UNITED STATES
Renew America
By Matt C. Abbott
In typical pot-calling-the-kettle-black fashion, the morally corrupt, Antichrist-stage-setting United Nations – specifically, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child – has blasted the Holy See for its handling of the clergy abuse scandal. And it has blasted the Church for being, well … Catholic.
I write this as a (practicing) Catholic commentator who has, over the last nine years or so, covered various aspects of the clergy abuse scandal. It hasn’t been pretty, to say the least. My head is definitely not in the sand.
But no, the U.N. is not your friend.
Two respected priests are among a number of Catholic voices speaking out on this latest development.
Father Shenan J. Boquet, president of Human Life International, noted in his weekly reflection (excerpt):
The last century saw the unprecedented growth of governments and ideological systems that suppressed religious truth and human dignity. Yet, in the midst of such turmoil there were some willing to witness for truth and freedom of conscience – even at the cost of their lives. Martyrs give the ultimate witness and force humanity in every age to consider the truth placed before them and the seriousness of the duty to seek the truth. When man’s law is unjust, God’s law still demands our assent. ‘It is necessary to obey God rather than men.’ (Acts 5:29) Sadly we are seeing a new era of martyrs in Africa and the Middle East, as Christians are targeted by Muslim mobs and forced to convert or be killed.
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