Burn of 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.
Nations are like people, because they’re made up of -people. There are good people, bad people, people who are trying their best and no people are without sin.
A mad person seen moving towards a crowded market place with a Kalashnikov yelling “ allhu akbar” is the same…
as a mad mullah with nuclear weapons, except the latter is more terrible.
That said, we should always pray for peace and question war but anyone who says “do nothing” in either scenario above has their head up their arsh.
As long as there are armed police in the Vatican, this will be a hollow statement. You first, your holiness.
Dangerous ideology bc it ignores human nature and appropriateness of aggression and defense.
Does this mean Pope Leo is bringing back Just War theory that Pope Francis threw out? If he doesn’t bring it back we will just let him know we are doing it Ghengis Kahn style – PF praised him on trip to Mongolia
It’s too bad that the USCCB document “The Challenge of Peace” is now in the dustbin of history. I read it recently, and it’s a very good document. It recognizes that there are occasions where force needs to be used, and the Bishops also state how important practical discernment is for these occasions, that there can be no blanket condemnation of force. It even has a strong defense of American values and condemnation of communism. Of course it was mostly concerned about USA vs. USSR situation (it was published May 3, 1983), but the principles of “Just War Theory” were well developed. There is a refusal by Catholic pacifism to even recognize that Iran is dangerous to the world and to its own citizens, and that the current pacifism is contrary to what the Catholic Magisterium traditionally taught.
My feeling is that if it wasn’t President Trump doing this, but another President/Party, the tune would be different.
Wow. He is becoming an irrelevant Brogoglio mini-me.
Now, back to the Church in Nicaragua or the Christians slaughtered by Muslims everywhere.
He’s very afraid of the real threats.
Bishops and judges and academicians open their mouths and all I can think of is “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy…”
If the Pope really cared about the loss of life, then when asked by an American (or European) reporter about the war in Iran, he would have said, “I regret the war, but abortion in your country murders more people than what war kills. Stop abortion and then there will be a moral foundation to stop war.”
Leo is Francis II and a Democrat from Chicago. I no longer give him an credence.
Wasn’t the Feast of Our Lady of Victory (later Holy Rosary) explicitly implemented to commemorate the anniversary of the victory at the battle of Lepanto, a battle for which Pope Pius V organized the military forces, called on Europe to pray the Rosary for victory in a military conflict, led a rosary procession in Rome for military victory, and attributed military victory in a conflict to the intervention of the Blessed Virgin? And wasn’t it universally extended by Clement XI after the victory in the battle of Petrovaradin?
Pius V and Clement XI seemed to think these conflicts were blessed, not to mention the many incidents in the Scriptures, the Crusades, Reconquista, Vendee, Cristeros, etc. That doesn’t mean, of course, that any particular conflict is therefore blessed, but neither, it seems, can it be unequivocally said that God doesn’t bless any conflict.
The depth of Ratzinger’s thinking exposes the shallowness of Prevost’s.
Christ is “never on the side of those who *once* welded the sword”
Peter once welded the sword, in a garden.
Does that mean he too is cut off from being on God’s side? Does that, by extension, also cut off Peter’s successors?
Shallow thinking for a much decayed age.
LQC, agreed about the Dem connection. Just a coincidence, I’m sure, that one David Axelrod, the Clinton-Obama DNC operative, was granted an audience this week. He is Jewish, BTW. So the only conceivable reason for the audience was political. He was probably going over the DNC plan to use Leo to help win the midterms.
Yes, I am as cynical as can be regarding the postconciliar Church. This is not your father’s Catholicism. I’m not yet sure what it actually is, but my faith barely resembles whatever they are selling from Rome these days.
Usquequo, Domine?
I wonder who ¡Lio! thinks rained down fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah?
Neo-pacifism has caused the deaths of many who ignored the dictum of “Render unto Caesar” which includes defense of the nation and its people. It would appear that Israel took it to heart and that President Trump has restored it in the US after being sidelined in the Obama and Biden administrations. Western Europe appears a lost cause that will not recognize the danger coming from its experiment with uncontrolled immigration until it collapses from within. Peace is a delicate thing that needs protection with strong will and iron.
It’s hard to believe Pope Prevost is really this stupid. I guess he is. I am not so stupid that I think God never blesses a conflict. It’s a damn good thing Jan Sobieski wasn’t impacted by this sort of brain dead foolishness.
The Iranian mullahs have supported terrorism and death for 47 years.
Prevost may as well be another Bergoglio.
Did anyone notice that it’s always the United States that is the bad guy?
Not Communist China. Pope Leo can’t comment on it.
Not Putin’s Russia, with their four year special military disaster.
Not the Mexican drug cartels…
Not the state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, and their clients the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah…and Hezbollah’s repression of Maronite Catholics.
It is no small wonder Trump is ready to tell Western Europe to go to hell.
I just realized … of course a White Sox fan would think God doesn’t bless conflicts!
Makes perfect sense!
Outside of throwing the 1919 World Series, the Pale Hose are the dullest MLB franchise ever.
Penguins Fan – Well, at least you called him Pope Leo once.