Homily from mass yesterday was all about Ukraine

Did he insert climate change into the homily?

I grew up Catholic. 12 years of Catholic school. Was a practicing Catholic for the first 40 years of my life, and I'd really like to be a practicing Catholic today - but I can't do it. I have so little respect for the human beings running the Church that I end up sitting in the pew getting pissed about the things you posted (and more). I still consider myself a Catholic, but I'm not sure the church considers me one.

Most church leaders aren't well versed in politics outside of some policy issues that overlap with moral concerns.

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Even though I acknowledge that our media is full of propagandists, I don't see why this is problematic. Either way, there is a loss of military and civilian life there

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We should pray for the victims - but you're feeding the beast that created the bullshite when you print up the signs, wear the pins, hang the ribbons and all the other forms of virtue signaling..

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I've never seen a homily about the abortion genocide in our own country

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Really?
My church mentions abortion all the time

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Really?
My church mentions abortion all the time

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We put up the crosses and signs that say "end abortion". But it never gets explicitly called out from the pulpit the way it should. So many of our homilies the past 2 years have been watered down, feel good gobbledygook, that lack the necessary brimstone and fire that has been needed. Unless of course it is for something like Ukraine.

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We can't talk about Abortion, LGBT grooming, CRT, human trafficking, destruction of the nuclear family, opioid epidemic, and political corruption. But we can hear all about a geopolitical issue on the other side of the world.

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Abortion - Ultimately a fault of economic arrangements. In a world where all people must provide economic utility - especially since the single-earner family is basically a dead dream in the US at this juncture - women need the ability to control pregnancy to maximize their short-term and long-term utility.

LGBT grooming, CRT, and human trafficking - These are just rustic dumbass conservative windmill tilts.

Destruction of the nuclear family - Again, ultimately the fault of economic arrangements. The multi-generational family unit was destroyed by the industrial revolution and the nuclear family cohesion was upended by the necessity of making women full economic actors as alluded to above.

Opioid epidemic - Caused by pharmaceutical industry and exacerbated by a persistent decline in conditions in this country. White male suicide rate has been skyrocketing since roughly the 2008 economic collapse. Black male suicide rate in the US has always been pretty high. Deaths of despair as they say...

Political corruption - Has existed forever but tends to be a leading indicator of a sickly state that will probably wither away or transition into an autocratic arrangement. United States really fits that bill. Our zenith was in the 1960s before we stuck our dick in the mashed taters known as Vietnam. We have been declining economically since the end of the Bretton Woods System. Our constitution was never really strong on democratic principles by design - the Founding Fathers were scared of rule by the broader public since most of them were large landowners or financiers - so we are just persisting the norms and forms of a representative government but the levers and buttons the voters push aren't connected to anything anymore.

Homily is OK but I prefer grits.

Did he talk about Same Sex Marriage?
Did he talk about transgender people?

Abortion is murder