Liberal Jesuits made a Mistake!
cinops be gone March 31, 2008
We love our Jesuits but in 1964 their advice was a historic catastrophe for the Catholic Church, Catholic politicians, and America. They presumed that the future Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 was a legally-well thought Constitutional Supreme Court decision. It was not. The liberal Jesuits proceeded to adjust to the court decision. Instead of fighting this court decision; they accepted it.
This is a fly in the ointment of liberal Catholic thought and needs to be removed and repudiated either by the Jesuits or the Catholic Church. It will not stand. It will not go away. You decide!
“But even in those days, before Roe v. Wade decision, the stage was already being set for a Catholic capitulation on the abortion issue. And Ted Kennedy should have been aware of the plot, because it was hatched under the auspices of his family. Most Americans were taken by surprise by the Roe decision (1973), which struck down state laws restricting abortion. But the Kennedys were ready; for the better part of a decade they had been preparing their rhetoric for such an opportunity.
“In July 1964, several liberal theologians received invitations to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis port, Massachusetts, for a discussion of how a Catholic politician should handle the abortion issue. Notice now that abortion was not a major political issue in 1964. Ostensibly the meeting has been called to provide advice for Robert Kennedy, who was running for a New York Senate seat. But a candidate was not likely to face questions about abortion in 1964; the Kennedy planners had the more distant future in mind.
“The participants in that Hyannisport meeting composed a Who’s Who of liberal theologians, most of them Jesuits. Father Robert Drinan was there, as was Father Charles Curran (the leader in the dissent against Hunanae Vitae; his writings on moral issues were later condemned by the Vatican). Father Joseph Fuchs, a Jesuit professor at Rome’s Gregorian University, was on hand; so were the Jesuits Richard McCormick, Albert Jonsen, and Giles Milhaven. (Milhaven was later instrumental in the early public works of ‘Catholics for a Free Choice;’ McCormick would become the Rose Kennedy professor of the Kennedy Institute for Bioethics at Georgetown University, & spend years teaching theology at N.D.
“For two days the theologians huddled in the Cap Code resort town as guests of the Kennedys. Eventually they reached a consensus, which they passed along to their political patrons. Abortion, they agreed, could sometimes be morally acceptable as the lesser of two evils. Lawmakers should certainly not encourage abortion, but a blanket prohibition might be more harmful to the common good than a law allowing abortion in some cases. And a danger to the common good would very likely arise if political leaders sought to impose their own private views on public policy.
“The conference at Hyannisport offered a rare example of teamwork between academic theologians and practical politicians. The skillful operatives of the Kennedy family would round up the votes to end restrictions on abortion and eventually to provide public subsidies. The Jesuit theologians would provide protective cover for that effort, ensuring that Catholic colleges, universities, and theological journals gave a sympathetic reading to the politicians’ public statem.”
The above from Chapter 6, Waiting for Roe in Philip F. Lawler’s book, The Faithful Departed The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture, Encounter B. 2008
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
OP-ed Article by Joe Feuerherd - 2 of 2
OP-ed Article by Joe Feuerherd – 2 of 2
cinops be gone Sunday, March 30, 2008
Dear Joe: (Cont’d from yesterday) (OP-ed Article from ChristiFidelis, http://www.st-joseph-foundation.org) That was a cheap remark you made with reference to the fire and brimstone approach of popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. You and I are midgets in comparison to these men. These two popes are outstanding leaders in theology, philosophy and common sense. If you disagree; there is a fable about the Ox and the Bull Frog that you should check into.
Please reread Pope J.P. II’s Gospel of Life. It is he who coined the phrase the culture of death. There is a serious culture war going in America. Pro-life, marriage and family forces are trying to do their best to inform all Christians particularly Catholics. Many of the cafeteria Catholics seem to be blind to this culture war. We want to keep our traditional America and do not want a secular European type of America. We can help the Church and our Faith tremendously if we can vote out of office all Catholic-in-name-only politicians. The CINOPS are the Trojan horses for the culture of death and spiritually sick Catholic role models within the country and within our Catholic Church.
I believe we can learn something from history with the Catholic populations in Germany and Italy during the 1930’s. The national socialist (Nazis) and the Italian fascists had great programs for government jobs and universal health care system. Remember the trains ran on time during Mussolini’s regime. Recall how Catholics were sucked into supporting these regimes by poor Catholic leadership.
Catholic leaders in America can have serious disagreements on prudential issues facing our country. But we can make no exceptions on issues that are inherently evil, contrary to reason, natural law and common sense.
And in America, this will not happen with thinking Catholics, During the 2004 election, Catholics voted for Bush, 52 %. Catholics are swing and discerning voters. In 2006, they voted democratic, 55%. In the 2008 election, pro-life is working hard for a 55 to 60% vote for a pro-life president and pro-life Congress. God willing so be it.
Also, today we have this liberation theology which is misleading cafeteria Catholics like yourself. Obama’s background is with black liberation theology. Pope John Paul II demolished it but it has revived in sections of the Americas. The pope had first hand experience in Poland. You do not work with radicals like communists or Marxist to bring about social change in a country. The reason there are so many thousands of converts to the Pentecostals and Evangelicals weekly is because in the Latin American countries we have a shortage of priests and many priests have been indoctrinated with this liberation theology hogwash.
Let me make a comment on the anti-war and pro-peace movement prior to 9/11. These groups were con-artists for decades. They were for any cause that would weaken America. In the early days they were fellow travelers or useful idiots for communist Russia. They have a hatred for America and its tradition.
