A Shepherd Who Sides With The Wolves
- 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.
Terrorists are motivated by notoriety and reward. They own their actions. They inflict violence deliberately and by their own logic (as evil as it is).
And yet here you have Gustavo, a grown man, with no comprehension of what the definition of terrorism is, blaming everyone but the terrorist. He’s mad and stupid.
Gustavo effectively blames the victims for a terrorist attack. He is no different than the Westboro Baptist Church which blames solider deaths overseas on LGBTQ in the US (BTW, I am sure he supports LGBTQ). Yet oxymoronicly he says we should not blame others while the logical conclusion of his own words are to assert blame. The cognitive dissonance is astounding. Novus Ordo Bishops are worse than useless. This is one more reason why I don’t go to anything Novus Ordo.
The President of Allstate (which sponsors the Sugar Bowl) is being slammed for vapid remarks. The bishop makes even worse remarks. Our leadership class is shot through with ass-clowns.
“We should not blame others. We should take responsibility. We need civil discourse and lots of humility and charity.”
A Catholic priest who was serving our region in 2020 had to return home because the village his parents lived in was being blanketed with a certian “charity” that goes far beyond explaination. He wrote back weeks later that the village was gutted and many of his friends were killed. His mother and father hid themselves well enough to escape the attack.
We are not to be floormats for savages to wipe their bloody feet on.
Defending your loved ones from harm may include weapons and you can’t dialogue if your head is severed from your torso.
The caption was from 2019.
I wonder how many of the illegal immigrants in his diocese are members of terrorist gangs? Let’s hope that one of them doesn’t drive his truck down the middle aisle of his cathedral some fine Sunday
I wonder what it was like to live in a time when a message from a bishop was met with joy or at least with confidence that it was sound.
Throughout my Catholic life, a message from the bishop has always been preceded by my bracing for impact accompanied by a weary interior thought “O crap, what now?”
Yes, sometimes the message is a benign, boilerplate, soulless greeting for a standard event. More frequently it is a version of “Hey, cheapskate, dig deeper.” But the messages of generalized blame, the exhortations to embrace the world’s wisdom, and the shoddy-to-heretical statements of doctrine leave me feeling like a whipped dog. A dog that winds up in the kennel confessing the desire to bite the hand that doesn’t feed me.
This naturally does not apply to all bishops, but I begin to feel they are becoming the minority. Thankfully, God does not need a majority to accomplish anything he sets his mind to.
Babylon Bee discovers long lost text of this pontificate: “ Pastor qui partes cum lupis.” (Translation: “A shepherd who sides with the wolves.”)
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Assuming that this refers to the incident in New Orleans….
When was the last time anyone had a (successful) dialogue with ISIS?
Most “dialogue” with them tends to require a rifle. ..or a bazooka.
San Antonio has always had an odd assortment of Bishops. Stopped assigning Anglos about half a century ago when Hispanic Bishops became desirable even though they often supported local politicians whose integrity was highly questionable. Lately, the establishment part of the Church is little more than the democrat party at prayer on the rare occasions when they manifest a religious identity. This man is little more than a cypher who is trotted out to support the local politicians when they feel he may be of some use in keeping them in power.