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.
Good one, Mac.
In my opinion [“Opinion is not Truth.” Plato], The Catholic Church needs less moral theology and more moral courage.
Abortion.
The inconvenient truth.
Something tells me that D.W. Lafferty would have no trouble using the language of “intrinsic evil” if someone wanted to murder him.
These “gray area” folks can trace their theology all the way back to Sinai when God gave Moses the ten points of discussion.
I wonder if leftwing Catholics understand what leftwing Protestants never figured out. That is, the more they insist the Church has been wrong about almost everything, the less up and coming generations are going to believe the Church is capable of being right about anything.
Dave G. I suspect that many of them wish to love Christ and the Church if they’d only do away with those attached rules. On the other hand, maybe Martin Luther thought just that.
Lafferty is evil, but in that oozing, unctuous academic way that tries its lying best to assure you it shares your concerns as it slowly draws the blade. It’s a very bourgeois antichrist mindset, making sure Hell’s air conditioners are doing their best. Loathsome.
Don’t compare the likes of Lafferty to Luther. The latter, for all of his flaws, had far more Christian moral standards we would recognize.
Modernists are leagues worse.
Ah. I see. “Intrinsic” just isn’t “nuanced” enough.
Actually, the concept of intrinsic evil is a great clarifier that cuts through any impasse, provided one wants to overcome evil rather than accommodate it.
Yesterday he wrote:
The death penalty is not conditionally inadmissible depending on the material conditions of our society. The Church teaches that it is always inadmissible moving forward, based upon the irreversible development of our understanding of human dignity and the sanctity of life.
From Fratelli Tutti: “There can be no stepping back from this position. Today we state clearly that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible’ and the Church is firmly committed to calling for its abolition worldwide.” Can’t be clearer! It’s not a prudential matter anymore.
CAG
“These “gray area” folks can trace their theology all the way back to Sinai when God gave Moses the ten points of discussion.”
Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible.The Pentatuch. In Leviticus the law is spelled out. In Dueteronomy, the law is repeated. There can be no mistake about what is God’s law.
“From Fratelli Tutti: “There can be no stepping back from this position. Today we state clearly that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible’ and the Church is firmly committed to calling for its abolition worldwide.” Can’t be clearer! It’s not a prudential matter anymore.”
Jesus Christ was put to death at capital punishment.
The death penalty is imposed on the victim of homicide without the benefit of civil rights, a trial, a verdict. Where is the church on the homicide of innocent persons created equal by “their Creator”
The condemned of first degree homicide as a member of the state brings himself to Justice and is executed through his power of attorney. Church ministers do not perform capital punishment. Their job is to put this in God’s hands.
Playing Monopoly gives the criiminal a get out of jail free card, but not for real.
P.S. Jesse Timmendaquas raped and strangled seven year old Megan Kanka. Timmendaquas sits in solitary confinement for 22 years with his own guard, recreation hour and all sorts of life. Justice for all?
Mary De Voe: Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible.The Pentatuch. In Leviticus the law is spelled out. In Dueteronomy, the law is repeated. There can be no mistake about what is God’s law
Yeah, the “10 points of discussion” vs. the 10 commandments … That was a sarcastic joke. 🙂
To believe this position you must believe something like “it is always evil to believe that an action can be intrinsically evil.” From a contradiction, anything follows, explaining much about modernism.
I believe by “impasse” he is referring to an obstacle that interferes with his desired compromise with evil.
That’s just more pick-and-choose, cafeteria stuff.
Certain individuals in high places;’ opinions [not objective truth] on ‘human dignity’ evolved in the past 50 years.
How did this get around to the subverted CP rules?
The recent renovations in the Catechism on capital punishment, state procedures accepted by the Church for nearly 2,000 years, are simply more excuses for catholic Liberals to rationalize voting for abortion.