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What Would the Saints Say?

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Political correctness inhibits freedom of speech, coerces those who dare to disagree into keeping silence, and bashes thinking outside of the idiot box. The main stream media journalists see themselves as political and moral moderators, entitled to promote and impose “the correct” point of view.

If we want your opinion, we will give it to you-become both the motto and modus operandi of the PI squad of hypocrites who march with freedom flags when they enslave, and pledge respect to human rights abroad, while trampling the homeless and the jobless at home.

 

Pope Francis said “Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.”

 

Not willing to quit and far from being indifferent, many of those who are mocked for “clinging to guns and religion” feel that the door is only ajar, and wishes it was officially and audibly opened for the freedom of speech untainted by PC, and – for the freedom of speech of the Saints.

 

Pope John Paul II said “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought”. In “Veritatis Splendor”, the Saint underlined the link between the freedom and the truth: “Truth enlightens man’s intelligence and shapes his freedom”.

Today people, who fight for freedom, fight for the truth. In words of Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, a martyr beatified on 6 June 2010:”To a large extent, we ourselves are to be blamed for our slavery, if out of fear or convenience we accept evil, or even vote for its mechanisms.”

 

Today more and more people, all over the world read Popieluszko’s “incendiary homilies”. Maybe, because he believed that the Church has a duty to stand by people: “The Duty of a priest is to preach the truth. Even if it means martyrdom”.

Perhaps, because he knew how to pray for freedom: “Woe to the society where the citizens are not governed by valor. They stop being citizens and become ordinary slaves…If a citizen gives up on the virtue of valor; he then becomes a slave and causes the greatest harm to himself, to his humanity, his family, co-workers, nation, country and Church, no matter if he sold himself out of fear, to be able to earn his bread or for other reasons. But also: Woe to the rulers who want to obtain citizens for the price of intimidation and slave-like fear!”

 

Is the Saint Martyr as politically incorrect today as he was during the politically stormy epoch when he lived? One thing is sure, thousands of people would gather to pray with him because he understood freedom and dared to tell the truth:” There are invisible prisons, and there are many of them. There are prisons where people are born, grow and die. There are prisons of systems and regimes. Such prisons destroy not only bodies, but reach for souls, reach for the true freedom.”

 

It’s natural for people to hike on new paths, but what if the paths have already been explored by our ancestors and soaked with their blood? Benedict XV (1914-1922) stated:
“It is not our intention here to repeat the arguments which clearly expose the errors of Socialism and of similar doctrines. Our predecessor, Leo XIII, most wisely did so in truly memorable Encyclicals; and you, Venerable Brethren, will take the greatest care that those grave precepts are never forgotten, but that whenever circumstances call for it, they should be clearly expounded and inculcated in Catholic associations and congresses, in sermons and in the Catholic press.”(Encyclical Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum, November 1, 1914, n. 13)

 

 Do we have the right to leave the legacy of both economic and moral debt to our children? To pretend that we don’t see homeless Veterans and jobless youth on the streets of our cities? Echoing the words of Saint Jerzy Popieluszko:

“We can’t be divided into these who fight for freedom and for those who are awaiting freedom just sitting back with folded arms.”

 

            Joanna Rosamond



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