Now we can indeed say today..... “Bishop Sheen, pray for us!”
Do we know for certain his deathbed confession regarding his full-fledged acceptance of the NO was in perfect contrition and valid? I hope for the sake of his soul it was!
Raoul76 posted a youtube video with Bishop Sheen speaking in the kind of terms of reverence and endearance that are normally reserved for Jesus Christ and His Blessed Mother...
...but Bishop Sheen was using these terms while speaking of Pope John XXIII and his "opening of the church to the world"... During a scripted television show so he wrote the words out and pondered them ahead of time.
Sadly, he did say it. And Bishop Sheen was in such a position of influence and such a man of erudition and intelligence that he can't claim "ignorance" or just plain old stupidity. He was exuberant for the new church and for some reason that I can't figure out he really didn't see through the novus ordo nonsense.
We can't fight evil when the novus ordo has given evil the thumb's up. Not with the new saints of the new church. That's too much of a contradiction.
The novus ordo was fully in favor of this new Obamacare and they included it in their "hear our prayers" during the novus ordo worship service and the American bishops all got behind it - and I was thinking to myself, "Guys, the government that legalizes abortion will fund it when they get control of the health care system!" So now the bishops are all shaking their heads and saying "duh" as if anyone with the slightest amount of wherewithal and just plain ol' understanding of how politics in America works would know in ten seconds that government control of health care means our tax dollars will soon fund abortion. (Our tax dollars are already funding abortion and it happened regularly under George W. Bush we can't just think electing a republican will change things.)
So, in short, the novus ordo bishops betrayed basic Catholic theology and us by supporting this bill. But they aren't novus ordo bishops for nothing, are they?
Our only action is the same action we are already taking. We must simply stay true to the Traditions of the Catholic Church, raise our children in this same manner and just stay the course. The purpose of our lives is to gain Heaven, it's not to make this a more gracious world. Although, by working out our salvation with fear and trembling, we will increase the graciousness of this world by our example but that's a bonus feature and not the main objective.
For those who feel a need to do something, then by all means start writing letters to the bishop and to some Catholic lay organizations to start the campaign of working from within to get funding for abortion removed. Ok. Go ahead and do it. But don't forget that those who fund evil and those who choose evil (abortion is evil) are not particular about being honest so they will create dummy accounts that look on the up and up to outsiders but are actually a funnel in which abortion will be funded.