Tribulation Times
CRISIS MAGAZINE: Obama Devolves
VIA The Moynihan Report: There are a number of important things happening right now in the Church. There is the battle for religious freedom between the Church in the United States and the administration of President Barack Obama. There is the investigation by the Holy See of the American women religious orders. (Many note that the average age of the nuns in many of these orders is now approaching, or surpassing, 70; there are simply very few new vocations for most of these orders.) There is the turmoil in the Church in Ireland, rocked by allegations of harsh treatment and abuse of children, where the cardinal primate just resigned. And there is Pope Benedict's imminent decision on whether to welcome the Society of St. Pius X, the traditional Catholic group founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, back into full reunion with the Holy See. The decision is expected before month's end (and the Society's reaction to that decision will then soon follow). There is no doubt that the welcoming of a group of 500 traditional priests back into full communion with Rome -- and I intentionally do not go into the question of what that relationship has been up to now -- is a matter of considerable importance, as these priests, and their lay congregations, would inevitably be a powerful group on behalf of a traditional Catholic position in future theological debates over the Church's relationship to the secular world and over the interpretation of the Second Vatican Council, which is another way of saying that there will be voices in the secular media and on the "left" ready and willing to denounce the Pope harshly if he does move to "regularize" the situation of the Lefebvrists. Forewarned is forearmed. But there are also other issues, and three in particular: first, to simplify, is the issue of "gender," by which I mean the whole issue of human sexuality, sexual morality, the nature and role of the family, and even the demographic question -- and this does not exhaust the issue; second, again to simplify, the issue of the globalized economy, and the role of human work, and of private losses placed as debts on the backs of the tax-paying public, to the point of constructing an enormously unbalanced, and unjust economy, which may require our children and grandchildren to pay off debts incurred recklessly during recent decades; third, and once again, to greatly simplify, there is the revolution occurring in genetics and genetic research, which promises to provide great benefits to humanity, to human health and well-being, but which is also fraught with the potential to bring great problems, even great evils, some of them catastrophic.
Thoughts and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Practice of Virtue
29. When our Lord inspires us with some good deed, He also gives the strength to do it.Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
This month's archive can be found at: http://www.catholicprophecy.info/news2.html.
