{"id":56367,"date":"2014-12-18T07:43:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=56367"},"modified":"2014-12-18T07:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:43:50","slug":"a-novena-proposal-for-a-consistent-ethic-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/12\/a-novena-proposal-for-a-consistent-ethic-of-life.html","title":{"rendered":"A Novena Proposal For a Consistent Ethic of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Mark Gordon writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Most disappointing are those Catholics who pair their acceptance of torture \u2013 which in the case of the CIA\u2019s operation resulted in the death of at least one innocent man \u2013 with an\u00a0assertion of their impeccable pro-life credentials<\/a>, as if their condemnation of one intrinsically evil act cancels their embrace of another\u00a0intrinsically evil act,<\/a>\u00a0sort of a moral \u201cbuy one, get one free\u201d deal. If nothing else, this response demonstrates once again the appalling state of catechesis in the American Church, where members, lacking deep formation in the Gospel, interpret the world through the lenses of ideology and party affiliation.<\/p>\n

Sadly, none of this is really any surprise. Most Americans think of themselves as good Christians. Many consider the United States to be a Christian country, founded on Christian principles, and the preeminent defender of Christian values in the world. But our comfortable attachment to violence gives the lie to all of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How can it be that the greatest champions of \u201cends justify the means\u201d thinking in the US right now are \u201cfaithful\u201d Catholics? \u00a0How can it be that \u201cprolife\u201d Catholics are the loudest champion of anal rape and threats to murder children in order to save one\u2019s own skin? How can it be that \u201cprolife\u201d Christians are daring to suggest that opposition to such crimes is somehow tantamount to support for abortion? \u00a0I cannot find any other category than \u201cdemonic\u201d to describe the use of the unborn as human shields for enthusiasm for torture.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I would like to propose a novena for the purpose of breaking this spiritual stronghold of panic\u00a0and the embrace of evil that seems to imprison the hearts and minds of so many Catholics who appear to be stone blind to the radical contradiction between approval of torture and opposition to abortion (and, of course, approval of abortion and opposition to torture).<\/p>\n

I think I will start it on New Year\u2019s Day. \u00a0Seems like a good time for turning over new leaves.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Gordon writes: Most disappointing are those Catholics who pair their acceptance of torture \u2013 which in the case of the CIA\u2019s operation resulted in the death of at least one innocent man \u2013 with an\u00a0assertion of their impeccable pro-life credentials, as if their condemnation of one intrinsically evil act cancels their embrace of another\u00a0intrinsically […]<\/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":[29,186],"class_list":["post-56367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prayer-requests","tag-torture-is-evil"],"yoast_head":"\nA Novena Proposal For a Consistent Ethic of Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mark Gordon writes: Most disappointing are those Catholics who pair their acceptance of torture \u2013 which in the case of the 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