OF FAITH, PRACTICE AND LITMUS PAPER


“Comes a Time when your driftin,
Comes a time when you settle down
Comes a life, feelings liftin’
Lift that baby right up off the ground

O- ohh, this old world keeps spinnin round
It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down
There comes a time.
Comes a time - Neil Young

"To everything (turn turn turn)
There is a a season (turn turn turn)
And a time for every purpose
Under heaven" – Pete Seeger

"And they’ll know we are Christians
By our love, by our love
Yes they’ll know we are Christians
By our love' – Peter Scholtes

LOST continues to slowly simmer over the devolution of the Catholic Church, and the coup attempt of its current leadership to highjack it from a simply articulated adherence to <“the two greatest commandments>, and turn it into a 5-question litmus test of belief, with one question – the “abortion” question – leading the pack.

Once again, at this morning’s liturgy, another droned delivery of the “impassioned plea” for the faithful to symbolically gesture to the hated (yes, the contempt for the current President is concealed, albeit barely) President Obama, by sending him empty Red envelopes – hopefully one for “each of the 58 million unborn children lost to abortion since the passage of Roe v. Wade.”

As if abortions never took place in pre-Roe v. Wade America;
As if our country did a masterful job of seeing to the basic needs of poor children, or the unwanted children;
As if (and this time the esteemed deacon even said as much – “more children are aborted each day in this country than troops killed in the whole Iraq war) governmental policies which promote or cause death in other contexts don’t matter or aren’t important issues of morality and faith.

Well, other policies promoting violence and death are important issues of morality and faith – or at least they should be. Clearly, the Catholic faithful have far important work to be done than fomenting unrest over the invitation of the President to speak at Notre Dame’s commencement ceremony>.

LOST longs for the return of Church leadership which emphasizes social justice over conformity, compassionate activism over control, and one which encourages and venerates the divine gift of thought over unquestioned adherence to newly articulated regulations and rules – as can be seen in the brick by brick dismantling of the outcome of the Second Vatican Council, by the current Pope and his ideological co-conspirators. To seek anything less is to stand by and watch helplessly as one-issue (or 5) zealotry rips the faithful apart, and in the process cheapens and denigrates the Faith.