Some pundits laugh when the suggestion is made that Justin Trudeau
might one day be Prime Minister of Canada. He’s just too much of a pretty boy,
not ready for prime time.
But that’s wishful (conservative) thinking. Justin’s star is indeed
rising.
Make no mistake about it, as Prime Minister of Canada, Justin will
finish what his father
started.
In fact he’ll go one step better! He’s already
proved
that. And Canada will sink further into its moral abyss, one engineered mostly
by all the “devout” Catholic Prime Ministers who strangely knew nothing about
the concept of the “
common
good” of society.
Nor do all the other rank and file
Catholic
politicians raised up on the milk of
pseudo-catholicism.
One wonders whether, in fact, the Catholic Bishops themselves know much about
such a concept. According to Karl Keating of Catholic Answers, MOST of them
have no knowledge of the writings of Benedict XVI, John Paul II, or even Vatican II!
A few years ago, during the reign of Benedict
XVI, these scholars, a man and a woman, were appointed by the Vatican to high
posts connected with a then-current synod of bishops. Working closely with the
bishops both before and after they came to
Rome and with the Roman authorities who arranged for the synod, the pair
discovered something surprising: most bishops who come to synods are unprepared
to teach anyone much of anything.
You, like me, probably think the role of a
synod is for bishops to think deep thoughts and to conclude their gathering
with published findings and marching orders that go out to the world's many
dioceses. That may have been what Rome had expected when synods began to come
into regular use some years ago, but realities "on the ground" have
upended those expectations, according to the two scholars.
What the Vatican discovered is that the
world's bishops—not all of them, but most
of them (emphasis mine)—simply haven't done their homework. At this
previous synod, it turned out that most of the bishops showed no knowledge of
the writings of Benedict XVI or of his predecessor, John Paul II. Many of them
hadn't even read the documents of Vatican II! (This was more true for bishops
from Third World countries, but it applied to bishops in Europe and North
America too.)
How could such unprepared men expect to know
the depth of what Benedict and John Paul had been teaching if they never read
those popes' encyclicals and their other writings? How could these bishops
maneuver well in the modern world if they hadn't even become familiar with what
was promulgated at Vatican II?
It proved to be an awkward realization for
Rome. The men who were expected to go out and spread the word didn't even know
what the word was. And so the synods quietly have become something else.
Instead of being sessions at which learned bishops issue teachings for the
masses, they now are sessions at which the bishops themselves are taught the
teachings.
Maybe this explains why the Catholic Bishops of Canada unleashed such a
Pandora’s Box in 1966 when,
unbelievably,
they declared then-current legal restrictions on the use of contraceptives to
be “harmful to public order and to the common good.” Of course that travesty of
justice (and outright denial of Catholic teaching) was followed up in 1968 with
the rejection of the Pope’s teaching as expressed in
Humanae
Vitae. Since then a blackout from the Bishops on the subject of the
moral law, accompanied by unrestricted abortion, has devastated Canadian
society.
During the
38
year reign of renegade Catholic Prime Ministers in Canada the Catholic
Bishops didn’t take decisive action to
discipline
any of them by means of
Canon
law provisions and
Vatican
directives. Nor did they make efforts to control the fallout from such severe
scandal by rightly molding the consciences of the everyday lay Catholic,
especially the politician. Indeed, there’s been a long history of defending the
renegades, even,
more
recently, pretty boy Justin.
And now we hear some Bishops are
concerned
because of a pro-abortion policy instituted by Justin Trudeau. Was Trudeau’s
action really a surprise? It’s impossible to believe that both Trudeau’s priest
and his Bishop were unable to determine his position on abortion, if they were
interested in finding out. And don’t you think they should have been interested?
Clearly, up to this point, nobody with spiritual oversight over Justin really
thought
his
soul was in danger. Again, how is that possible?
But, nevertheless, that’s the current pseudo-catholic paradigm in
Canada.
And for the good of Canada’s future, saving Trudeau’s soul ought to be
a top priority with the Bishops.
