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.
According to St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa:
“If the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence Paul, who was Peter’s subject, rebuked him in public on account of the immanent danger of scandal concerning faith. And, as the Gloss of St. Augustine says on Galatians 2:11, ‘Peter gave an example to superiors that if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects.’”.
Myself, I’ll be taking my guidance from the Angelic Doctor himself and not from some random priest(?) opining on Twitter.
“You can’t be Catholic and stand against”
Scripture,
Holy Tradition and
The Magisterium -Apostolic Unity of the Successors of Peter and the Apostles across space AND TIME.
“Ultramontanism for me! But not for thee!”
It’s very odd to see liberals become papists.
Yes, don’t stand against the pope.
He needs his personal space – and getting hogtied by the Swiss guard is a real drag!
Watch me! 😀
But seriously … What does this guy mean by “stand against”? Instructing the ignorant is a spiritual work of mercy, even when the person is misinformed by a pope. Across the previous papacy, many of us had grown increasingly weary of having to explain basic Catholic teaching after every papal plane trip. We had hoped that this papacy would be different, but when so much of what the pope says can, at best, be easily misinterpreted, and at worst is downright contradictory to Doctrine, well, we are actually obligated by virtue of our baptism and confirmation to set the record straight. We may be mocked, ridiculed and called ‘more Catholic than the Pope‘ by people like Rev .Vitus up there, but it isn’t “standing against the Pope“, it’s standing up for the truth.
Yeah, like the bishops who ignored John Paul II and Ecclesia Dei, and Ex Corde Ecclsiae and Orientale Lumen, and the bishops who ignored Summorum Pontificum.
Don’t pull selective enforcement on me, Curia.
How many of these bishops ignore the plight of the Sudanese and Nigerian Catholics? Or the Maronites, the Chaldeans, the Melkites of Syria, the Chinese Catholics and for that matter the repression doled out to Cubans by their government?
Nah, only the United States is bad, in particular conservative Americans. Abortionists get a pass, take Communion and flaunt Church teaching.
We are on to Robert Prevost. We know about his tweets. We know how the man thinks and what he believes. He has a job to do and that job is not to make the Catholic Church into a Democrat Party-affiliated interest group.