Cultural Catholic ALERT: Is
This Really a Catholic Comedian?
It’s always hard to know what to
make of those high-profile cultural Catholics who trash Catholic
teaching in public at the drop of a hat and receive no – I mean,
absolutely zero – pushback from Church leaders. Unfortunately, the
number of cultural Catholics in public life today is legion and
growing.
The joke is on them, though,
because, as St. Paul said so long ago, God will not be mocked
(Galatians 6:7).
Late-night comedian, Stephen
Colbert, is one of those false Catholics who gets away with murder,
literally. Recently, he used his CBS The Late Show monologue to go on a tirade against the Supreme Court
in their review of the Mississippi abortion case that has the
potential to overturn the reprehensible Roe v. Wade abortion decision of 1973.
This comedian – who is also on
record aggressively defending Planned Parenthood – called the Supreme
Court the “Supreme Stench” and took deliberate pains to mock his own
fellow Catholics on the high court, Justices Thomas, Kavanaugh, and
Coney Barrett, as well as Chief Justice Roberts.
Colbert does all that while at the
same time portraying himself as a so-called “devout Catholic”
everywhere he goes. In a 2015 interview with GQ magazine he spoke like
this:
I was raised in a Catholic
tradition… That’s my context for my existence, is that I am here to
know God, love God, serve God, that we might be happy with each other
in this world and with Him in the next—the catechism. That makes a lot
of sense to me.
It’s hard to reconcile the “love
and serve God” principles of our faith with the advocacy of abortion.
As one writer noted, Colbert’s real religion is not
Catholicism. It’s liberalism.
Catholics are entitled to differing
views about non-essential social and political matters that relate to
Catholic teaching, but we are not entitled to advocate for, promote,
or in any way laud the crime of abortion.
Colbert regularly does puff-piece
interviews with the likes of dissenting Jesuit Fr. James Martin to
stoke the image of the “good Catholic” while at the same time he
berates and ridicules those who defend basic Christian/biblical
teachings. He called the Alliance Defending Freedom, who oppose gay
marriage, a “hate group”. He defamed Rick Santorum when the former
senator spoke out against partial birth abortion.
Mockery may be Colbert’s stock and
trade, but God will not be
mocked.
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