Heart of gold, reasoning of clay

Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who was assigned the ^Catholic religion at ^birth , has rejected all suggestions of changing his religious gender, even though it is clear that his intellectual morphology ^, expressed in his words and actions, has changed into something ^incompatible with the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Early in his career, he expressed vehement opposition to any exception to Divine Commandment No. 5, even speaking at the 1982 March for Life against the horrors of the dismemberment of ^umbilically dependent human beings. With the turn of the century, his position radically changed, possibly the most lethal effect of the Millennium Bug. Since then, he has been the Yankee politician who has voted most consistently and for the longest time for the total liberalization of infanticide, including the cutting of the umbilical cord outside the womb. Mr. The senator does not appear to have dysphoria ⁶ , but he attends houses of worship that are clearly not for his type.

However, the senator has a reputation for being a ^tireless defender of immigrant rights ^, which, according to him, includes civil and criminal impunity. For this reason, the Archdiocese of Chicago, represented by Cardinal ^Blase J. Cupich, decided to award him the Keep Hope Alive Award, an award designed ^to honor a "comprehensive body of work and overall career impact" on the implementation of the Church's social doctrine in American society. This award, which not only violates the official policies and procedures of the cardinal's diocese but also the pastoral guidelines established by the bishops' conference in his country and the spirit of the Code of Canon Law , has led some to question ^him . Bishops and lay organizations protested, arguing that someone who has actively contributed to the genocide of an ^immense number of human beings cannot be a true representative of the Church's doctrine of defending the life and dignity of the most vulnerable. Following these protests, the senator informed the cardinal that he had decided not to receive the award, a decision that greatly saddened the latter and led him to issue a statement .

This statement makes two things clear. The first is that the Cardinal has a heart of gold. This is evident when he expresses that his intention with this tribute was to "praise and encourage" sinners, which is all of us, to "consider how we can expand our good work to other areas and problems." His kindness is also evident when he calls for harmony and respect, stating that "positive attitudes keep alive the hope that it is worthwhile to talk to one another in promoting the common good," and when he laments that the Church cannot contribute to the progress of the human condition until its members "begin to talk to one another respectfully and work together," as well as when he expresses his sorrow that the current situation in his country "continues to significantly compromise the Church's efforts to promote human dignity across the full range of issues."

The second is that the Cardinal suffers from an affliction that affects many clergy and politicians alike: incoherence and self-contradiction. But is incoherence a sin that should concern us? Without a doubt! Not only is it a sin, but it is even ^a mortal sin, something that goes directly against the total simplicity of divinity, the coherence of life that Our Lord preached and that St. Paul demanded of all the faithful, even St. Peter. Where does God Our Lord formally anathematize self-contradiction? In Divine Commandment No. 7, the one that prohibits ^lying and deception. To say sometimes that killing is immoral, and other times that it may be ethically permissible, is to ^lie , a lie at least as serious as telling some that one went to Holy Mass and others that one did not set foot there.

But is a man who can be elected Pope and elects Popes, as you, Mr. Cardinal, inconsistent to the level of a Pharisee? Let's see: Mr. Cardinal, on the one hand, declares that he intended the award to the senator "to specifically recognize his singular contribution to immigration reform and his unwavering support for immigrants." [emphasis added] He thus implicitly states, but with explicit brazenness, that his decision was made without considering all of the senator's work, and was made with willful disregard for all of his activity in favor of the legalization and financing of child genocide and his active contribution to the genital mutilation of thousands of adolescents. But then he argues that, as a bishop, "he has the duty to promote unity and help all Catholics embrace the Church's teachings as a coherent whole. " [emphasis added] Has the honoree embraced the Church's teachings in a comprehensive and harmonious way, deserving of this or any other ecclesiastical award? Of course not. But does praising and rewarding a little bit of goodness mixed with a lot of evil help convert the bad to good? If so, our pedagogical and management theories will need to be profoundly revised, and from now on they should take into account the "Cupish effect": the worst students should be helped by receiving academic distinctions for their ignorance, and workers who arrive late and do nothing should be encouraged with promotions and hefty bonuses for their incompetence. But... hasn't this innovation been adopted by our governments in the management of public services long ago?

The Cardinal rightly laments that "the tragic reality of our nation today is that there are essentially no Catholic politicians who follow the essential elements of the Catholic Church's social teachings because our party system does not allow them to do so." But if this is so, why did he now want to honor a politician instead of, as in the past, celebrating the many organizations and individuals who do not act against these teachings? And why honor that senator, who is surely the politician who has done the most to purge ^his party of all those who remain faithful to Divine Commandment No. 5? Where is the coherence?

Could it be that she is acting in the role of the Cardinal, who on the one hand says it is important for Catholics to " start speaking to each other respectfully and working together," and then awards a prize to a person who officially resides in another diocese, and does so without saying anything or asking the opinion of the Bishop who, at least nominally, has pastoral responsibility for the sheep in question? What would happen if a shepherd did this in the Holy Land?

The cardinal further states clearly that this award, and the decisions surrounding it, should not be seen as "a softening of our position on abortion," thus seeming to reaffirm the Church's immutable teaching on this crime. This is commendable! However, he constantly refers to the importance of "listening," "collaboration," "openness to dialogue," and the "invitation to dialogue" with others, presumably also on this difficult subject. However, the question remains: aren't "teaching" and "admonition," never mentioned, as important, if not more important, than "listening" and "dialogue" when it comes to the inviolability of human life, and that without "teaching" and "admonition," "listening" and "dialogue" contradict the cardinal's denial that he wants to put the issue of abortion on hold ?

