Sadly, rather than bringing the world to Jesus, we have factions out there trying to make the church more worldly as they attempt to reduce accountability in all of its forms.
Starting at the top, we have a pastorate that as a collective has been so utterly reckless and promiscuous that our archdioceses are paying out hush money to victims of sex crimes to the point that bankruptcy proceedings have had to take place. While they’re called to chastity and celibacy, it seems many are not only having sex with our children, they’re having sex with each other as well, and the “math” tells me that many of them are being promiscuous with people at large inside and outside of the church. It’s become quite the little boys club, fraught with cover ups and payoffs that could be used for good, yet they’re used to cover up gross evil.
Then we have one reckless and popular priest, Father James Martin, who actually tells us it’s ok to go out and celebrate”Pride.”
Now out in the world, the “Pride” movement stands for many things. Many use it as a symbol on “inclusion and welcoming,” which it can in fact be, but it also carries no element of sexual accountability, in fact quite the opposite, which is something that we as a Church have fallen so far away from that displays of it in our church are clearly carrying a message that we shouldn’t be aligning ourselves with. Much of our laity as well as many of the responsible ordained find it “cringy” as they should. We as a Church definitely need to be welcoming and pastoral to all, but bringing that symbolism through our doors, not only creates division, it sends a wrong message.
We as a Catholic Church claim to be against abortion, yet if we want to end abortion, we first have to address promiscuity, and nobody out there is even touching on that topic. Roughly 3000 babies a day are aborted in the US. Human life forms with intact DNA sequences, many which have grown to viable consciousness, yet we have people in our church “advocating” for killing them, yet at the same time “identifying” our church with a culture that doesn’t preach restraint, and basically ends up mimicking Sodom and Gomorrah. I scoffed at that story as a young person growing up, but the more I “see” the more I realize that story is where we are now, and our Church is not only not doing anything about it, our Church is deep in it, yet I really don’t see even the slightest effort taking place to clean up our sexual mores. I’m not singling out the LGT people, as they shouldn’t be implicated in this, but at the same time, they’re called to the same level of accountability as the rest of us, and celebrating the deadly sin of pride really isn’t something we should be advocating. Pride was a deadly sin and went before the fall long before factions decided it might be a good idea to name a political movement after it.
We as a Church definitely need to be welcoming to all, but we need to be responsible and accountable in doing so, and our last pontificate more than missed the boat on that one, yet there’s a faction out there that’s practically engaged in idol worship of Pope Francis, who largely enabled this trend during his pontificate. That idolatry makes sense in “worldly context,” as it has allowed them to further their agendas, but in Kingdom context it’s pretty “ungodly.”
Now I’m certainly no hyper conservative by any stretch of the imagination, but there are some things that should be obvious. “Elephants in the room” so to speak, are being ignored in favor of political agendas that have no place in God’s Kingdom. We are a culture of sin, and if our church fails to be the “rock” that Jesus entrusted to Peter, then what basis do we have for accountability anywhere? Many Protestant factions today are much closer to God’s Kingdom than the Barque of Peter, which has become schismatic in many ways as it works to mimic the culture as opposed to bringing the culture back to Jesus.
The Church in its two plus millennia of existence has taken many turns in directions that are not aligned with God’s will, but we as responsible laity need to speak up and speak out when this occurs, and I do appreciate that there are literally hundreds of bloggers and pod casters out there speaking the truth, but that isn’t enough. I just pray that they’re being heard. Being heard that we might get our collective act together in realignment with God’s Will, that we might all get back on that path that’s all in, and totally His.❤️🙏
