Correct. Christ said barely a word about the Roman oppression of the Jews, although that was the burning issue of His day. The mission of Christ was so far above our earthly concerns, as to defy description.
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.
Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring nor even if it will be.
Events unfold without our consent.
We serve. We strive for Truth to reign in our hearts. We pray.
Who knows. Tomorrow the Son of God could say;
It is finished.
Nobody knows the hour or the day.
So why is it, then, that all these clerics from Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV on down can’t seem to speak of anything else except the burning issues of the day: social justice, environmentalism, LGBTQ inclusion, etc.? The question is rhetorical. How sad that even the Vicar of Christ can’t follow Christ’s example. His new Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexit Te, will be based on Pope Francis’ Dilexit Nos, and will be all about the poor, the poor, the poor. How about willing souls to the Kingdom of God whether they are rich or poor?
LQC, it seems so simple, doesn’t it?🤷♂️
Has anyone ever lived a trouble free life? If you have, I’d love to know your secret. In my humble experience, there are always issues in our lives to varying degree. You solve one problem and another pops up. And then you get to an age in life where you realise that life will always have its problems at each stage.
The only refuge and rest is found in Christ. Otherwise you burn out.
Jesus words “come to me those who are burdened and I will give you rest” is intentional. Our Lord knew we would grow weary.
I know we have a Church filled with people
with good intentions, and that has its purpose, and you can’t begrudge them for trying, but the problems of the world will always be with us.
I’m happy to know of anyone who lives a problem and trouble free life.
As I understand it, those that lived in the Empire didn’t have it all that bad. Per Fr. Pacwa, the Romans were very much law and order types. Get out of line, however, and the consequences were not pleasant.
If my memory serves me correctly, didn’t the emperor, ( can’t recall his name ) tax homosexuals and placed strict penalities on those who committed abortion due to the declining numbers of soldiers. Attrition.
He realized that without a steady birth rate his empire would cease to exist. Does anyone recall this?
If indeed my memory is right, it’s history repeating itself right before our very eyes.
One, maybe more, countries in Africa have strick laws regarding homosexuals and their behavior.
It’s not unfair. It’s just, imo.
Roman emperors made attempts to increase the birth rates among the upper classes, without notable success. Augustus was railing against the problem at the beginning of the Empire. Too much prosperity is a killer for the birth rate. Birth rates lower in the social scales tended to remain high, with the population kept down due to high infant mortality, occasional plagues, wars and famines. With the fall of the Empire, cities emptied out, their role as centers of government and trade vastly reduced in the shrunken barbarian polities that succeeded the empire, and rural populations until the sixteenth century, were notoriously hard to estimate.
Thank you Sir.
I was incorrect then? The Augustus reign then might have implemented such taxation on homosexuals in the upper class? I had heard this from a priest years ago. The same with abortions. Prior to this emperor the accepted practice of abortion was widespread.
I won’t inquire any further via TAC. A history of Cesar Augustus might be a good place to try to find this information.
Thank you. Enjoy your Sunday!
All right, all right … but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Some Roman emperors taxed prostitutes.
It might of been Caligula who imposed the *Shag Act* on prostitutes. Pimps of that time rebelled and fought Rome.
The start of Dems.
I was hoping Cardinal Sarah would be elected Pope at this most recent conclave. It looks as though the Church is worse off with Leo, unfortunately.
Clinton – agree. He would have ticked all the boxes. Didn’t happen.