Host: Sam Beamer … Samctuary@aol.com … Mission Statement … Love of My Life 

A challenge to all religious and secular Eggheads:  After all, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander?” 

The Beauty and Duty of the Roman Catholic Religion are mutually inclusive.  Similarly, all fundamental laws governing the Catholic Church and each family as the Domestic Church, are not only quite simple but also universal.  Unfortunately, because not everything is as it should be, a close examination of our society’s family Crisis is more than vital–it is also urgent.   

Since all traditional religions are in agreement on innate laws and values of life, why don’t their “experts” or leaders agree on a uniform application of such laws?  Also, if Catholics still consider the Catholic Religion as the goose that laid the golden egg, why do so many Catholics disagree or violate various laws or teachings of the Church.   Because all traditional religions or philosophies have been experiencing similar calamity, the scope of our Crisis seems as endless as its roots … from laws to leadership.

Because our Crisis is as old as it is fresh, a 1995 address by His Holiness Pope John Paul II would make a good starting point: 

3.  It is not enough, then, to appeal to the human person and the person’s dignity without first endeavoring to form an adequate anthropological vision, which, on the basis of reliable scientific findings, remains anchored in the fundamental, principles of the perennial philosophy and is illumined by the vivid light of Christian Revelation.

This is why at a previous meeting with this Tribunal I referred to “a truly complete vision of the person.” and warned against certain trends of contemporary psychology that, “going beyond their own specific competence, are carried into such territory and are introduced under the thrust of anthropological presuppositions which cannot be reconciled with Christian anthropology” (John Paul II, Address to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, 2 [5 Feb. 1987]). These presuppositions, in fact, offer a view of nature and human existence that is “closed to values and meaning which transcend the immanent factor and which allow human beings to tend towards the love of God and of their neighbor as their final vocation (Ibid., 4).

4.  Thus it is helpful once again to call the attention of ecclesiastical tribunals to the unacceptable consequences resulting from—erroneous doctrinal approaches, which have negative repercussions on the administration of justice and, in a particular and even more serious way, on the handling of cases of marital nullity. Moreover, for many years specific canonical legislation dealing with the consultation of medical specialists and experts in psychiatric science and practice has expressly warned that “care must be taken to exclude those who do not adhere to sound [Catholic] teaching in this matter” (Pius XI, Provida Mater Ecclesia, 15 Aug. 1936, in AAS, 28 [1936], p. 343, art. 151).

Only a Christian anthropology, enriched by the contribution of indisputable scientific data, including that of modern psychology and psychiatry, can offer a complete and thus realistic vision of humans. Ignorance of the fact that they “have a wounded nature inclined to evil,” the Catechism of the Catholic Church warns,” gives rise to serious errors in the areas of education, politics, social action and morals” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 407; cf. no. 410 ff.). It would be equally misleading to forget that human beings have been gratuitously redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ and enabled, despite the influences of the world outside and within him, to do good and to, make life-long commitments.

5.  All this can only lead to an ever greater esteem for humans’ sublime nobility, their inviolable rights, the respect owed to them even when their actions and behavior become the object of judicial investigation on the part of legitimate authority in general or of ecclesial authority in particular.

Given that innate or natural needs of a Catholic child, mother or father are not much different than those of any Christian, Jew, Atheist and others, how do experts account for “professional differences” over the indissoluble nature of each family or the injustice of No-Fault Divorce Laws.  Because only ”experts or leaders” have the power to shape private laws and public trends, how do our “luminaries” plan to restore truth, justice and empowerment or begin to end social con-fusion over contraception, infertility, abortion, euthanasia, addictions to mental or physical adultery, cohabitation, divorce, remarriage, homosexuality and other dysfunctional behaviors?  Sam Beamer …  “Let your love of justice be exceeded only by your love of mercy.”