IS IT A SCANDAL OR JUST ONE MORE EMBARRASSMENT? AND DO CATHOLICS NEED MORE EMBARRASSMENT FROM THE HIERARCHY AND LOWERARCHY?

 

Well, it is all over the news in the Catholic press. Pope Francis has named a woman who is an atheist and pro-abortion, pro-hitman for hire to kill babies, as Pope Francis would describe it, to the Pontifical Commission for Life. 

This is a bit of the Bizarro-Church, no? 

But that is the self-referential, let’s get together in endless meetings and let us worship what we have done and say the Holy Spirit is guiding it, like the worship of the “spirit of Vatican II” and now that bastard’s child, the synodal process. Let’s have false gods to worship which are created things but not from God. 

But how do we make lemonade out of this particular lemon, tone deafness and scandal? 

Well. She’s an expert on the economy, a kind of Marxist, utopian ideology, one that always fails but not without having destroyed countless lives. But she’s an expert.

When I was pastor, I had to hire outside experts for this, that and the other. Maybe it was for an audit. Maybe it was an architect. Maybe it was a lawyer, or a construction company and workers who built things, cut the grass or whatever.

I did not hire them because of their religious and moral beliefs. They could have supported a number of things that oppose Catholic morality and maybe some were criminals, but knew what they were doing when they put up concrete walls, built bathrooms and were electricians. 

Sometimes their work was excellent despite their anti-Catholic ideologies, lack of morality, and unbelieving attitudes. 

Sometimes, though, they botched their jobs and what they did had to be redone by someone else. 

So maybe Pope Francis has hired an “outside contractor” with specialized expertise for a particular task and to seek advice on something for the common good and he thinks it is no big deal that she is an atheist and a sort of hit-woman to enable the killing of children.