I have here a great post from LifeSiteNews with my comments written in a different font following the most cartwheel inducing lines...
The following are excerpts from the column of Bishop Hermann published in the St. Louis Review and republished by LifeSiteNews.com with permission.
In our Supreme Court and in our Congress, we have a plethora of so-called Catholics (Tim and I would call them "half-ass Catholics")who are failing to live their Catholic identity.
Over 50 percent of our electorate voted for a president who is one of the most pro-culture-of-death (radically pro-abortion) candidates from a major party to run for the highest office of the land.
Yes, we can thank one-half of our Catholics for bailing out on their faith!
After almost 50 years of having 50 percent of Catholics abandoning their Catholic identity, we cannot expect to turn this culture around by short-term political efforts.
In order to bring about a transformation from a culture of death to a culture of life,
we have to restore our Catholic identity.(Go bishop go bishop I love it!) This means that all of us, as Catholics, have to undergo a profound transformation. It means that we have to take a good look at every facet of our Catholic life, including the serious study of life issues, the regular and devout use of our Sacramental system, especially the devout and weekly attendance at Mass, the regular reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the devout praying of the daily Rosary, and then the faithful, loving and firm witness to lax Catholics (this means we must be willing to be uncomfortable, and be a fool for Christ. we must not fear rejection or anger. We must speak the truth at all times and in all places. Not because we want to be right but because we LOVE what is right!)about our Catholic beliefs and practices.
We have to live our lives in such a way that we will be unafraid to witness to what we believe and live.
I may courageously say that I am willing to die to end abortion, but am I equally willing to say that I am ready to let my ego get ruffled daily for the same cause? Yet … that is where I need to arrive if I am to be a credible witness.
What a glorious opportunity we all have to make a difference in the pro-life cause. Until we are willing to be politically incorrect in order to be biblically correct, we will never convince anyone that our religion is worth living.(my heart is literally beating faster and I could jump for JOY!! How I LOVE to hear these words - not the same old soft mushy gobbly gook we usually get from our bishops. Too often they seem more concerned with the eloquence of their words and the mistaken belief that christian charity means never being too bold or too clear. People have become VERY VERY dense - I mean this in the sense that they have become so hardened of heart of the course of the past 20-30 years that eloquence is LOST on them! For a culture that has numbed itself to subtlety through a constant media diet of shocking exposure to all things violent crude and sexual, a real big dose of Truth in the form of a "power punch" is just what is needed to break through the static that fills their brains and their souls. It does not take 100 percent of our Catholics to transform this country. If 75 percent of our Catholics were steeped in Catholic identity, the abortion issue would be over for our entire country.
For the whole column by Bishop Hermann see:http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09012707.html
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