You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down
- 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.
A bishop who knows how to do the job. Here in the US, there are almost 300 bishops for close to 200 dioceses. I’m hoping that out of that episcopal pool there are at least a few more bishops who will join +Strickland, if that doesn’t interfere too much with their golf game…
Marching in the cold, praying in front of a clinic, and lobbying for greater Medicaid funding for maternity programs is likely easier than getting your adult child (or high school/college friend, or Famous Instagram Influencer) to quit fornicating.
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Try getting your parish priest to hand out information on the harms of contraception (some of it environmental and harms Mother Earth!) and the NFP alternative. Or even have him bring up the topic in a homily.
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Try getting your Catholic doctor to stop prescribing the Pill or stop performing tubal ligations, inserting IUDs, etc. Or advertising vasectomies on the billboards on the highways.
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Or convincing your friend to visit an NFP-only doctor for a second opinion for her issues, as opposed to the local Catholic doctor who is a member of the Catholic Medical Association, who reads at Mass, (but still prescribes contraception) who put her on the mini-pill, as she gleefully laughs that since the doctor told her she needed to be on it, it’s totally fine.
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We have an abortion problem in this country. A big one. But I can’t see how it will go away by simply marching and praying at abortion clinics, or lobbying for increased Medicaid funding for maternity care, or bigger welfare payments for vulnerable women and their children.
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I hope Bishop Strickland will help the pro-life community become comfortable tackling these other foundational issues.
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“The conception of children out-of-wedlock is never considered or examined as the underlying foundation of such difficulties, though more than 85 percent of all abortions are performed on women who are unmarried.”
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https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/06/08/end-roe-and-then-fight-the-primary-cause-of-abortion/
Contraceptive pills are polluting our ground water resources. Johnny can’t read because he suffers ADD Attention Deficit Disorder caused by pollutants. Most pollution causes cancer and premature death. Salamanders, frogs and small fish are mutating.The frogs are growing a fifth leg out of their abdomen.
God is heartbroken for us. Mother Nature’s virginity is being despoiled. Man has lost his joy in and for life and respect for himself.
Bishop Strickland is a God send.
DJH
I’m in agreement with your synopsis of the greatest holocaust of modern times.
How does one fight against the two packed punch of raging hormones and wide spread pornography? The only answer that I can find is small faith based communities that practically live in and around the Church. Even with that emersion and spiritual guidance there’s always a chance for lust to take hold.
The numbers of virgins in that community v public school indoctrination centers would tend to be higher, imo.
But I can’t see how it will go away by simply marching and praying at abortion clinics, or lobbying for increased Medicaid funding for maternity care, or bigger welfare payments for vulnerable women and their children.
It’s like eating an elephant.
The culture changes with one person at a time.
One child who guards his / her virginity.
One scared pregnant woman decides for life.
One new member of Congress who is called to serve God and God’s children in that order.
That is why we continue to stand and pray outside abortion mills. That is why the march continues.
It’s about ONE.
The rest will come in time… if we just believe that one can make a difference. One can. You.
Me. We trust in God.
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