Such bad language! For shame! For shame! For shame! For SHAME! And moreover: Be NICE!

Whatever. Get over it. Or, better yet, if you are really offended by this, go and complain to one of our greatest South American Cardinals, the Archbishop of Lima, Peru, his Eminence, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne. These are his words. After your discussion with him about your rights, you’ll likely hear the same words hurled your way, as it seems that this is one of his favorite phrases. And you have to know, I just love that.

O.K., then, after you get uncerimoniously tossed out on your keister, and probably using the latter part of his words against him (ironically, despite yourself), I urge you, go and kneel at the tomb of Blessed John Paul II, who named the good Archbishop a Cardinal within a few weeks after he made this internationally publicized statement. There were protests to the Vatican and no end to the headlines, which were put in such huge bold type that there were no stories on the front pages, only this one quotation. Throughout France, I’m told, all you could see everywhere on the front pages was this:

Les droits de l’homme:

 C’est de la merde!

Friends across the border, down in Tor Ciudad, in Spain, were celebrating to no end. Their Cardinal (their second Cardinal) had gotten it right, though the whole world thought that he had gotten it oh so wrong.

The world had been turned upside down, the media were in non-stop frenzy mode, but JPII’s answer was to make him a Cardinal. And you have to know, I just love that. I mean, really, go and kneel at John Paul’s tomb and complain to him about this. You’ll likely hear a voice from heaven repeating the same words without missing a beat. Hah! But, go ahead! You have to know that there is something to learn about how passionate we must be with the new evangelization amidst the total idiocy of this world: “The rights of man: what a load of sh*t!” Gasp!

But Father, but Father! Doesn’t man have rights? How could the Cardinal and Blessed John Paul get it so very wrong? Isn’t that what the USCCB is fighting the Obama administration about, saying that we have rights? And what about priest’s like Father Gordon MacRae? Shouldn’t he fight for his rights?

Seldom affirm, almost never deny, always distinguish… Let’s investigate this.

A little preface: Your’s truly, always the troublemaker, took a course on Liberation Theology from none other than Father Gustavo Gutiérrez (now O.P.), at – where else? – the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. The Aula Minor was packed. I was one of the very few to get perfect marks for the course. I know how to take exams!

He had two good things to say: (1) He publically repented for having pushed for the murder of various individuals. (2) He said that if someone is profound in their own time, they will be profound in all times. One really off the mark statement he made was that God made mistakes in coming to know His people, Israel.

But let’s take this down to Peru, home of quite a few extremely violent Marxists, who kill indiscriminately just to get people angry so that they will fight the “oppressors”: onward to No Place, to Utopia. There are always some knucklehead priests who go along with this. They hated the Opus Dei Archbishop, and got together a protest outside the Cathedral, where the Archbishop was offering Holy Mass. All the media were present, taking notes, filming, recording the event as he walked out of the Cathedral to take on whatever stupidity the might-makes-right attention seekers had to hurl at him.

They chanted that men have rights, the right to kill one’s oppressors vigilante style! Kill! Kill! Kill! Tit for tat! We want a spiral of violence! Men have rights!

There can be plenty of injustice, and one does have the right to defend oneself, but to foment a war by way of vigilantism – where there is almost never justice done for anyone – instead of using other means to bring society to a change for the better (and there are plenty) is just plain wrong. If one has to change the government by way of peaceful protest. Fine! Umpteen countries in Europe have done this, also thanks to Blessed John Paul II.

The distinction: the rights of man provided by man to himself for self-serving reasons are wrongly hailed as something being over and above the inalienable rights that God provides to us, over and above to the point of being able to ignore what God wants of us, the rights of God. But that’s wrong. The rights of man, as the Cardinal said and John Paul affirmed… the mere rights of man are sh*t.

Why bring this up here and now? What’s the point? The inalienable rights given to us by God, some of which are also enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, such as in the first amendment of the Bill of Rights and precisely as inalienable rights which are not provided by any government but by God Himself, are now being trampled upon by the Obama administration in favor of the mere rights of man, this time the “right” to murder children in the womb, being born, or even, as Obama has had it, just now born, infanticide. There is no right to murder an innocent human being. The rights of man are sh*t.

That the rights of man are sh*t is a good call by the greatest of the great South American Cardinals, His Eminence, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne. How great that Blessed Pope John Paul II confirmed this just some weeks later. But did the Holy Father really do that? Just because he made Cipriani a Cardinal while the whole world was in an uproar against Cipriani for this statement does not prove anything, does it? Remember this video of Pope John Paul II down in Sicily. I bet that this is exactly where Cipriani was inspired to say what he said. Go John Paul II! To read that post, go here. Now, watch the video of the Great John Paul II again!