“Hence we should not be surprised to find, in conjunction with the omnipresent technocratic paradigm and the cult of unlimited human power, the rise of a relativism which sees everything as irrelevant unless it serves one’s own immediate interests.
Pope Francis, Laudato si’, III. THE CRISIS AND EFFECTS OF MODERN ANTHROPOCENTRISM, Practical relativism, paragraph 122
By Bishop Zurek I have been rightly…
“…accused of licentiousness (marked by disregard for strict rules of correctness) or rebellious.”
Ti 1:6
December 12, 2019 by Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
Read a letter from Bishop Patrick J. Zurek to the Faith Community at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Amarillo.
This was not a result of the upbringing my parents gave me; a fact that His Excellency strongly confirmed in our only private meeting. Growing up a Catholic in Texas in the 60’s & 70’s was a comfortable fit for the Democratic Party. I was a young dreamer with my head in the clouds believing…
“Only those mean, uncaring Republicans would support beating up on the littlest guy of all, the child in the womb.”
HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE
by Richard John Neuhaus, January 2007
With Roe the Republicans started the beating. I was surprised when democrats eventually joined in and the Republicans backed out and started shouting, “Bloody murder!”.
My feet were now in the clouds as my world had been turned upside down. With other Catholics I left the Democrats, just as the Good ol’ Boys” had some years earlier over the granting of civil rights. I became a, “mean, uncaring’ Republican.
From then on, I longed to see the Lord’s face in my political party…
…but unfortunately, along with many other Catholics, I lost faith in ever having “God AND Country” again…
“Not inconceivably, profound disillusionment could also produce a much more radicalized ‘Christian politics’ on the right, a politics aimed at dismantling what is believed to be an incorrigibly evil constitutional order.”
Richard John Neuhaus
Conceivably, the widespread use of social media combined with, “the cult of unlimited human power” gave rise to “a relativism which saw everything as irrelevant unless it served one’s own immediate interests”; and brought us to January 6th.
Now my light dims in the world,
as my hold on the word of life is slipping…
… because relativism is leading the Republicans back to “beating up on the littlest guy of all, the child in the womb”, from conception to 15 weeks; and we even have the relativism to call it a “ban”!
“Increase our faith.”
Lk 17: 5-6
The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
you would say to this mulberry tree,
‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”
Monday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time