Random Thought 1: We are now at war with a terribley violent Islamic terrorist nation but there are those among us who believe that America is an evil nation. They defend this terrible nation just as they defend the criminals that have entered our country illegally. These same people are godless believers in marxist communism and we must convince our brothers and sisters who are ignorant of this fact or we will be sent into the slope to communism. 

            The problem is that they will lie to us and tell us how they will give us all that we need to be happy in life. For example, we now have a known Islamic communist that is the mayor of New York that is promising the people lower rents, government run grocery stores etc. all parts of the Marxist doctrine.

Communism is materialistic, godless and anti-Christian; and the leaders of the communists, although they sometimes profess in words that they do not attack religion, yet, whether by doctrine or action, they show that they are seriously offended against God and true religion and the Church of Christ. The Catholic Church, through several popes, formally condemned Communism as atheistic, materialistic, and incompatible with Christian faith, culminating in excommunications for Catholic communists under Pope Pius XII.

Random Thought 2: “The Instumentum Laboris (IL) is the document for the October Synod on Synodality, does issue this excellent warning: “There are forces at work in the world that oppose the mission of the Church, based on philosophical, economic and political ideologies that are founded on assumptions that are inimical to the faith.” Sadly, the IL reveals that those forces are also at work within the Church.

And the IL asks this important question: “How can the Churches remain in dialogue with the world without becoming worldly?” The clear answer is: remain faithful to Christ and his doctrine, especially when it is opposed by those who want to change various teachings of the Church in the name of making people feel welcomed and accepted.

The Church of “Me, Myself and I,” where each person recognizes himself in his personally curated set of beliefs, may promise satisfaction. In fact, it’s a make-believe, delusional religion of self-worship in which God is relegated to the role of the Divine Affirmer of whatever each one decides to believe. God spare us from such an outcome.”

— Fr. Gerald E. Murray, JCD — His full article is on my Links page.

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