Catholic orthodoxy is the only way to heal the radical polarization that conservative and liberals have caused the church and their heated, ugly and mean-spirited rhetoric tossed at either side and to the pope himself and bishops in union with him.
This is Catholic orthodoxy:
1. It is orthodox to embrace all the social teachings of the Church, especially those in papal enclyicals like Pope Leo XIII!
2. It is orthodox to allow migrants and those persecuted in their own countries to have access to countries when they can be safe and provide a standard quality of life for them and their families.
3. It is orthodox for countries to have laws that protect the integrity of their borders and allow controlled immigration verses an invasion of all kinds of people, even those with criminal records of violent crimes.
4. It is orthodox to ask secular governments who have allowed unbridled immigration to treat with respect and due process those who came in because the government allowed illegal immigration. It is orthodox to ask secular governments to allow those who have contributed to their new communities, are otherwise law abiding to have a way to be made regular without deportation.
5. It is orthodox to have a concern for the poor and marginalized and to promote the Church’s sexual morality without being mean spirited toward those who fail to follow Church teachings.
6. It is orthodox to crack down on bad and immodest behaviors in the Church by those who practice disordered sexual preferences by flaunting it and demanding that they be included in the Church’s public worship while committed sacrilege and insults toward our Lord and then toward orthodox Catholics present for prayer and the liturgies of the Church. It is orthodox to demand proper and modest dress in church according to the cultural norms concerning the only two biological genders male and female.
7. It is orthodox for a Catholic to prefer the TLM and its ancillary sacramental liturgies.
8. It is orthodox to prefer a rubrical correct Modern Vernacular Mass and its ancillary liturgies
9. It is orthodox to allow both forms of the one Roman Rite to co-exist in the same parish
10. It is orthodox to reject an ecclesiology that becomes a false god and obfuscates Christ by placing human elements of organization and who does what above an experience of the Risen Lord
11. It is orthodox to reject the deification of any Council of the Church or any Pope making these a false god
12. It is orthodox to develop pastoral theologies that assist pastors and others who minister to people who are in broken and dysfunctional lives and relationships as long as these are within the internal forum
13. Synodality is orthodox when it is relegated to the Faith, Morals and Canon laws of the Church and doesn’t become a false god that elevates walking together while neglecting the one who leads us, Jesus the Risen Lord.
I can go on and on!
2 comments:
Fine list. I imagine Fr Martin, SJ, LGBT is very depressed
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On point, and orthodox!
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