Telling It Like It Should Be Told
December 7th, 2007 by Dim BulbFather Stephanos, O.S.B., on his Me Monk, Me Meander blog is not in the habit of pulling punches:
It is the anniversary of his ordination as bishop.
I want to nominate him as a patronal monitor-saint for Catholic politicians.
He wrote, “The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.”
Any Catholic politician who is honest with himself, with other men, and with God is not going to divide his moral integrity into a private piece and a public piece. A man either has moral integrity or he does not. The word “integrity” comes from the Latin word for “the entire.” If the pieces of a thing are separated from each other, the thing no longer has integrity.
Am I saying that a Catholic politician should impose his Catholic morality on his own political decisions? Yes. However, I will also say that a Catholic politician unwilling to do that should get out of politics, because he is morally divided (lacking objective integrity), he is objectively dishonest (being two-faced), and he is objectively unjust (not giving God what God has a right to have from him). No one, Catholic or not, should trust such a man. (Read the rest here.)
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