Catholics, Get Ready to Suffer

NC Register ^ | January 31, 2012 | Matthew Archbold

[NYer]

I remember coloring in the lions on the paper my Catechism teacher had handed out. The lions in the coliseum were approaching a group of huddled Catholics.

My CCD teacher asked us if we too were willing to suffer for our faith the way the martyrs of old did? I remember looking at those cartoon lions and deciding that yes, I very much had the stuff to stare down a cartoon lion. Easy.

But it’s easy to answer in the affirmative when we’re talking about cartoon lions. It’s different when we’re talking real life. Real lions have teeth.

And make no mistake, real life is what we’re talking now. We have a government that mandates what pro-life counselors must say. We have a government now that mandates that Catholic institutions pay for things it considers sinful. We have a government that now says the cost of being an American is to abandon Catholicism.

Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska in response to the Obama administration’s contraception mandate said, “We cannot and will not comply with this unjust decree. Like the martyrs of old, we must be prepared to accept suffering which could include heavy fines and imprisonment.”

This scares me but it’s true.

Now is the time when decisions must be made by Catholic college presidents and hospital administrators and the heads of all sorts of Catholic institutions. Should I do what the government tells me or what the Church tells me is right? Some whom we have great hope for will choose poorly. Some will stand up unexpectedly and refuse to comply with the government. And they will pay a price for being Catholic.

We’re no longer talking about the slippery slope here. We’ve walked off a cliff. We’re in free fall.

[editor-surveyor]

If you wish to follow satan’s men, keep going where you’re going; you’re on track.

The new testament epistles had been gathered together in many places 300 years before the ‘catholic’ disobediance arose. The catholics only contribution to them was the inclusion of deviant and gnostic additions.

[presidio9]

Rock on Petrosius!

[Coleus]

thanks for the info. and the early church fathers were also against abortion too, despite what plastic face pelosi stated.

[Salvation]

Even Luther said the Catholics gave the world the Bible. Where are you getting this misinformation? Catholic hating pamplets, perhaps?

"We are compelled to concede to the Papists
that they have the Word of God,
that we received it from them,
and that without them
we should have no knowledge of it at all."

~ Martin Luther

[Petrosius]

To know history is to be Catholic.

[editor-surveyor]

Sal, the real church had the complete Bible 400 years before the Roman false church was created by the Pharisees that had migrated there.

The Bible is a “catholic hating pamphlet” by your standards.