So evidently the McCarrick sex-capades were our fault?

What about the rest of what?  

I haven't logged into my Tumblr yet so I couldn't leave a comment on a friend's site after he posted a Crisis article asking, "What about the rest of it?" Pretty much indicting the entire Catholic world for allowing McCarrick to slip by unnoticed.  There's an element of truth to the article, which almost sounds like someone on his high horse blaming the victims - that is, the 'faithful' for being scandalized and betrayed by hypocrisy and cover-up by members of the hierarchy - each a 'vicar of Christ' in his own vocation to 'serve the servants of God'.  Like it's our fault?  I hate it when people make those claims, like, 'you get the priests/bishops you deserve.'  Truth be told, we do not deserve anything or anyone.

Of course we are all guilty of sin, serious sins.  We tolerate or even laugh at all sorts of sin in our daily lives.  The culture feeds on it, as well as promotes it for profit.  As John of the Cross tells us:

"Where does this poisonous harm fail to reach? And who fails to drink little or much from the golden chalice of the Babylonian woman of the Apocalypse? ...There is hardly anyone of high rank or low, saint or sinner, who does not drink of her wine, subjecting his heart somewhat. For as pointed out in Revelation 17:2-4, all the kings of the earth were inebriated with the wine of her prostitution. She reaches out to all states, even the supreme and illustrious state of the priesthood, by setting her abominable cup in the holy place, as Daniel asserts [Dn. 9:27], and she hardly leaves a strong man who has not drunk a small or large quantity of wine from her chalice..." - John of the Cross, Ascent III, 22:4

So yeah, we know that and we are reminding of it when we look at the corruption in the Church and the world - be it politics or entertainment.    But don't blame Catholics for the crimes and double standards of Church leaders, priests and bishops, who take their money and support and live lavish lives of self indulgence while creating burdens for the rest of sinful humanity too heavy to carry.  Don't shame the rest of sinful humanity because the white-wash has eroded from the facades of their whited sepulchers.

Perhaps the best thing about these scandals is that it brings us to our knees to examine our own conscience.  However, when discussing the scandal, which has been festering below the collective conscience all along, one is not simply looking at or pointing out other people's sins.  This is about corruption, false teaching, hypocrisy, and injustice.  It is about evil and diabolic delusion.  It's not about human weakness and other people's sins.

Get it through your head, get it into your heart.  This is a great evil.  Quit trying to silence or guilt others - let this all explode and make a mess.  No one can feel self-righteous in exposing this type of wicked deception which leads souls astray.  Bishops and priests like McCarrick go to the ends of the world to make one convert and make him twice as fit for hell as they are.  God's mercy is so great, he can and will forgive their sin if they repent, but what about those they corrupted and whose faith they abused, to the point they left the Church?  Will they be saved?

Stop trying to guilt Catholics for the sins of their fathers.

That poor Paula Deen

Hey Whitey!

She used the "N" word 30 years ago - under stress - and thus she is condemned today as a racist.  She's lost all of her endorsements-licensing deals, television show, everything.  Amazing!

Are only white people racist?  Are they, Cracker?

Alec Baldwin says a lot of crap too.  He said the "F" word.

Anderson Cooper is questioning why he gets by:

Anderson Cooper        ✔ @andersoncooper

Why does #AlecBaldwin get a pass when he uses gay slurs? If a conservative talked of beating up a "queen" they would be vilified.

2:39 PM - 28 Jun 2013

Baldwin didn't just say it 30 years ago either.

Of course Cooper is no angel - you may remember he made headlines for his Tea-bagging slur.

We all have a little bigot in us.



Song for this post here.  Cherring the pain.

 

 

The Politically Correct Method of Taking God's Name in Vain.

Obama does it.

“As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way,” said Obama. “Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.”

Pelosi does it.

Pelosi learned about the DOMA ruling when someone passed her a note during a press conference about health care, she said her first reaction was “Thank God.”

She thanks God for the nuns on the bus too.

From a 2011 floor speech in support of PP: “Indeed, more than 90% of the health care provided by Planned Parenthood is preventive care. For the majority of the women who use Planned Parenthood health centers, the center is the primary source of receiving health care services. Elimination of funding means that these women do not have health care of any kind. 

“Today’s legislation which has no chance of passing the Senate and becoming law, thank God, is just part of the Republican agenda that is the most comprehensive and radical assault on women’s health and reproductive freedom in our lifetime. And that’s saying something."  

Andrew Sullivan pretty much does it too.

"I think Jesus is weeping for joy. I don’t think Jesus is on the other side of this. Although I don't wanna claim to know anything about that. But I do know that Jesus was always on the side of love.”

And I suspect Jesus’ tears were of joy – because more children of God have finally been given the dignity he offered the most despised and marginalized of his time.

The Church hierarchy’s Ratzingerian turn against this minority in 1986, its subsequent callous indifference to us during the plague years, its rigid clinging to 13th Century natural law rather than what or rather who was right in front of them … these were all tragic failures from the top.  

 

 

Reality-Action Star: Bad Actor - James Holmes

Holmes showed up in court today - acting insane - or drugged.

A few people seem to believe that by ignoring the events which took place, and not mentioning the 'joker's' name - will make this stuff go away.

Others see nothing wrong with our culture and choose to believe this 'terrorist attack' is just an isolated incident - unrelated to the Batman franchise, the entertainment industry's glorification of violence and death, or the consumers desensitization to the same.

Even more wonder why bad things happen to 'good people', while ignoring the terror attacks and murders which have become commonplace in places like Syria, Nigeria, Iraq, Israel, Chicago, North Minneapolis, Planned Parenthood, and so on.  All isolated incidents? 

Really?

The Tragedy of Unexpected Death...

Soviet poster circa 1925. Title translation:

"Abortions performed by either

trained or self-taught midwives

 not only maim the woman,

 they also often lead to death."

Adding to the heartbreak of unexpected pregnancy.

I read a story about a Chicago family, grieving over the death of their daughter and sister; a young mother of a one year old son.  The young mother, unmarried though engaged, died from complications after a routine medical procedure, which has been described as "a cervical dilation and evacuation". 

The woman died at Planned Parenthood:

She died after she’d had an abortion at Planned Parenthood at 18 S. Michigan Av, according to the medical examiner’s office.

The death is so unusual considering PP's expertise in cervical dilation and evacuation of human tissue, which somehow develops within women's bodies after unprotected, or failure to artificially-control, coitus* with ejaculation - leading to fertilization-conception-implantation, and so on.

Killing the infant (foetus) is one thing, but the mother (patient) too?  What a senseless tragedy. 

“We were born the same day. She was my other half,” Toni said.
Toni Reaves said the family is trying to get through this.

“It happened so fast. She was just fine one day and then the next day she was gone. We’re just trying to figure out what happened… what happened,” she said.

Toni Reaves said her sister was engaged to be married and had one son – Alvin – who just had his first birthday. - Story here.

What happened?  What happened?  Women have abortions all of the time - some women even have more than one - they are repeat patients.  [Of course, it is not their fault.]  But the abortions are supposed to be safe and clinical medical procedures - that is one of the main reasons they are legal.  They are routine.  What happened?

*coitus - sexual union between a male (man) and a female (woman) involving insertion of the (male) penis into the (female) vagina.

We reap what we sow.