Pledging our hearts to a convicted felon and his anti-Christian platform...

November 8, 2024

Pledging our hearts to a convicted felon and his anti-Christian platform violating every tenet of Catholic Social Teaching, America and the Christian Church in it “behave as enemies of Christ’s cross.”

We are to be feared. We are not to be trusted. All our historic allies of Europe must plan now for a new America that will align itself with expansionist Russia and its plans to regain its lost Soviet territories. As American Christians, we are carrying the world to an accelerationist brink of destruction. So the reading from mass today seems hauntingly on point.

As I have often told you, and now tell you with tears, there are many whose way of life makes them enemies of the cross of Christ. They are heading for destruction, they make appetite their God, they take pride in what should bring shame; their minds are set on earthly things. We, by contrast, are citizens of heaven, and from heaven we expect our deliverer to come, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transfigure our humble bodies, and give them a form like his own glorious body, by that power which enables him to make all things subject to himself. – Phil. 3:18-21 (REB, emphasis mine)

It's true. As a Christian, I am now alienated by my own nation, my own people, and even my own faith. I am not safe here, and know I never will be again. To the end of my days, this world can never be my my hope, my family, or my home. We are a shattered colony of heaven, living in the wild. How I long for my homeland.

Is that really what Paul means? Deliverance from the fallen physical world and the life of the body? In his other letters, when he speaks of the body, he usually speaks of the Church itself… not yet an institution, but a people comprising Christ's mystical body here and now. Is that the sense of the passage above?

Can this “wretched body” of Christ truly transform into the glorious mould of his own once again?

I wonder.