From Southern Orders
By Fr Allan J. McDonald
Isn't the Church's mission to call people to conversion to Christ from which all else flows?
Are we heading back to a time when "Vatican II" is turn into an idol, replacing conversion to Christ?
Are we heading back to a time when "ecclesiology" is turned into an idol, replacing conversion to Christ?
Are we heading back to a time when liturgical renewal is turned into an idol, replacing conversion to Christ?
I could go on.
Don't get me wrong. It would be well and good that salvation in Christ means taking care of both the body and soul in a holistic way in this life. Just as we should not disfigure the earth, so too the Church might focus on how so many today disfigure their bodies with tattoos, piercing and the like.
And for the most part, individual Catholics can doing something about these things, whereas we are pretty much at a loss as to how to stop governments from burning down the Amazon rain forests.
I think the Church should preach caring for the physical as a sign of eternal salvation in Christ. But I haven't really heard much about eternal damnation only that we will be damned in the here and now if climate change ruins people's lives, especially the poor (as though the middle and upper class lives don't matter that much in this scenario! Typical Latin America crap).
I can remember as a child a friend of mine telling me that when his mother told him to go out and get a switch so she could strike him with it as punishment, he brought back a switch that had new buds on it.
She told her son that you never break off a switch that is budding, never. Now that's ecological conversion! So he got beaten with a belt and its buckle. That taught him!
The bishops at the synod seem to be full of themselves. In the USA they can't get Catholic politicians, let alone non-Catholics to promote the right to life of the innocent unborn. For so many, abortion is a secular sacrament. And the Church's bishops are too feminized or impotent to actually introduce some excommunications and censures against these Catholic politicians.
God is teaching these bishops that even a person like President Trump can be pro-life and the best pro-life person, as it concerns the completely innocent unborn, that the presidency has ever seen.
What about Catholic Beto O'Rouke? He wants to take away the Church's tax exempt status if it stands in the way of LGBTQ ideologies. Got that? A Catholic wants to do that. Of course, he's not really Catholic or is he. Once a Catholic always a Catholic. Not a peep out of the bishops on that one. Interesting, no?
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