As reported here, students at the Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Still River have taken a courageous stand to withdraw from the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in Boston this year because of its capitulation to the Culture of Sodomy.
It's not enough that parade organizers will allow homosexuals to march provided they don't carry signs or wear clothing agitating for the homosexual "lifestyle." No, the sodomite community demands the right to march as sodomites.
Students at the Immaculate Heart of Mary School should be commended for their courageous stance against the Culture of Sodomy.
Too many Catholics today, poorly
instructed in their faith, believe that all judging is wrong. These
Catholics apparently believe that love of enemies means condoning vice and sin.
In the words of Dr. Germain Grisez, one of the finest moral theologians of our
time, "It might seem to follow that love must accept everyone, even enemies,
just as they are, and to affirm them even in the error or sin which is present
in them. But the law of love does not require indiscriminate affirmation of
everything about other persons (see Saint Thomas Aquinas, S.t., 2-2, q.34, a.3).
One's love must be like Jesus'. He loves sinners and brings them into communion
with himself in order to overcome their error and sin. When the scribes and
pharisees bring a woman caught in adultery to Jesus, he not only saves her from
being stoned to death but warns her not to sin again (see John 8:3-11). In a
true sense, Jesus is not judgmental, he sets aside the legalistic mentality,
readily forgives sinners, does not condemn the world, and points out that those
who refuse to acknowledge their sinfulness are self-condemned by the truth they
violate (see John 3:16-21). But he realistically recognizes sinners as sinners
and never accepts error as truth...
Similarly, if Christians' love of
neighbor is genuine, it not only permits but REQUIRES THEM both to 'hold fast to
what is good' and to 'hate what is evil' (Romans 12:9)."And again, according to
Dr. Grisez, "Vatican II neatly formulates the prohibition against judging
others" 'God alone is the judge and searcher of hearts; for that reason, he
forbids us to make judgments about the internal guilt of anyone' (Gaudium et
Spes, No. 28). This norm, however, does not preclude JUDGMENTS necessary for
determining that one should try to dissuade others from committing sins or to
encourage them to repent if they have sinned."
It is obvious that the students at Immaculate Heart of Mary School possess the Cardinal Gift of Fortitude.
I only wish we could say the same about our Bishop.