Posted on 01/08/2011 4:15:03 PM PST by Natural Law
What are we to make of the anti-Catholics?
What are we to make of the anti-Catholics? How can we explain the assault on the Church by those who profess in their words the same mission of the Church, the Salvation of mankind, but through their deeds deny it? Are the fabrications, falsehoods, and lies about the supporting beliefs of the Church, about the lives of its saints and clergy, about the verifiable facts of history justified because of doctrinal disagreements? Does any of this matter in the face of the greater assault on Christ and his flock? It defies rational thinking.
In the face of a Muslim onslaught that is bombing Christmas Masses, executing Christians for a nonexistent heresy and apostasy, and a jihad against Christians of all stripes on a massive scale we get shrill unwarranted criticism of how Catholics peaceably worship the One true God. Is smells and bells really a greater sin than sawing off heads in the name of the prophet?
In the face of a secular socialist assault that is killing babies at a pace that outpaces the crimes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined there are degrading insults and accusations over the difference between worship and veneration. Corrections and explanations are ignored and the apologists are pilloried. For what purpose?
In the face of the threat of Communist China that suppresses worship of all kinds and enforces forced abortions we get feeble ad naseum criticism of the Real Presence in spite of the acceptance by Catholics, both Eastern and Latin Rite, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Methodists. All the while the anti-Catholics continue the charade of Christian unity, minus those damned Catholics of course.
So in the face of the advance of worldwide evil some would have us believe that it is the Catholic Church should be destroyed when the destruction of the Church would serve to provide aid and comfort to that evil. Why? Qui Bono, for whom the benefit?
That the Church is and has always been a target of evil cannot be denied. Neither can it be denied that the Church has never been harmed or compromised by that evil. Satan can only work in this world through the actions of his willing accomplices. Those accomplices have long ago recognized that the greatest harm can be done from within the Church and history has produced numerous examples of sinners wearing the collars of priests. Regardless of the contentions of the anti-Catholics that does not negate the good that the Church has done not diminish the saints who have served God through her. Nor does it excuse those who blame one of the victims of the evil doers, the Church itself.
Perhaps those who irrationally assault the Church daily, those who spend inordinate hours researching the internet looking for dirt, those who accept any lie or indiscretion on nothing more than its bias against the Church are consciously or unconsciously in league with evil. Lex Parsimoniae, the principle which generally recommends accepting the answer that requires the fewest assumptions, when the potential answers are equal in all other respects. Is there a simpler answer?
I’m not sure I’d be up to the task.
OOH! Is you a lawyer. How can I answer a question if I don’t know what it is. What in the name of anything does “UNCLE Catholic” mean? Is it a Catholic thing? I do have a Catholic Aunt. She likes the booze now also.
Why do you have your face in your palm. Are you that embarrassed? I don’t care to be “Your Honor”. Thank you anyway. {:0)
Get real, grow up. Do a little research on your Religion on the Internet or the local Library if your religion allows. You are as guilty of the Inquisitions as I am of having slaves.
Does “fr_” mean Friar, as in Friar Tuck? :0)
ah, yes, the useful idiots, or the “pay-for-a-screed” groupies.
so, please stop the knee-jerk anti-Catholicism. The difference between what an anti-Catholic thinks the Church is all about and what the Church actually teaches is quite wide.
No. You haz your face in YOUR palm because of the devastating incisiveness (not to mention the stoopiddiddy) of my cross-examination.
You might also be shaking as if weeping. (All suggestions that you might be laughing at moi are naturally rejected as being dethpicable.)
And, well, harrumph, if YOU innerdooce into evidence the concept of auntie-calflick, you can count on my alert cerebral cortex to bring up uncle-catholic
You have been warned.
More single verses of the Gospel of Paul? Any teachings of Christ in your Christianity?
Yeah, I guess the Holy Spirit screwed up with Paul, although when I was Catholic Paul's writing were part of the New Testament.
You do understand that the 4 Gospels and ACTS are more of a narrative of what happend and not meant to be theological teaching and instruction from the Apostles to the churches. It is more description rather than prescription. In the Gospels Jesus is still teaching in parables to HIDE the truth from some.
Matt 13:10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” 11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
Mark 1:15 And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Like 18:9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ 13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ 14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Luke 24:45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
John 8:23 But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”
I think we all, including Catholics, need to be prudent when we encounter stories that prompt an "Ah-HAH!" in us. If things that are 'too good to be true' rarely are true, so, more than likely, are things too 'juicy' or too perfect to be true.
Right now the MSM are doing everything they can to pin the Tucson massacre on the right in general and on Palin in particular. But the more facts come to the surface, the harder it is to pin that tail on those donkeys, uh, elephants, whatever.
We ought at least to think about using the same discretion we expect the newsies to practice. We're all outraged when they don't use their critical faculties, and rightly so. Maybe when a story appears that "perfectly" shows how weird the Catholics or the OPC's are, maybe we could step back and take a breath and check our assumptions and our sources.
The whole post is a false dichotomy between evil in the world and true religion.
My apologies, then. I was not familiar with the differences. So does he have any chance of returning to the RCC and keeping his wife?
I’m certain he could be allowed back. I’m guessing not as a priest.
Darn, little fellow. Your panties seem to be in a knot.
Again, What is an uncle catholic? :0)
How should I know what an uncle Catholic is? I'm too busy being ridiculous.
[I'm sorry, this is what happens to my alleged brain when I have too much stuff to do.]
Scripture please - chapter and verse, which claims this. Until then, there are a couple of useful statements. If you follow the words of Christ, then you are Christian. If you follow the words of Paul, then you are Paulian. Paulianity has been proscribed as heresy for over a millennium and a half.
I'm sure that to some there is a conflict between Christianity and Paulianty, but with the overall lack of Christian good will displayed by the anti-Catholics I suspect this has nothing to do with religion at all. I think it is filling the void left in their lives by the collapse of racism as an acceptable feel good outlet within their limited culture and circles. There always has to be a "them" to hate and being anti-Catholics doesn't bring down the PC police like hating blacks and Jews.
The basis of the Reformation rests largely on first millennium heresies among which Paulianity is prominent. The Reformation was a repudiation of Christianity and that meant that they left no heretical stones unturned in the development of their various doctrines. Which, of course, immediately diverged in all directions, as individual men discovered that suddenly all stops were out; there was no Church and you could come up with whatever beliefs that you wanted, with no limit on the imagination.
The antiCatholics here are simply following in their own sacred tradition of antiCatholicism. Look at the incessant antiCatholicism of the 1800s in the US, Canada and the UK for evidence of that.
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