Reading 1
Responsorial Psalm the
Alleluia
Gospel
In spite of honoring the slain dead by building their tombs and adorning their memorials, and claiming that they would not have joined in their ancestors’ crimes if they had lived in their days, the scribes and Pharisees are true children of their ancestors and are defiantly ordered by Jesus to fill up what those ancestors measured out. This order reflects the Jewish notion that there was an allotted measure of suffering that had to be completed before God’s final judgment would take place.
Am I a “backwardist” Catholic who hypocritically proclaims, “I would not have joined in the open dissent of Humanae vitae!”, and yet, upon the publication of Laudato si, I’m among the laity disparaging the teachings of the Church while filling out the allotted measure of abortion suffering laid out by my ancestors by proclaiming the abortion of innocents from conception to 15 weeks is a moral good since it will obtain swing votes for our MAGA candidates❓
“Those American groups of which you speak, so closed, are isolating themselves. And instead of living by doctrine, by the true doctrine that always develops and bears fruit, they live by ideologies,…But when you abandon doctrine in life to replace it with an ideology, you have lost, you have lost as in war.”
Pope Francis
“It comes across as judgmental. It also comes across as he doesn’t understand America too well. Of course, we’re going to be involved in politics. This is America.”
Former Priest Frank Pavone, a laicized Catholic priest and the national director of anti-abortion group Priests for Life
The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
Faithful Priest Richard John Neuhaus, staunch defender of the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings on abortion and other life issues following Humanae vitae