Keith Fournier: Ragsdale’s “Counterfeit Christianity”

from Stand Firm by David Fischler 

Keith Fournier is a Roman Catholic deacon, a constitutional lawyer, and a long-time pro-life activist. He’s also a writer for Catholic Online, to the pages of which he takes to savage the Rev. Katherine Ragsdale, president of Episcopal Divinity School, for her “counterfeit Christianity”:

Among the witnesses was Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale. She is the “go to” witness these days for the radical abortion on demand lobby. She not only makes for good optics when she wears that clerical collar, she feigns outrage that anyone would attempt to stop any abortion for any reason. After all, she has now openly identified her position that abortion is a “blessing”....
In her testimony before Congress on Thursday she boasted of taking a 15 year old girl whom she had never met before for an abortion. She cited her vows as an Episcopal priest as authority for the act. She pledged that she would openly break such a law in the future if it was enacted.
She further attempted to clothe such a brazen act as noble and courageous. This woman regularly reminds me of these words from the Old Testament prophet Isaiah “Ah! Those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness to light, and light into darkness, who change bitter to sweet, and sweet into bitter.” (Is. 5:20)...

The early Church lived through similar examples of apostate leaders claiming the authority of the Church. When the Apostle Paul traveled to Macedonia and Greece he warned the early Christian leaders of such false teachers, ” I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God. Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the church of God that he acquired with his own blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock. And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the disciples away after them” (Acts 20:28-31)

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