...speak for themselves.
Congratulations. Fr. Jenkins. It looks like you found the common moral ground you so desperately sought with Obama.
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Sacred Heart of Jesus
Miserere Nobis
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Ora Pro Nobis, Sancta Dei Genitrix, Ut Digni Efficiamur Promisionibus Christi
Saint Thomas More
The very definition of an assenting Catholic, and therefore a fitting patron saint for this blog. Hilaire Belloc once explained that what was most remarkable about St. Thomas' martyrdom - for refusing to publicly acknowledge that King Henry VIII and Parliament had the right to legislate on religious matters that were properly the jurisdiction of the Pope - was that St. Thomas must have realized that his sacrifice was not going to lead to mass conversions to the faith. It was the simple act of an assenting Catholic who did not want to meet his God having denied the primacy of the temporal head of His Church. He was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and, along with St. John Fisher, was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935, exactly 400 years after both saints were martyred. In an incredibly morbid bit of irony, in 1980 St. Thomas More was also proclaimed a saint of the Anglican Church - the very church that St. Thomas refused to recognize, even at the cost of his own life. St. Thomas More, ora pro nobis!
About Me
- Gerald Lamb
- Age: 33
Birthplace: Ponce, Puerto Rico
High School: First Coast High School, Jacksonville, FL, 1995
Bachelor's: BA History, University of Florida, 2001
Master's: MA Theology and Christian Ministry, Franciscan University of Steubenville, 2006
What the future holds:??????
I'm someone who, to quote the late and great Rich Mullins, is fast approaching the place "where I'm lost enough to let myself be led."
In five years, I hope to be able to look back on who I am today and realize what a fool I am. In ten years, I hope to be able to look back on the person that I will be in five years and realize what a fool I will become.
It profits not a man to gain the world if he lose his soul. With that in mind, I strive every day of my life to please God, and only to please others insofar as this is pleasing to God. This means that I strive to be a witness to the truth, even if it brings me into conflict with those who are offended by the truth. I consider it infinitely better to be cursed in the light of truth than to be praised in a darkness of lies...
Gilbert Keith
One of my personal heroes, and a leading candidate for what I will look like if by the grace of God I reach the age of 60 and decide to buy a bad toupee.
2 comments:
This is akin to Students Going to Edwards Waters College (A Jacksonville University that is predominantly Black) being more likely to be members of the KKK. Or Students attending Bob Jones University (this gives me an Idea for a blog post) being more likely to go into Seminary for the Catholic priesthood.
Gerald, let's not forget to mention "diversity" and "inclusiveness", which is virtually interchangeable with "tolerance" and "dialogue". To exclude mention of "diversity" and "inclusiveness" is a sin against "diversity" and "inclusiveness", not to mention a sin against "tolerance" and "dialogue".
For decades, dissident cardinals, bishops and priests have promoted all manner of ecclesial anomalies under the politically correct banner of “diversity" and "inclusiveness”. I have long deliberated on the motus operandi of these misguided men. I think that I understand the marrow of their defective ideology.
To a left-leaning, NCR reading, “progressive” Catholic, “diversity" and "inclusiveness” trump all doctrinal, liturgical and disciplinary elements of our faith; the more heinous the sinner, the greater the need to accept him, to dialogue with him and even to offer him a public, Catholic forum for the expression of his aberrant views. The onus is on us, both as individuals and as an institutional Church, to accept the sinner, sin and all; the onus is not on the sinner to amend his sinfulness. To even suggest that is “judgmental”, excessively rigid and decidedly pre-Vatican II.
“Diversity" and "inclusiveness”, in their view, may be more important than the canonical parameters of the sacraments. If enforcing the letter of Canon Law violates “diversity" and “inclusiveness”, then “charity” dictates that one must circumvent Canon law. The Holy Eucharist is administered to confirm, strengthen, embolden and validate the sinner in his sinfulness. It is the trump card that silences the sinner’s critics because if the Church allows him to receive Communion, his behavior is not a sin after all. There is no need for the sinner to be reconciled through Sacramental Confession prior to receiving Our Lord in Communion, since they believe Jesus loves and accepts the sinner for who he is, sin and all. As a dissident bishop once said at a Call to Action conference, “Confession is part of the old paradigm” (Call to Action, Call to Apostasy by Brian Clowes, 1997).
Sin is viewed as human frailty and not evil – a cross to bear, not as morally objectionable behavior to master and defeat – lest our salvation be at risk. The only time it is seen as evil is when sin is part of an institutional structure of sin, like capital punishment, illegal immigration deportation, cessation of welfare relief, pollution of the environment, etc….
The next time you consider a Catholic conference or retreat, or hear a homily which addresses “diversity" and "inclusiveness”, or "tolerance" and "dialogue", be on guard that these are often code words, part of a socially engineered, anti-Catholic, politically correct, agenda to legitimize sin and to refashion God (and His Church) in man’s image.
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