The Church is making a fool of herself because of certain Church officials who are behaving like scared children who think that the police are coming to their house to take them away forever.
That’s what happens when priests think that the Church is “in danger of losing her tax exempt status” for speaking up about the elections.
We don’t want to address controversial issues, and as a cover for our cowardice, we blame the tax guy. Never mind that the law allows us to speak up, or that no Church has ever lost its tax-exempt status for telling its people that they have to elect candidates who will protect life (which, after all, is the very purpose of government and public service!)
This confusion is the result of many years of paying more attention to building projects than building justice. As the Lord said, the very stones will cry out
Obviously Fr. Frank Pavone is more than a little annoyed by the timidity of some who seem to have a higher developed fear of the IRS compared to a fear of the Lord.
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maybe we can use this cowardice to our advantage? Get the insurance companies to require seminaries to implement the “Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations With Regard to Persons With Homosexual Tendencies in View of Their Admission to the Seminary and to Sacred Orders,” as a condintion of coverage. The bishops would be falling over themselves in a rush to make sure it’s implemented.
Now, how do we get Ex Corde Ecclesiae implemented at Catholic universities?
True, with far too many bishops (even one would be too many), it’s the money that does the talking.
Seems that financial scandals are dealt with far more quickly than other scandals (until money becomes involved).
Yet, there are some bishops who have spoken up, and have they lost their tax free status? Nope.
Maybe in regards to Ex Corde Ecclesia, (and heterodox preaching from the pulpits) we need to start instigating class action lawsuits claiming false advertising and switch-and-bait tactics…
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