A new kind of sacrament

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by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

[Q]uite a few of us American Catholics have worked our way into a leadership class that the rest of the country both envies and resents. And the price of our entry has been the transfer of our real loyalties and convictions from the old Church of our baptism to the new “Church” of our ambitions and appetites. People like Nancy Pelosi, Anthony Kennedy, Joe Biden and Tim Kaine are not anomalies. They’re part of a very large crowd that cuts across all professions and both major political parties.

 
With only a minority of those professing to be Catholic, I’d say it runs much deeper than just political or professional lines.
 
It sounds like just another form of Idol worship, worship thyself rather then God.
 
I agree with the statement by the Bishop. But the question is. What is the “intervention”, not the fix, because the fix will come from God Himself. But how to deal with it. Those who support abortion and profess their Catholic faith are in the wrong for this. But this truth is not what saves people.

It is not easy to deal with, but need to come up with solutions from the top.
 
I think a lot of it goes back to JFK divorcing his faith from his politics. It has allowed countless politicians to claim to be Catholic while not living out their professed faith.
 
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