Bishop calls on US Catholics to prepare for persecution for defending marriage, life

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Bishop calls on US Catholics to prepare for persecution for defending marriage, life​

Drew Belsky

April 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix called upon Catholics to defend marriage and life and to fight modern heresies, even with the risk of persecution that goes along with doing so.

Speaking to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, Olmsted urged Catholic couples to go “all in” on their sacramental marriage vows and be open to life. He also said Catholics are called to stand up for unborn children at risk for abortion and criticized opposition to the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

“Brothers and sisters in Christ, we can do this,” he said. “We were made for such a time as this. God destined us for these historical circumstances.” . . .

. . . Christ has been summoning him to speak the truth from the Vatican II document Gaudium et Spes , 51, he said, that abortion is an “unspeakable crime.”

“It is my pastoral duty to bear witness to the Gospel of Life,” stated Olmsted, “and to pray and work for a restored protection in law of the most vulnerable among us.”

Christ’s resurrection was bound to His bodiliness, Olmsted said, and that “at the center of many heresies is bodiliness.”

“This includes the current heresy,” Olmsted added, “which is embodied in the sexual revolution and now in its radicalized version, the gender ideology, as Pope Francis calls it.”

“Any rejection of bodiliness will immediately target two beautiful but demanding and sometimes inconvenient realities,” he said: “marriage and the child.” . . .
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Thank you Bishop Olmsted.
 
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Love this Bishop. Really I do. But the Church needs to lead by example. So afraid of persecution it waits until after laws are passed to speak out and risk persecution. This Bishop leads by example. When all or even most of the leadership starts to follow, I’m right behind you guys…
 
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The liberals are using their “dark money” and political clout to pursue the advancement of their “family destruction” agenda within corporations. Testing is occurring by the Feds and their “corporate fronts”–profit or not for profit.

One corporation has a photo album of a gay married couple celebrating their marriage at the retail store operated by the corporation. The album is in the employee lunch room. This wasn’t by accident. Based on the apparel worn, some of the employees at that store are probably in someway affiliated with the group that is allegedly, per the media, responsible for recent slurs made against the Kentucky Catholic High Schoolers in Washington D.C.

If an employee protests the album, it could be used against the employee for his advancement in that corporation and outside of that corporation, which means the employee would be forced into working for himself (a risky venture).

Smoke and mirrors.
 
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We’re the church too.
When Henry VIII decided to become ‘head of the Church in England’, all the bishops there caved except I believe St. John Fisher (who was executed for it) and became Anglican.

But Catholics in England didn’t give up even when their leaders did.
We might have to face the same call.
 
Ok. Good luck. There are people leaving this earth every second.
 
let’s hope the ones leaving will be praying for us from above, and the ones staying will be praying --and doing–what they can.

I have already lost family for maintaining the Truth, but that’s in the here and now, and I hope and pray that they will one day see the light. They sure won’t see it if nobody is proclaiming it, so we need to keep going.
 
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