A Word in Due Season

[KR McKay]

Well, I'm not a Roman Catholic, but I can't disagree with this man (emphasis, mine):

A Word in Due Season


It was a speech so powerful and uncompromising that those in attendance couldn't help wishing that it had been broadcast to every church in America. With the nation in moral crisis, Christians everywhere are hungry for the kind of spiritual leadership that Archbishop Emeritus Raymond Burke brought to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday. With many from FRC in attendance, one of the most distinguished Catholic leaders delivered a call to conscience that deserves repeating.


"I come to you, not as someone who stands outside of our nation but as a citizen who... takes responsibility for the state of our nation and, therefore, cannot remain indifferent and inactive about what most concerns the good of us all... Over the past several months, our nation has chosen a path which more completely denies any legal guarantee of the most fundamental human right, the right to life, to the innocent and defenseless unborn. Our nation, which had its beginning in the commitment to safeguard and promote the inalienable right to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" for all, without boundary, is more and more setting arbitrary limits to her commitment... With unparalleled arrogance, our nation is choosing to renounce its foundation upon the faithful... love of a man and a woman in marriage, and, in violation of what nature itself teaches us, to replace it with a so-called marital relationship, according to the definition of those who exercise the greatest power in our society... What those who were so enthused about the strong message of change and hope in the United States, delivered during the last election campaign, are now discovering is a consistent implementation of policies and programs which confirm and advance the culture of death, which can only finally leave our world without the Great Hope... The change which brings hope can only be the renewal of our nation in the divine love which respects the inviolable dignity of every human life...and which creates and gives growth to new human life through the love of man and woman in marriage. Any hope which is incoherent with the Great Hope is truly illusory and can never bring forth justice and its fruit--peace--for our nation and world."

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[mattfivefour]

David, if you have a strong problem with a brother's post, how about PMing them and expressing your feelings rather than insulting them on an open board. Also using words like horse**** is hardly a good Christian witness, is it?

I don't like the bold, either, but I will convey that in a PM.

As to the content of KR's post— while he says he definitely is not Roman Catholic, ON THIS POINT (abortion) he finds himself in agreement with the man. Abortion IS consummate selfishness and thus evil. And we should protest it with all of our ability. And therefore ON THIS POINT I, too, cannot disagree with this RCC dignitary. However, that aside, I have nothing in common with the man ... his beliefs and his church reject the true Christ and are anathema to me. And, I suspect, to KR as well.

But, please, in future can we speak to one another as sinners bought with the Precious blood of Christ, children of the Living God, displaying the love God gave us for one another, and not in the world's fleshly manner?