Father Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea church in San Francisco, gave a 10-minute homily on Sunday, July 26.
The main thrust of the homily was that we are children of God, endowed with right reason and free will. And that distinguishes us from the animals.
Father Illo gave the example of the monkeys who reach for food inside hollow coconuts tied by Polynesian hunters to trees and cannot let go of the food to get their hands out.
Go to the 7 minute 32 second marker of the video::
“Marriage is not a compromise. It’s 100 percent from both parties. Both parties at certain points of any marriage have to give 100 percent. It’s all in with all in the family. And that’s why it’s a sacrament, a sign and channel of God’s grace, of His love for us.”
Oh please. everyone who has ever had a dog and even a cat knows that animals besides us possess free will and the ability to reason right from wrong. We hone those abilities through learning and logic, sure, but you can tell when a dog misbehaves merely by looking at his tail and eyes.
I think you are conflating conditioned behavior (in animals) and reasoned behavior (in humans).
Wolves in the wild, not having been conditioned/trained by human owners, will exhibit none of the behavioral characteristics that are leading you to personify certain conditioned behaviors in dogs and cats. Wolves in the wild have no moral compass nor understanding. Nor do stray cats. Nor do pet dogs and cats, for that matter.
What you are interpreting as moral understanding in domesticated dogs and cats is your personification of their behaviors, which are fundamentally merely conditioned responses to training by their human owners. Any supposed moral understanding in dogs and cats is just a reflection of what their human owners have conditioned them to do or how to respond.
Take humans out of the equation, and the behaviors you see in domesticated dogs and cats would revert to wild, instinctual, natural forces. The world of nature is not as depicted in Disney movies.
God doesn’t seem to be giving 100% to his bride.
I think the problem is that you are not giving 100%.
Look around bubba, the church is suffering and hurting all over. Not about me. Nobody has given a satisfactory explanation for why God has abandoned his bride the church.
He has not and never will abandon Her. Did no one ever teach you about the Cross?
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas
Here is more Father Illo, the guy who contends the virus is a hoax: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-pastor-News-reports-on-COVID-are-largely-15440632.php
He should be defrocked and the Archbishop either resign or taken into custody for blatantly defying lawful orders.
No, he says that the virus is real. He knows 3 who have it and has anointed them. His point is not really about the virus but about holier things we can do than monitor the news all the time.
Can they just learn from their mistake? Do we have to cancel them? Do we have to punish them?
Yes. When people, in their official actions, intentionally violate lawful orders, and that violation results in the very thing the orders were intended to prevent, they should be fired.or resign in disgrace. If I run a restaurant and the city finds a rat infestation, and the I go and feed the rats and someone gets bitten and dies of rabies, yes, I should lose my license to run a restaurant. We ought to demand of our leaders that they have the highest integirty and show example by cooperating with basic commons sense, not to mention the secular leadership.This is not complicated.
That is not what he did. He did violate any lawful orders. You are thinking of a different parish.
https://starparish.com/pastors-laptop/18144/
The bulletin that was linked in the article cited by Your Fellow Catholic has been taken down on the Star of the Sea website. Did anyone read it? I was trying to remember the three books that Father Illo recommended.