Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Attempts To Silence Us In The Church And Civic Life

When truth is spoken, those who revel in falsehood and fantasy lash out at those who speak it.  They fear both the searing of their consciences and for some the threat to their exploitation of the good faith of those who might be inclined to listen and obey them.  I believe that is why a plethora of these progressive wonks are trying to cajole and even coerce us into silence.

Let's examine the attempt being made by Bishop Barron.  He recently suggested that the US bishops introduce a mandatum for those "who claim to teach the Catholic faith online".  He laments "those trading in hateful divisive speech".  One wonders how he defines "divisive", for truth is divisive.  One either heeds it, or they don't.  There really is no "meeting of the minds" here.  If the bishops were really serious about cleaning up the teaching of the Faith, they have their work cut out for them at so-called Catholic institutes of higher learning like Georgetown University or Marquette University or Notre Dame.  Then of course there's Bishop Barron's heretical "hope" that no one is in hell.  Would that cause him to be denied this "mandatum"?  Of course not!

Then we have the chief of the Italian Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Bassetti, telling Catholics who question the pope's ever-increasing indiscretions to consider leaving the Catholic Church.  In other wods, he is advocating schism.  Similarly, the pope himself had similar gripes.  He coined a new term: "deepfake news".  Of course, if he had been inspired with that phrase by watching CNN or reading the Washington Post I might understand, but the context makes clear his thinking.

The close timing of these two statements by Barron and Bassetti are, I suspect, no coincidence.  They understand that they no longer have total control of the public arena of ideas.  They also know that not only will we spread the word, we will NOT spread our money; recall Saturday's post.  Both of these facts threaten their progressive schemes for the Church.

We are seeing similar backlashes against the truth in the secular arena as well.  In Virginia, the now-Democrat-controlled house is considering HB 1627.  This bill would essentially criminalize any criticism of the governor and other elected officials.  Please note that it is the progressives, mostly Democrats, who are devoid of any sense of obedience to God.  Thus, perceiving themselves to be de facto gods, behave as authoritarian, jack-booted thugs and tyrants.

As we assume the mantle of Church Militant, evil will push back.  We must double down on our prayers, particularly Mass and Rosary.  We must also stand for the Faith.

7 comments:

  1. It is remarkable, but not unexpected (given the seemingly unchallenged and burgeoning influence of the left these days) that current secular Politics and Church/Hierarchy/Governance are so closely aligned in their agenda and tactics. On one hand however we have Donald Trump emerging as a Saviour of all thing sane and sensible in the secular realm and on the other, we have in the Church a...????

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    1. on the other hand, we have in the Church . . . several choices of quickly sinking millstones.

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  2. The Catholic blogosphere DOES need supervision. Let's take a fundamental question: Who is the Pope? Right now, in 2020. Who is the Pope? Francis? Benedict? No one? Catholic bloggers are not in agreement. Those who don't get that right are doing serious damage to the Church. Diverting the question by pointing out that the bishops have their own problems doesn't excuse bloggers who are off the reservation. And there are a lot of bloggers off the reservation.

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    1. Perhaps... But just who will do this supervising? Perhaps Barron, the one who thinks it's ok to hope no one is in hell, directly contradicting our Lord? How about those yammering about the "seamless garment"? Maybe the ones hiding their own sexual deviancies? They all have a vested interest in shutting us up, and those interests don't conform to Christ's teachings.

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    2. Clarification - when I said "perhaps, I was referring to the idea that some bloggers are off the reservation, not that we need to be babysat.

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    3. Utubeo: Who do you think is the Pope?
      That the question needs to be posed is indicative of the turmoil in the Church Today.
      To suggest the led and not the leaders are the prime contributors is 'of the reservation' so to speak...
      Trust me,I'm a Bishop/Priest/Cardinal Pope.... Yeah right.

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  3. I love how utubeo says, "off the reservation", he admits that the Beroglian sect is the heir of concentration camps and gulags and genociders of native populations...

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