PopeWatch: Open Thread
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
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Today is the 100th anniversary of our entry into the Great War. Reminding me that Leo XIII wrote an encyclical at the start of his reign lamenting how Europe listen so much to the guidance of the papacy. France, Italy, Germany, England, Russia, even Austria largely disregarded his exhortations and blindly pursued the accumulation of wealth and power, full of pride in their domination of the world. Then came the collapse of wager Barbara Tuchman described a “proud Tower” in the disaster of the Great War. At the end of 19i4, even when it was obvious that no side could win, Pope Benedict called for an end to hostilities and a beginning of negotiations. The leaders of Europe merely doubled their determination to win. Thus began thirds years of rack and ruin for Europe. For the “Christian’Powers has already forgotten Christ. Today they are even more blind to reality. Rome has become become Corinth.
“What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” As when two souls give informed consent to become one flesh as in marriage and when God joins the immortal human soul to the physical human body, no man may put asunder. This would be the Fifth Commandment: “Thou shalt not kill” Eternal life is predicated on God joining the human soul with the human body forever.
The human being may not be desecrated by amputation except to save the human being’s life. Transgendering, vasectomy, tubal ligation, body piercing, even tatooing are disordered.
It is disingenuous that anyone would vie for the office at the Vatican of The Vicar of Christ.
Love and Justice are one way streets. MERCY is a two way street. Unless the soul accepts God’s mercy on God’s terms, God’s mercy takes no effect on the soul. A human mercy without God is just that: human mercy. Human mercy without God is atheism.