Part 2 of our stripped down look at Amoris Laetitia with some commentary by PopeWatch:
Chapter Two: The Experiences and Challenges of Families
31. In this chapter the Pope will look at families.
32. Pope really likes the word anthropological.
33. Extreme individualism threatens families.
34. More on that theme.
35. Christians cannot abandon the concept of families.
36. Church has had too much focus on family as a means of procreation. (Yep, the Pope really did mean his breeding like rabbits comments. The Pope claims to be a loyal son of the Church. That he may be. He certainly is a loyal son of the Sixties.)
37. Some psycho-babble about marriage as a means of personal development. Church is called to form consciences not to replace them. (This theme is one of the major ones in this dog’s breakfast of an exhortation: conscience is everything, which completely ignores the fact that many people have no difficulty in giving a thumbs up to any wretched, self-serving piece of evil they wish to undertake.)
38. Most people value families that have permanence and mutual respect. Church has wasted effort on denouncing a decadent world instead of being like Jesus with his compassion to the woman caught in adultery or the Samaritan woman at the well. (In neither case of course did Christ give the slightest sign that he condoned their sins. Quite the contrary.)
39. The culture of the ephemeral and narcissism are threats to families.
40. We need to find the right language to encourage young people to take up the challenge to form families.
41. Many problems in today’s world lead to the destruction of families.
42. Many pressures cause families to limit their children although the Church stands foursquare against the efforts by States to limit family sizes.
43. Families often feel alone and abandoned. States have the duty to create work for young people and thereby help families form. (The Pope’s belief that States have money trees and thus create wealth is impervious to facts.)
44. A laundry list of items that States should provide families. The Welfare State shall save us. The idea that family breakup or lack of formation is caused by insufficient welfare spending is so contrary to reality as to beggar belief.
45. The growth in the number of bastards gives rise to a whole host of evils.
46. Migration is thrown in. The Pope is laundry listing in this part of the Exhortation.
47. Special need kids.
48. Geezers.
49. The poor.
50. Raising kids is a lot of work. (Well, Duh.)
51. Drugs, alcholism, gambling, family violence are all bad for families. (Didn’t any one say to the Pope, “Holy Father, perhaps restatements of the obvious waste space and are not helpful.”)
52. Great variety of family forms can aid stability of families, but defacto unions and same sex unions cannot be equated with married families.
53. Notes polygamy and widespread cohabitation are threats to marriage, and the family is under attack from laws that render families subject to destruction at the whim of one of the participants.
54. Yay for Women’s Lib! (The loyal son of the Sixties strikes again!)
55. The importance of fathers is noted in a brief paragraph.
56. Attacks gender ideologies.
57. Thanks God for loving families.
CHAPTER THREE-Looking To Jesus: The vocation of The family
58. The Gospel message should always resound in families.
59. The mystery of the Christian family can only be understood in the love of the Father revealed in Christ.
60. This chapter will summarize the teaching of the Church on families.
More tomorrow.
If Pontius Pilate was Jesuit, he would have been proud to author this. I mean, really, what is truth?
I’ve posted this bofore, but here it is again:
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https://mises.org/library/making-kids-worthless-social-securitys-contribution-fertility-crisis
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I gather many orthodox Catholics do not favor Austrian economic theory, but if this fellow is correct, and I think he is definitely on to something, then the best way to help families is to leave them alone. No wefare, no family leave programs, no Social Sec, Medicare, and, I would add, no taxpayer funded schools. Heck, I don’t even think the diocesan school concept is a good idea for grades pK-8
i read the comments, and he posting again, took three steps back and a deep breath and ask
Holy Schnikee’s – how did we get here?? Can this really be Christ’s Vicar passing this trash.
Weren’t there rumors JPI got knocked on the head ,taken out and replaced by a pretender – could that have been prophecy and this is what we got- a pretender-
church has been too focused on procreation [ and proper rearing ] of children.
…… that they may have Eternal Life with The Father??
Wowee and Zoweee … how can this be??