Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Head planted firmly in the sand
Pardon the unacceptably low level of discourse, but what the hell has this guy been smoking? This is precisely the kind of thinking that got I Won elected by the majority of Catholics in the United States, and, apparently, continue to approve of his pro-abortion, anti-Catholic presidency.
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Its hard to argue with Hot Air (Allahpundit). This has been my argument for sometime now - if the strong majority of Roman Catholics identify with, support in ideology, politically and finacially, and otherwise totally go against any and all Church guidelines, teachings and doctrines as they so choose then what is a Catholic identity and does a "Catholic" presense in the US mean anything?
Does not this signal our great need to clarify just what it means to be Roman Catholic? I am asking this from my position of being a Roman Catholic who happens to be a US citizen. Does not the Church as a Body of Christ stand for something other than being reduced to simply standing for relativism?
From Pope Benedict XVI on the "springtime of the Church" - from the 2000 interview w. EWTN's Raymond Arroyo:
. . . And my idea is that really the springtime of the Church will not say that we will have in a near time buses of conversions, that all peoples of the world will be converted to Catholicism. This is not the way of God. The essential things in history begin always with the small, more convinced communities. So, the Church begins with the 12 Apostles. And even the Church of St. Paul diffused in the Mediterranean are little communities, but this community in itself is the future of the world, because we have the truth and the force of conviction. So, I think also today it should be an error to think now or in 10 years with the new springtime, all people will be Catholic. This is not our future, nor our expectation. But we will have really convinced communities with élan of the faith, no? This is springtime — a new life in very convinced persons with joy of the faith.
Raymond: But, smaller numbers? In the macro?
Cardinal: Smaller numbers, I think. But from these small numbers we will have a radiation of joy in the world. And so, it’s an attraction, as it was in the old Church. Even when Constantine made Christianity the public religion, there were a small number of percentage at this time; but it was clear, this is the future. So we can live in the future, just give us a way in a different future. And so, I would say, if we have young people really with the joy of the faith and this radiation of this joy of the faith, this will show to the world, "Even if I cannot share it, even if I cannot convert it at this moment, here is the way to live for tomorrow."
Are we in the time of getting smaller and consequently having more hope and clarity?
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