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Fr. Benedict Kiely: Cast off the Darkness – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Benedict Kiely: Cast off the Darkness

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By Fr. Benedict Kiely, The Catholic Thing, December 2, 2024

Fr. Benedict Kiely is a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. He is the founder of Nasarean.org, helping persecuted Christians…

Note: Today we have two commentaries on a horrific development in England – the approval of an assisted suicide law. Fr. Kiely writes from London; Professor Esolen from closer to home. Before final approval, there are still some hurdles for the proponents to get over. But we know from sad experience in other countries what a degradation of respect for human life that final approval would bring. This is only one of many such challenges we’re going to be facing in all the developed countries and elsewhere in the next year, and beyond. Which is why our work here at The Catholic Thing is becoming even more urgent. As is yours. You are an essential part of what happens here and in our supposedly advanced societies. If things like this are going to be stopped – they still can be – we must all work together. You know how. Please, do it today. Click the button. Send a check. But act, today, to advance The Catholic Thing. – Robert Royal 


Cast off the Darkness

Fr. Benedict Kiely

To begin Advent in darkness, both physical and metaphorical, seems very appropriate. It is a gloomy time of year, the nights are drawing in early, the atmosphere is cloudy and damp: gloomy is the right description. From the Old English for darkness, we know it can describe despondency and a lack of hope, a sense which approaches despair.

There is much that might make us gloomy at the moment, not least the awful vote in the British House of Commons on Friday allowing the euthanizing of those deemed not worthy of life. Although this crime against the Fifth Commandment has been allowed for years in other formerly Christian countries, such as Canada or Holland, and has had terrible consequences, all of which were said to not to be possible when the laws were introduced, the fact that Britain still has the external vestiges of being a Christian country make this moment worthy of more than gloom; it is now a different country, with post-Christian laws and government. …

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