Feeding at the Trough of Permissiveness

Last week, Planned Parenthood reacted to the post-election interview with
Cardinal O'Malley in the Boston Globe that portrayed Obama and his theological assistants as the culture of death.


I'll spare you the poison. Suffice it to say that Planned Parenthood's response was opining that "92% of Catholics use some form of birth control", they support their children being taught immoral and irreligious "safe" sexual techniques, preventions and abortion when they sleep with irresponsible partners they don't want to have children with and the Cardinal ought to reconnect to the trials and tribulations of the 'reality of life of his own constituency'.


This Archbishop doesn't have the stamina to connect to that reality because if he did, he'd have to face the systemic theological immorality taught by his own priests and educational institutions, and put an end to it.


He is a father who hires planned parenthood to teach his own children while he carries on a Don Quixote mission of being worried in the public square about what the children of the earth are being taught. Dysfunction rather than disingenuous, but nevertheless, the culture of death is causally related to the systemic rot of his own theological empire. Faced with a choice between the salvation of his priests and his popularity, the Cardinal Archbishop picks the latter. His priests follow suit and the teachers, politicians, nurses, physicians, pharmacists and families in the pews follow their example.


Is the Archbishop "worried"?

Worry is a chariot. You either get on it and wring your hands in a stationary position or you fire up the engines of unselfish love for the welfare of the children and seek and implement the solution.


Yesterday, the economics is superior to the sanctity of life Obama generation trampled a Walmart employee to death at a Black Friday sale.

"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping."

Of course they kept shopping. These are the trails and tribulations. They kept shopping, they kept voting - irrespective of who gets trampled. The fruit of Catholic priests who misrepresent "faithful citizenship" are blind to their accountability in it, but there is no mistaking the intellectual and spiritual fog that empowered it: In a recession, the trampling of life is immaterial in the economic necessity to stretch the dollar.


Selfish desire and ambition lie at the roots of permissive spiritual parenting. The cult of celebrity is a leech sucking the lifeblood out of priesthood. Crucial to the survival of the leech is the unwillingness to accept the consequences of teaching right from wrong, truth from lies, light from darkness, salvation from damnation.

Happy Veteran's Day!

And what a Blessed day it is to celebrate our freedom and be thankful for the bravery and sacrifices it took to purchase it.


A reader and friend sent in a story from today's Boston Globe about the Archbishop of Boston.

I'll spare you the pain:

He's up and he's down, he's in and he's out, it's black and it's white, it's wrong and it's right.
And, with that teaching clear, let everybody figure it all out themselves.


Forever a rose among the thorns though:

Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, who before the election wrote, "I could never vote for a candidate - of any party for any office - who supports laws that promote or allow the death of thousands of children in the hideous crime of abortion," yesterday offered the rosiest analysis of the election, saying, "There's a possibility it could have been worse if the bishops weren't speaking out."

What Mike Paulson article would be complete without the acrimony of seeing the Roman Catholic Church as hateful people circling all their happy-go-lucky wagons:

But liberal groups are urging a different approach. Patrick Whelan, of Catholic Democrats, said the bishops should "recognize that there's no place at the table for groups that peddle hateful labels like 'proabortion politician' or advocate using the Holy Eucharist as a political weapon on behalf of the Republicans."

Chris Korzen, executive director of Catholics United, said the bishops "now must figure out how to rebuild bridges they have burned with the incoming administration and the Democratic Party, and how to recover lost good will with the millions of Catholics who clearly do not recognize bishops' moral authority in political matters."

We are kill joys, we are! Sourpusses!

He that hurteth, let him hurt still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is just, let him be justified still: and he that is holy, let him be sanctified still. 12 Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to every man according to his works. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. 14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 15 Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and unchaste, and murderers, and servers of idols, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

16 I Jesus have sent my angel, to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and stock of David, the bright and morning star. 17 And the spirit and the bride say: Come. And he that heareth, let him say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let him come: and he that will, let him take the water of life, freely.