- Fear of the … Internet? There seems to be a palpable fear among people who browse the Internet regularly that one day they will end up as a side-show story through some sad accident or random attack. The web is rife with such stories as Teen Trapped in Tree by Malicious Gator and Dancer Has Legs Amputated after Boating Accident. Most people wouldn’t want their humiliation or tragic story broadcast to the world. Oddly, that’s the same “fear” we should have of God. Fear of the Lord should train our will to avoid sinful actions that are always made known to God, and to our fellow men at the general judgment. The tragic story or random accident in our lives is bad enough, but unless they are the result of our personal immoral behavior, why not reserve our fear of publication to bad acts that have everlasting consequences?
- Closing the Windows. Vatican II was celebrated as a time to “open the windows” and “let the fresh air into the Church.” What really happened, however, was an alley door was opened and homosexuals within the Church recruited others and began an infiltration of the hierarchy that lasts to this day. The result was, and is, the devastating abuse of teenage and younger boys. It is past time to acknowledge the problem as one of hom
osexuality, and to proactively and publicly laicize and remove homosexuals within the priesthood. But the window of opportunity to take this needed step without massive reprisals is closing fast. Homosexual activists have successfully bullied corporations, associations, governments and private individuals with swift and public attacks for even the slightest dissent against their agenda. Freedom of Religion still protects the Church, but for how long? Unfortunately, either the pontiff is oblivious to, or complicit with, the homosexual agenda – precisely at a time when a high-level and public witness must be made to stop the scandal wrought by looking the other way. - St. Joseph the Martyr. I wonder if St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, could be considered a martyr. After all, once Jesus began his public ministry, his father on earth would take on added
significance. If St. Joseph was alive, the Pharisees could demand that he stop his son from preaching, putting pressure on him and possibly taking action against him (remember the man born blind whose parents were questioned?). And once Jesus was under assault by those seeking to kill him, a good father (unlike a mother) would be driven to take up arms to defend his innocent son. So St. Joseph likely had to die before Jesus’ public ministry began to avoid these and other conflicts that might impede the spreading of the Gospel. In this sense, St. Joseph might have died for the Faith as a martyr.
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