Thousands upon thousands of times

 

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

Clueless

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."  Matthew 6:24

What's funny watching the kerfuffle over Pope Francis' remarks on income inequality is the reaction of Catholics.  No surprise the maggots of unfettered capitalism have declared the Pope wrong (Jon Stewart last night on Stuart Varney's reaction is classic), but it is stunning how little the more conservative Catholics know about their own religion.  The only change Pope Francis has made from Popes John Paul II and Bendict XVI is to remind Catholics that serving the poor is equally as important to the tenets of their faith as are hating on the gays and their war on women.

While I salute Pope Francis for prioritizing the economic needs of the poor and the middle class, Catholic Church doctrine is still exactly the same as it was before the puff of white smoke from the Sistine Chapel declared the election of this new Pope last March.

Of course, considering that the more conservative Catholics are wont to scream like wounded warriors over abortion and not bat an eye when some poor bastard is executed (in Church doctrine all life is sacred, and that means the death penalty is no more acceptable than abortion), it probably shouldn't be that surprising.

Peace,
emaycee

Slip out the back, Jack

In the summer of 2002, I was at mass one Sunday when the priest began a sermon in which he excoriated then Democratic nominee for Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm for being a pro-choice Catholic.  I listened politely for a few moments, until it became increasingly clear that the priest was telling the flock for whom to vote (not Granholm).  At which point I stepped out of the pew, genuflected, and left.

I have never been back.

Since the Catholic Cardinals elevated John Paul II to the papal throne the Church has drifted ever rightward unabated.  I have never understood the need for progressive Catholics to remain in the Church fold hoping for some miraculous change to be enacted in the Church.  If the Cardinals electing the even more conservative Pope Bendict XVI wasn't the final catalyst, maybe these utterings by Catholic League leader Bill Donohue should be.  Donohue (he of the misogynistic, racist, homophobic wing of the Church) says he would be more than happy, and Bendict agrees, and that the Church would be better off if the roughly half of its parishioners who do not fall in strict line with Catholic Doctrine were to be booted out of the Church.

What more motivation could progressive Catholics possibly need to leave that increasingly irrelevant organization?  Get out the door already, for Christ's sake--stop tacitly supporting a Church that doesn't even want you.

Peace,
emaycee