The 44th Annual Social Ministry Convocation, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, will happen on February 25 at Mercy High School on Northern Parkway in Baltimore. You'll notice that the website url shows that it is on the server of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Take a look at the workshops. The very first one is being conducted by members of Pax Christi, a dissident group if ever there was one. Look who their Board President is - Bishop John Stowe of Lexington Kentucky - yes, him! He threw the Covingoton Boys under the bus, never apologizing after they were exonerated. During "pride week" in 2020, he apologized to gays for the Church's teachings on sinful relations. I don't have time to examine the other board members at the moment. Upon further examination of the workshop's description, we notice that little part about "cooperation with other like-minded groups"? Just what groups might that be? Why, other anti-God and leftist cabals, of course.
Moving further down, we see an even worse workshop entitled "Come And Listen: Transgender Catholic Families And Individuals Share Their Experiences Living In A Catholic Parish". Were these individuals mistreated? I would venture to say "yes" IF they were not encouraged and/or admonished to repent of sinful sexual conduct and avail themselves of the Sacrament of Confession. However, I suspect their definition of mistreatment might be some actual proclamation of truth necessary to their salvation. In other words, it will be a perversion-coddling sob-story session.
The next one appears to be advising border-crashers how to evade the few immigration-control laws that we have. The description in its original Spanish is "Lo que necesita saber sobre la ley del Real ID y las implicaciones para la comunidad indocumentada" Pope that into Google Translate and we have "What you need to know about the Real ID law and its implications for the undocumented community"
"Undocumented community" is just a polite way of calling these people "cabals of border-crashers showing utter disregard for our laws.
To sum up, we see in these workshops such topics as environmentalism, racism, coddling illegal immigrants, and so on. Now what do we not see? You guessed it! Nary a peep is uttered about the baby-slaughter known as abortion. The fact is that Maryland is now an abortion-mecca, with two late-term butcher shops to our disgrace. We also see nothing about euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research. I might point out that the Church, in its insane push for Covid vaccination, actually participated in the sin of embryonic stem cell research, but I digress.
As much as many good people want to eradicate abortion from our cultural landscape, we will not succeed until we purge the advocacy of abortion from our Church hierarchy. We can make a jab at it on Feb 25. The gabfest is slated to run between 9am to 3pm. As we finalize courses of action, we will communicate them to our readers via a future blog post.
