{"id":97838,"date":"2016-10-28T06:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=97838"},"modified":"2016-10-28T06:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:17:50","slug":"conversation-with-a-devout-prolife-catholic-woman-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/10\/conversation-with-a-devout-prolife-catholic-woman-of-color.html","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with a devout, prolife, Catholic woman of color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026whose faith has taken a beating at the hands of \u201cVote Trump or You Are a Baby-Killing Apostate!\u201d Catholics. She writes:<\/p>\n

And once again I\u2019m at this impasse. If being Catholic means being white supremacist and misogynist then it\u2019s clearly not the One True Faith. I can\u2019t believe in a God that created the idea that some people are human and others are animals based on genetics. So many Catholics are perfectly ok with this and it\u2019s making me feel like the Church is a scam. I can\u2019t believe some obnoxious notion that I\u2019m part of a \u201cremnant\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is not \u201cthe Church\u201d talking. This is a minority political subculture. Trump is down by 20% among Catholics. Don\u2019t let the loud voices of fools be taken for the Voice of the Church. This is the battle for our generation. You aren\u2019t being scammed by the Church and Christ is as alive as ever. You are joining him in his suffering to purify the Church. So is everybody fighting this crap.<\/p>\n

God knoweth, dear, I share your feeling of betrayal. But we *have* to bear in mind the gospel truth that *all* have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and, under the wrong circumstances, it could well be you and me running after some demagogue who played on our fears. All the election has really done is bring out into the light the fact that all that stuff we learned in Sunday school about the capacity of the human heart for sin is really true and the desperate medicine of the cross was not hyperbole but sober reality. We are a species that crucifies God<\/em> when we get the chance. That includes you and me. Racism is chump change in that reckoning. But the good news remains that God *has* taken our species down into the grave and brought it out again in the Resurrection and the \u201cgood infection\u201d of divinization is spreading. This time in history too is part of the process of that and is as much a battle as Good Friday was. Don\u2019t become discouraged. Lift up your head, sniff the scent of battle, and be glad that you have a chance to play a part in the fray for the good. You\u2019ve been favored to carry a small part of his suffering.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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