McCarrick said yesterday that "the life issues are primary." But he said he worries about a "loss of civility" in politics and rising stridency among religious leaders in telling politicians, and even voters, how they must act, not just on broad moral issues but on particular legislation or in particular races.
"I'm afraid there are a lot more people in the church who think that things are black and white," he said. "No one can really read another person's conscience. . . . I hope it is not cowardice, I hope it is prudence -- we must always give people the benefit of the doubt."
Sorry, your Emminence, but let's call it what it truly is...Cowardice! Fear of engaging in one obligations. Those who openly and publicly advocate abortion or other intrinsic evils have manifested their consciences...Where is the prudence in allowing those who openly reject the natural moral law and the teachings of the Church to receive Holy Communion as if their statements and actions did not exist? Where is the prudence in allowing sacrilege and scandal to continue unabated? Prudence? From the CCC #1806:
Prudence is the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it;...Prudence is "right reason in action," writes St. Thomas Aquinas, following Aristotle...It is not to be confused with timidity or fear, nor with duplicity or dissimulation...
Where's the confusion?
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