In watching American media coverage of the recent Papal election of Pope Benedict XVI, I am reminded vividly of Matthew 4:5-7 when Satan fails to tempt Christ. On these shows like Chris Matthew's Hardball and Tim Russert's Meet the Press we have Catholic hosts and guests who continually call for Christ's Vicar to change God's laws and put the Lord, God to the Test. Like Satan's temptation on the parapet of the temple, these individuals try to invoke a "squaring of the circle", calling for God to undo the rationality of His creation to save His Son. Satan was calling for God to undo the Law of Gravity. Unorthodox Catholic media pundits are calling for God through Christ's Vicar to undo the Laws of Chastity by saying that contraception and abortion are not intrinsically evil.
On Meet the Press one pundit stated that every Sunday Catholics recite the Nicene Creed which makes no mention of issues American Catholics want to debate like abortion and birth control. Au Contraire, the Creed precisely speaks against birth control and abortion when it exclaims, "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord the Giver of life..." When Catholics proclaim the dominion of the Lord the Giver of life, we are stating that man is not the giver nor taker of life. Catholics are saying that His dominion is absolute and that contraception and abortion are contra the Holy Spirit, every time they recite the Creed. Both contraception and abortion say, don't come Holy Spirit, we don't like what you bring.
We must pray for these pundits and point out to them that when they call for changing Catholic dogma they are violating the commandment of not putting the Lord God to the test. A violation which is essentially a sin.
For more on Antichurch pundits within the Church see Pat Buchanan's latest:
"What Benedict XVI is telling the world and dissident Catholics is: It is not Christ's church that must change its teaching, it is you who must change your hearts."
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