Church Law vs Government Law
Church Law vs Government Law
Preamble
This is based on a letter to the paper. 14 billion Catholics commemorate Thomas More and Cardinal Fisher, executed in 1535 by Henry VIII for refusing to put a new law by English politicians above the law of God
The church is saying priests are bound
To keep confessional-silence
Child abuse they can't report
The confessional retains the violence
The law is now about to change
A crime will silence become
Priests they too will need report
As will you, or anyone
The priests do not agree with this
Religious law's supreme
They are prepared to go to jail
To keep holy silence unseen
Priests do claim they represent
Jesus Christ as law
A law humans created
Just as is a government law
To claim an individual can
Uphold a prophet's word
And therefore be above the law
Is really quite absurd
Don Matthews June 2018
M.C. Newberry
Mon 3rd Sep 2018 17:05
I have no truck with "religious law" - recalling the term
"ecclesiastical law" protecting clergy of the established
church. Henry V111 was an astonishing monarch for
daring to take on the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church and winning here in this country in an age
when savage retribution was the norm when vying for
dominance in the name of "religious belief". Superstition
still holds sway in the form of religion even today and it is
essential that the law for all should take precedence over
these self-chosen types of mental conviction. The bottom
line - if you purport to be a "believer" - has to be whether
Christ or the Prophet would condone abuse. Surely not!