Is the Amarillo Diocese expecting God to be “grateful to that servant because he” celebrated a Respect Life Mass on the anniversary of an overturned Supreme Court ruling and then marched a few blocks to the site of a long closed Planned Parenthood building praying the rosary?
“‘…should it be with you.
Lk 7:10
When you have done all you have been commanded,
say, ‘We are unprofitable servants;
we have done what we were obliged to do.'”
In the 1980’s Bishop Mathieson was “obliged” to preach the “Respect Life” message of nuclear disarmament. With Pantex in his diocese this proved to be “unprofitable”…
However his ability to not hear God’s voice by way of a harden heart allowed Mathieson to procure priest with prior pedophile convictions, and these predators soon became popular with parishes that were unaware of their pastor’s previous history; thus Mathieson earned himself a “place at table” when one of his grateful pedophile priest (just prior to being sentenced to prison and defrocking) dedicated a religious education center at a parish where he sexually molested minors in Mathieson’s name.
Bishop Yanta came at the turn of the Millennium and was obliged by the Dallas Charter to clean up Mathieson’s mess. Even after instituting a “Respect Life” Mass and March that would lead to the closing of Planned Parenthood in the diocese Yanta was considered unprofitable. No building was dedicated in his name and Mathieson never gave up his place at the table.
Bishop Zurek came as Planned Parenthood was leaving and pronounced the Amarillo Diocese as a “Safe Environment”. Mathieson died and Zurek took his place at the table by having a building dedicated with his own name.
He then felt obliged to erect a Pastoral Center that would proclaim to the diocese how profitable he was. He remains at the table instead of bearing his share of hardship for the Gospel with his pope by extending the defense perimeter that Bishop Yanta established around the womb by preaching, “On Care for Our Common Home”.
“When a pastor has been afraid to assert what is right, has he not turned his back and fled by remaining silent?”
The Pastoral Guide, by Pope St Gregory the Great, from today’s Office of Readings