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.
Jesus Christ was crucified for peace at any price.
“…reasonable, sincere dialogue.”
The Vatican has an exorcist. The Vatican’s exorcist dialogues with the devil before the exorcist exorcises the devil…and sends the devil back to hell.
So much for dialogue with the devil.
Like our host of this blog, I can think of many examples disproving our Holy Father’s claim. For example, would he have dared say such a flaccid platitude to the Polish people in 1939?
The mullahs running Iran have demonstrated for decades that they are neither reasonable, sincere nor responsible. And as they recently demonstrated, they are fine with murdering tens of thousands of their own people for protesting that brutal regime. The only way endless dialogue would resolve the Iran situation would be if it could bore the mullahs to death, and for this Pope to suggest otherwise looks to me like empty moral grandstanding.
Has the Pope never read about Joshua and the Canaanites, David and the Philistines, the Maccabeans and the Seleucids? What a freaking idiot.
LQC,
He has, no doubt, and was probably internally feeling grotesque about it, which also leads to my thoughts that most of our bishops are quasi-Gnostic (if not full on) in their belief about God – including the insipid idea that God somehow “evolved” between the OT and the time of Christ.
Absolutely maddening.
To paraphrase John Lennon, give war a chance.
It’s like they think every war is WWI, and they’re Benedict XV.
Dialog with Mad Mullahs who keep their own people in chains, attack others, think of lying as a religious duty – hell bent on obtaining nuclear weapons?
Bishops suing for birth right citizenship, the Pope way off in left field.. this is embarrassing!
Maybe the Holy Father has a point. True peace is hard work. Even in the case of just wars peace and stability are seldom fully realized. The price of “peace” and “stability” after WW2 was the subjugation of Eastern Europe and deprivation of religious freedom for half a century.
The mullahs murdered 32,000 of their own people in January alone! How would the Pope suggest we dialogue with such people? A compromise? Maybe ask them to only murder 10,000/month in the name of peace? Maddening!
Sometimes war is the correct result of the intolerance of injustice.
Peace at *any* cost simply costs too much. Some things should not be compromised. See Maccabees.
Yup, Prevost is an American cleric. Dialogue this, dialogue that.
I will tell you where to find dialogue. Dialogue comes in a 50.pound sack next to the cow manure, one aisle over from the chicken feed at Rural King.