The Seven Sacraments of Secularism

By Rockford’s Bishop Thomas Doran

“Reaping the whirlwind of abortion: I want to touch on this matter before we get too close to the November madness…. We know, for instance, that adherence of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people.

“The seven ‘Sacraments’ of their secular culture are abortion, buggery, (sodomy), contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic experimentation and mutilation. These things they unabashedly espouse, profess and promote. Their continuance in office is a clear and present danger to our survival as a nation….

“What we have to remember is that violence breeds violence. When we tolerate unjust attacks upon the tiniest innocents among us, we habituate ourselves to violence. And so we have allowed these barbaric practices to corrupt our laws, our medical practice, and even our ordinary lives. How accustomed we have become to the immense loss of life in our wars throughout the world!...

“It is true what the theologians have said, that sin darkens the intellect, and weakens the will. Having sown the wind of abortion we now reap the whirlwind. This appears in every quarter of our culture and on every day. And: that just from the first of the ‘sacraments of death’ of our secular human culture.

“The toleration of sexual perversions among inverts, widespread contraception, easy access to ‘no fault’ divorce, the killing of the elderly, radical feminism, embryonic stem cell research – all of these things defile and debase our human nature and our human destiny….

“It is the duty of every Catholic to support the work of the parish Pro-Life directors and commissions and to work for the extirpation from our society of all those who in any way foster or promote these things. I wholeheartedly endorse the activities of our Pro-Life Office in the sure and certain knowledge that divine justice will not allow those who act against human life to prosper.
“These unholy sacraments of our secular culture are the seeds of the destruction of our nation.
“Think for yourself: what nation that kills its young, perverts marriage, prevents new life, and destroys the family, kills those deemed useless, makes the war of the sexes into a real war, and manipulates the genetic basis of human nature, can long endure?”

The above are excerpts of a newspaper column by Bishop Thomas Doran. Refer to E-mail http://home.newadvent.org /2006/08/the_seven_sacra.html.
George H. Kubeck, (Appropriate for today. Published on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006)