Comments on: Pope prays for USA, calls racism a pro-life issue https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/06/04/pope-prays-for-usa-calls-racism-a-pro-life-issue/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Fri, 12 Jun 2020 07:01:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 By: Hamish MacDonald https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/06/04/pope-prays-for-usa-calls-racism-a-pro-life-issue/#comment-57432 Fri, 12 Jun 2020 07:01:33 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=21342#comment-57432 Thank you.
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]]> By: Hamish MacDonald https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/06/04/pope-prays-for-usa-calls-racism-a-pro-life-issue/#comment-57345 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:05:40 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=21342#comment-57345 Perhaps it is time for all Catholics to read “The Church and Racism” by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, and reflect
(particularly those who are supposed to take Encyclicals seriously ).
Of importance is the clear discussion of SHARIA in the Encyclical and its orientation mentioned in detail. Yet this
does not attract any church leader who has the fibre and intellect necessary to champion the cause.
Islam is largely overlooked as strongly anti-Trinitarian (deserving beheading), while Sharia is VERY VERY RACIST.
Muslims also breed faster than most Catholic countries.

Also one death by what is claimed as racism against hundreds of thousands of abortions in the US as well as global abortion initiatives,
lost in cold-blooded murder, which in the US has attracted hundreds of thousands in anti-abortion rallies across US Cities, is hardly
a comparison.
The approach by Pope Francis is clearly populist, and an attempt to restore peace.
He would be better off to pray for “Mary Queen of Peace”, from Medjugorje, which he has already downplayed as sending messages like the “post office” (yet he now has Twitter going non-stop).
While Pope Francis may downplay abortion against one (claimed) racist action, he has an obligation towards promoting mysticism, which is the antithesis of the anti-God religion of the US,
which is its state religion.
While he downplayed Catholic charismatic renewal (mysticism) as the “Samba” he is visible on Utube Rome 2014 receiving from
a stadium filled with 50,000 mixed sexes praying in tongues with extended hands towards him in a vast communal
blessing while he is seen kneeling receiving behind a chair he is about to sit on.
He is better off promoting Orthodoxy, and traditional Catholicism, instead of appealing to the social left which
has no interest in reducing abortion as Joe Biden has made clear already, and indeed Barack Obama who also is vocal
even though he is not in the Presidency. Obama could not give two hoots about pro-life either.
Sorry but this makes my stomach turn. If Catholics cannot fix their birthrate, currently way below 2 in most European countries,
which is TERMINAL CANCER for the Catholic church, they deserve to be over-run by Islam AS HAS BEEN THE CASE ELSEWHERE.
Furthermore the comment by Pope Francis about Catholic family that “Breed like rabbits” is both crassly un-Christian and decidedly
unfair on those who genuinely love children.
He and the Vatican experts need to find new ways of supporting pro-lifers. Pro-lifers get precious little mileage from clergy,
which points to a void in the Catholic church that desperately needs to be filled.
The classic example is Poland which was arrogantly approached by the EU to help fund global initiatives in abortion.
Instead of expressing the support for a “Federation” (his words), which is in fact not supportive of Christianity, he could at the very least support Poland
-Pope Saint John Paul II’s country, which defied both Racist Nazis and Communists, despite their six million loss to VERY RACIST NAZIS.
Worth a think?

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