I am old enough to remember the backlash from Catholics over St. Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae. Catholics around the world, to include bishops, priests and religious, some of the bishops were cardinals, dissented from this teaching and bent over backwards to help Catholics not feel guilty about birth control pills, some of which prevented pregnancy through spontaneous abortion.
I knew family members who really had a hard time with this teaching and simply ignored it. But they didn’t have social media then to glory in their dissent.
Fast forward to today and all the social media platforms there are. Pope Francis and now Pope Leo promote respect and stewardship of our planet and Pope Francis even wrote an encyclical on it.
What’s the problem with respecting creation as a “sacramental” of God’s creating omnipotence and our need to respect it.
Pope Leo blessed, without a formal blessing, a kind of Fiducia Supplicans kind of blessing, a chunk of a glazier, a big junk of ice. You’d think that the end of the Catholic Church had occurred.
I hate to tell you, I’ve blessed all kinds of things, from human ashes, to homemade rosaries made of chunks of rock or dried rose pedals to automobiles, rvs, and all terrain vehicles. I blessed a cabbage patch doll and a little doll some little girl brought with her to the Communion Rail at a EF Mass!
Stop the silly dissent by the silly heterodox left and right and let the pope be the pope, even when you in your most gnostic way think you know something that the pope doesn’t.
Catholics have always believed that we are to respect creation, to include people, and to be charitable in all things.
The heterodox right seem to me to be the greatest sinners, mortal sinners at that, against charity. That is serious and could get the unrepentant mortal sinners the fires of hell.
I don’t recall the heterodox right complaining about this:
Two priests from Connecticut and New Jersey recently led Eucharistic processions via airplane, petitioning Our Lord for deliverance and healing from COVID-19, the novel coronavirus.
Both priests said an Italian priest inspired them to lead the processions.
Pastor Fr. Brian P. Gannon of St. Theresa Church in Trumbull, Conn. led the procession over the Diocese of Bridgeport with associate pastor Rev. Flavian Bejan. The church’s website explains the Knights of Columbus “underwrote the whole voyage” on Mar. 24, with the help of Coast Guard pilot John DeCastra.
“Fr. Flavian and I are eternally grateful to be instruments of Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lord in the Eucharist to bring His supernatural grace and hope of healing to as many people as possible. God is always victorious!”
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