While I agree wholeheartedly with the good father, I must disagree with him on one point. When I go to Mass, or indeed any service, I expect to hear the gospel preached and to hear a lesson on how I might better lead a more Christ-like life. I don’t expect, nor do I want to hear politics from the pulpit, any more than I want to hear religious haranguing in the street.
I will willingly and gladly hear the father’s teachings on matters of faith and morals, just not in public forae.
Likewise, I will listen and debate politics with the good priest gladly, just not in a religious setting.
There is no aspect of life that politics is not encroaching upon. Hearing the latest dirt about the local drain commissioner or the minutia of legislative procedures, or what a dope Mitch McConnell is - no, not really a good use of sermon time. But the philosophy and effects of politics is very important teaching matter for a homily - as example, the effects of recently passed “equality” (transgender) bills on the Church, the Catholic understanding of the human person and gender, and why it’s incompatible with Wokeness, etc - all very much needed, as well as tackling the pursuit of supernatural virtue, the nature of Grace, the four last things, etc.
Every age has its crises, but to not address the political battlefield at all in this time of global ideological war is to be asleep at the pulpit. Woke-ism/Marxism is a religion and well as a politic - many Christians who are not taught or realize on their own why Woke-ism is a false religion are jumping ship and leaving their Faith for it.
While I agree wholeheartedly with the good father, I must disagree with him on one point. When I go to Mass, or indeed any service, I expect to hear the gospel preached and to hear a lesson on how I might better lead a more Christ-like life. I don’t expect, nor do I want to hear politics from the pulpit, any more than I want to hear religious haranguing in the street.
I will willingly and gladly hear the father’s teachings on matters of faith and morals, just not in public forae.
Likewise, I will listen and debate politics with the good priest gladly, just not in a religious setting.
There is no aspect of life that politics is not encroaching upon. Hearing the latest dirt about the local drain commissioner or the minutia of legislative procedures, or what a dope Mitch McConnell is - no, not really a good use of sermon time. But the philosophy and effects of politics is very important teaching matter for a homily - as example, the effects of recently passed “equality” (transgender) bills on the Church, the Catholic understanding of the human person and gender, and why it’s incompatible with Wokeness, etc - all very much needed, as well as tackling the pursuit of supernatural virtue, the nature of Grace, the four last things, etc. Every age has its crises, but to not address the political battlefield at all in this time of global ideological war is to be asleep at the pulpit. Woke-ism/Marxism is a religion and well as a politic - many Christians who are not taught or realize on their own why Woke-ism is a false religion are jumping ship and leaving their Faith for it.