MGB:_I recall attending the centennial Mass celebrating the founding of Catholic Charities in the U.S. a few years ago. These are august affairs. It is good it began remembering the plight of migrants at the hands of coyotes and border vigialantes. The purity of heart called for has nothing to do with avoiding sexual thoughts, but in authentic personal converstion, which involves more than following the rules. The Church has indeed witnessed for the unborn, although they have done little for them. I suspect it is the Sisters rather than the Bishops who deserve the credit for defending the ACA.
Profound consensus would be good, but too many bishops value their coalition with the Republicans more than their coalition with their fellows, even to be unwilling to take the movement to task for not fighting for a tax supported living wage for families. Anti-redistributionism should have no place in the pro-life movement. Some of these problems may be staff level. Cupich will fix this if elected to the pro-life chairmanship.
Di Nardo’s comments about division coming from man and not God are much needed and should prick the consciences of those who would take the Church back to earlier times where religious power was proclaimed more openly than religious liberty. Now it is simply code for the anti-modernists. Bravo to the mention of Catholic Charities and their work in hurricane ravaged areas. That is where the rubber hits the road in this papacy.
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