Wosbald wrote: 09 Apr 2025, 07:32
+JMJ+
Del wrote: 09 Apr 2025, 07:03
In our rush to derail the thread, I neglected to read the original link.
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If you had read it (like I had), then you might've noticed that my comment summed up the gist of the original link.
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The Catholic Thing has lately been of rather spotty quality (among other things, too many writers trying to channel the shade of GKC), but this was one of the better pieces.
There's a huge difference. You read the article like a Jesuit:
"How can I use the Catholic Church to supporting my obsession-thing?"
The Jesuit approach is to declare their thing to be the subject of "anathema" or "non-negotiable," attempting to bear godlike authority in what they bind and what they loose.
The healthy Catholic response is to see a particular concern (e.g., the Reformation disputes, or a current migration crisis) as a means for saving souls.
Obviously, no worthy Christian can vote for the Party of full-throated pro-abortion, illegal immigration (with its corollaries of human trafficking, drug cartels, and sex slavery), L-gibitty-Q school groomers, trans-ing the kids, DEI racism, censorship of free expression of religion, and vandalizing churches and synagogues.
We can all agree on this, right?
As Christians, we cannot tolerate that mass of leftwing fascism. Because "seamless garment" understands that we cannot make a heaven on earth, but we do need to keep the whole of moral teaching in mind as we devote political energy toward our specific enthusiasms.
MAGA Trump Republicanism is not perfect by any stretch -- but they are the Party of Christian enthusiasm and Christian voters. That's why they won.
Democrats need to let go of their pagan moral principles and embrace traditional American values again.
Jesuits would do well to re-embrace their Catholic roots, too.
