Posted on 06/13/2023 9:55:22 AM PDT by ebb tide
“If violence breaks out”? You mean if peaceful, law-abiding Catholics are attacked by perverted thugs for the effrontery of disagreeing with the transgender crowd and agreeing with their leader, the Pope?
Guess they're afraid they might get prosecuted if the usual suspects decide to beat up the faithful.
No, if transgendered idiots attack Catholics, the secular media will see the Catholics as provoking. That is how the secular media play the game.
Furthermore, all of these Catholic groups are not from LA, they are lay groups with affiliations with Who? Apparently a Bishop from Texas is flying in to speak to these lay groups but does he have permission to speak on behalf of all Catholics in LA? No.
I personally have never liked free roaming Catholic priests or free roaming Catholic Bishops, those who became media stars like the TV protestants.
The USCCB in union voted for a National day of prayer, which in my view is the way to go.
You start playing the game of Caesar with marches and protests you are playing in the secular realm and thus the media, which is secular, is going to spin any hypothetical tensions against the Church.
If transgender-supporting scum attack Catholics peacefully protesting the official insulting of Catholic nuns, that is a win for us and an enormous loss for the Catholic-insulting Dodgers.
You might see it that way, but you know as well as I that is not how the media will portray it, especially in L.A. All it will take is one isolated still of a Catholic defending themself against an attack and it will go viral and frame the narrative of "angry and violent Catholics". The Archdiocese is smart to publicly stay out of this.
Are you ENDORSING HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR or NOT?
montaine: That is true from a theological perspective, but if a lay groups not affiliated with any Catholic Diocese show up in LA and the LA Bishops have said these Lay groups are not lay associations under the pastoral care of the Catholic Bishops in LA, any civil unrest will be spun in the press to attack the Church.
Prayer, the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is what the US Catholic Bishops collectively asked all Catholics to pray on 16 June. So saw the article and I prayed it already, and I will join my prayers with all the Church on 16 June and pray it in communion with the entire Church.
Those who want to out and engage in civil protest, while that is their legal right, I think that is not the way to go.
Where do we get such men? Everywhere, which is why Jesus had to die.
Out of curiousity, do Catholics sing ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’?
That is an English Protestant hym written in the 19th century, so I don’t think it is in the Catholic Liturgical Music approved hyms.
I am not surprised which is why I consider myself Catholic but I don’t practice the rituals....
I read the notice by the archdiocese, and this is my translation;
“Don’t sue us!!
We don’t want the liability if we hold a procession and a riot breaks out.
So, everybody just pray really quietly, ok?”
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