+Vigano's Reminders of Reality

Some Dominican nun wrote a lengthy (and inaccurate) nastygram to Abp. Vigano after he had praised Donald Trump for some of the President's actions.

+Vigano responded.  You can see both letters at this link; I'll just run a few excerpts reminding us of general realities.

...If then you maintain that establishing public order and demanding respect for the law is a discriminatory action, I fear that I have to remind you that civil authority has a moral duty to impose respect for the laws, and in order to do this it is permitted to use proportionate force: this doctrine is taught and wonderfully explained by Saint Thomas Aquinas...

...You reprove me for using a “dualistic and discriminating language” – in fact, it is precisely that, and I think that it cannot be otherwise, when what it is in question is the eternal battle between good and evil. The Truth is always discriminatory when error places it into question. Light is also discriminatory, for it does not tolerate darkness or those who hide in it. Just as Our Lord, the stumbling stone, is discriminatory and divisive, who will gather the just to His right hand and drive out the wicked to His left....

...the humble of whom the Gospel speaks are not necessarily those whom today’s world exploits for cynical projects of social engineering, nor the many who are torn from their Homeland in order to pander to the plans for destabilization that always enrich the usual people. And the rich are not always and necessarily evil: if Providence has granted them material goods, He asks them to become His cooperators in remembering the poor and needy. Nor are the powerful to be blamed, if their power is placed in service of the Good: it is those who abuse their power and the authority given to them who merit blame from the citizens and divine punishment....

...You write: “It should be clear, however, that we are on the side of the weakest and oppressed, certain that it is only to them that the wisdom that the rulers of this world did not know has been revealed (cf. 1 Cor 2:8).” I imagine that in that group of the weakest and oppressed you include the fathers and mothers of families who want to give a Christian education to their children; the many who are daily persecuted simply because they profess the Catholic faith; the millions of innocents that the modern Moloch sacrifices each day on the impure altar of abortion; the elderly whom economic interests and speculations condemn to abandonment or death because they are considered useless; the children ensnared in their most tender years by the infernal ideology of gender; the young people corrupted in their morality by LGBT thought; the elderly faithful of St. Louis who were assaulted a few days ago by a group of people who praise Black Lives Matter....

A few notes:

1)  +Vigano speaks of "the DUTY" of public authorities to maintain civil law and order.  He could easily be addressing the Mayor/ettes of Madistan, Seattle, Portland, and New York, no?  Their que sera, sera attitude (exactly that of Nancy Pelosi, too) is a violation of their MORAL duty.  But then, they're Democrats and it's increasingly clear that Democrat politicians have no morals at all.

2)  "Discriminating" against evil is implementation of Right Thinking.  As a corollary, we can only tolerate evil (not good)--and we do so only to preserve civil order.  However, as Tom Jefferson reminded us, we can "tolerate" only so much before things get spicy.  And we are near that point.

3)  The nun talks like a sausage (in the felicitous phrasing of my saintly mother) when slamming "the rich" as eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil by virtue solely of having material wealth, just as she implies glorification of "the poor" simply because they lack material wealth.  Note that "material" is the common word here.  In distinct and discriminatory language, the Beatitude says "Blessed are the poor IN SPIRIT...."

At one time, what +Vigano says here was common, instinctive, knowledge in the West. 

What happened?

The US Bishops should be asked that question every.  single.  day.