shame of something like this<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe conservative Catholics brag that the Magisterium gives us guidance while Protestants are prey to whatever wind of doctrine or cultural fad their pastors happen to have motivate them.\u00a0 But how many of us conservative Catholics actually formulate our thoughts according to the teaching of the Catechism when it issue is not sola scriptura, the papacy, or the Real\u00a0Presence?\u00a0How often do we simply repeat the coos and sneers we are taught to imitate by our favorite secular conservative news sources?\u00a0 When the Church denounces the use of nukes against\u00a0civilians as a crime against man and God, or urges the minimalization or abolition of the death penalty, or warns the preventive war is not in the Catechism, or says that we have an obligation to the poor, or says other things that sound \u201cliberal\u201d to conservatives, how Protestant are we?\u00a0 How inclined to define \u201cprudential judgment\u201d as \u201cignore the stupid bishops on everything except abortion, euthanasia, contraception, and gay marriage\u201d?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026 a powerful Christian counter-witness to the enormously popular cult of Mars among conservative Catholics who are much more passionate about and spend far more energy fighting for the glory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki than they do fighting against (or even being aware of) the shame of something like this. We conservative Catholics brag that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-35807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gospel-priorities-vs-political-priorities"],"yoast_head":"\n
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