FURTHER BETRAYAL OF BISHOP EGAN.

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE SELF PRAISING AND CONCEITED CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THIS COUNTRY. WHEN THE REFORMERS TOOK OVER THE RUNNING OF MY PARISH THE FIRST TO SUFFER WERE THE YOUNG. REAL CATHOLIC TEACHING WAS REPLACED BY SLAPSTICK PARODIES ON LOVE BEING ALL THAT MATTERED. ON THE ONE HAND CHILDREN WERE TOLD THAT JESUS LOVED THEM BUT ON THE OTHER THERE WERE PEOPLE CLAIMING THAT THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS WERE JUST RULES AND ABSTRACT PRINCIPLES. BUT THEN THEY HAD NO REAL INTEREST IN THE YOUNG AND DID NOT GIVE A DAMN WHETHER YOUNG PEOPLE CAME TO CHURCH OR NOT. THIS WAS 'THEIR' COMMUNITY'. I BEGAN TO MEET YOUNG CHILDREN WHO HAD BEEN HURT BY DIVORCE OR HAD NO FATHER IN THIER LIVES. ALTHOUGH SOME HAD VERY GOOD MOTHERS THE CHILDREN HAD NO FUTURE AND SAW THEY HAD NO FUTURE. THEY WERE UNABLE TO MAKE THE KIND OF RELATIONSHIPS THAT WOULD LEAD TO HAPPY MARRIAGES. AS IT TURNED OUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THESE CHILDREN - THEY NOW ARE SINGLE PARENTS OF THEIR OWN CHILDREN STRUGGLING ON THEIR OWN. AND THE SAME PATTERN WILL BE REPEATED IN THE LIVES OF THEIR OFFSPRING. EVEN THE SECULAR WORLD HAS CAUGHT ON TO THIS AND POINTED OUT THAT SUCH CHILDREN DO NOT REACH THEIR POTENTIAL. IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF COURSE WE ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH THE DIVORCED AND REMARRIED RECEIVING COMMUNION FOR THEY ATTEND OUR SELF SERVING CHURCH AND WE HAD TO SHOW THEM OUR 'LOVE' WHY AM I WRITING THIS. A BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENT WAS ISSUED BY POPE FRANCIS CALLED AMORIS LAETITIA (THE JOY OF LOVE). WE HAD A SERMON BASED ON THE NEEDS OF THE DIVORCED AND REMARRIED AND I AM SURE THAT THIS SERMO TOOK PLACE IN MANY PARISHES. AT THE SAME TIME THE BISHOP SENT OUT A PASTORAL LETTER TO THE DIOCESE IN WHICH HE POINTED OUT ALL THE SOUND TEACHING IN THE POPE'S EXHORTATION. THIS LETTER WAS NEVER GIVEN TO THE PARISHIONERS NOR WAS THERE ANY MENTION OF IT YET IT WAS A DOCUMENT WORTHY OF STUDY AND WE COULD AS CATHOLICS HAVE BECOME AWARE OF OUR DUTY TO GOD TO PROMOTE MARRIAGE, WHICH IS NOT AN IDEAL AS FAR AS JESUS CHRIST I CONCERNED.

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