A Taste of the Future

Posted on April 11, 2005 in Morals & Ethics

I suspect many people are feeling the outrage that I am over the fact that Cardinal Law(less) performed the funeral rites for John Paul II. The choice was, perhaps, meant as a gesture of forgiveness for Law’s failure to protect his flock from the lacivious appetites of his priests. Or else it declares that the Church just doesn’t give a damn. May this go down in history as yet one more example of this pontiff’s poisonous legacy.

I continue to maintain that John Paul II was either misguided (to put it kindly) or utterly naive because of his hatred of Communism. The Church positioned itself against the working class in the 19th century and has remained there ever since. It also rejects Reason which is the founding principle of the United States. For many years it held that democracy was a kind of a sin, an attitude which changed when it realized that the United States was going to survive.

What I must ask is why do such evident tigers as Law continue to hold posts of reverance while better men who have confessed their sins are cast out? Is the way of the Lord one in which molesters and their protectors receive sanctuary while those who admit their human weaknesses are exiled in the wilderness? Perhaps I should not see that as a punishment: Christ, after all, found spiritual strength there.