The Church's Great Temptation - 1 of 2

The Church’s Great Temptation – 1 of 2

www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ , Mar. 5, 2008
Let us always take a look at the big picture. Remember Pope John Paul II is looking down on us; you can’t fool him as we try to follow in his footsteps. Any bishop is only as good as his advisors. If there are serious mistakes made in the past put the blame on his advisors. A bishop is lucky if he has a balance in his advisors. I am thinking of the orthodox-Magisterium type. And very few of the bishops have them. What has happened over the years is due to the religious correct advisor department? In some ways, this is similar to the political correctness within our culture. The pursuit of the truth is set aside by prejudice, social and old family democratic biases. That Democratic Party is dead today.

When Pope John Paul visited the Americas he dealt with some bishops who were strongly influenced by liberation theology. And with the Church’s option for the poor they came up with some strong arguments particularly in Central America and South America. There are still quite a number within the U.S. Church’s bureaucracy. The idea was that we need to work with socialist and communists to bring about real change in the structure of the country for the sake of the poor. Pope John Paul II had the experience of communists in Poland. He tried to straighten out the ones in the Americas. Many of them did not listen to him. After all he is of Polish background and what does he know about American politics. The encyclical Gospel of Life did not make too much of impression on them. I guess the same can be said for the present Pope who is German.

In America today there is something similar going on. Many of our Latino parishioners have been suffering long enough. Families and children have been separated for years. There is a cry for justice. Catholic Social Justice informs us educates and persuades us that our Latino community can get a better deal from the Democratic politicians than from the Republican politicians. So let us not focus too much on the life and marriage issues where our supporters (the rotten apple Catholic Role Model Politicians) are very weak. For example, on the distribution of Pro-life literature, let us see what our advisors the lawyers have to say. The lawyers of the Baptists and the Evangelicals allow distributing pro-life literature left and right. Maybe, we need to get rid of our lawyers and get a new set. The mindset of these lawyers is democratic. Remember now these types of advisors are the ones that got the bishops into trouble in the past.

It is not only with immigration but also with health care and other issues like jobs. Many people are too poor even to pay for health care. We need a National Health care system, operated by the government and similar to what is in Canada and Europe. But who is going to pay for these freebies?

We are not going to focus in on who provides the Immigration Reform or Health Care. Don’t start calling them socialists. We do not live in a perfect world. Generally in the prudential social justice issues the democrats have been more attune to Catholic Social Justice Issues. However, this has not been true during the last eight years of the Bush administration. However, we seem to communicate better with these Catholic-in-name-only politicians. It is wrong to work with CINOPS even if we have theologians who agree with them. The CINOPS
are anathema to our Catholic Faith and stooges for the Culture of Death?
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.