Comments on: Fr Eueteneuer shines the moral spotlight in Kansas

By: Florence

Florence — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:54:45 +0000

I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff

By: bill bannon

bill bannon — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:45:43 +0000

In what activity (not writing) in what activity has Benedict been firm?
I see nothing.

By: apostolate

apostolate — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:53:12 +0000

Ave Maria!

Bill,

I too find that these are frustrating times in regard to pro-abort politicians being given leniency for too long. But as you say the principle of subsidiarity is a Catholic principle and this issue should have been dealt with on the local level, i.e. Diocesan Bishops. Certainly Pope Benedict XVI has been very firm on this issue and many more Bishops are confronting their politician sheep. In fact, it seems the pope is the chief driving force behind this new spirit of firm but pastoral confrontation which has not gone unnoticed by the secular media and power circles.

By: bill bannon

bill bannon — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:33:24 +0000

Re-read your whole piece and you will see that you hold every level accountable but the Pope and he is where your problem is. He congradulated Obama on his election sooner than the ordinary time for such congradulations. What lesson did Brownback draw from that congradulation? The Bishops have failed as to Catholic pols ever since Cuomo. By now the Popes should have then picked up the ball since subsidiarity failed at the local level. But no Pope does a thing. What lesson is Brownback to draw from that. During the 1960’s for 8 years there was an interdict forbidding all sacraments to the Malta Labor Party thus the interdict was by group and not by geography and a pope could do that easily to the Catholic pro choice pols.
A. the Popes are too busy being authors of books
B. the Popes are creating an image of hands off management so that the Prots and Orthodox will not fear coming back under their authority….won’t work….humans smell manipulative techniques a mile away but clericalism has our clergy including Popes think that it is working.