Thursday, August 6, 2015

Persecution Rising

Written by  Patrick Archbold

http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/1912-persecution-rising

 

 

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Following the disastrous “gay marriage” decision of the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, all informed faithful Catholics understand that the time of persecution has begun. We now fully expect the merciless hands of runaway secularism, both governmental and societal, to treat Christians with every cruelty possible. What they may not realize is that there are other forms of persecution and persecutors that may well come for faithful Catholics, one of which is a persecution by the Church itself…

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In some ways, we expect this type of persecution when we choose to follow Christ and take up our crosses. What some faithful Catholics may not expect is the possible coming persecution of faithful Catholics at the hands of their own Church, simply for believing and acting as all genuine Christians must believe and act…

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It is impossible to know for sure what will come of this October’s closing of the Synod on the Family. What is possible to know is what many of the leaders and promoters of this synod desire to happen and are dedicated to see that it does.

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Faithful Catholics will have nowhere to turn. Persecuted by society, government, and even their own Church for simply refusing to accept what cannot be accepted.

So what then? How should faithful Catholics respond? Should we be rebels or martyrs?

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Without doubt, we are for now at the mercy of anti-Christian forces, both outside and inside the Church. Some aspects of this persecution will undoubtedly be difficult to take. But this is what we signed up for when we picked up the cross of our salvation.

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P.S.

The Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place on October 4–25, 2015, and will have a theme of "the vocation and mission of the family in the Church and in the contemporary world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Ordinary_General_Assembly_of_the_Synod_of_Bishops