Body of Death Alert
Yesterday I made reference to an opinion piece that appeared in the Los Angeles Times that is quite typical of the confusion a good Catholicist has when he is brutally exposed to the truth about the Church. That truth has been quite splattered across the news, but both the befuddlement and the truth have been around for millennia. Yes, there is indeed nothing new under the sun.
The only thing that would be new in any of this is the liberating realization of what it all means. It blows me away that people who so brashly proclaim how much they know and how much they are above it all will never go beyond the "I'm simply mystified stage" regarding why Cardinal Roger Mahoney is still running the LA Archdiocese.
"I'm just mystified. I can't see how this guy who covered up all the sexual abuse is still in office. I'm mystified. Aren't you? You are too? Yeah, so am I. Mystified."
Really, have you ever heard anyone say why he is still there? It's hard to find them, because as much as one is signed up with the World he is blinded to the truth about the World as contrasted to the Kingdom.
The reason Mahoney is still there and will survive in some way is that the Roman Catholic Church is the government. I did a post a while ago, and that is here if you want to know more about how this is the case.
Truer words were never said (and they aren't mine, trust me, I'm not so smart): There is a Kingdom for those who actually want God to be their Father. There is also a World for those who want someone else to be their master. That World must have dozens of different manifestations of judgment for those who demand that their sin be managed by one of its officials. Roger Mahoney is one such individual. George Bush, Ben Bernanke, all of these guys work for the same office.
Carl Marziali and his wife, the ones who wrote the LA Times opinion piece, are simply resigned to keep going to church and lament. Yes, it is very sad. Incessant befuddlement, lamentation, and then the desperate resignation. What a horrific body of death.
If they would only find a reconciler in their midst they'd get it. They'd find that the Jesus Christ of the Catholic Church is a brilliant concoction of the World and if they actually acknowledged this, then they may perhaps visit the real One and ask Him to take them into the Kingdom.
What a miracle that would be.
The only thing that would be new in any of this is the liberating realization of what it all means. It blows me away that people who so brashly proclaim how much they know and how much they are above it all will never go beyond the "I'm simply mystified stage" regarding why Cardinal Roger Mahoney is still running the LA Archdiocese.
"I'm just mystified. I can't see how this guy who covered up all the sexual abuse is still in office. I'm mystified. Aren't you? You are too? Yeah, so am I. Mystified."
Really, have you ever heard anyone say why he is still there? It's hard to find them, because as much as one is signed up with the World he is blinded to the truth about the World as contrasted to the Kingdom.
The reason Mahoney is still there and will survive in some way is that the Roman Catholic Church is the government. I did a post a while ago, and that is here if you want to know more about how this is the case.
Truer words were never said (and they aren't mine, trust me, I'm not so smart): There is a Kingdom for those who actually want God to be their Father. There is also a World for those who want someone else to be their master. That World must have dozens of different manifestations of judgment for those who demand that their sin be managed by one of its officials. Roger Mahoney is one such individual. George Bush, Ben Bernanke, all of these guys work for the same office.
Carl Marziali and his wife, the ones who wrote the LA Times opinion piece, are simply resigned to keep going to church and lament. Yes, it is very sad. Incessant befuddlement, lamentation, and then the desperate resignation. What a horrific body of death.
If they would only find a reconciler in their midst they'd get it. They'd find that the Jesus Christ of the Catholic Church is a brilliant concoction of the World and if they actually acknowledged this, then they may perhaps visit the real One and ask Him to take them into the Kingdom.
What a miracle that would be.
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