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MGB: Karen was on cable last night. We need more than uplifting sermons, as beautiful as they can be. We need the Spirit of Prophesy and profound self-criticism, just like in the early Church.
Morlino is still serving up the same idiotic counter-culture conservatism. It is mostly unformed asexuals who are abusers. Celibacy is not the problem, but those who gravitate toward it because human closeness scares them are more likely to surrender to urges they cannot understand. I'd rather an out and proud priest round my child than a profoundly confused one.
First Things is also an ideological rag. It is why I ignore it. It is hardly worth arguing with. If they think the Cardinals will gang up on Francis, they are truly unhinged and running out of time. Those that would are aging out of the electorate and any formal role in the Church aside from retired priest. As for capital punishment, for once I agree with them on the issue, but I care not what the Catechism says. Political theory is a much better gauge of the justice of that issue, as well as psychology.
Self-disclosure to both bishop and prosecutors must be a condition of absolution for anyone who abuses a child or young teen. Whether 17 year-olds should be considered too young for consent is a larger question, especially if they go into such a relationship with their eyes wide open.
Rudy was hack back when he was a federal prosecutor. I suggest that all of his convictions be reviewed.
The question is not how Trump voters will vote. The question is whether they will show up and whether the President's latest attempts to return to his message will attract or alienate them. I suspect that he has become an embarrassment to Republicans who are not his own reactionary voters, but don't tell him that.
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