In today's WSJ ($), Al Hunt complains that plans by some US
bishops to withhold the Eucharist from Catholic politicians who publicly dissent
from Church teaching are causing hurt feelings:
Forty-eight House Democrats, including several pro-life lawmakers, recently wrote Cardinal McCarrick to express their dismay at these calls to sanction Catholic politicians for particular policy views, warning of a backlash against the church. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who ... initiated this move, she says, because of the "deep personal hurt" this controversy has caused among many Catholic lawmakers.Aw, poor baby. You know, however, I am unaware of any Biblical passage or Church teaching promising that following Christ would be easy or pain-free. To the contrary, how about:
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's enemies will be those of his household.'"
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me." (Matt. 10:33- 38.)Besides which, what is the "deep personal hurt" of a few pro-abortion legislators compared to the slaughter of millions of innoncent unborn children every year?
