So I was thinking about how hot it is getting this summer because of all the conspicuous consumption & fossil fuel burning airplanes, cars, boats. I mean I’ve tried to tell people about the moral requirements of using mass transit, not using HVAC systems, and not buying quality automobiles. So then, my friend Cardinal Kasper the Unfriendly Ghost came by and was like:
‘Papa Frank, your like totally missing the point, KIDS — even though they have itty-bitty footprints, they have like MASSIVE Carbon Footprints.’
and then he was like:
‘we’ve already convinced most Catholics to stop believing and breeding like rabbits; but you need to double down on those pesky Catholics always having babies and asking us to baptize them’
So now I’m like:
Such wisdom in such simple words. Obviously there is no way for a couple such as this to comprehend ’till death do us part’…the only compassionate thing to do is to offer them an “out” in case something goes bad.
A Concerned Father on Father’s Day
Being a father, I am entitled to be concerned about the state of the world in which I am raising my children. Like my father before me, I too want to raise my children in a world safe and hospitable to the faith. I realize, however, that the ‘rest of the world’ ceased being a ‘safe space’ for the nurturing of children in the Catholic faith quite a long time ago. The new, deeply concerning turn is that now we face not only a hostile world, but pastors who are willfully leading us to the slaughter.
Being a simple man, I must ask myself: given we have but a breif time on this Earth, would not we spend our time talking about the issues most important to us?
Given the response of so many of the Bishops of the Church to the developments of the modern world seems to be:
Why, then, does Pope Francis seemingly constantly undermine what are essentially very simple and straightforward teachings of the church? Why are his, and so many bishops, most deep-throated pronouncements aimed at accusing, in quite a pharisaical manner, those who actually hold to the faith as being Pharisees?
It is a very scary time to raise children because now, for us laymen, not only is the world against us; but we may find that our own ecclesial leadership has their hand tightly wrapped around the knife in our back.
All, however, is not lost. We can remember that often, in seemingly the darkest hours, the faith has prevailed against all odds. Lepanto & Vienna.