If I came into your home and began teaching your children things that are inverted, would you be okay with this?
“What would Jesus do?” Jesus would correct. Jesus would speak truth in love. This is what I want in our Bishops and from the Bishop of Rome, successors of the Apostles chosen by Christ.
Snakes have been known to enter the den in sheeps’ clothing and yes, Jesus was/is the good shepherd, but you seem to think that Jesus would be cool with snakes corrupting the flock. You seem to assume that we should be cool with it as well.
Why do you believe Pope Leo is making these very bad appointments? Do you believe it is out of ignorance or by design? I will say it a third time. If it is out of incompetence, then I will give him the benefit of the doubt, but if it is intentional, then I will call a snake a snake. Right now, I am trying to figure out which is true. Or if maybe he is not a snake nor a sheep, but rather some other animal or breed.
I left the Church for a time in my life. I returned home, only to find Mother Church having an [o]rgy with the neighbors! I am being hyperbolic here, but I left the fluffy Non-Denominational Church to return to what I thought was a solid foundation, only to witness the Church founded on and by Christ to be mingling with the ideas of Churches that have since split off from the Catholic/Orthodox Church.
One of the three branches of Lutheranism now ordain women and Pastors in openly same-s[e]x relationship. The “United” Methodists just split over the LGBTQA.i.+ nonsense. It seems that too many Catholic clergy want the Catholic Christian Church to follow in their ways, rather than simply converting.
This is my concern. Mother Church (in my analogy) used to believe in objective morality and cared about protecting her Family from evil and the lifestyles that our neighbors participated in. And she was Married to my Father who remained faithful and always will to her and to us. You asked “What would Jesus do?” Jesus would not turn His back on His Family nor invite “swingers” into our home for a little mingle, especially knowing how impulsive and easily influenced His Wife has become, since some of her children have gone astray.
“Getting with the times” will not win her children back. It will make them resent her and be disappointed in her. I want Mom to stop doing what she is doing, to rekindle her relationship with her Husband and not with the world, and certainly not with the neighbors who might share some things in common, but are not good examples.
You want to be the brother who wants to deny that our Parent is having problems. You want to ignore that there is a problem. I can’t unsee what I am seeing. Maybe it is because you have not left home yet. And maybe it is because I have left home and then have returned that I can see how things have changed and not for the better.
You think pointing out Mom’s behavior is disrespectful, but I don’t think she will see the error in her ways if we don’t say something.
