Rant About the Election

I saw this, and nearly cried.  Fellow Catholics, how COULD YOU???  Does the color of your skin trump your moral code?  I get that we all want to vote for people who "understand" us better.  I can even understand the very legitimate differences about government-funded social supports versus private-enterprise social supports.  I'll give you that.   But to support the most anti-life President in history, one who has encroached on religious liberty more than any chief executive at the helm of this nation... how can you legitimately call yourselves Catholic??  Certain issues are far more important than others, and they MUST  take precendence.  Life and religious liberty first.  Economics and social issues follow a distant second.  Because we can have legitimate differences on how the financial system should be run, but how we respond to the wholesale slaughter of millions of innocent children?  That effects our eternal soul. 

So, so, so disappointed in my "brothers and sisters".  I would love for someone to explain themselves, because I just can't fathom it.    There are plenty of "religions" out there that agree with YOU.  If you don't agree with the tenets of the Catholic church, by all means, feel free to leave.  No one is compelling you to stay.  These tenets are not meant to be easy to swallow.  Truth never is.  And they were never meant to agree with you, either.  Your opinions are not the final call on Truth.  Truth just is what it is, and we are called by Christ to testify to IT... not see what fits with our own judgements. 

Lord, forgive this nation.  I fear for the future, for my children's future.  I fear the loss of all that is honorable, admirable, courageous, kind, and noble in America.  I fear a culture that is quickly becoming solely about the "me" and "my self-gratification".  America is losing it's heart and it's moral compass.  And the complicity of 50% of fellow Catholics in that very nearly brings me to despair. 

But I do know the "ending", and I know that these times are but the labor pains of things yet to come.  Renew your people, Lord.  Regardless of who is President, YOU still are King.  Nothing can change that. 

One Soul, One Heart, One Mouth

From Iraneus, Bishop of Lyons (130-202AD):

"Indeed, the Church, though scattered throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, having received the faith from the apostles and their disciples... guards [this preaching and faith] with care, as dwelling in but a single house, and similarly believes as if having but one soul and a single heart, and preaches, teaches and hands on this faith with a unanimous voice, as if possessing only one mouth."

"For though languages differ throughout the world, the content of the Tradition is one and the same. The Churches established in Germany have no other faith or Tradition, nor do those of the Iberians, nor those of the Celts, nor those of the East, of Egypt, of Libya, nor those established at the center of the world..." The Church's message "is true and solid, in which one and the same way of salvation appears throughout the whole world."

 "We guard with care the faith that we have received from the Church, for without ceasing, under the action of God's Spirit, this deposit of great price, as if in an excellent vessel, is constantly being renewed and causes the very vessel that contains it to be renewed."