Cardinal Pell Defends Against the Liberals

Cardinal Pell, the great Australian hero of Catholic Orthodoxy, in an interview with 'AD2000' has defended himself and the Church against malicious snipes by former Director of the Melbourne Catholic Education Office, Fr Frank Martin. Fr Martin in an Opinion article in the 'Sunday Herald Sun' on 18 June, expressed a great deal of views that are in direct contrast to the Church's teachings. In doing so he also personally attacked Cardinal Pell by referring to him as a man who is "about power and control".

In the article Fr Martin pretends to be the real hero, all about accepting everyone. This is an interesting point of view, because that certainly wasn't Jesus' message. When Jesus stopped a women from stoning due to adultery, he didn't say 'that's ok, love. We all sin, it doesn't matter! Chill out!' But instead, he told the woman 'to go away [unharmed] and SIN NO MORE'.

In the Cardinal's words;

'Our Lord certainly understood people in their weakness and he did eat with sinners. But he called them to repentance and a change of heart. He didn't urge them to continue in their bad habits.'

In this whole issue it is just beyond comprehension why he is a priest if he doesn't believe what the church teaches. I couldn't imagine giving up my life for something I didn't believe in.

One of my favourite quotes from the article is;

'A favourite tactic of dissenters is to try to claim the centre ground; to make it appear that they constitute the moderate mainstream of the Church even when denying Catholic doctrines.'

Here we go again, pretending to be the real hero against the 'mighty, oppressive and backward Church'!

Pell also says;

'To leave Fr Martin unanswered would risk giving the impression that his views are part of an acceptable sprectrum. This is not so. They are imprudent dissent.'

Hoorah and excellent! Hopefully Archbishop Hart also either reprimands Fr Martin quite forcefully or speaks out that his views are not correct or representative of the Church.

God Bless defenders of orthodoxy and our faith.