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djames99
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And who are your “kids” as Catholic.?
I also heard police will shoot a teen holding a swiss army knife, and that also is a fact. Frankly, as an ex military myself, and if I were a policeman, I wouldn’t have minded to take my chances and disarm him in other ways. The bravery you speak of goes two ways. As I am about to do this, I would have had in the back of my mind a picture of some mother who has hope for the future, a mother who’s husband left her and left the raising of a son to her while she worked to raise him, at a time when the raising of sons is critical. I would have in my mind a young man, my brother, who right now is doing something foolish but doesn’t realize the impact of what he is doing. The point is “I”, at this moment, bound to live the days of Corinth, must make it possible for him to change his direction in the future. To a Catholic, regardless of vocation, the desire to orient change encompasses the probabilities of all concerned, the nation as well as the offender. We are commanded to hope under the new law, not the erroneous trust except for the trust of God only. 77 X 7 doesn’t imply that we trust, but in a hope that directs us to convey mercy so that he can have a hopeful next time.
But the demands on a police officer also entail consistency in the duties toward God firstly as it is to the nation. Crimes occur all around him in life. A day’s work rounding up criminals in events that make public notice surely must bring a self satisfaction to him for a job well done. The hard part has God waiting in the sidelines. The offenses committed while in the service is also another task he must zealously attend to, as this too is an attack on justice. An institution ripe with corruption should have our Knight crusading in less comfortable, politically correct domains of certain personal risk. His promise to ensure that teen has to his avail a system of untainted due process is also his duty; this too is mercy and ensuring his future. A person so afflicted knows he is not qualified as a Knight.
It should be remembered that the good we do is non effectual to the soul and renders it redundant if we do nothing to address the capital wrongs that come into our sphere of action or influence, or adhere to and propagate treasonous principles contrary to God’s morals, or commit wrongs that are directly imputed to us. If the Church teaches a nation that something is a sin, then our duty is to act and not find favor with the law the nation adopts. Doing nothing is not an option. A policeman can rack up a career of doing a good job, make it to commissioner, only to have it lost on his principles contrary to God’s morals. We cannot be partially Catholic.
The common good as it is defined in today’s no tolerance mentality is also taking a beating. This is due to the compounding effect of the acceptance of the mortal sins of capital punishment and abortion. It has an oxymoronoc aire about it in that “good and non tolerance” are somehow compatible. All good finds it’s source in God’s vast pool of available Good. The nation can tap into this pool for establishing a common good so that it can maintain order. No man who is inspired by a honed conscience can see this is unjust. The nation can only claim this privilege if itself is without taint. The caveat to the nation is that there must be an inherent connection between what is legislated, and to the end in which it desires to effect*. A nation who allows the abortion of infants assumes the position of a mistrust in God, is truant to the Teacher’s instructions, and implies that God is incapable in turning future events for the betterment of the now unhappy mother and her child. The Holy Spirit works on his own timetable, the nation’s mandate is to obey the Church and play it’s role so that He can through this sequence of events realize the better future for the child. Such a nation should withdraw it’s global military activities until it can settle it’s own conflict of conscience at home. Seldom is it found that a non virtuous nation can gain global respect either from God or his people.
One-upping God bodes nothing good. Same goes for capital punishment.
I also heard police will shoot a teen holding a swiss army knife, and that also is a fact. Frankly, as an ex military myself, and if I were a policeman, I wouldn’t have minded to take my chances and disarm him in other ways. The bravery you speak of goes two ways. As I am about to do this, I would have had in the back of my mind a picture of some mother who has hope for the future, a mother who’s husband left her and left the raising of a son to her while she worked to raise him, at a time when the raising of sons is critical. I would have in my mind a young man, my brother, who right now is doing something foolish but doesn’t realize the impact of what he is doing. The point is “I”, at this moment, bound to live the days of Corinth, must make it possible for him to change his direction in the future. To a Catholic, regardless of vocation, the desire to orient change encompasses the probabilities of all concerned, the nation as well as the offender. We are commanded to hope under the new law, not the erroneous trust except for the trust of God only. 77 X 7 doesn’t imply that we trust, but in a hope that directs us to convey mercy so that he can have a hopeful next time.
But the demands on a police officer also entail consistency in the duties toward God firstly as it is to the nation. Crimes occur all around him in life. A day’s work rounding up criminals in events that make public notice surely must bring a self satisfaction to him for a job well done. The hard part has God waiting in the sidelines. The offenses committed while in the service is also another task he must zealously attend to, as this too is an attack on justice. An institution ripe with corruption should have our Knight crusading in less comfortable, politically correct domains of certain personal risk. His promise to ensure that teen has to his avail a system of untainted due process is also his duty; this too is mercy and ensuring his future. A person so afflicted knows he is not qualified as a Knight.
It should be remembered that the good we do is non effectual to the soul and renders it redundant if we do nothing to address the capital wrongs that come into our sphere of action or influence, or adhere to and propagate treasonous principles contrary to God’s morals, or commit wrongs that are directly imputed to us. If the Church teaches a nation that something is a sin, then our duty is to act and not find favor with the law the nation adopts. Doing nothing is not an option. A policeman can rack up a career of doing a good job, make it to commissioner, only to have it lost on his principles contrary to God’s morals. We cannot be partially Catholic.
The common good as it is defined in today’s no tolerance mentality is also taking a beating. This is due to the compounding effect of the acceptance of the mortal sins of capital punishment and abortion. It has an oxymoronoc aire about it in that “good and non tolerance” are somehow compatible. All good finds it’s source in God’s vast pool of available Good. The nation can tap into this pool for establishing a common good so that it can maintain order. No man who is inspired by a honed conscience can see this is unjust. The nation can only claim this privilege if itself is without taint. The caveat to the nation is that there must be an inherent connection between what is legislated, and to the end in which it desires to effect*. A nation who allows the abortion of infants assumes the position of a mistrust in God, is truant to the Teacher’s instructions, and implies that God is incapable in turning future events for the betterment of the now unhappy mother and her child. The Holy Spirit works on his own timetable, the nation’s mandate is to obey the Church and play it’s role so that He can through this sequence of events realize the better future for the child. Such a nation should withdraw it’s global military activities until it can settle it’s own conflict of conscience at home. Seldom is it found that a non virtuous nation can gain global respect either from God or his people.
One-upping God bodes nothing good. Same goes for capital punishment.
- Conscience in Conflict, p36, Kenneth R. Overberg, S.J.
, but I saw that someone said disarming law abiding citizens has ‘‘never worked.’’ I have to respectfully disagree. It works quite well in Britain. I have never met anyone with a gun, except pellet guns and things, and our normal police officers don’t carry firearms. Gun violence is much much lower per capita than in the USA. The main concern in the UK, even among gangs, is knife violence. Now I’m not saying American should have such staunch gun control, we have some of the toughest laws in the world, as our cultures and histories are different. For example we have no written constitution, any of our laws about guns can be overturned, amended etc with a simple Act of Parliament, but I just wanted to say gun control can work.