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.
Think all irritations can be summed as IRRATIONALS.
The Vatican prostrating itself to the world, demon idols, syncretism, sodomitic behavior and political parties that worship child sacrifice are all irrational… to a Catholic.
Opposition to Latin… and the Latin Mass too… “irrational”.
I see the Church in its present state as the corpus of Christ hanging upon the Holy Cross.
My existence is to remain there at the foot of the Cross. To share in its suffering through prayer but never to abandon her. To take Great Confidence in the maker of Heaven and Earth that if we strive for Our personal sanctification, through serving Jesus in the body and soul of our neighbor, and take what is good about a person but not what is found wanting in them, then in God’s Providence those who remained close to her will see the everlasting Glory of an unending Kingdom that was promised to those who’s love for God surpassed an unhealthy love for self.
Judas, Pontius Pilate the bad thief, they will always be in existence while this drama, Life on Earth, continues. My hope is that my offerings and prayers can help to convert them.
The church doesn’t teach that you have to commit civilizational suicide.
“The Church”? I guess by “the Church” Fr. Whitfield means Rome? If so, then
I’d be happy if “the Church” said clearly what she means and didn’t say things which contradict what she has always said.
“Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no … anything else is of the devil“
~Matthew 5:37
Those are red letters! Way too many people with authority in “the Church” ignore them!
We have churchmen pushing open borders. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy.
Art:
Open borders obliterates the sovereignty of the nation-state. We, the people institute the state-government. We, the people have sovereign personhood with which we, the people institute the sovereign nation-state. To deny sovereignty of the nation-state is to deny the sovereignty of the sovereign personhood of every human being created by God with a soul. God creates the human rational soul with free will, reason and sovereign personhood in the image and likeness of God, the Infinite Supreme Sovereign Being.
P.S. Every immigrant, illegal invader has sovereign personhood in their soul too. They need to go home and institute a sovereign government for all.