Professional Pro-Lifers Reveal Themselves Over Trump

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I have to confess that I’m ignorant of the pro-life movement’s platform.  I didn’t know they had a policy, which they’d defined somewhere in unison on the wild chance that the powers that be would overturn Roe, against any punishment for women who choose to abort their children.  I’m not running for president on a pro-life ticket, but I am equally as dismayed as Trump seems to be.

Abortion is murder, yes?  If it’s only an accomplice to murder then that’s certainly a very strong complicity, like tying up the victim and holding the gun while someone else pulls the trigger.  But I’ve come to learn from ‘real pro-lifers’ and ‘real conservatives’ that ‘post-abortive’ mothers are actually victims too.

Is punishment for women who abort bad policy?  I suppose.  Is it even necessary?  Well it wasn’t before 1973, but they didn’t have the abortion pill then.  Is it poor political strategy?  Well I don’t know.  It’s not like the one they have is winning, is it?

But the great Catholic opinion leader, ever ready to distill and ponder Pope Francis’s latest bit of ‘wisdom,’ Robert George, says that when Trump called briefly for some consequence for women, under hostile and abusive grilling from Chris Matthews, it was a sure sign he doesn’t mean any pro-life word he’s uttered.  “He’s not one of us,” George pronounced.

Who cares?  Who do these pompous establishment scolds think they are?  Isn’t Trump’s position even more pro-life than theirs?  They only want sanctions for doctors, as if that’s gained them anything.

Trump wants more.  Ted Cruz wants to ‘enforce the border,’ but Trump wants a wall.  A wall is better because you know it’s working.  But look, Ted Cruz is serious and honest while Trump’s just a pretending unChristian racist, yes?

Does anybody seem to understand that when Ted Cruz jokes about how he’d like to back over Trump with his car he’s saying the same thing to the majority of his voters?  If Cruz is so saintly, why does he want to crush the bedrock of America under his wheels?  I think that’s a good question.  Why, when he smiles do people not see a smile?  When he laughs, why is nothing funny happening?

Carly Fiorina once again laid out the contemptuous slur that Trump has proven he has no principles.  Why? Because he wants to punish serious crimes somehow, or because he hasn’t studied up on defensive, losing pro-life policy?  Doesn’t everyone know that ex-mother and murdered child are one and the same?  That’s what pro-life means!  The movement is about healing, not judgmentalism, and we don’t want to make millions of ‘post-abortive’ women angry at Republicans either.

After all, who does this non-professional think he is trying to be a Republican presidential candidate without going deep into our policy?  Like the brilliant, grim, and unsmiling Charles Krauthammer tells us, ‘It’s not that Trump’s wrong.  It’s his “attitude toward ‘the facts!”‘

 

 

Pope Francis To Orders: If They’re Not ‘Forward-Looking,’ Screen ‘Em Out As Nut-Cases

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No need for balance or structure

No need for balance or structure

At the Radical Catholic there’s no reason to start glossing over the Pope’s naked contempt for the Faithful.  It’s not like it’s going to stop.

The great Vatican II is the Church in entirety!  Those Catholics who retain beliefs from the prior Church must be branded insane – and this in the Year of Mercy.

Doubling down on Cardinal João Braz de Aviz’ warning to religious vocations directors from around the world about the consequences of distancing oneself from the “great lines” of the Second Vatican Council, the following day Pope Francis gave the same group a short list of warning signs that a young person might not be suited for religious life.*

Given the state of the Church, one might be tempted to expect such a list to include, say, active homosexuality, pedophilia, theological and/or pastoral dissent, careerism, inordinate fondness of polyester pantsuits, etc. But I suspect that even considering such things as being potentially harmful to religious vocations is to have already distanced oneself from Vatican II – perhaps irreparably so. No, the real threat to religious vocations is to be found elsewhere: deep in the Freudian Unconscious. Pope Francis explains:

All the people who know the human personality – may they be psychologists, spiritual fathers, spiritual mothers – tell us that young people who unconsciously feel they have something unbalanced or some problem of mental imbalance or deviation unconsciously seek strong structures that protect them, to protect themselves.

Faithful Catholics, people who are conservative, grounded, Christian; they are unbalanced.  Ask anyone who knows the ‘human personality’ like a psychologist.  Nothing trendy about psychology, no.  It trumps all.

While insinuating mental imbalance in one who seeks structure is somewhat new – I mention only in passing his description of Christian ideology as a “serious illness” – decrying the threefold evil of ‘structures, rules and habits’ is an established trope of Pope Francis’ personal magisterium. As he wrote in Evangelii Gaudium (§49):

More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: “Give them something to eat.”

Again, is there any doubt as to who is meant here? And could the modus operandi of setting up false dichotomies be any clearer?

Why is it that every aspect of the 1970s church, which produced, among other things, the endless sex abuse lawsuits and scandals, has to be replicated today?  How many faithful vocations were subjected to these psychological screening attacks back then?

Personally I find little encouraging in the fact there are about a hundred more ordinations in the U.S. this year.  It’s still a miniscule number for a country with over 300 million people.  I know Pope Francis says he’s all about quality, but I can’t help but thinking they’ve probably become more lax in at least one key area.  After all, they’d probably have thousands of vocations if they really wanted them, not hundreds.

At his core, the place where there should be Faith and wisdom, doesn’t something seem deeply twisted in the mind of Pope Francis?  It’s almost a crushing hatred for those who obstruct his goals, a determination to succeed at their expense.  It’s the kind of force which drove the Protestant Reformation: a deranged (ideological?) mind at the helm with all the powerful establishment lined up behind him.

I hate to say it, but I don’t know what else to call it.