Often the news is full of disaster and outrage. But rather than be depressed by it all, would that the Saints consider the glories and perfections of our Prince and Savior, the Lord Jesus!
Recently, the papers are abuzz about the latest wrinkles in the Roman Catholic priest scandals, this time over a letter by Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, seeming to indicate that the Vatican dragged its feet in defrocking a convicted pedophile priest in California.
Even though the priest in question asked to be defrocked, and his bishop urged the Vatican to act, it took 6 years to do so, during which time the man volunteered to work with children at a parish.
Ratzinger explained in his letter that his "court" had to consider the "scandel" to the "church" and the effect defrocking the pedophile priest would have on the "common good" of the Roman Catholic system and upon its adherents.
The press and many Christian critics seem to have missed the point of Ratzinger's letter, for the scandal he refers to is not that of a pedophile priest.
Rather, Ratzinger seems to be concerned about the scandal of defrocking a priest, and the effect that would have on Roman Catholicism.
The Roman Catholic system has usurped Christ's sole right as our High Priest, and has placed in so-called "priests" the power of salvation itself. To defrock such a person is to undermine the very means by which that apostate church controls salvation itself, and dispenses its poisonous false works gospel by the church and its laws and officers.
But our High Priest is holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners! We will never be ashamed by our Lord Jesus, our Priest forever!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
