Expert: Padraig Caughey - 7/25/2007

Question
Dear Padraig,

                     I feel called strongly to religious life I feel like I am called to become a nun. When I meant I have been called to be a mother I meant I have been called to religious life. To teach my children God. Am I called to canonzied sainthood. I am still searching for a spiritual traditional holy priest I found a spiritual director her name is Sr.Marilyn. But I can't find a traditional holy priest? Where can I find one? At the archdiocease? And early news from the pope! I like to share with you Padraig Pope fears Bush is antichrist, or beast his false prophet.Though the Methodist president dishonestly conceals the whole truth about his apocalyptic religious beliefs, he has acted as an evangelist in office.

I pray to God and say "We ask for miracles!" But not every follower of the Prince of Peace is shouting amen to Bush/Robertson/Falwell's Killer Christians. Granted, the fastest-growing churches are either evangelical—Bible believers out to win your soul—or fundamentalists, out to bend your soul to their bluenose will and so literal when it comes to the Bible that some insist Christ's parables refer to actual people and events. How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity, author Bruce Bawer accuses fundamentalism of replacing Christ's Church of Love with a Church of Law.The Religious Right didn't grow out of a love of God and one's neighbor—it grew out of racism, pure and simple." Kids growing up in Church of Law families nowadays think that the only two sins, or at least the only two really, really important ones, are having an abortion and having gay sex," but there is Pride, lying, gultony, idoltry and many others.

My opinion on the President "Bush is one of the key figures leading the church away from Jesus," I however do classify Bush Christians as modern Pharisees the allegedly proud, rigid, legalistic hypocrites John the Baptist called "a generation of vipers." Which is so true they are rampaging on Catholics calling us cults which we are not Jesus founded Catholicism under Jewish traditions whether they non catholics like it or not!"The worst condemnation that Jesus has for anybody, I mean the worst, is for Pharisees," There are no mirrors in Bush's church.

What I think about Bush and my family hates him too is I will state this and say it again if I have to to the US president that is current: "You claim Christ but act like Caesar and Herod. There is blood all over your hands with the promise of even more blood to come. You sit atop the nations like the Biblical Whore of Babylon openly fornicating with the military men of might. George Bush and the Rise of Christian Fascism" He is teaching to everyone that worships him, This administration is a culture of death,and death alone. It is, indeed, the materialization of the spirit of Antichrist: a perversion of Christian faith and practice that is false. The mission of Bush is the mirror opposite of what Jesus embodied.

Unwhimsical pundit Bush uses modern science to puzzle out what may be God's plan in his bold faith: The Logic of Human Destiny.George Bush is the Antichrist," and you'll get a startling list of Web sites that argue the case, but with sardonic intent and whimsical 666-numerological riffs.And only Bush knows where the mark is on his body.I do think he could conceivably do some pretty cataclysmic damage to the world. I have identification of Bush with the "spirit of Antichrist" warned against in the Bible's 1 John 4:3. "He has the spirit of the Antichrist. Literally, break the word apart. It is a spirituality that is anti-Christ." Early Christians grafted the Roman Emperor Nero onto the tradition as the Beast from the Abyss in the Apocalypse, known to current Christians as the book of Revelation, the Bible's astonishing finale about the final days. Nero dressed in animal skins to ravage men's and women's genitals, burned Christians in ghastly dramas, demanded to be worshiped as a god, and was rumored to have disappeared to the East, threatening to return one day to rule the world from Rome, or Jerusalem. Actually, he killed himself, but he lives on in beastly legend. To this day, the word for Antichrist in Armenian is "Nero." Christians have eternally argued about the Antichrist.

The Bible describes Christ's Second Coming and the Rapture of the Saints—the whooshing of Christians bodily into heaven. Rapture happens first. Exeunt Christians. Enter the Beast/Antichrist, who perpetrates a hellish seven-year Great Tribulation. Then Christ returns, kicks Beast butt, and reigns for 1,000 years—the Millennium. Fifty-one percent of Americans voted for Bush; 59 percent believe Revelation will come true. Without one scrap of scriptural evidence, almost one-quarter of Americans believe Revelation predicted 9/11.  And you know what I know God has a plan for us.

The Antichrist becomes Nicolae Carpathia, People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, seizing control of the U.N. to impose one world government! The faithful get saved! The secular humanists get what they deserve! It is all true and when people say that the pope is the false prophet or anti they should keep there mouth shut really. Do you definitly believe that Catholicism is Jewish and that we are Israelites the chosen of God and that God really founded Catholicism as his only true church?


Answer
Hi Heavenly,

One French writer wrote that, 'The only tragedy in life is not to have been a saint' So yes we are all of us called to be saints. As to finding a Spiritual Director, well good ones are as rare as hens teeth. But there is an old saying, "when the disciple is ready the Master appears'. So if you're looking for one I have no doubt with prayer you will find one.

Try and find one who is well read, wise and holy in that order. I suggest it is probably better to find one in a religious order than anywhere else. Maybe your friend the nun could give you advice on this??

I do not believe that President Bush is the anti-Christ and it is wrong to say you hate him for he is your brother.

I do not think it is right to call ourselves a Jewish Church for with the birth and death of Christ we are under a new dispensation.

Be at peace, heavenly, live a humble, poor and prayerful life and do not turn inwards on yourself too much. Turn your gaze to Christ.

Peace. Padraig