The False Prophetism of Worldly Clergy

A war breaks out somewhere in the world and the clergy of all levels, voice their solidarity with the victims and the population hit by it.  There is a flood or an earthquake, and nearness in prayer is communicated coupled with a lecture to the civil authorities who were incapable of warding off the disaster or scarce in their aid after the fact.

We are in an economic crisis and this worldly clergy attempts to teach the economist what they need  to do by foisting their own “recipe” onto the State and the industrialists, reminding them of the rights of the workers.

By now we are used to these inevitable, humdrum ecclesiastical bulletins begotten by the likewise inevitable meetings of the ecclesiastical conferences.

Yet is all of this actually the task of the Catholic priesthood?  And if it is in some measure, is that all there is to his mission?

Despite all this talk of a prophetic Church, true prophecy is missing: the true, Catholic type of prophecy according to God.  What is missing  is the call to return to God.  (more...)

The False Prophetism of Worldly Clergy