This Was Not Punishment - It Was A Warning!

 

"Southern Decadence was set for New Orleans ... It was to be a yearly hoopla celebrating practicing homosexuality as a legitimate, giddy lifestyle. Thousands upon thousands were going to crawl all over New Orleans "to celebrate their sexuality,"… In other words, Sodom and Gomorrah were to be reenacted in broad daylight…”[1]

The Gateway of the Mississippi has long been famous for its debauched annual Mardi Gras parade.  However, now this once Catholic city that would feast on Fat Tuesday before beginning the Lenten fast on Ash Wednesday, was now sinking below sea level norms of civility. 

On August 29th Katrina made landfall right in the heart of New Orleans.  Some said it was God’s punishment.  But I call it a simple demonstration of what happens when God withdraws his hand of protection, and lets the devil have his way.  This was not a punishment; it was a warning!

Consider the wisdom of Pope Leo XIII, “It is beyond dispute that sound public and private morality gives honour and strength to States.  But it is equally certain that, without religion there is no true morality, either public or private.  From the family, solidly based on its natural foundations, comes the life, the growth, and the energy of society.  But without religion, and without morality, the domestic partnership has no stability, and the family bonds grow weak and waste away.  The prosperity of peoples and of nations comes from God and from His blessings.  If a people does not attribute its prosperity to Him, but rises up against Him, and in the pride of its heart tacitly tells Him that it has no need of Him, its prosperity is but a semblance, certain to disappear so soon as it shall please the Lord to confound the proud insolence of His enemies.” [2]

[3] From an article in the November / December  Issue of  The Wild Man’s Journal, www.catholicgentleman.com Copyright © Tom Walsh 2005