tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post8164783856131664955..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: WHY AM I UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE POPE’S SECULAR AGENDA?Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-81637969500005176502019-08-12T07:09:07.358-04:002019-08-12T07:09:07.358-04:00The MORALITY of war and peace is NOT best left to ...The MORALITY of war and peace is NOT best left to secular authorities.<br /><br />"All's fair in love and war" is a lie. <br /><br />The intentional targeting of non-combatant populations is immoral - think Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<br /><br />Torture, in war or any circumstance, is an abomination condemned by the Church.<br /><br />Conscription of children is, in every case, immoral and reprehensible.<br /><br />Profiteering from war is grossly unjust.<br /><br />And on and on and on. <br /><br />The Bishops are well within their rights to teach about the moral questions that are part and parcel of any war, any economic decision.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-82398481688690102212019-08-11T12:10:20.501-04:002019-08-11T12:10:20.501-04:00Daniel,
War and peace are best left to the pruden...Daniel,<br /><br />War and peace are best left to the prudential judgment of secular authorities who hopefully have a moral compass.TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-37354837064420326452019-08-10T21:06:49.602-04:002019-08-10T21:06:49.602-04:00Apparently war & peace are not moral issues.Apparently war & peace are not moral issues. Danielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-33605548784786952602019-08-10T13:04:04.593-04:002019-08-10T13:04:04.593-04:00Bee here:
Sounds like Pope Francis is shifting in...Bee here:<br /><br />Sounds like Pope Francis is shifting into high gear....<br /><br />God bless.<br />BeeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-69247106335988608812019-08-10T12:18:19.634-04:002019-08-10T12:18:19.634-04:00How many Catholics in Central and South America ha...How many Catholics in Central and South America have departed the True Church because the leaders of the True Church in their "traditional" practice, aligned themselves with oppressive oligarchs and dictators? Those bishops who did not paid a high price. St. Oscar Romero, Bishop and Martyr, was beloved among the poor and oppressed precisely because he insisted on the immorality of the "secular" matters of serfdom and exploitation. They aren't "secular" matters - they were and are moral matters.<br /><br />The USCCB did not pontificate on war and peace and nuclear disarmament. The Bishops, living up to their responsibility, taught about the moral implications of war and peace and the arms race.<br /><br />That an atheist would embrace environmentalism is no argument against the pope reminding us that we have a responsibility to use God's gift wisely - as good stewards. Taking care of the world is VERY MUCH a part of Catholic doctrine and has been since we were told, "...have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Exercising dominion means acting like the "dominus," the Lord. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-38282759419712640132019-08-10T09:56:42.311-04:002019-08-10T09:56:42.311-04:00Father McDonald,
You are a breath of air. I hope ...Father McDonald,<br /><br />You are a breath of air. I hope your candor does not get you into trouble with the "higher ups." TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-39691560198676586882019-08-10T09:24:42.433-04:002019-08-10T09:24:42.433-04:00Yes, that is a good point about politics becoming ...Yes, that is a good point about politics becoming religion and Jesus being shunted to the side. How many Catholics in Central and South America have been proselytized by evangelicals and departed the true Church because of politics being made a god?<br /><br />It makes perfect sense that in the South American context, especially those nostalgic for the 1970's like Pope Francis, that this backward thinking is taking place in 2019.<br /><br />It happened in the USA with the USCCB in the 1980's pontificating on all kinds of political issues from war and peace, the nuclear disarmament and the like alienating so many Catholics in the process, yet these same bishops are responsible for the greatest crisis in the Catholic Church in terms of the sex abuse scandal. They didn't take care of that for which they were most responsible!<br /><br />Thus we see nostalgia from my aging group, for Bernadine's leadership. It is sickening in 2019 to go back to this stuff. Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-26444655305102436982019-08-10T09:19:43.325-04:002019-08-10T09:19:43.325-04:00If you read "The Dictator Pope" you will...If you read "The Dictator Pope" you will understand where Francis is coming from. Very eye opening but in hindsight, not surprising.Tom Makinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16205083082154096793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-28679662568457555902019-08-10T09:04:47.295-04:002019-08-10T09:04:47.295-04:00This sounds like a politician impersonating a pope...This sounds like a politician impersonating a pope. One of the diseases in South America is politics. The elites reduce everything to politics. Perhaps it is a remnant of Moorish world views that got transferred from Spain to the Americas, but what a breath of fresh air it must be for Latin Americans to have American Evangelicals come down and preach about Jesus instead of politics for a change.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-27389167724425508942019-08-10T07:29:29.385-04:002019-08-10T07:29:29.385-04:00Maybe because PF is a leftist first and a Catholic...Maybe because PF is a leftist first and a Catholic second?TJMnoreply@blogger.com