Ernest Borgnine was perfect in the role, having served in Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club for ten years, before and during World War II, and rising to the rank of Gunner’s Mate First Class (E-6). He knew what it was to be a man under military authority and having authority.
The Centurion probably was trying to prevent Jesus from risking violating one of the Jewish ritual purity laws, since normally at the time of Jesus pious Jews avoided entering pagan houses for that reason.
Could it be that “Fr” Martin has lost his “moral” narrative for LGBTQ?
How does James Martin not understand the Our Father? What follows the words of “Thy Kingdom come” is pretty self explanatory:
“Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven”
We are called to build an earthly life like that which God has perfected in Heaven.
That involves a fight of good vs evil.
Why is this man still a priest?
There’s Fr. Joseph Fessio, Fr. Paul Shaughnessy, Fr. Paul Mankowski (deceased), Fr. James Schall (deceased), and Fr. Avery Dulles (deceased). These aside, I’m trying to think of a Jesuit a pewsitter may have encountered in Catholic literature in the last 35 years who did not give one the impression the Society of Jesus was a collecting pool of pinkos and homosexuals.
Art- I would add Fr Mitch Pacwa to the list of solid Jesuit priests.
And Father Robert Spitzer. Shameful how few the numbers are
Also add Fr. Robert Spitzer to the list of Jesuits who would not embarrass St. Ignatius of Loyola.
You beat me to it, LKL. 😁
Ya know, *somebody* told Peter to bring the sword with him to the garden. The same someone who warned that the world would hate us if we stuck with Him. The same God who killed the first born of Egypt when the pharaoh refused to listen to His messenger.
Maybe if we remembered that God is infinitely *just* not just infinitely merciful, people like Fr. Martin would no longer consider the proud draperies of sin to be the equivalent of their Sunday best.
G.K. Chesterton:
“It is sometimes said that the early Christians were pacifists. I don’t believe it, but if some were, they were the only Christians who ought to have been eaten by lions. For in that case Christianity would be mere anarchy”.
(from “Orthodoxy”)
I’m sure Fr. Martin would go all Jesus Seminar on some of Christ’s comments regarding millstones and the bottom of the sea.
If it were not for self-sacrificing armed forces, Fr. James Martin would be speaking Hitler’s German or Hirohito’s Japanese,. Maybe even Russian.
Or maybe Fr. James Martin would disappear in the Gulag Archipelago, or the Chinese underground Catholic Church if he survived the Killing fields of Pol Pot.
Peace at any price has no integrity.
TBO:
“The same God who killed the first born of Egypt when the pharaoh refused to listen to His messenger.”
Pharaoh had decreed that the first born of the Israelites were to be slaughtered. Moses could not hold back the Justice of God. Pharaoh had damned his own people by damning the Jews.
After the Israelites had crossed the Red Sea, and Pharaoh’ charioteers all drowned. Pharaoh said: ” His (Moses’) God is God.”
Too bad Pharaoh did not convert.
Archeologists have found chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea.
“Peace at any price has no integrity.”
Exactly.
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