Catholic Pharisees

FRONT ROYAL, VA—Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president, Human Life International, rebukes the 48 “Catholic” U.S. congressmen who claim being denied communion because of their pro-abortion stance will “revive anti-Catholic bigotry”:

“The Lord Jesus had a term for those who professed to believe in sacred principles and then contradicted those principles by their public positions and actions: hypocrites. Every wretched sinner, public or private, who turned away from sin, always received the fullness of His mercy, but He could not and would not countenance the pharisaical posturing of those legalists who knew the meaning of the law and flouted it anyway. If terms like ‘whitewashed tombs full of dead men’s bones’ and ‘brood of vipers’ say anything, they express the Lord’s perfect contempt for such hypocrisy and those who think they know more than God.

“The recent statement by 48 hypocrites of the U.S. Congress criticizing the U.S. Catholic bishops for actually being Catholic deserves our withering contempt. In fact, they merit an all-out prophetic rebuke. Are the lost sheep to lecture the shepherds on how to pasture a flock? Are we to presume that they speak with infallible authority on this issue? Worse yet, in their statement, the pharisaical 48 have stepped over the line of public decency and insinuated that the bishops are casting out demons with the help of Beelzebub. Hypocrisy is no doubt alive and well in modern America, but those who persevere in it do so to the peril of their immortal souls.

“I have one very simple suggestion for all ‘Catholic’ Pharisees who want to be in the Church but not of the Church: spare us all your scandal mongering and get the hell out.”

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