Wednesday, October 23, 2024

The answer to a frightful future

Wise advice from Fr. Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative,

"The issue of women’s ordination, therefore, is one comparatively minor aspect of the much larger issue of our times: the destruction and distortion of human sexuality and ultimately the destruction and distortion of the human race itself.

What is the answer to this frightful future? Angry rants by conservative preachers will not suffice. Neither will reasoned arguments by philosophers or theologians. The answer to any distortion of reality is the positive action taken by sane, healthy, honest people.

Young men and women need to marry, stay married, have lots of children and show in their words and works the vibrant attractiveness of all that is simple, beautiful, good, and true. Then their pro-life and pro-family choice needs to be supported by their extended family, community, church, and society."

I would add that in addition to demonstrating good works, that young men and women need to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world by their words as well.

3 comments:

  1. Katherine11:34 AM

    I agree with him, and with you. And I also agree with him on the fact that pretending there are no differences between men and women in the church led directly to pretending there are no differences in any context, and then to the proposition that biological sex is a construct, not real.

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    1. And for non-believers and unbelievers it is such an easy path to follow which is why we see our increasingly secular society fall for the the whole LGBTQrsetc agenda.

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  2. Anonymous3:23 PM

    Only a man can be a priest.

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