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Protesting bishop won't attend Notre Dame graduation
Mar. 24, 2009
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Bishop John M. D'Arcy
Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionToday, Notre Dame university said that despite criticism it has received, President Obama will speak at commencement this May. The following statement was issued by Bishop John M. D'Arcy and it appeared March 24th on the Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana website.
On Friday, March 21, Father John Jenkins, CSC, phoned to inform me that President Obama had accepted his invitation to speak to the graduating class at Notre Dame and receive an honorary degree. We spoke shortly before the announcement was made public at the White House press briefing. It was the first time that I had been informed that Notre Dame had issued this invitation.
President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred. While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life.
This will be the 25th Notre Dame graduation during my time as bishop. After much prayer, I have decided not to attend the graduation. I wish no disrespect to our president, I pray for him and wish him well. I have always revered the Office of the Presidency. But a bishop must teach the Catholic faith “in season and out of season,” and he teaches not only by his words — but by his actions.
My decision is not an attack on anyone, but is in defense of the truth about human life.
I have in mind also the statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops in 2004. “The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.” Indeed, the measure of any Catholic institution is not only what it stands for, but also what it will not stand for.
I have spoken with Professor Mary Ann Glendon, who is to receive the Laetare Medal. I have known her for many years and hold her in high esteem. We are both teachers, but in different ways. I have encouraged her to accept this award and take the opportunity such an award gives her to teach.
Even as I continue to ponder in prayer these events, which many have found shocking, so must Notre Dame. Indeed, as a Catholic University, Notre Dame must ask itself, if by this decision it has chosen prestige over truth.
Tomorrow, we celebrate as Catholics the moment when our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, became a child in the womb of his most holy mother. Let us ask Our Lady to intercede for the university named in her honor, that it may recommit itself to the primacy of truth over prestige.
John M. D'Arcy is bishop of the diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana
Right on Bishop!
Right on Bishop!
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto? Are the ditto heads
Ditto? Are the ditto heads everywhere?
A few years ago, when Bishop
A few years ago, when Bishop D'arcy announced he would skip graduation because of the guest speaker's moral persuasion, a local writer responded to the announcement that the bishop's chair on the dias would be empty. He observed that since most graduations are elegant but tedious events, the Bishop might have made more of an impact if he had instead given up his box seats at Notre Dame football games.
You know who else Notre Dame
You know who else Notre Dame has had as speaker?
Vernon Jordan (1976)-- pro-choice.
Derek Bok (1987)-- pro-choice.
Andrew Young (1988)-- pro-choice.
Tom Brokaw (1993)- pro-choice.
Give me a break.
Thank you for this
Thank you for this information. You have clearly demonstrated what I have been saying all along, that the issue has nothing to do with abortion. There is a hidden agenda that is being forwarded here by the bishops, and they are using abortion as a smoke screen to hide their real intent.
So, do any of the bishops have the integrity to tell us the truth? To tell what the REAL agenda is here?
In other words, we are not being told the truth ... again. I suspect if we look at other speakers in depth, we would probably find even more that under the current climate would be labeled proabortion as well.
http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/6549-notre-dame-commencement-speakers
Anyone know where one can find a comprehensive up to date list?
yes but did any of those
yes but did any of those people leaglize abortion? its not about obamas opinion on the matter its that he has acted upon it negativly...
No, abortion was legalized by
No, abortion was legalized by Justices Blackmun, Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, and Powell. Don't confuse the issue with the reality of this. The Bishop is splitting hairs. He shouldn't be involving himself in a political discourse.
THAT would truly be a
THAT would truly be a powerful statement. empty chair is just one less speech!
Where were you when George
Where were you when George Bush began his killing of innocent people in Iraq? Are you supporting his arrest as a war criminal? When you and the other bishops stand up for all those being killed in the world by warand reject the Vatican's refusal to sign the UN resolution to stop the killing of gays because we are gay then you have a just reason to not attend the graduation at Notre Dame. Im appalled at your hypocracy.
Ditto---!!!
Ditto---!!!
Thank you for expressing what
Thank you for expressing what so many simplistic Catholics choose to forget.
So the bishop shouldn't
So the bishop shouldn't defend unborn people?
To equate the destruction of
To equate the destruction of defenseless innocent human life, by abortion or embryonic stem cell research, with an unjust war in Iraq, is way out of proportion. At most, in the past five years, 130,000 people (innocent or not) have died in Iraq because of the war. During the same period, over five million (5,000,000)unborn children have been killed by abortion in the USA. That's a 50 to 1 ration. 50 to 1! You may be appalled at Bishop D'Arcy's 'hypocracy'/hypocrisy, but your readers are not convinced by your logic. And just where are 'they' killing gays? In your mind?
Nice PR job !! Did you
Nice PR job !! Did you really need to annouce you are not attending?
Just keep it to yourself and not attend.
Again the decison to separate
Again the decison to separate our Church more and more from the possiblity of making an impact on the moral decisions of our policy makers.
Archbishop Dolan had it right at his press conference in New YOrk when asked how he would deal with political autorities regarding moral questions that are offensive to our faith. ENGAGEMENT is the way. Joe
Jesus Christ was seen with
Jesus Christ was seen with all kinds of non believers, but among the ones who wanted Him to be crucified, HE didn't go and seek them out! Barack Houssein Obama is in fact NOT a Roman Catholic and his ideas on LIFE are not along the same lines as the Lord's. God is a LIFE Giver and a LIFE Saver!
The Bishop gets my applause!
Outstanding statement from
Outstanding statement from the good bishop! Ad multos annos to Bishop D'Arcy! May more bishops follow his great example of faith.
I am so upset with Notre Dame
I am so upset with Notre Dame as being a Catholic University to allow someone, regardless of his political position, that supposts the death of unborn children in the precious womb of his mother as only God can create a child and only God has the right to give it death.
I went to St. Mary's College across the street from ND and loved the morals and principles I learned there. I am shocked what message the University of Notre Dame is sending to the world for giving any honor to President Obama who supports abortion. Shame on the Board of Directors, teachers and anyone who supports abortion.
Ditto! abg
Ditto! abg
Than I suppose all of us
Than I suppose all of us Catholics who followed the guidelines of the Pope and the US Bishops council on voting are somehow not as reverant as you are. Actually all of those Catholics and their Clergy are simply believers that they know better than the Pope and hence or his followers.
I recall my grandmother remaining a weekly confessor, fasting from midnight for communion, and wearing a covering on her head. She felt strongly that these were essential reaquirements. I do not recall her ever believing that those who did differently were sinners.
A closer examination shows you to be rather full of yourself, with nothing of the qualities I associate with the followers of the Christ Jesus.
You need a lesson in love, humility, acceptance and above all not being judgemental. You have a need to bow your head from the position of superiority that it has assumed.
I'll pray for that!
I'll pray for that!
Cat is out of the Bag! Few
Cat is out of the Bag!
Few "20-something's" know the term
"Ad multos annos"
Must be someone who has been a Priest for "20-something" years, and is frantically trying "Ad multos annos" to please as many Bishops as possible to be elevated to become one of them.
You ought to studying "Cannon Law" "Ad multos annos" and NOT posting on NCR "Ad multos annos" !!
12-something
I learned latin from womanist
I learned latin from womanist priestess, Mother Sinead O'Connor. Perhaps you have heard of her.
Actually, if you look at ANY program booklet from a anniversary Mass of a priest, bishop, whatever....you'll often see "Ad multos annos" in the best wishes section.
With your backwards logic, you must think that "Gloria in excelis Deo" can only be learned and understood by a 'priest' who has been around for a long time.
Your logic is pretty bad. My 12 year old niece knows more latin than me and she is not even Catholic!
How sad you are.
Knows more Latin than I.
Knows more Latin than I.
Deus caritas est: et qui
Deus caritas est: et qui manet in caritate, in Deo manet, et Deus in eo.
Deo gratias
Ego dixi: Domine, miserere mei. Sana animam mean, quia peccavi tibi.
Pater noster, qui est in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed LIBERA nos a malo. Amen.
Dear "Frere" Charles, fake,
Dear "Frere" Charles, fake, wanna-be Benedictine...
I'm very proud that you can look up and copy/paste latin prayers on here. Wow! You are so brilliant! *sarcasm*
If you are so proud of your so-called affiliation with the Benedictines, I'm sure you will have no problem in telling us which Benedicinte house that you are associated with. And...I'm not talking about your little apartment in the city...that doesn't count.
Vere furis! haha!
I see that "frere" has added
I see that "frere" has added a new designation to his title "oblate". Keep reading, no doubt there are more pious titles to come (EYES ROLLING).
Today is feast of the
Today is feast of the INCARNATION- March 25, nine months before we celebrate Christmas. When Mary said, in response to the MESSAGE OF (God through) THE ANGEL (Gabriel)"Fiat voluntas tua"--of course, she said it in Aramaic--she was OVERSHADOWED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, and the Word was made flesh!
Latin lesson time--not bad.
Ave, Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tua in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesu.
Sancta Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis pecatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
"Ave Maria" also sings well
"Ave Maria" also sings well .....
RJ
Excellent!
Excellent!
The Catholic hierarchy is so
The Catholic hierarchy is so irrelevant now that these statements don't even matter, except to embarrass and further marginalize the Church.
You are wrong...
You are wrong...
Indeed. Catholic hierarchs
Indeed. Catholic hierarchs are second only to academic theologians and Catholic university presidents in marginality and irrelevance.
The beauty about these blogs
The beauty about these blogs is that anybody can say just about anything and sound like a sage. JD has pronounced the Catholic hierarchy irrelevant. I would disagree. I'm in the hierarchy and I do not consider myself irrelevant. Beyond that, out of the 100 or so million Catholics in the USA, any number hold their bishops in esteem, from low to high. The bishops, collectively, lost a lot of credibility from the antics of maybe 40% of the total, but many of those have now passed from the scene, and the newer bishops are getting out and around, spending their time out among the people instead of behind a desk in the chancery.
Since when are deacons in the
Since when are deacons in the hierarchy?
Oh, you don't want to know. .
Oh, you don't want to know. . .
Dear Deacon Bernie, As a MD
Dear Deacon Bernie,
As a MD PhD and a former seminarian and sub deacon, I never entered the hierarchy and now see that it has slowly become more and more irrelevant since the election of JPII. It is a pity that the current church leadership bases its moral decisions on black and white beliefs rather than reality. Yes the words all seem right but much of the hierarchy totally lack the reality to find ethical solutions. It is down right poor leadership that is causing all the problems. I think that this leadership has done and continues to do very much spiritual damage to its faithful in an attempt to control them. The problem is that they are loosing so many cradle Catholics with Catholic education. I still attend but often find Protestant and Buddhist philosophy and services more connected to us as a human family. When will this poor leadership end? Not for a long time and not until they have alienated millions or even billions of more people? I hope not but I am not at all confident that our leadership can find a better direction soon.
So that I think it you Bernie that are very wrong! The heiarachy can invite me to leave as some on this board have, but the Church belongs to the People of God and the priests are of no different status in the Eyes of our Great God.
Peace and understanding,
R. Dennis Porch, MD
Priests are no
Priests are no different:
Priest's Alleged Affair Sparks Lawsuit
'Your Presence Struck Me Like a Thunderbolt,' Priest Allegedly Told Distraught Woman
By SCOTT MICHELS
Oct. 30, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6140926&page=1
A Catholic priest allegedly seduced a distraught woman after hearing her confession, telling her to have an affair with him because it was "ordained by God," the Queens, N.Y., woman claims in a lawsuit.Judith Rodrigues-Lytwyn claims the ensuing affair caused her to suffer "severe stress, anxiety, guilt, fear, humiliation and shame," the lawsuit says.
According to the lawsuit, Father Elvis Elano professed his love for her immediately after her first confession at the Church of Our Lady of the Snows in Queens, N.Y.
"Your presence struck me like a thunderbolt," Elano allegedly told Rodrigues-Lytwyn, who says she was distraught over her recent divorce and her ex-husband's alleged drug use.
The lawsuit, first reported by the Web site The Smoking Gun, claims Elano immediately began courting her and encouraging her to have sex with him to overcome her grief over her divorce and "because it was ordained by God."
Rodrigues-Lytwyn "immediately became overwhelmed" by Elano's advances and embarked on a four-month-long affair with him, the lawsuit says.
"We're dealing with someone who was going through a difficult period in her life and was manipulated by someone so he could take advantage of her," Rodrigues-Lytwyn's lawyer, Andrew Laufer, said Elano, who is no longer at Our Lady of the Snows, could not immediately be reached for comment. Msgr. Ray Chappetto, the pastor at the church, was out of town and was unavailable today.
Father Kieran Harrington of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn said he could not comment because the diocese had not yet been served with the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Elano ordered Viagra over the Internet and arranged sexual encounters with Rodrigues-Lytwyn at her house and at a hotel in Montauk, N.Y.
She claims she broke off her relationship after Elano admitted that he had developed a rash in his groin area and legs.
Bernie, we are all entitled
Bernie, we are all entitled to our little fantasies, but yours is self-destructive! If you think a deacon is part of the hierarchy, then I can get you a very good deal on a slightly tarnished by nonetheless 100% golden bridge in San Francisco.
Then why bother to comment?
Then why bother to comment?
That is so true!!! Doesn't
That is so true!!! Doesn't the Church wonder where we have all gone and why????
I'd like to know if Bishop
I'd like to know if Bishop D'Arcy would have done the same thing had John McCain had become president and been the speaker instead. It's amazing how some Catholics have never undersstood that a senseless war, the death penalty and many unjust social issues that Republicans support also violate Catholic social teachings, but it always come back to abortion. Certainly this is a huge issue, but when will the day come when we will all see the whole puzzle instead of just one piece?
AMEN, AMEN,AMEN!!!
AMEN, AMEN,AMEN!!!
Always back to war and the
Always back to war and the death penalty.
It is an apples and oranges comparison.
Under church teaching, abortion is intrinsically evil. Morally illicit in all circumstances. War and the death penalty, on the other hand, are at times, morally justifiable. They are a matter of prudential judgment, subject to discussion, disagreement, and debate.
Yet, even if I give you your comparison, the lives lost to the death penalty in the U.S. and to U.S. wars over the last three decades are dwarfed by the 10's of millions of lives lost in the U.S to abortion over the same period.
That's all very fine except
That's all very fine except for the fact that to take a truly pro-life stance as it is taught in our Catholic church one needs to embrace this stance as a "seamless garment". The right to life applies, as the saying goes, "from womb to tomb." Pope John Paul II spoke about this often and made numerous public pleas to states about to perform an execution to commute the sentence of the one condemed to die. He was also very outspoken on the subject of peace. He knew that war was not an answer, especially for those who profess to be Christian. If we as a church teach that life is sacred we need to be consistent in that teaching, otherwise we lose credibility. We can't just choose to support one part of this "seamless garment" without supporting the whole garment, otherwise we tear it asunder.
Could you please back your
Could you please back your comments by Scripture containing what Jesus Christ said? There was just a Synod held on the Word of God at the Vatican. What does the Word of God say? Popes come and go, but the word of the Lord endures forever!
The Church teaches the
The Church teaches the equality of Scripture and Tradition in her moral teaching. Yes, popes come and go, but Scripture AND Tradition remain. So, since you want a scripture reference, how about the woman caught in adultry. She was condemned to death by stoning by Old Testament teaching and Hebrew tradition. Yet Jesus intervened. He asked that the one without sin cast the first stone. I think the application still applies. It might benefit you to read the New Testament in depth, especially the Gospels, the letters of Paul and of James (the legalistic apostle). Happy reading.
Sister, John Paul II, the
Sister, John Paul II, the Great, of happy memory, did indeed speak about the sanctity of all human life. He believed that civilized nations should not have the need to execute anyone and he knew that war represented a failure of the human nature. However, the Catechism of the Catholic Church reiterates what has been taugh by the Church for nearly 2000 years: the idea of the just war. Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Thomas Aquinas and other such doctors of the Church taught that in certain circumstances, there is such a thing as a just defense of a nation against an aggressor (cf paragraphs 2302-2317). This, along with the teaching on the death penalty, falls under the heading of prudential judgment, meaning that on certain issues, circumstances must be weighed in making a correct judgment. Thus, two individuals could weigh the same issue, war for example, and come up with two different ethical judgments.
Abortion is not a prudential matter, but rather one on which the Church has passed definitive and authoratative judgment: abortion is an intrinsic evil and a disordered act, in every circumstance.
Cardinal Bernardin, of happy memory, in attempting to formulate his theory of the "seamless garment", did a grave disservice to the Church. He attempted to equate the murder of an innocent unborn child with the just defense of a nation against an aggressor and/or the act of executing a person guilty of serious and grave crimes. As has been said, it is comparing apples to oranges.
Finally, just a thought from the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen which, I think, sums up the idea of being a pacifist:
"The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous."
--"A Declaration Of Dependance", (1941).
Dear Clint Green, "Abortion
Dear Clint Green,
"Abortion is not a prudential matter, but rather one on which the Church has passed definitive and authoritative judgment: abortion is an intrinsic evil and a disordered act, in every circumstance."
So your moral philosophy is that a 9 year old girl who is raped and then she becomes morally bound to risk her life, relive on a daily basis for months the torment that her belly reminds her and then if she lives, to give birth to an unwanted child that you personally would not spend the next 20 years financially and emotionally taking care of.
As a husband and a father of daughters, I know what decision I would make.
Dominus vobiscom,
RJ
Anonymous, you and those who
Anonymous, you and those who believe as you do are deceived.
The apostle James clearly tells us that "For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it." James 2:10 (NIV)
The scripture is very clear. The intent of the scripture is very clear. What is also clear is that those who have been guiding you and others such as you who passionately believe as you do, have been using you as pawns to forward their own personal agendas. You have been lied to by those you trusted, deceived by those in authority over you.
There is no heirarchy of sin. Abortion, murder, adultery, lying, pedophilia, extortion, embezzlement, etal, according to the apostle James are all the same.
It is also worthy to note what is written in James 2:9 "If you are hypocritical in your attitude, however, you are committing sin, and you are betraying the Law like those who transgressed the Law." (aramaic)
The Apostle James is very clear.
Continue to hold your passion, but drop the "abortion is the only issue" attitude. You dont need it. You will be more powerful, much more effective without it. You do not need to act sinfully (be deceitful) to be effective with the cause God has given you to defend.
The problem with your
The problem with your figuring is that you never read the entire encyclical by Pope John Paul II on human life. He states very clearly since war can no longer guarantee that non combatants be unharmed has war been morally unacceptable. Thomas Acquinas had the just war theory when two armies went on the battle field to battle it out and the innocents stayed at home, or sometimes even watched from a safe distance. Since the atomic age the innocent bystander gets hurt. Which also leades to the other problem. Granted we keep track of our own war casualties. Meaning how many soldiers have died in war. But if we look at the entire figure the number of abortions don't begin to equal those who have died.
I wish we went back to the attitude of the poet John Donne's. Didn't he say that anyone's death diminishes me? When are we ever going to see that no matter if it's a poor person on a street, a hardened criminal, a soldier, a innocent who just happens to be passing by a car bomb, or an aborted fetus, it's all the same, and we are diminished by thier loss.
Apparently, abortion (while
Apparently, abortion (while always deplorable) is in some cases also a prudential judgment, at least according to the Pontifical Academy for Life's recent statement.
Going to war is not a prudential judgment when the people to be attacked are innocent. Then it is simply mass murder.
Who knows? Bishop D'arcy is
Who knows?
Bishop D'arcy is right on this - he is defending life.
Are you?
Defending life is something
Defending life is something WE ALL MUST DO.
How about defending that which enables all life, including human, namely, life's ecozoic systems? One definition of heresy is exaggerating one truth to the extreme that it blinds conscience to other morally proportional truths.
The bishops are so fixated on foetal human life (not to deny it the respect it deserves) that they are totally blind to the fact that the ecozoic system is being trashed and the future of life as we know it is in extreme jeopardy. [This reality speaks to the reason why people have all but ignored "Humanae vitae".]
Why this wasting of the "Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis"? Because of excess human populations and cultured disdain for other earth-life — except in so far as it can be exploited for corporate profit. The other bible mandate issued at the same time with "increase and multiply" was "don't consume the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden". The ecozoic vitality of earth-life cannot be desecrated with impunity. When will bishops start talking about the SECOND DIVINE MANDATE? Many of the people get it, why can't the church?
The "big abortion" that bishops are blind to, rendering earth uninhabitable to human life, is a heretical failure of incalculable moral significance. People, consider life's demanding realities of today, and start looking forward with moral awareness instead of being obsessed in looking backward to a past whose failures should be avoided, not repeated.
Those who say that the
Those who say that the bishops have only focused on the rights of unborn people are very misinformed.
So you bought into global
So you bought into global warming.
