Snitching on Your Brothers

From Father De Celles’ column in parish bulletin July 4 – 5, 2020

Snitching on Your Brothers

Last week I wrote about the mainstreaming of Marxism, including manipulation of the government into adopting vile Marxists tactics. A good example of this is found on the Virginia Department of Health’s website, which encourages us to snitch on each other if we don’t like the way someone is observing, or not observing, the mandates of the Governor’s coronavirus orders. There’s even a form to report violators of “the requirement to wear a face covering while inside buildings…”

            My dear sons and daughters, this cannot be applied to your brothers and sisters at our church. As St. Paul teaches very clearly, in 1 Corinthians 6:1-8 “When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? …So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?…Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!”