Pride and disobedience seem to be the attributes of most Catholics these days.
“We are offended by her speech and outraged that she would say such things.”
Yep. That’s college-bound material there.
“We the students of Charlotte Catholic High School would like to issue a formal complaint regarding Sr. Jane Dominic’s speech given on on [sic] Friday, March 21st,” the petition begins. “We found some of ideas [sic] expressed to be both offensive and unnecessarily derogatory. We are incensed that you knew the content of this speech and allowed these ideas to be expressed in a school that should be preaching a message of love and acceptance.”
Clearly they were just not catechized thoroughly...
...or maybe just not taught the right stuff at their Catholic High School.
It also may be that this story is not translated properly.
It also may be that the mainstream media is not reporting this properly.
“Rome, we have a problem...”
The current stand on the question of life for many is not only in opposition to the teachings of the Church, it is in opposition to the very foundation idea of America's Declaration of Independence from assumed coercive powers of government.In America, all our constitutional protections rest on the Founders' premise that all human beings are "endowed by their Creator" with both life and the liberty to "pursue happiness."
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
That understanding underlies every other consideration embodied in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It is the very basis of our rights to life, liberty, and laws to protect them.
Since the 1970's, technological advances have enabled us to observe God's tiniest creations in the womb. We no longer have an excuse for imagining that these are blobs of tissue labeled "fetuses." They are living babies who will have life and liberty if we do not "destroy" them.
If we cannot, or will not, protect the life and liberty of these smallest versions of ourselves, then Mother Teresa's words, see below, take on significant meaning. On what basis, then, do we justify laws to ban acts of murder against others in the society?
At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on February 3, 1994, Mother Teresa stated: “And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
launching both an online petition and a letter-writing campaign calling the sister’s words “offensive and unnecessarily derogatory.”
Do these “Catholics” consider the Bible’s words to be offensive and unnecessarily derogatory?
No, you are not going to get either acceptance nor approval from me!
Not in this life.