long time no see.....
but now that I'm back we'll knock up a couple of outrages for December.....
first up:
GOOD CATHOLICS USE CONDOMS
oh get over yourselves! really? what is most despicable about this new latino radio ad campaign is that it is produced by people who are not even practicing Catholics. And ringing in the fringe, leftist group "Catholics for Choice" (who will find that the only choice they're making is one for hell) doesn't give it any more authenticity than if Margaret Sanger stood up and wrote a treatise on what it takes to be a good nun. They've already jumped ship and now they're going to proclaim what Good Catholics should do if they're still on the boat?!
bah!
one ad has a latina abuela telling her grandson (who is gay, and disturbed when he just heard that "Good Catholics" can't use condoms) that she took care of him and if he loves that man (and wants to be a "Good Catholic" too) he'll wear a condom.
WHAT?!
where to even start with that one.....
there is another ad that goes on about how sex is sacred for Catholics and it means we ought to "take care of each other". Of course this means suiting up each and every time you have sex.
call me old fashioned, but if it is within the required covenantal, permanent sacrament of marriage and both partners are faithful to their vows..... do you wanna run past me again just why we need to treat the marital act as something requiring a HAZMAT team to protect the couple from each other?
ohhhhh - I forgot. This is for all those who just want to knock boots with whoever rubs past them.... man, woman, whatever. But still want to be Good Catholics!
what is most bemusing is how the writers announcing this joyous news had to include a little bit near the end where they lament how "our church" hasn't always been honest about sex and therefore there exists an embarrassed silence about condom use.
really?
I went through the whole catholic school/CCD regime where I received a substandard, piss poor education that left me at just about the same level theologically as a heathen - but even I heard the message about contraception and condoms. One of the few things that did get taught! So show me this embarrassed silence! where is it?
unless you mean the "silence" that comes from not hearing what you want to hear. The message isn't what you want it to be and so therefore ....you don't hear it.
As Christ said -
"Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.
here is the article with its own links as well:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/12/01/new-radio-ads-say-good-catholics-use-condoms
next up: MILWAUKEE NUN PROCLAIMS THAT GOD IS PRO-CHOICE
really - I read this one myself in "YOUR Catholic Herald" as they like to label themselves. If they were really my Catholic Herald they wouldn't print such tripe.
tripe.
now that's a word that just doesn't get used enough anymore.
you hardly ever hear it these days.
anyhow - Dear Sr. Arlene of the woe begotten School Sisters of St Francis (who must be spinning in his grave over them lately) took her precious, ministry-filled time to write to the Herald and lament on how the bishops were "picking" on Obama for his abortion stance.
she then went on to make some mind-numbing claims:
1. God is prochoice
2. she's known some poor children who would've been better off to be aborted
3. other issues, such as poverty and economic injustice (note how it always come down to money with these women) are the real sins crying to heaven for vengeance.
apparently she made the last comment in such as fashion so as to leave one to conclude that she means abortion, in fact, is not one crying to heaven for justice.
interesting.
seeing as it has been a week or so since I read it (and decided to make pumpkin pies rather than blow my top in writing a letter of my own) I will now attempt to put charitably into words the RAGE I feel at her audacity.
(....besides, the dear editors at the paper always seem to re-write my letters in such a way as to make them quite good, but lamentably not mine. They rid them of all the best parts and make me sound like the lady I still haven't managed to become.)
soooo - from the bottom up:
since we are arbitrarily making up what God finds most offensive I'll join that bandwagon and say that in my book, the latest and most infuriating sin crying to heaven is not economic injustice.....but so-called professed religious who so abuse their ministry and vocation as to use it to blaspheme the Lord. If I yet wore a veil (or for that matter, if you still did) I would tear it off in frustration.
where precisely do you get off, luv?
you are so obsessed with building a world of "social justice" you long ago forgot to build the kingdom of God.
for shame.
and you leave Him out of any equation when you seek to better the world around you. There is no justice apart from Him. So why do bang your head on that wall? You can accomplish nothing if He isn't at the central part of the plan. Whose "justice" and "mercy" are you referring to when you feel it would've been better off for those children in the Honduras to have been aborted?
