Before we
get started, I must tell you a little about me. I am a Christian but I DO NOT
believe in denominations, they are man-made and divides the church. Man created
denominations to change God’s doctrine for personal gain because a person/group
did not like the God’s doctrine, or because some are strait out frauds using
God’s word to make money. If you have a preacher making millions, they are not
doing it for God; they are doing it for themselves. This said; it happens in many
churches. I have many Catholic friends who are God loving people, I also know
many who are there to check a box or because of family tradition. They do not
follow any of the doctrine once they leave the building; but you can find this
in any church denomination or other religion. If any denomination turns a blind
eye, or covers up wrongdoing of their leaders or congregation, they are
spitting in God’s face. We all sin, but the preachers, rabbis, priests, and
leaders of the church duties require them held to a higher standard according
to the Bible, when churches do not their duties, the Devil uses them.
In the
Catholic Church, there are many mandates as in any denomination. These mandates
are the soul of their beliefs and repercussions when you violate them; or there
should be. In the Catholic Church, there are two types of “Excommunication”,
Sententiae Ferendae and Latae Sententiae, or automatic excommunication. Sententiae
Ferendae is rare and has a church trial; Latae Sententiae is the most common
and is for violating church laws. For example:
· Sedition- conduct or speech inciting people to
rebel against the authority and laws of the Catholic Church.
·
Apostates-a
person who renounces the Canons of the Catholic Church and beliefs.
· Heretics- a person believing in or practicing
religious heresy. A person holding an opinion at odds with the Canons of the
Catholic Church.
· Schismatic- relating to,
or of the nature of schism; guilty of schism. Schism
is a division within the Catholic Church body
over some doctrinal difference. Apposing church doctrine or teachings publically.
· A person who procures an abortion
(can. 1398)
· Accomplices who were needed to
commit an action that has an automatic excommunication penalty (can. 1329)
We will
talk about two areas that the Catholic Church acted, or is acting wrongly. This
is not an attack on the Catholic Church, it is pointing out facts, the Catholic
Churches reaction to the facts, and where the Catholic Church did not react to
the facts. Remember, this could, and may be the same in your Baptist,
Methodist, Presbyterian, or any other denomination.
A bishop
in Pennsylvania has released the names of 71 priests and church personnel, dating back to the 1940s, credibly
accused of sexual abuse. This is a good thing for the Catholic Church, my only
question is why did they wait almost 80 years to do what is right? I mentioned
above the rules for “Excommunication”, and if you look in Chapter Three
of Canon Law, you will find these people, including the Bishops who covered it
up, require excommunication. NBC report identifying 301 Priest, Bishops, and
Church Workers as sexual predators. If you look at it, you have 419,313 Priest
and Bishops which make the 00.0717% of offenders. If there is 10 times more
offenders, that would make it still less than 1%, but even one predator, when
they are known, is one too many. This is the primary reason the Catholic Church
has lost their congregation and financial support. This is just like our
politicians who covered for Clinton, Menendez Conyers, Meehan, Franken, Franks,
Farenthold, R. Scott, and Kihuen, but you expect this from people who only care
about themselves and controlling the house and senate; most of them are
lawyers. You DO NOT expect this from a church, the leaders in the Catholic
Church, all the way up to the Pope, who knew of these offenses and did nothing
but move their employees to another church, they need to help accountable too. According
to their own Canon Law, they need excommunicated.
There is
another side to this that has damaged the Catholic Church, and other church
denominations just as bad. When you have a politician, from the president to a congressperson,
to a little town mayor who openly defies church doctrine, their punishment
being nothing, the congregation knows you are a hypocrite. One priest when asked to say Nancy
Pelosi was a saint
refused, but latter took $100K from Nancy Pelosi and said it, he needs to be
removed. Pope Benedict, because of Pelosi’s
lying, issuing a
public statement for her bishop to begin excommunication proceedings and block distributors
of Holy Communion under Canon Law, to avoid sin themselves. The Bishop failed
the Catholic Church for money. Both, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi,
who are just two Catholic politicians, are as anti-Catholic Canon Law as you can get, received communion
at Mass for Pope Francis, and the true Catholics of Faith were not happy.
This is
not a lone case of Catholic politicians going against Catholic Canon Law. Every
Catholic politician (not my words but in the Catholic Canon Law) who supports
the LGBT and Abortion Communities by Canon Law are to be excommunicated. How
many have you seen excommunicated? Zero! I am not saying to excommunicate them,
it is not my place, I am not Catholic. I have seen zero politicians
excommunicated, but the Catholic Church will excommunicate a common person in a
heartbeat. Can you say the word “Hypocrite?” This has made the Catholic
Churches’ congregations lose faith in their leadership, leaving them asking, “Why
would our leaders stain our faith?” It is because of greed, pride, and sexual
perversion in a target rich environment. Whom will you believe; a priest or bishop,
or a little troubled boy or girl?
The
Catholic Church can turn this around but they must follow some common sense
rules.
1.
All
in the congregation must be treated the same, no matter if you are a greater at Wall-Mart or in the US Congress.
2.
Excommunication,
will befall, all politicians, claiming to be Catholic who willingly disobey the
Catholic Canon.
3.
All
church personnel, priest, bishop, or worker, accused of abuse, no matter their
position, will be openly investigated, turned over to the police, brought to
the public light, and dealt with openly. There will be no secret documents; all
names will be present except for victims or innocent people. The only people
who would want to keep documents hidden are themselves hiding something.
4.
The
Vatican will open all sealed items at the Vatican to the public. The only
reason to lock items away from the public is if you are afraid of the truth.
5.
Allow
priest to marry. The Bible itself says in Genesis 2:18 “And the Lord God said, “It is not
good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Therefore,
who started the no marriage thing it was not of God.
Weill the
Catholic Church do these five actions to regain the faith of the people. No, I
doubt it, they, like our politicians, would have to admit they are equal to the
common person and that is not going to happen because they will lose all
perceived control. They have not figured out, they never had control.