The Holy Father is being slammed from all sides today. The guy goes from no attention, to Brittney Spears over night. It is
insane. (I actually like Brittney still, so I meant no disrespect, just comparing the media blitz surrounding him!). It seems that after 20 years Bishop Richard Williamson will have full communion with the church again after being excommunicated by Pope
JPII in 1988 for denying that the Jews were gassed in the holocaust. Now Williamson, along with 3 others will be welcomed back into the church, and this has Jews and Catholics alike, spitting mad. Well, why shouldn't it? The sacrament of
reconciliation surely couldn't be for everyone, is it? I mean, it can't really be for the anti-
Semitics who, may, after 20 years, see the errors of their ways, can it? Or perhaps for those who are getting older, (68), and missing the sacraments terribly, or for those realizing that, the USA has just voted a man into office that will continue the longest running Holocaust in history... no,
reconciliation could not be for these men! I went to confession yesterday, and I didn't think twice about it. I never thought someone might say I didn't have a right to be forgiven. There are a whole lot of people speaking loudly right now, and judging people for no reason. I can think of one thing...
Luke 6:37 - "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.
At this point can we seriously deny that anything less than despicable happened to the Jews? Absolutely not! The Pope went to Auschwitz and visited for crying out loud. It is about bringing us back together as a Church. It is needed at this time. The devil is going to do everything he can to stir things up right now for us as a Church because of the events that have taken place in the last week. Take the "heat" off of him so to speak. Don't let him win.
hol-e-kôst,
NOUN:
1. Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life
remind you of anything?
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