NOT HIS!
are you nuts?!
while you may heretically believe He is pro-choice, in fact, He is not. He is the God and Giver of Life who is gravely offended that we end the lives HE CHOSE TO CREATE. Those little souls whom He willed into existence for this very moment in time.
is that the mercy of the Lord to say that they'd have better off if they were murdered in the womb? Maybe of your social justice god but not of mine. Mine instills dignity and worth into every human life no matter what its economic or social circumstances. Mine gives value by His own Passion and Death to our every human suffering that it may be salvific, that we may enter with Him into his redemptive plan and "make up what is lacking in the suffering of Christ."
mlechh!
you are right in sayign He doesn't force any one to do what is right. He certainly isn't cattle-prodding you.
but Pro- choice? no. he gave us free will that we His finite and limited creatures might choose Him ion love. But in and of Himself, the Almighty has no "choice" for evil in Him. He cannot be other than that which he is by His very nature, which is All Holy, All Knowing, All Powerful, Eternally Living Truth. He IS life. He IS Holiness.
how could He be pro choice?
How could He be "pro" choosing that which is evil, and therefore apart from Him? He cannot. He gives you the freedom to come to Him in love but that is not the same as approving your evil choices. There is no legitimate choice but to choose God. Any route that doesn't lead to Him isn't of Him and cannot claim authenticity because of some strange twisted idea that He is "Pro Choice"...simply because he gives you the freedom to actually have authentic love.
cr-aa-aa-aa-ziness !
I don't know who is responsible for your formation or if you slipped off track after some good nun did her best - but you are not a shining example of what it means to be a sister in the Church of God. I shall fervently pray that your Spouse sets you down and has a long discussion with you on where you are headed, if you even still recognize Him as such.
it is a terrible scandal that a professed religious would say publicly, in a diocesan publication no less, what amounts to nothing other than heresy.
when will the Bishop have his fill of you lot?
life site still has the full text of her letter on its page:
http://www.cathnewsusa.com/article.aspx?aeid=10498
first up:
GOOD CATHOLICS USE CONDOMS
oh get over yourselves! really? what is most despicable about this new latino radio ad campaign is that it is produced by people who are not even practicing Catholics. And ringing in the fringe, leftist group "Catholics for Choice" (who will find that the only choice they're making is one for hell) doesn't give it any more authenticity than if Margaret Sanger stood up and wrote a treatise on what it takes to be a good nun. They've already jumped ship and now they're going to proclaim what Good Catholics should do if they're still on the boat?!
bah!
one ad has a latina abuela telling her grandson (who is gay, and disturbed when he just heard that "Good Catholics" can't use condoms) that she took care of him and if he loves that man (and wants to be a "Good Catholic" too) he'll wear a condom.
WHAT?!
where to even start with that one.....
there is another ad that goes on about how sex is sacred for Catholics and it means we ought to "take care of each other". Of course this means suiting up each and every time you have sex.
call me old fashioned, but if it is within the required covenantal, permanent sacrament of marriage and both partners are faithful to their vows..... do you wanna run past me again just why we need to treat the marital act as something requiring a HAZMAT team to protect the couple from each other?
ohhhhh - I forgot. This is for all those who just want to knock boots with whoever rubs past them.... man, woman, whatever. But still want to be Good Catholics!
what is most bemusing is how the writers announcing this joyous news had to include a little bit near the end where they lament how "our church" hasn't always been honest about sex and therefore there exists an embarrassed silence about condom use.
really?
I went through the whole catholic school/CCD regime where I received a substandard, piss poor education that left me at just about the same level theologically as a heathen - but even I heard the message about contraception and condoms. One of the few things that did get taught! So show me this embarrassed silence! where is it?
unless you mean the "silence" that comes from not hearing what you want to hear. The message isn't what you want it to be and so therefore ....you don't hear it.
As Christ said -
"Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies....
