VANCE AND WALZ, THE ARTICULATE POLITICIAN AND THE SELF-DESCRIBED KNUCKLEHEAD: WHICH IS THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS?

Overall the skilled tone of the vice presidential debate was very edifying. It was good and it was wholesome. I wish these two were the presidential candidates rather than the two clowns we have, one completely uncharitable and the other a cackling, empty headed hen who never lays that egg as Lucy once describe a cackling friend on I Love Lucy, “Marion, stop that cackling, I’m been waiting ten years for you to lay that egg!”

But clearly Senator J.D. Vance’s star shone more brightly than the nervous, self-described knucklehead, who also has lied about his personal life and serving in war and being in China during a major revolt there. 

Pope Francis recently said during a high altitude interview that Catholics in the USA have to choose between the lesser of two evils as His Holiness described the anti-life stances of Trump and Harris as it concerns migration and abortion.

As it concerns migration, Pope Francis would prefer the “lesser evil” policies of the Harris-Biden administration for the past three years and not what Trump is proposing in terms of the wall to stop free flowing illegal migration. His Holiness would see Trump’s desire to shut down illegal migration as anti life and certainly would see as anti-life the deportation of illegal migrants especially if it separates family members. 

I am not sure how Pope Francis would feel about Harris’ flip flops on migration in order to get votes. These flip-flops in the pope’s eyes would be more evil than her previous stance. 

As it concerns abortion, the pope’s words in no way can make the migration issues on an equal plane as how His Holiness describes abortion. He calls it murder and His Holiness recently doubled down on that in another high altitude interview. There is no wiggle room for the pope when it comes to the intrinsic evil of abortion which he says is murder because it is. 

While, unfortunately, Vance and Walz aren’t the presidential candidates, the lesser of evils still applies on these two issues. Abortion is always murder and at least one person always dies. We never hear about the number of women who die because of a so-called safe abortion, so in addition to the baby who is murdered, the mother also dies in many cases. At least one person always dies in a horrible way in a safe abortion and sometimes more than one to include the mother and twins, triplets, etc. 

I am dismayed that Vance has had to sell his soul to the grotesque immorality of the American people when it comes to the murder of babies. I wish he had promoted good, affordable health care for both the mother and child/children during pregnancy and adoption for any unwanted children. 

But Vance’s flip flop on abortion due to political pressure is no where near what Walz is proposing. Walz wants no protection for babies under the mandate of law. He wants the Wildwest where the mother and her doctor decide who will live and die with no interference of law. How flawed and evil is that—it’s intrinsically evil. 

CLUTTER, DISTRACTIONS AND JUST WHO AND WHAT IS WORSHIPPED?

 Please note in this before photo of the stunningly beautiful cathedral in Toledo, Ohio, that the sanctuary is clean, crisp and uncluttered. The altar, a symbol of Christ and his sacrifice along with the Baldachine, which is a symbol of the consummation of the sacrificial heavenly marriage of Christ the Bridegroom with His bride the Church, is spectacularly made clear:

Look what was done after Vatican II and the hot mess of clutter and jumbled, confused theology of the post-Vatican II period. Look what was done to the symbol of the marriage of Christ and the Church consummated by the Sacrifice of the Cross as a free standing altar replaces the old altar under the Baldachine. But look at the clutter:

And notice in the pre-wreckovation of the sanctuary and in an ad orientem Mass, even if this was the Novus Ordo, which it isn’t, how clear it is that the Body of Christ, the Church, is worshipping her Head, Jesus Christ. No one feels as though the prayers of the Mass are directed to them, but to Christ the High Priest. This is not “let us sing Kumbaya and hold hands” way of worship, where those worshipping within a closed circle as Pope Benedict XVI once described it. This direction of the Mass suppresses the banal, didactic expereiences of the Modern Mass, its confusion of focus and clutter, and tiresome banter and commentary by the celebrant at various points of the Mass, directed in a didactic way toward the congregation: