The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions

I often hear as I work at the abortuaries, from honorable people, that "we need to consider that the doctors and escorts probably have good intentions".  Why they feel the need to point that out, I don't know.  I don't even doubt what they're saying.  I'm not there to judge whether or not the slaves in the service of death (that is what they are) have good motives or not.  Why they do what they do is irrelevant.  Catholic moral theology states that before one considers the why of a given action, we must first examine what the action is.  If the action is inherently evil in and of itself, the motive of the action is of minor consideration.  For instance, do we really think that the unborn baby gives a rat's ass about the motive of the individual who is literally tearing his/her body to pieces, or the motives of the others who are assisting in his/her murder?

Such thinking stems, I believe, from a desire to be "nice" and "sweet".  As I look through the Bible and Sacred Tradition, "nice" and "sweet" are two words that are tellingly absent from the recognized lists of virtues.  I am often told that we must "win people over" as did Jesus.  Wrong!  Jesus never tried to "win people over".  Had He so attempted, He never would have been crucified.  He loved them.  He displayed true agape-charity towards them - a charity that is often diametrically opposed to being "nice" and "sweet".

As I see this on the sidewalk at times, we also see this within the inner workings of the Church.  In this segment of Real Catholic TV, Michael Voris tells how too many Catholics have given into the fault (dare I call it sin?) of extending too much "benefit of the doubt" to those who are clearly dissident towards the Magisterium.  Such wimpishness has contributed to much evil and perhaps to the damnation of many poor souls.  What we really need is clarity of vision, calcium in our spines and to expunge the cancerous elements from our places of influence - for their sakes as well as that of the entire Church.