One of the things that the puritanical religion of political parties observe (a false religion also) is their preoccupation with the sexual sins of Trump while celebrating the most promiscuous President in our history, Bill Clinton. Be that as it may, sexual sins are mortals sins of passion and biological needs and often caused by emotional disorders. Thus the culpability of the mortal sinner could be lessened and in some cases reduce the sin to a venial sin as “full consent of the will” could be compromised. Any crime or sin of passion, even murder if motivated by the passions in the heat of the moment, can have its culpability reduced due to passions run amuck.
Not so with what a Catholic president who should know better, is promoting. Gender ideology that will lead to the amputation of the genitals of young children who think they are anything else than what God created them, a boy or a girl, thus scarring them for life physically and emotionally. It is called sexual and emotional abuse and those who promote it and carry it out should be convicted and sentenced to prison.
He promotes infanticide by civilly legal means, before and after birth and during birth and in the most gruesome ways.
He promotes euthanasia.
None of these mortal sins, which are also demonic and intrinsically evil, are mortal sins of passion in anyway whatsoever. Scandal does not describe this evil.
And yet the president soothes his immoral conscience by warning people to wear a mask and prevent the spread of a contagion. He appears pious and unrepentant when he attends Mass and brings up his piety in other settings. GIVE ME A BREAK!. Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of heaven before this agent of Caesar! (To quote our Catholic Church’s Founder!)
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Frank: Fr Benedict Groeshel once said that sexual sins aren’t always the greatest sin, but they always get the most attention. Clinton and Trump had moral lapses in judgment and I think both of them eventually recognized their sins. The problem with Biden is that he makes no decision based on morality. His decisions are decided by polls and statistics. He doesn’t have any lapse in moral judgment because he doesn’t consider morals. What Biden is doing is incredibly more dangerous than Clinton and Trump. Their sins were personal, Biden’s absolute lack of moral judgment affects an entire country Clinton knew he screwed up, Biden thinks he’s the supreme pontiff.
Well, Frank, my only question is how does Biden differ from a large percentage/perhaps majority of the larger donors to local parishes, and likely the rest of parish members, as well, where the only difference between them all is one has managed to become President?
The odds are any "catholic" would be no better, and Biden might even believe in the real presence and be a standout in comparison to many, but I surely never see that outrage at the local level. All I see are incredibly expensive weddings and those folk running local parishes.
Yes.
What are we to make of it when our pastors slobber all over parish donors who do the same? We all have them, the beneficent "publicly admired good Catholic" who got that annulment rammed through...who donates money to Biden and like-minded politicians...Who are outraged if a priest dares to preachy against artificial contraception...who claim to think with the mind of the Church, but really live with a mind of their own and are influenced by the bottom line.
I've never prostituted myself for any parishioner's money. It had to be freely given or else they could keep it. That did not endear me with a few in Macon. But the temptation to prostitution in this regard is real.
Sophia here: Thank you Fr. Mc Donald -very well said!
In a similar vein, here's a courageous Pastor's excellent, honest, accurate, unapologetic homily on the "Equality" Act which will soon be voted on in the Senate. It has already been passed by the House.
Sophia here: Thank you Fr. Mc Donald -very well said!
In a similar vein, here's a courageous Pastor's excellent, honest, accurate, unapologetic homily on the "Equality" Act which will soon be voted on in the Senate. It has already been passed by the House.
Oops here it is:
https://gracewepray.org/tuesday-march-2-2021/
And I wonder how many Catholics in Congress are supporting the "Equality" legislation? It could be stopped if there were more Catholic Democrats with a conscience. Yeah, I know...wishful thinking. But hope springs eternal...
Clinton the most promiscuous President in history? More so than JFK who once confided to Harold Macmillan that if he didn't get a piece of 'fresh tail' every day he got a headache?
Macmillan was somewhat embarrassed since his own wife was carrying on with Bob (Lord) Boothby, a promiscuous bisexual whose predilections were perverted even by homosexual standards.
What about LBJ who was notoriously promiscuous?
Spare a thought for Jimmy Carter who once admitted to having 'committed adultery in his heart.' Who hasn't?
John, certainly some in the media had to have known about JFK's escapades, but given the enmity between JFK and LBJ, the former's staff certainly did not want to see the Texan become president, so they kept the affairs secret. And Johnson, yes, was less than faithful in his 38 years of marriage to Lady Bird.
John Nolan,
In the US the media are Democrat operatives masquerading as journalists. The national media in the US adores abortion, gay marriage, transgenderism and illegal aliens and despise hardworking Americans. The media ( who are abysmally ignorant) consider them rubes, like a certain priest who posts here anonymously who fancies himself an “intellectual.”
False religion on both sides of the aisle perhaps? Consider this thought-provoking, just published article in The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/america-politics-religion/618072/
“No longer explicitly rooted in white, Protestant dominance, understandings of the American creed have become richer and more diverse—but also more fractious. As the creed fragments, each side seeks to exert exclusivist claims over the other. Conservatives believe that they are faithful to the American idea and that liberals are betraying it—but liberals believe, with equal certitude, that they are faithful to the American idea and that conservatives are betraying it. Without the common ground produced by a shared external enemy, as America had during the Cold War and briefly after the September 11 attacks, mutual antipathy grows, and each side becomes less intelligible to the other. Too often, the most bitter divides are those within families.
“No wonder the newly ascendant American ideologies, having to fill the vacuum where religion once was, are so divisive. They are meant to be divisive. On the left, the “woke” take religious notions such as original sin, atonement, ritual, and excommunication and repurpose them for secular ends. Adherents of wokeism see themselves as challenging the long-dominant narrative that emphasized the exceptionalism of the nation’s founding. Whereas religion sees the promised land as being above, in God’s kingdom, the utopian left sees it as being ahead, in the realization of a just society here on Earth. After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September, droves of mourners gathered outside the Supreme Court—some kneeling, some holding candles—as though they were at the Western Wall.
“On the right, adherents of a Trump-centric ethno-nationalism still drape themselves in some of the trappings of organized religion, but the result is a movement that often looks like a tent revival stripped of Christian witness. Donald Trump’s boisterous rallies were more focused on blood and soil than on the son of God. Trump himself played both savior and martyr, and it is easy to marvel at the hold that a man so imperfect can have on his soldiers. Many on the right find solace in conspiracy cults, such as QAnon, that tell a religious story of earthly corruption redeemed by a godlike force.”
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