from the heelers emails

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From: James
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: from you know who you know where you have a rough idea when
To: R

My blushes R.

I failed to connect your question about receiving the vows with the email in which I did of course actually receive the vows.

I suppose it lodged in that filing system I call a brain under the heading 'creed' and didn't show up when you mentioned vows.

In re the Catholic Church, all I can give you is my testimony.

The Church is ancient, beautiful and true.

For 2000 years all that is evil has sought to overthrow her or infiltrate her. Every Nazi, every communist, every Islamist, every Free Mason, every devil woshipper, every secret brotherhood of evil through history has sought to murder priests and nuns out of existence or subvert the authority of the institutional Church so that the people might be more readily enslaved to darkness. I take it kinda personal. There is a tradition that six nuns were executed near where I live because they would not give up the faith during the time of the then British Monarchy's persecution of Catholics in Ireland. For my money the most murderous Nazis, communists, Islamists, and even those British monarchists who mistakenly made war with the Church four hundred years ago, while being evil and murderous in their actions, were still far more honorable than the atheistic abortionist liberal leftists of today who simply try to slander the Church out of existence through the manipulation of sex abuse cases; I mean by concealing the vast preponderance of abuse cases which do not occur in the Church and by continually recycling as propaganda the minority of cases which do occur in the Church in the hope that the Church can be erased through the destruction of her reputation. 

A tidal wave of sex abuse has swept the world. Only a comparatively small part of it has managed to breach the walls of the Church. Aren't all the victims important, not just the ones that the media can use to try and separate humanity from the faith?

As for her power... The Church has to be a bit tough at times in order to steward the truth of Jesus through 2000 years and all the way to the end of time. There were 4000 priests in Dachau concentration camp in 1943. (I think I have that right.) I'd guess a certain toughness, even an authoritarian streak, was necessary for them to defy Hitler and refuse to abandon the Catholic Church in those circumstances. Just by abandoning the Church many of them would have been set free.

But who is Jesus?

A delusional maniac?

A rather good teacher?

A really likeable Jewish guy with some great one liners whose fans keep trying to persuade everyone else how good he is?

The eternal Son of God who was born and died and rose again so that all of us could be saved from our sins?

James Healy