Outside The Asylum

From Fr. Don, in the bulletin for St. Clare's Church in Portland, OR.  The Archdiocese is being attacked in the media for the information in this link.   I want to re-emphasize what I wrote about last week: the recent media articles about Catholic schools. I was personally at the meeting with the archbishop that got all this media storm started and I don’t expect any changes here at St. Clare School. In spite of what the media is trying to imply, the bishop is NOT asking us to go to a “classical education” model, nor is he asking us to make changes in our gender policy: we have always treated a person in a girl’s body as a girl and a person in a boy’s body as a boy. That’s not new and I don’t think it’s radical. St. Clare School is an outstanding school that loves and supports every student and we will continue our long-standing tradition of nurturing the spiritual and educational development of the whole child.

 This post was originally written about the Presidential race in the United States, but it could easily be adapted in many of its planks to fighting back against the pornocracy at any level of government. These are the party planks I want to see in a primary from *any* primary race.  You can easily tailor them to the jurisdiction you are running in. - Be pro-life to the point of supporting unwed mothers and heterosexual marriage for parents of children between conception and age 21.   - Eliminate bigotry against the unwanted and disabled in the forms of euthanasia, abortion, and transgender mutilation - Fund marital counseling services to reduce and eliminate divorce.   - Bring us a *workable* plan to start rolling back the Imperialistic financial aid and armed forces from the United States that the pornocracy has been using to push homosexuality, abortion, and birth control on the third world. - God's Children are Not for Sale; repurpose those troops to fr...

Aging hippies claim that the reason the sexual revolution happened was because love got replaced in American culture with righteousness. I disagree.  Love is an essential part of righteousness, and does not exist in the sexual revolution. Let us begin with "what is Love?" For the righteous man, there can be only one answer: love is willing what is BEST for other people. Thus sexual orientation, when not oriented to procreation, can never be love, but rather, abuse. Including heterosexual birth control and divorce, of course. Abuse is not love. This is not a reason to hate, it is a reason to mourn- mourn the loss of reason, the loss of the ideal agape love, that wills what is best for the other. And thus mourn the loss of righteousness itself, in favor of something far less.