The first and last excuse from every abusive spouse in history. In the eyes of too many clerics the sheep under their control exist only to serve them and have no real rights. Clericalism at its worst.
God Save Us From Such “Love”
- 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.
There should be this circular reference in dictionaries:
Clericalism see Gaslighting.. gaslighting see clericalism.
While we’re at it. There have been peaks and valleys in the case counts and death counts. The most recent peak (taking a 7-day moving average) was registered on 19 November. The count on that date in 2021 was 93,000; that last year at this time was 171,000. Last year, peak in deaths followed peak in cases by about 3 days in the national data. We recorded 1,066 deaths (7-day moving average) on 22 November 2021. Last year on 22 November, the count was 1,738. We’ll know in about six weeks, but so far it’s shaping up to be a milder winter than last year, the fading of the vaccines notwithstanding.
Sometimes I say I love you with my fist.
Mark this down: we are less than 10 years away from German or Italian bishops saying that abortion is an “act of love.”
“Therefore, responsibility towards oneself, because we see how the No Vax [people] are affected by the disease, and responsibility, above all, towards others, which then the pope summed up with this beautiful expression that I like so much but that, in the end, goes in this sense, of an act of love.”
Given the increasing failure of the jabs, it seems more apropos to ask how the “No Vax” people are affected by the response to the disease.
Sadly, I fear that the hierarchy’s embrace of the scientism of the present moment (especially as it morphs seamlessly into climate change) is going to make the Galileo affair seem like the halcyon days of interoperability between faith and science. They have clearly decided not to repeat the mistakes of the past; rather, they’ve decided to repeat them even harder.
The pathetic reality is that whole pandemic was an opportunity offered up on a silver platter for the Church live fully into the Great Commission, to speak to a world gripped in fear Jesus’ admonition to not be afraid, to demonstrate the hope that vivifies the Christian life. Instead, because of the fear of a statistically small chance of death we shut down our churches at Easter when we celebrate Jesus’ victory over death, made the sacraments more optional than cheap masks, and have equated caritas with an act which increasingly has no efficacy except at increasing the profits of big pharma. Whatever judgement is visited upon us will be well deserved.
Pope Francis, as a Jesuit, knows that it is an act of love to study and grow in knowledge. (OPs and others not withstanding) So, studying and understanding that the virus has a survival rate of 98% + and that natural immunity is stronger than a flu shot would help him demonstrate his love, perhaps, in a different manner.