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Shepherds at Work, by Anthony Esolen – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Shepherds at Work, by Anthony Esolen

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By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing, June 1, 2024

Anthony Esolen is a lecturer, translator, and writer. Among his books are Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture, and Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World, and most recently The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord. He is Distinguished Professor at Thales College. Be sure to visit his new website, Word and Song.

Note: As Professor Esolen explains today, there’s a vast difference between our compassion towards sinners — which means, towards all of us since all of us need God’s mercy and salvation — and the indulgence of self-destructive attitudes and acts, among bishops and the Vatican itself.  A lot of confusion has arisen lately about the two sides of this consummately Christian truth, which is why we must be a steady voice for both mercy — and justice. Please, all of you reading, this: be generous in support of that fully Catholic vision. You know how. Why not do it? Now. – Robert Royal

Wedding photo of Emilia Kaczorowska and Karol Wojtyła, parents of Pope St. John Paul II, early 1900s [The Centre for the Thought of John Paul II, Warsaw, Poland]

The latest news from the American episcopacy comes from a bishop who has welcomed, as a hermit, a woman who fourteen years ago underwent surgery and pumped her body with chemicals to simulate the appearance of a male.  She says she did so out of a respect for the created order, which is like saying that you filled the lake with sand because you found it so lovely.

I’ll grant that it is a touchy thing to minister to someone so confused about both male and female that she thinks a little lopping and pasting, some hair on the face, and some extra muscle can obliterate her womanhood and make a man of her.

I grant also that the feelings of such a person must be powerful and extremely delicate.  Some motive must be driving you to ruin your sex, as other motives drive people into other self-destructive or delusive actions.  How much the persons are to blame, if at all, we must let God judge.

The bishop, though, is another matter.  I beg him to think about the whole situation, and if he cannot help rebuild the moral basis of a wholesome society that promotes marriage and family life and protects the innocence of children, shepherding them into healthy understandings of their own sex and its being made for the other, he should at least not go out of his way to make it harder than it already is. ….