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It's not my normal practice to share private messages.
However, when a representative of the Church is being spiritually abusive, the faithful have a right to know.
@FatherArisman sent me a message today accusing me of voting with evil intentions. ...
However, when a representative of the Church is being spiritually abusive, the faithful have a right to know.
@FatherArisman sent me a message today accusing me of voting with evil intentions. ...
... This priest and I have never communicated before. He's not my confessor; he doesn't know my heart.
I responded, as you can see, citing this thread: https://twitter.com/DawnofMercy/status/1322693356552626177. My hope was to take his unprovoked condemnation as an opportunity for private dialogue. ...
I responded, as you can see, citing this thread: https://twitter.com/DawnofMercy/status/1322693356552626177. My hope was to take his unprovoked condemnation as an opportunity for private dialogue. ...
He responded, "Torture and deportation or capital punishment aren't intrinsic evils."
But this is wrong. Vatican II and JP2 say torture & deportation are intrinsic evils. The death penalty isn't, but I didn't say it was; I said it was an "inadmissible evil," which it is. ...
But this is wrong. Vatican II and JP2 say torture & deportation are intrinsic evils. The death penalty isn't, but I didn't say it was; I said it was an "inadmissible evil," which it is. ...
... I was going to continue the dialogue by sending @FatherArisman John Paul II's Veritatis splendor no. 80, which cites the Council's teaching that includes torture and deportation among intrinsic evils. But he blocked me. So I'm posting it here where he can see it. ...
... I'll write a complaint to @FatherArisman's bishop, @BishopPaprocki, about his abusive use of social media. But I'm complaining publicly too because, as a Catholic laywoman, I want to say that this madness of Catholics judging others' intentions for voting has to stop. ...
... It bears repeating: What I experienced from @FatherArisman is _spiritual_abuse_.
He condemned me in the harshest terms for what he wrongly assumed were my motivations, even though I've expressly and publicly denied having such motivations. ...
He condemned me in the harshest terms for what he wrongly assumed were my motivations, even though I've expressly and publicly denied having such motivations. ...
... When I responded politely by citing Church teaching, he responded by _denying_ the Church taught such things.
And then he denied me the opportunity to correct him further in a private matter, by blocking me from his locked account! ...
And then he denied me the opportunity to correct him further in a private matter, by blocking me from his locked account! ...
... If this is how @FatherArisman acts in the pulpit and in the confessional--if he assumes anyone who didn't vote as he did must have had evil intentions--then I fear for his parishioners.
Yes, @FatherArisman, God help me. God help the Church in America heal from this madness.
Yes, @FatherArisman, God help me. God help the Church in America heal from this madness.