And you are ignoring all of the Roman Catholic pronouncements on caring for the environment and the ethical treatment of animals.
And you think we should ignore the willful termination of life.
Is that right?
ps We live green.
Talk is cheap. It's the
Talk is cheap. It's the "walk" that speaks. Obviously you disbelieve that global warming is a problem. Are you church-typical, like the Administration that was just voted out?
War, Death Penalty, and
War, Death Penalty, and Unjust Social Issues do not have the "SAME SEX APPEAL" as "PELVIC THEOLOGY", that give the Bishops an opportunity to "meddle" in women's lives.
How else can these "old and middle-aged celibate" men get into the company of women of "child-bearing age", if not by getting "totally involved" in what happens within the bodies of women of "child-bearing age"?
Until the Roman Catholic Church does what the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Churches do - by having married Priests, the Roman Catholic Church will have its "Celibate Bishops and Priests" ignore all other issues and be singularly focussed ALL THE TIME on its ONE and ONLY VIABLE ISSUE - "Women and Procreation". If it is okay to have some married Catholic Priests within the Catholic Church in America, it is time that the Bishops forget about "women's issues" and sort out the issue of "MARRIED PRIESTS". IN one stroke, they can eliminate all those "PEDOPHILE PRIESTS' and concentrate on what they were ordained to do - spread the word of God, instead of figuring out how to avoid "getting caught."
Has any American Bishop ever condemned the "UNNATURAL" American invention of "VIAGRA"? Why?
because it is NOT a woman's medication.
Will all those men "who are on Viagra" along with all those who use condoms be denied Communion and Excommunicated?
Let's hear Bishop D'Arcy answer the "VIAGRA" question first.
Guess what: Eastern Catholic
Guess what: Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches are all against abortion as well. There goes your argument.
Anonymous, Please check this
Anonymous,
Please check this out:
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6140926&page=1
How right you are, my
How right you are, my friend...how right you are!
Well said. The focus on
Well said. The focus on abortion, and on abortion alone, doesn't seem to make sense--although it must to someone, somewhere. The question is, who is the winner in all this? The Republican Party, perhaps? Just a thought...
The "money changers and
The "money changers and beasts" have made their way in...I stand with the Bishop. That's a brave Catholic...a true one, even if all disagree. Jesus agrees with him...I guess that's all that matters...God bless him.
I stand with Bishop D'arcy,
I stand with Bishop D'arcy, too.
You must be so happy to be so
You must be so happy to be so sure that you know what Jesus agrees with.
I am....and I know because I
I am....and I know because I have over 2000 years of history to back it up.
I know enough not to invite a KKK member to a black rights march...
I know enough not to invite a pedophile to an elementary school to speak about sex education....
I know enough not to invite an Anti-semite(Anti-life) like Hitler(this administration) to a Jewish synagogue(woman's womb or Catholic institution...both are Holy, not by their people, but by WHOM it was instituted by) and award him a medal for his accomplishments...(abortion) eeer...I mean the extermination of millions of innocent Jews. (babies)
Much in the same way I know Jesus would not award people because "I love you, you love me" much like he whipped the money changers in the temple...for macking a MOCKERY out of something holy....much like Notre Dame "OUR LADY"....
Unless you guys keep scripture and history in context, how it played out not molded to your own ideals, go and worship your "Barney" god...I know enough that "he"'s not real....it's a man in a foam suit...
You see? I am sure, not by my intellect, because I'm rather dumb, but by God-given common sense and grace. God bless
Also as a follow up, I don't
Also as a follow up, I don't mean to imply I personally know Jesus or presume of His thoughts. I only base the comment on what has been down to the apostles, through the ages, keeping in line and logic that Jesus is consistent in His teaching.....never mine. Having that said, I humbly ask for everyone's prayers, including the person that handles the monitoring of this blog, and all at NCR. Pray for me, since I am in desperate need of your prayers and for Jesus to save me from my wicked pride and everything else that He knows I am.
The content and tone of
The content and tone of Bishop D'Arcy's statement are exactly right. I rise up and call him blessed!
I call Bishop D'Archy a throw
I call Bishop D'Archy a throw back to pre Vatican II. I would wish that he would go back and stay there. It is time for the Laity to stand up and be counted as a Laity run church and not by a group of elderly out of touch males who have no regard for what the true message from Jesus was.
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