LeoWatch: Champion of the Conventional Wisdom of the Chattering Classes of the West
- 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.
I think what strikes me is how banal all of this is. This sounds like the drumbeat of what I heard from the student “Justice and Peace Organization” at my Jesuit institution of higher learning.
Just. Shut. Up. Sound and Fury signifying nothing. But without Macbeth’s despair..
men and women aren’t the same… sameness isn’t dignity… women can’t be ordained.
“as long as this gap exists..” Sith mind trick. Bob hasn’t heard(!) of the Writings of Jedi St Paul..
(using a Star Wars analogy because this is all so surreal..)
Maybe His Worthlessness should tell the Islamic nations who hold women in abject slavery about the gap between women’s privileges and men’s.
I never thought that anyone could infuriate me more than his predecessor and former President Barack Hussein Obama. Sadly, I was wrong. May God Almighty depose him and anathematize all his works of heresy.
I think I shall read another chaper in Seneca’s De Ira this morning.
also in the news… “Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role (read Catholic Church) in legitimizing slavery…” it’s as if the entire pre-conciliar church must be smeared…
LQC and David WS:
Yup … there’s a pretty huge disparity between the roles of men and woman in Islam AND in China, and both have legal slavery too! But I doubt we’ll hear a peep about any of that from this Pope.
My bride and I will be reviewing this word salad together today, as we decide whether to brave the hour-long drive to the nearest SSPX chapel beginning this Sunday. Enough is enough. Whatever this man is preaching, it is not Catholicism.
“Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role (read Catholic Church) in legitimizing slavery.”
Thank goodness. It’s been at least five minutes since I heard someone drag the West through the mud over that unforgivable sin of the European slave trade.
OK, so this is obviously not heresy. So why make that accusation?
Pinky, the problem IS slavery. Of the worst kind.
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.”
I have trouble believing many of these reactions. There’s obviously no heresy here, no one should be despising the pope or threatening to attend SSPX Masses. A person shouldn’t be a child of his age, nor should he throw childish tantrums. There’s nothing more “of our age” than flying off the handle at an excerpted quote or a paraphrase of a 180-page document. It’s unsaintly and unmanly.
Hey maybe pastor Bob would like to chime in on the murder rate in his old home town of S?!tcago? Oops 400 murders a year doesn’t mean it’s a real problem and not enough victims are female.
David WS, I’ve been following the news and it seems the ‘apology for slavery’ is quickly becoming one of the go-to takeaways, especially he being an American pope and on Memorial Day weekend no less. The symbolism being lost on apparently nobody.
Due to his time in Peru, he appears to have bought into Liberation Theology, the KGB attempt to merge Marxism into Catholic social teaching.
Care for the poor is more important than everything else, and that care must be paid for by the “evil wealthy nations” specifically the USA.
Yeah, he was born in the US but he doesn’t seem to care too much for us since we are all wealthy.
Did you know you are wealthy? I wasn’t aware I was wealthy. Such things as piety, hatred of sin, worship don’t matter to the Liberation Theologist.
JPII condemned Liberation Theology but some dufuses just could not let it go.
Ya think Leo would be concerned about the large numbers of ex Catholics who drift away. Sure doesn’t seem like it to me.
Watched a short clip of an SSPX priest the other day saying “people come to us because they’re starving!! …”
that’s true, and will be truer.
The Jesuits were actively involved in the slave trade back in the day … Maybe Leo is getting ready to abolish the Jesuit order once and for all?
Regardless of the actions of the Holy See and the Holy Father, the FSSPX is not going away. It will grow in numbers and vocations. I believe Archbishop Lefebvre said something to the effect that it would fade away after his death if it were not meant to be.