Not Saving Souls but Heels

Timothy Birdnow

A Catholic Bishop in Indiana has removed a parish priest from his office for saying Black Lives Matter is the "real racists and purveyors of hate".

From Life Site News:

Despite the priest admitting that some of his phrasing was stated "rather poorly,” and "it was not my intention to offend anyone and I am sorry that my words have caused any hurt to anyone,” Bishop Timothy L. Doherty removed Rothrock from his parish and told the faithful, "if anyone asks you, you can tell them that this bishop says that Black lives matter.”

Rothrock had asked in his parish bulletin on June 28, "Who are the real racists and the purveyors of hate?”

"You shall know them by their works,” he proceeded. "The only lives that matter are their own and the only power they seek is their own. They are wolves in wolves clothing, masked thieves and bandits, seeking only to devour the life of the poor and profit from the fear of others. They are maggots and parasites at best, feeding off the isolation of addiction and broken families, and offering to replace any current frustration and anxiety with more misery and greater resentment.”

The priest emphasized that the message of peace is at the heart of the gospel "we carry in common with the Orthodox Churches and other Christians.” He encouraged Catholics to stand "in solidarity with our brethren across the world to oppose this malevolent force.”

He said, "Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the other nefarious acolytes of their persuasion are not the friends or allies we have been led to believe. They are serpents in the garden, seeking only to uproot and replant a new species of human made in the likeness of men and not in the image of God.”

"Their poison is more toxic than any pandemic we have endured,” he added. "The father of lies has not just been seen in our streets, we have invited him into our home. Now he is prowling like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, strong in your faith.”

Rothrock referred to abolitionist Frederick Douglass and leader of the civil rights movement Martin Luther King, Jr., asking if they would have engaged in what rioters are currently doing across the United States.

"What would the great visionary leaders of the past be contributing to the discussion at this point in time?” he asked. "Would men like Fredrick Douglas [sic] and the Reverend King, both men of deep faith, be throwing bombs or even marching in the streets? Would they be pleased with the murder rates in our cities or the destruction of our families by the welfare system? Would they see a value in the obliteration of our history to re-write a future without the experience and struggles of the past? Would we tear down their monuments?”

So that is ground for suspension in the modern hipster Catholicism.

The Catholic Church used to be a bedrock of small c-conservative values. They defended orthodoxy. Now, even while these same BLM/Antifa thugs are burning Catholic churches and shrines these "woke" priests and bishops coddle and encourage them.

Darkness is falling on the whole world, largely because people like Bishop Doherty are more interesting in befriending the world than saving souls. They prefer the heel to the soul.

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