Catholic Leaders Sound Alarm At Prayer Breakfast: ‘The Days Of Acceptable Christianity Are Over’
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“My message for you today is a somber one,” said Professor Robert George, who lectures on civil liberties at Princeton, to a packed ballroom of Catholics that included failed Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli. “The days of acceptable Christianity are over. The days of comfortable Catholicism are past. …It’s not easy anymore. There are costs to discipleship, heavy costs that are burdensome to bear.”
Soon enough he’d get specific. George stressed that there are “powerful forces and currents in our society that press us to be ashamed of the Gospel. For example, if you believe that marriage is the consensual union between a man and a woman, you’re portrayed as bigoted, even hateful. …If you believe these things, some forces say you are a bigot [who is] against homosexuality [and] you ought to be ashamed.”
Celebrities didn’t fare much better than gays. The Jay-Z’s and Kim Kardashians of the world may want to cover their ears for this, but the keynote speaker, His Eminence Cardinal Sean O’Malley, didn’t hold back on his feelings about celebs. “We live in a world obsessed by celebrities,” he said. “All too often celebrities replace heroines, often they live lives that are superficial and chaotic.”
On a jollier note, O’Malley came with the “warmest of greetings” from Pope Francis. He quickly followed with orders: “If he were here, I’m sure he would [encourage] you to renew the missionary style of the church.” He said Catholics must move from “a maintenance mode to a missionary one. The mission of the church is making disciples.”
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All too often not only is it the Catholic priests who simply mimic the
gospel from the pulpit when giving their homilies but the ministers from every
Christian denomination do the same rather than give guidance and explain the
passage as it relates to what is happening today in all of our lives.
Well folks let it be written in history that today’s church
leadership lost the battle for Christianity.
They worried more about the money than they did for the teaching of the
bible and Christ. They remained silent
against the queers, and did not stand for their beliefs. Now just like in the Old
Testament they broke their convent with Christ and now he is punishing them. They were so afraid of losing their tax
exemption that they refused to stand for their teaching and they refused to
support the word of our Lord. If our
church leaders would just organize our church membership against the queers and
atheists in this country the politicians would screw themselves into the ground
turning around so fast. Instead we have
the gutless people leading our place of worship. They no longer call it a church because it no longer stands for
what is written in the bible nor does it preach the word of Christ, so it has
not right to call itself a Church. In
fact the leaders no longer have the right to refer to themselves as Priest, Reverends
or Pastors; instead they should all be called Judas.