I
vote for Piety and Purity . . .
Which brand
of Catholic do you support?
Peace and Justice Catholics = aging hippies
Piety and Purity Catholics = conservative family values
Justice and Mercy = what we all should be
"There
seems to be an undefined group of Catholics who some call “Peace and Justice
Catholics”. They are typified as aging hippies. They named their churches
“Prince of Peace” in the sixties as a kind of flower power protest. These peace
and justice Catholics are portrayed by conservatives as left wing, tree
hugging, bra burning, gay loving, contracepting, bleeding heart liberals.
Conservatives wonder why don’t the Peace and
Justice Catholics demand justice for the millions of unborn babies that have
been slaughtered.
On the other side of the fence are what might be called Piety
and Purity Catholics. They are the conservatives who are all for the
authority of the Church, family values, high standards of sexual morality. They
are typified by the other side as wearing sport coats, shirt and tie. Hair
combed and with a large brood of scowling kids with an exhausted wife
with a calf length skirt and straggly hair smiling through her sufferings. Piety and Purity conservatives are all for “family
values”. They are opposed to same sex marriage, contraception, abortion and
divorce. They are portrayed by
liberals as ignorant, racist, homophobic, jingoistic, military loving morons
obsessed with rituals.
Both
caricatures are silly and both extremist views are misplaced.
Instead of being a Justice and Peace Catholic or a Piety and
Purity Catholic we should all be Justice and Mercy Catholics. Justice
and Mercy are put together in this phrase to remind us that Justice and Mercy
are two sides of the same coin. God’s Justice is Merciful and his Mercy is
Just. This is because God’s judgment is a purely righteous judgment. It is both
just and merciful at the same time."
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