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.
I’m not sure what “Many” Fr. Whitfield has in mind, but this layman gets irritated when he hears clergy and prelates try to persuade us that the Church does not, in fact, mean what She has always said about things like abortion, sodomy, or even the existence of sin and the possibility of damnation.
It’s also irritating when prelates issue ambiguous teachings that could be taken to say that the Church doesn’t really mean what She’s always said about certain moral issues— and when other prelates write to Rome to ask “did you really mean to say ____?” (let’s call those questions a dubia) Rome’s response is just awkward silence. Yeah, that’s pretty irritating.