Comments on: First US Bishop to Decry the “Scandal” of the Kennedy Funeral http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/10/121718/ Catholic News, Catholic Articles, Catholic Apologetics, Catholic Content, Catholic Information Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: jgeleney http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/10/121718/comment-page-1/#comment-42586 jgeleney Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:52:46 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/?p=121718#comment-42586 Today's (9/11/09) Mass readings come to mind: 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 and Lk 6:39-42. Also Msgr Clark's homily of the day seems appropriate. He says: "It's amazing how much we think we know, and how sinless we think we are!" Later, he continues: It's so much easier to take potshots at what's out there than to attend to what's inside our own lives, especially if we don't have the habit of looking within." And further on, "The issue is blindness: 'I think I'm just perfect and therefore have the right to focus on your faults.' Whereas the reality is that I have big problems that I haven't even seen." So this is my problem with the "extreme" pro-life, one issue people : their own self-righteousness and no compassion for other sinners. And yes, I am a fully committed pro-life Catholic priest. Today’s (9/11/09) Mass readings come to mind: 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 and Lk 6:39-42.
Also Msgr Clark’s homily of the day seems appropriate. He says: “It’s amazing how much we think we know, and how sinless we think we are!” Later, he continues: It’s so much easier to take potshots at what’s out there than to attend to what’s inside our own lives, especially if we don’t have the habit of looking within.” And further on, “The issue is blindness: ‘I think I’m just perfect and therefore have the right to focus on your faults.’ Whereas the reality is that I have big problems that I haven’t even seen.”
So this is my problem with the “extreme” pro-life, one issue people : their own self-righteousness and no compassion for other sinners.
And yes, I am a fully committed pro-life Catholic priest.

]]> By: Warren Jewell http://catholicexchange.com/2009/09/10/121718/comment-page-1/#comment-42522 Warren Jewell Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:31:22 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/?p=121718#comment-42522 What can God think about it all? It seems expectable that such unworthy distortion of His Mass in His Church was done for such a person unworthy of any public rites. However, I cannot explain, either, 'Cardinal Sean's' (not my informal disrespect but that of his own blog and diocesan website) attempts to explain it all away. I appreciate Bishop Gracida's remarks, but wonder that it is the lay leaders who have to make loudest complaints. Consideration for another ordinary's authority in his dioceses does not preclude making the case for his having fumbled badly in a given circumstance. What can God think about it all?

It seems expectable that such unworthy distortion of His Mass in His Church was done for such a person unworthy of any public rites.

However, I cannot explain, either, ‘Cardinal Sean’s’ (not my informal disrespect but that of his own blog and diocesan website) attempts to explain it all away.

I appreciate Bishop Gracida’s remarks, but wonder that it is the lay leaders who have to make loudest complaints. Consideration for another ordinary’s authority in his dioceses does not preclude making the case for his having fumbled badly in a given circumstance.

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