"He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God."
if they want to go round talking about how the Church is "not being honest" when it comes to sex then they should really first look at the lie they spread that you can be a good catholic by wearing a condom while sneaking about committing every mortal sin you can dream up.
a bit of an oxymoron there.
or maybe just some morons... hard to say sometimes.here is the article with its own links as well:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/12/01/new-radio-ads-say-good-catholics-use-condoms
next up: MILWAUKEE NUN PROCLAIMS THAT GOD IS PRO-CHOICE
really - I read this one myself in "YOUR Catholic Herald" as they like to label themselves. If they were really my Catholic Herald they wouldn't print such tripe.
tripe.
now that's a word that just doesn't get used enough anymore.
you hardly ever hear it these days.
anyhow - Dear Sr. Arlene of the woe begotten School Sisters of St Francis (who must be spinning in his grave over them lately) took her precious, ministry-filled time to write to the Herald and lament on how the bishops were "picking" on Obama for his abortion stance.
she then went on to make some mind-numbing claims:
1. God is prochoice
2. she's known some poor children who would've been better off to be aborted
3. other issues, such as poverty and economic injustice (note how it always come down to money with these women) are the real sins crying to heaven for vengeance.
apparently she made the last comment in such as fashion so as to leave one to conclude that she means abortion, in fact, is not one crying to heaven for justice.
interesting.
seeing as it has been a week or so since I read it (and decided to make pumpkin pies rather than blow my top in writing a letter of my own) I will now attempt to put charitably into words the RAGE I feel at her audacity.
(....besides, the dear editors at the paper always seem to re-write my letters in such a way as to make them quite good, but lamentably not mine. They rid them of all the best parts and make me sound like the lady I still haven't managed to become.)
soooo - from the bottom up:
since we are arbitrarily making up what God finds most offensive I'll join that bandwagon and say that in my book, the latest and most infuriating sin crying to heaven is not economic injustice.....but so-called professed religious who so abuse their ministry and vocation as to use it to blaspheme the Lord. If I yet wore a veil (or for that matter, if you still did) I would tear it off in frustration.
where precisely do you get off, luv?
you are so obsessed with building a world of "social justice" you long ago forgot to build the kingdom of God.
for shame.
and you leave Him out of any equation when you seek to better the world around you. There is no justice apart from Him. So why do bang your head on that wall? You can accomplish nothing if He isn't at the central part of the plan. Whose "justice" and "mercy" are you referring to when you feel it would've been better off for those children in the Honduras to have been aborted?
NOT HIS!
are you nuts?!
while you may heretically believe He is pro-choice, in fact, He is not. He is the God and Giver of Life who is gravely offended that we end the lives HE CHOSE TO CREATE. Those little souls whom He willed into existence for this very moment in time.
is that the mercy of the Lord to say that they'd have better off if they were murdered in the womb? Maybe of your social justice god but not of mine. Mine instills dignity and worth into every human life no matter what its economic or social circumstances. Mine gives value by His own Passion and Death to our every human suffering that it may be salvific, that we may enter with Him into his redemptive plan and "make up what is lacking in the suffering of Christ."
mlechh!
you are right in sayign He doesn't force any one to do what is right. He certainly isn't cattle-prodding you.
but Pro- choice? no. he gave us free will that we His finite and limited creatures might choose Him ion love. But in and of Himself, the Almighty has no "choice" for evil in Him. He cannot be other than that which he is by His very nature, which is All Holy, All Knowing, All Powerful, Eternally Living Truth. He IS life. He IS Holiness.
how could He be pro choice?
How could He be "pro" choosing that which is evil, and therefore apart from Him? He cannot. He gives you the freedom to come to Him in love but that is not the same as approving your evil choices. There is no legitimate choice but to choose God. Any route that doesn't lead to Him isn't of Him and cannot claim authenticity because of some strange twisted idea that He is "Pro Choice"...simply because he gives you the freedom to actually have authentic love.
cr-aa-aa-aa-ziness !
I don't know who is responsible for your formation or if you slipped off track after some good nun did her best - but you are not a shining example of what it means to be a sister in the Church of God. I shall fervently pray that your Spouse sets you down and has a long discussion with you on where you are headed, if you even still recognize Him as such.
it is a terrible scandal that a professed religious would say publicly, in a diocesan publication no less, what amounts to nothing other than heresy.
when will the Bishop have his fill of you lot?
life site still has the full text of her letter on its page:
http://www.cathnewsusa.com/article.aspx?aeid=10498
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