Posted on 02/12/2022 5:45:11 PM PST by marshmallow
Archbishop Richard Smith cast the truckers and protesters objecting to vaccine mandates as the rebellious and hard-hearted, angry mob that wanted to kill Jesus, both groups forming 'a convoy of resistance.'
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — If there was a shred of hope in our Catholic hierarchy left, a recent homily from the Archbishop of Edmonton annihilated it. Our Canadian Catholic leaders are completely out-of-touch with reality. They don’t know the people they are meant to shepherd. They don’t even seem to attempt to understand the working class. They are elitists, as dogmatic and hypocritical as Pharisees.
The reading for Sunday Mass on January 30 was Luke 4:21-30. Jesus was in the synagogue among his own people. He called out their hard hearts, the reason he would not work miracles among them. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.” Enraged, they “drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.”
Archbishop Richard Smith began his homily by pointing to the Freedom Convoy of truckers in Ottawa opposing vaccine mandates. “I raise this not in order to offer a public comment on this particular demonstration,” he began. But then he did comment, politically and theologically, for his entire homily, on the trucker convoy.
In his analogy, the archbishop cast the truckers and protesters objecting to vaccine mandates as the rebellious and hard-hearted, angry mob, both groups forming “a convoy of resistance” rejecting God’s “divine directives.”
Following this line of thought, though Smith didn’t say so explicitly, it is the reviled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who slipped out of town that is the persecuted.......
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God is pro-mandate?
The whole progressive apparatus is beginning to crack up.
Uh, oh! The Left is playing the God card! They usually discard that one at the first opprtunity for a shot at redrawing the Race card!
If there was a shred of hope in our Catholic hierarchy left,
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I cannot even imagine how that is possible......
It just amazes me how many prelates were dropped on their heads as children.
Since when is Trudeau divine?
Cannot protest for right leaning causes without killing Jesus; however God loves leftists!
Every time a Canadian trucker honks his horn, a pedophile priest sheds a tear.
Our shepherds have decided wolves pay more.
Hey Archie
Your use of those scriptures couldn’t be more out of context.
Jesus was God.
Castro spawn isn’t.
Here’s some scripture probably more in context
Act 8:21 - Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
Act 8:22 - Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Act 8:23 - For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Justin Turd-o issues “divine directives’?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Pot is legal in PRC (Politically Repressive Canada). Does Archbishop Dick Smith avail himself of more than the odd reefer?
He is a (not THE) ‘son of perdition’.
He is also a (not THE) ‘man of lawlessness’. Found guilty of three ethics violations by the House of Commons Ethics Commissioner, long before the CCP-Coronavirus was even heard of.
Per the Ethics Commissioner, he is literally the most UNETHICAL Prime Minister that Canada has ever had!
“Divine Right of Kings” as a political theory went out with the Enlightenment. And the American Revolution.
The Archbishop is out of his lane. Separation of Church and State, in this case, is a good idea. How much of Caesar’s coin is he taking?
“Our shepherds have decided wolves pay more.” Brilliant insight. Thank you.
The shepherds are shepherding themselves, as Ezekiel said in 600 BC.
Selfish leaders think of themselves. Ethical, good, loved leaders think of citizens, as Aristotle said in 350 BC.
So Trudeau rules by divine right like Medieval kings and emperors. The good Bishop seems to have forgotten about humans being endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights.
Archbishop Richard Smith huh?
F-you pal.
The family that hid Anne Franke were guilty of violating “divine directives” of Adolph Hitler. Those who killed Anne Franke followed Hitler’s “divine directives” to the letter.
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