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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Mar 15, 2024
Recounting how Jesus drove the money-changers out of the Temple, the Gospel of St. John [2:17] refers back to Psalm 69: “For zeal for thy house has consumed me.” When that Gospel was read at Sunday Mass two weeks ago, my mind flashed back to the disgraceful behavior of the activists who staged an outrageous mockery of a funeral service at St. Patrick’s cathedral in New York just a two weeks earlier.
The money-changers were only buying and selling. They were not using the Temple to celebrate “the mother of all whores,” as the sexual revolutionaries did in their memorial for a transvestite prostitute. Yet they were not driven out of St. Patrick’s. …
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Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.