As mentioned, the Cardinal justifies his award to the Senator for his "unique contribution to immigration reform and his unwavering support for immigrants ." But the Cardinal also rightly acknowledges that, in both abortion and euthanasia, we have "vulnerable people on the border between life and death." So the question remains: does the Cardinal believe that these migrants, the most fragile of all, but also those with the greatest potential for harmonious social integration, also received Senator Durbin's "unwavering support"? And if he protects some but mistreats others, where is the substance of this "unwavering support"?

One final observation: the Cardinal frequently mentions, in the same breath, abortion and the death penalty (among many other items). He thus seems to be equating the two, claiming that the perversity of one is equivalent to the other. But is killing an absolutely innocent being through abortion equivalent to executing the death penalty on a hardened serial killer? ¹⁷ If not, if the two things are not equal or even similar, if one is to the other as a plank is to a speck, isn't the Cardinal also lying here with every tooth and implant in his mouth? St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, among many other doctors and saints of the Church, while explicitly stating their preference that even the most wicked criminals be treated leniently and not executed, in the hope that in time they would reach the inner repentance necessary for their eternal salvation, recognized the right of the state, which is not and should not be a convent or religious congregation, to administer justice without Christian charity. The question thus remains: does the Cardinal believe that the state should become a church, or that governments should be appointed by bishops?

In short: Cardinal Cupich has a wonderful heart, sweet and full of good intentions. But his arguments seem as brittle as clay, as fragile as lies. As the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And certainly also with contradictions, inconsistencies, and other lies.

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1. Religion : daughter of Faith, mother of Order and Happiness, which attempts to impose Repentance on Disorder and explain the Unknowable to Ignorance. It is usually contrasted with atheism ¹⁸ .
2. Birth : the first and worst of the misfortunes that can befall us, which according to Buddhism, serves as punishment for bad actions committed in previous lives.
3. Intellectual : a university employee who suffers from acute and irreversible myopia.
4. Incompatible : inability to coexist with something, such as divine mercy with the speeches and statements of Mr. Professor Marcelo, and similar personalities and tastes in marriage.
5. Umbilical : vital connection as exemplified by a Wi-Fi connection.
6. Dysphoria : an uncomfortable state of mind when reality forgets to conform to our expectations.
7. Fame: a type of public ignorance about the subject; public knowledge of private miseries, often in contravention of the GDPR; a media shackle that holds back the feelings of pleasure that Saddam Hussain and Jeffrey Epstein displayed at the height of their downfall; in his wisdom, Father Mário Centavo wrote ( Opera Omnia , vol. 232): “the fame I desire is to be truly unknown.”
8. Immigrant : a human being who deserves our compassion for having been led, through harmful publicity, to believe that life in our country would be better than in their own; in some cases they deserve our fraternal welcome and in others we deserve our help to regain their senses, to return to their homeland, or to not come here from there .
9. Cardinal: a high-ranking ecclesiastical official with a lifelong title, elected by a pope, with the possibility of electing and being elected pope; an ecclesiastical dignity whose spiritual benefits were not immediately apparent to Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose organizational advantages went unnoticed by Him, and whose temporal benefits did not attract Him.
10. Pay homage: a solemn para-liturgical act to pretend that someone deserves our admiration and emulation.
11. Canon 1398, where the perpetrators of abortion are declared excommunicated ¹⁹ .
12. The number of homicides since Roe v Wade in 1973 is conservatively estimated to be between 1000 (one thousand) and 1200 (one thousand and two hundred) times higher than the number of victims claimed by the Gaza “ministry of health” during the two years of riots following the 7/10 incident. Mariana…, Mariana…, where are you?
13. , among others, Mt. 23,23-39; Gal. 2,11-14 as well as Rom. 2,21-24 and 12, 1-2; Gal. 5,22-25; Phil. 1,27; Eph. 4,1; Titus 1,16.
14. Lie : a gentle, pleasant, and charitable expression used to describe a potentially painful reality for someone; intentional distortion of ontological predicates, such as sex or income; one of the most useful products of mental activity, especially when the goal is to maximize power, wealth, and pleasure; alternatively, an insult to the intelligence of one's partner; an act of faith in one's own prudence above God's providence; saying the opposite of what one believes or thinks in the humble attitude of one who believes oneself to be mistaken; according to Buddhism, everything is illusion, everything is unreality, everything is emptiness, even Buddhism itself, since all phenomena lack real existence, all sensory perception is illusory, and all conceptualization of the sensory is a lie.
15. Lying : the act of using the mind just as walking is the act of using stilts.
16. Purge : One of the two main activities necessary for personal success in the organization, used with particular enthusiasm by Warxists. The other is pulling.
17. With the exception of China, Iran, and their allies, the death penalty, where practiced, tends to be a privilege granted only to competent and productive murderers.
18. Atheism: disbelief in a god in which Christians do not believe; intellectual progress according to a long-outdated view; belief in the nonexistence of a first cause compatible with faith in the action of second causes; a set of religious sects of fideistic worshippers of a god that does not exist—but with profound differences among themselves regarding other dogmas; proselytism of the nonexistent.
19. Excommunication : decree and execution of the ecclesiastical death penalty; ecclesiastical ritual, with candles, incense and bell, in which a formal, not material, transfer of possession, not ownership, of a soul from the Church Militant to the prince of darkness and his followers is effected; it is supposed to have a pedagogical effect similar to that which parents intend to have when they put their child in a public school in the hope that he will not want to be employed in the public service.