
Charlie. Michigan says hi and that we love you.
Up until the 1960’s, the Episcopal Church used to be jokingly described as “the Republican Party at prayer”. These days, of course, the Episcopal Church seems to have become the Democrat Party pretending to pray.
And I get the feeling that, with a few exceptions, our own Catholic leadership would dearly love to perform a similar renovation on our Church— but to their irritation the Pew Meat isn’t getting with the program. I truly believe they don’t care about what concerns us laity. In fact, I’d bet most of our bishops don’t even like their flocks.
Somewhere there’s a USCCB committee chairman and a paid communication manager, struggling with “what can we say?… what can we say?….”
And that says it all.
I’ll wager you that if you carefully cross-examined USCCB employees and then compared them to control groups on the staff of other NGOs, you’d discover their responses hardly differed. You might get more agreeable results examining diocesan chanceries, or you might not. The church-o-cracy is an issue in protestant bodies as well. I’m persuaded it would be good for the health of the Church for the bishops to dissolve the USCCB, discharge its staff, and liquidate its property. Failing that, conscientious bishops should refuse to participate in it and should issue pastoral letters critiquing its’ spew. (While we’re at it, if you have a chancery employee whose work is not devoted to acting as or in support of a comptroller, treasurer, performance auditor, purchasing agent, plant manager, grievance officer, records manager, correspondence secretary, IT manager, diocesan tribunal, internal investigator, or providing direct assistance to the bishop and auxilliaries in the realm of paperflow, scheduling, and household services, why are you employing that person? If the living quarters of your bishops consists of more than a bedroom, kitchen & breakfast nook, library & den, bathroom, and utility room, why is that?)
Bishop Barron was reported to have a planned interview with Charlie Kirk in the coming weeks. He has formally come out in support and prayer for him and expressed how much Charlie Kirk loved Jesus. Fr Mike Schmitz also. The clergy who have publicly mourned and prayed for him is what matters. The rest who haven’t will answer to God.
Charlie Kirk was the exact opposite of some of our Bishops, sadly.
Is there any truth in Charlie’s hesitation to become Catholic bc of PF and his Marxist ideology?
Looking at our Episcopate, I highly doubt you’d find three vertebrae stacked along them. They can only be counted upon to follow the zeitgeist in self-preservation.
Expedient except to the extent when they’re outright vindictive. See archdiocese of Detroit.
Clinton-
“In fact, I’d bet most of our bishops don’t even like their flocks.”
If they did, would they be beating the bushes with the synodal stick to bring in people who do not believe what the Church believes?
No, we are the toys they do not want, so they stamp their feet and look for new ones.
Not to mention the now-deleted post on the Archdiocese of Washington DC website a few days ago, entitled and arguing “DEI Means God.” Seriously. The kerfuffle over that was largely obscured by the tsunami of leftist hate concerning Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Yes, dei does mean god.
Which one did you have in mind, DC?
He was no fan of Francis while he thought highly of Pope John Paul II.
Optimist, Return to Tradition has the full text, as do others, despite its withdrawal. It was written by an auxiliary bishop, and explained in pathetic detail how diversity, equity, and inclusion are all holy, and whatever. Truly a cringe-fest.
The DEI means God “mistaken” post on the USCCB site was pretty bad and super cringey. Also makes me kind of embarrassed at just how sophomoric it is.
The act of taking an acronym from one language, associating its alphabetic arrangement with the accidental similarity with a word from another non-related language, and then anachronistically superimposing modern understandings of concepts upon the words of scripture (which seem like they were chosen based on a keyword search…but I can’t be sure) based on that non-related acronym is something to behold. And by “behold” I mean “double facepalm” when you realize that this was written by a bishop and, while “mistakenly” posted to the site and mercifully removed, nevertheless was in a position to be accidentally or mistakenly published.
Perhaps none of them (some bishops also cancelling faithful priests) have neither the faith nor the courage of the martyr Charlie Kirk. Yes, martyr. He died, gave his blood, for Jesus Christ. He was calling more souls to Christ and to conversion than any Catholic prelate these days. His voice reached billions! Some are saying that he was not a Catholic so could not be a martyr. Well, according to his friend Candace Owens, he was attending Mass, praying the Rosary and he and Erika had their marriage blessed in the Church. I read a report that a priest was instructing him privately. He may well have been the strongest Catholic voice in the world had he lived. The enemy had other ideas.
I read this in the Breviary this morning: Death is of value when eternal life is purchased at the cost of one’s blood. I truly believe Charlie is in Heaven.
To MrsOpey:
Mr. Kirk replied to Michael Knowles in a public interview that, at the time, he had trouble with “Mariology, Transubstantiation, and the Marxist Pope.” You can find the interview on YT. He was overcoming some of those challenges enough to defend Our Lady publicly this past summer.
The Marxist Pope a lot of us had trouble with. Mary, he was coming along as Madgalene notes. Judging from my Bride, I think transubstantiation is the last domino often to fall for converts.
Was waiting to see if the erudite LQC caught it first, but no. So here goes. Although “DEI” could be interpreted as “of God”, and is notva noun, it also means “gods”. In the plural.
Charlie Kirk sought the Beatific Vision. I am sure that God has given Charlie Kirk the Beatific Vision.
Donald:
“ I think transubstantiation is the last domino often to fall for converts.”
God can do all things except contradict Himself.
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