tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post8895060026634405222..comments2024-03-28T16:23:19.433-04:00Comments on southern orders: MUTUAL ENRICHMENT’S FATHER HUNWICKE’S COMMENTARY ON THE “NEW DOCTRINE” ON THE DEATH PENALTYFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-54730688091206621572018-08-05T15:30:06.226-04:002018-08-05T15:30:06.226-04:00Paul, I assure you that God helps the Catholics of...Paul, I assure you that God helps the Catholics of Wilmington Island, as well as all here who seek to do His will, every day.<br /><br />In fact, you'll be pleased to know that that thought was the basis of my homily this weekend. Focusing on Jesus' words, "Do not work for food that perishes<br />but for the food that endures for eternal life,..." I challenged the people (and myself, as always) to understand the need to take more seriously our lives as faithful Christians. I quoted the opening line of Richard J. Foster"s "Celebration of Discipline - The Path to Spiritual Growth": "Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people."<br /><br />The "food that endures for eternal life" is not something we buy or accumulate. Rather, what endures are the virtues we exhibit we live. These are attainable by grace, a grace that is most fully available to us in the Eucharist.<br /><br />The "work" that we do is not some personal, one-time acceptance of Jesus as Lord and Savior. Rather believing in Jesus is meant to be a way of life, and that way of life can be very demanding. By grace, we can maintain way of life that is exemplary, even in the face of opposition from the Prince of Darkness and his pinions, er, his minions.<br /><br />I, too, pray that God helps us all.Fr. Michael J. Kavanaughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-38578083575063014672018-08-05T12:50:20.271-04:002018-08-05T12:50:20.271-04:00The Book of Revelation, not "Revelations,'...The Book of Revelation, not "Revelations,' is not a book of predictions or forecasts of the future. It is a book of hope written to a Christian community undergoing dire persecution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-32412767350435371802018-08-04T15:13:42.505-04:002018-08-04T15:13:42.505-04:00"Murderers, rapists, terrorists and other fel..."Murderers, rapists, terrorists and other felons have no dignity."<br /><br />Yes, they do.<br /><br />"A Catholic approach begins with the recognition that the dignity of the human person applies to both victim and offender." (Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice, USCCB, November 2000)<br /><br />"The fundamental starting point for all of Catholic social teaching is the defense of human life and dignity: every human person is created in the image and likeness of God and has an inviolable dignity, value, and worth, regardless of race, gender, class, or other human characteristics. Therefore, both the most wounded victim and the most callous criminal retain their humanity. All are created in the image of God and possess a dignity, value, and worth that must be recognized, promoted, safeguarded, and defended. For this reason, any system of penal justice must provide those necessities that enable inmates to live in dignity: food, clothing, shelter, personal safety, timely medical care, education, and meaningful work adequate to the conditions of human dignity."<br /><br />That is Catholic doctrine.<br />Fr. Michael J. Kavanaughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-62152920484994814382018-08-04T14:37:55.726-04:002018-08-04T14:37:55.726-04:00Gene,
To evil leftists (oxymoren) they do have di...Gene,<br /><br />To evil leftists (oxymoren) they do have dignity, but the innocent baby in the womb, do not TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-72777154561347112672018-08-04T12:31:30.382-04:002018-08-04T12:31:30.382-04:00Murderers, rapists, terrorists and other felons ha...Murderers, rapists, terrorists and other felons have no dignity.<br />Genenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-22409024920954588442018-08-04T11:01:42.201-04:002018-08-04T11:01:42.201-04:00The Latin text has come out. The word "inadm...The Latin text has come out. The word "inadmissible" is "non posse" in Latin, which really means the much stronger "impossible." The pope is changing long held Catholic doctrine.<br /><br />Fr Hunwicke is right in mentioning that the pope is waging a political campaign through the Catechism. But then, the way this pope thinks is always through politics, as most of Latin America does, and why they have such grave political problems all the time.<br /><br />What bugs me most about this, though, is his justification for the change. He writes: <br /><br />"... the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that 'the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person'[1]" The footnote reference is not to Scripture but to the Pope's own previous talk. Where does the Gospel teach that? So "the Church teaches" is a now magisterial statement, a belief to be held de fide. What was once held as true for the Faith no longer is true for (Enlightened) modern man: that is the creed of Modernism. And how far will he go with this? What and see, I guess.Victornoreply@blogger.com