A recent email from a
distantly-related gentleman arrived this week, gushing over a “non-political”
homily presented by a midwestern priest.
This priest plays a game of verbal tag with the Gospel reading for the
28th Sunday, (the wealthy young man who wants to enter the Kingdom)
and then concentrates his attack on all people that question or oppose the
Church’s position on abortion, same-sex unions, stem cell research and the “non-negotiable”
issues at hand.
This priest makes the
stunning leap of logic that links Obama, Democrats and any pro-choice Republicans
and Libertarians with Nazi genocide.
The “flaw” of being pro-choice disqualifies a person as being unfit to
hold public office, just as the “flaw” of anti-Semitism should have
disqualified Hitler from receiving the vote of any right-thinking German.
This delusional history
lesson fails to mention that Hitler received the votes of millions of German
Catholics who had no real problem with his anti-Semitism; the number of
Catholic pastors who preached sermons in support of Hitler vastly outnumbered
those clergy opposed to the Nazi Party.
Prior to his election to the Papacy, Pius XII signed a concordat with
Hitler, firmly establishing the privileged position of the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany. This agreement was signed
shortly after Jews were legally excluded from teaching and operating schools in
Germany. And who received their
property? You guessed it, the
Catholic Church.
The more the Church embroils
itself in factional strife, the further it departs from serving the people of
God.
29 October 2012
