[Apologetics] How will history Judge you as a Catholic?

Mon Oct 27 22:00:22 EDT 2008

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insidecatholic
10/24/2008 How Will History Judge Us?
Deal W. Hudson 

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 The Catholic Church is often  accused of complicity in a variety of moral evils, including the  institution of slavery, the rise of the Nazi Party, and even the  horror of the Holocaust itself.

Historians differ on  the degree of blame properly assigned to Catholics. But they all  agree on one thing: These evils were the result of Church teaching  being ignored by the laity and acquiescent bishops who should have  said more and with a louder voice.

Will historians a  century from now look back on this election as the moment when  Catholics in America fully embraced another intrinsic moral evil --  abortion -- directly contradicting their professed beliefs? Will  historians say that, after 40 years of strong papal leadership  opposing "the culture of death," American Catholics chose to turn a  deaf ear? That the U.S. bishops said too little, and with too soft a  voice?

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Tools For Thinking Sensibly  About Scripture | Mark P.  Shea 
For some folks, it  takes a lot to dispel the myth of the hyper-controlling Church that  only permits Bible study among the faithful after the insertion of  the Vatican Orbital Mind Control Laser Platform chip in the frontal  lobe of the brain. Indeed, it may come as a shock to such folk to  discover that the Church offers us only three measly guidelines when  pointing the faithful toward reading Scripture for its literal  sense. Dei Verbum tells us:

	1. Be especially  attentive "to the content and unity of the whole  Scripture"; 
	2. read the  Scripture within "the living tradition of the whole Church";  and 
	3. be attentive  to the analogy of faith. 
That's it. 

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Bishops, North of the Border  | David  Warren 
Up here in Canada, from  where I am writing, the prime minister called an election on  September 7, and we had it on October 14. By the common consent of  the five major parties, there was no discussion whatever of  abortion, gay marriage, "human rights" tribunals, or any other of  the civilizational issues that are, in Canada, decided exclusively  by liberal judges. The governing party wasn't going to discuss the  economy, either (in fairly good shape after a generation of modest  government retrenchment), but then the U.S. financial system began  to melt down, so the topic did come up. A nominally "Conservative"  Party -- i.e., one that declares itself comfortable with abortion,  gay marriage, and "human rights" tribunals that prosecute mainstream  journalists who show conservative tendencies -- was duly  re-elected.

Our Catholic bishops had nothing to say  about all this -- or, at least, nothing audible.

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Gift of Grace | Danielle  Bean 
"The juice! Don't forget  the juice!" my mother-in-law, Dolores, called after me as I made my  way down her front steps and toward my car.

Her anxious  face appeared in the doorway and she thrust a half-gallon bottle of  cranberry juice toward me.

I didn't want the stupid  juice.

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Deal W. Hudson, Steve  Skojec, John Zmirak, Rev. George W. Rutler, Mark P. Shea, T. Joseph  Marier, Jeffrey Tucker, Danielle Bean, Matthew Lickona

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