Some of this comes from a false education which our children receive in our universities from openly Marxist professors. (I am a retired public school teacher.)
Sincerely yours,
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
cinops be gone Sunday, March 30, 2008
Dear Joe: (Cont’d from yesterday) (OP-ed Article from ChristiFidelis, http://www.st-joseph-foundation.org) That was a cheap remark you made with reference to the fire and brimstone approach of popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. You and I are midgets in comparison to these men. These two popes are outstanding leaders in theology, philosophy and common sense. If you disagree; there is a fable about the Ox and the Bull Frog that you should check into.
Please reread Pope J.P. II’s Gospel of Life. It is he who coined the phrase the culture of death. There is a serious culture war going in America. Pro-life, marriage and family forces are trying to do their best to inform all Christians particularly Catholics. Many of the cafeteria Catholics seem to be blind to this culture war. We want to keep our traditional America and do not want a secular European type of America. We can help the Church and our Faith tremendously if we can vote out of office all Catholic-in-name-only politicians. The CINOPS are the Trojan horses for the culture of death and spiritually sick Catholic role models within the country and within our Catholic Church.
I believe we can learn something from history with the Catholic populations in Germany and Italy during the 1930’s. The national socialist (Nazis) and the Italian fascists had great programs for government jobs and universal health care system. Remember the trains ran on time during Mussolini’s regime. Recall how Catholics were sucked into supporting these regimes by poor Catholic leadership.
Catholic leaders in America can have serious disagreements on prudential issues facing our country. But we can make no exceptions on issues that are inherently evil, contrary to reason, natural law and common sense.
And in America, this will not happen with thinking Catholics, During the 2004 election, Catholics voted for Bush, 52 %. Catholics are swing and discerning voters. In 2006, they voted democratic, 55%. In the 2008 election, pro-life is working hard for a 55 to 60% vote for a pro-life president and pro-life Congress. God willing so be it.
Also, today we have this liberation theology which is misleading cafeteria Catholics like yourself. Obama’s background is with black liberation theology. Pope John Paul II demolished it but it has revived in sections of the Americas. The pope had first hand experience in Poland. You do not work with radicals like communists or Marxist to bring about social change in a country. The reason there are so many thousands of converts to the Pentecostals and Evangelicals weekly is because in the Latin American countries we have a shortage of priests and many priests have been indoctrinated with this liberation theology hogwash.
Let me make a comment on the anti-war and pro-peace movement prior to 9/11. These groups were con-artists for decades. They were for any cause that would weaken America. In the early days they were fellow travelers or useful idiots for communist Russia. They have a hatred for America and its tradition.
Some of this comes from a false education which our children receive in our universities from openly Marxist professors. (I am a retired public school teacher.)
Sincerely yours,
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
OP-ed Article by Joe Feuerherd - 1 of 2
OP-ed Article by Joe Feuerherd – 1 of 2
cinops be gone Saturday, March 29, 2008
Dear Joe Feuerherd,
Dissent is like driving your car often ten miles over the legal speed limit in any town or city. You become intoxicated with that selfish power of doing it my way. But sooner than later you will have an accident or kill yourself and others.
Thinking American Catholics are not like sheep. They study a presidential candidate from a historical point of view. Obama is today an inspirational orator. But he is no Colin Powel or Condi Rice. He is a liberal, a socialist and a leftist. At times he has the soundings of a Pied Piper. Catholic have been swing voters.
As Catholics, we live in the world but we do not promote the spirit of the world particularly when it is evil. And there is an abyss between prudential issues and absolute evil issues. It is a false, false seamless garment idea to weave them together in any way. We have such a rich Catholic heritage. It has buried all of these contemporary evils generations ago.
As a former Washington correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter let us read an excerpt of your article Joe, in the February 24th issue of The Washington Post. The piece is titled “I Voted for Obama. Will I Go Straight to …?”
“This fire-and-brimstone approach to the ballot box is the long term bequest of a conservative pope, John Paul II, enacted by a U.S. hierarchy appointed during his 27-year tenure and now by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI. John Paul’s key criterion in choosing the men who lead the United States’ 194 dioceses was their vocal support for church teachings that have been rejected in whole (birth control) and in part (women’s ordination and abortion) by many Catholics in the pews and the broader American culture. John Paul gave little weight to management or pastoral experience, as evidenced by the bishops’ handling of the clergy sex-abuse crisis.
So what’s a pro-life, pro-family, antiwar, pro-immigrant, pro-economic-justice Catholic like me supposed to do in November? That’s an easy one. True to my faith, I’ll vote for the candidate who offers the best hope of ending an unjust war, who promotes human dignity through universal health care and immigration reform, and whose policies strengthen families and provide alternatives to those in desperate situations. Sounds like I’ll be voting for the Democrat – and the bishops be damned.”
Let’s begin by stating that we all love our Catholic faith equally. Firstly, those like yourself cafeteria Catholics . Secondly, traditional Catholics who adhere to the Magisterium, Thirdly, Catholics who believe we do not have a legitimate Pope in Rome.
I have some questions for cafeteria Catholics? When you have exceptions to the Ten Commandments where do you stop? Can you make an exception for fornication, adultery and pornography? How can you call yourself pro-life and pro-family when the Democratic Party that you are endorsing with your vote is directly and indirectly promoting the absolute evils of not only abortion on demand; (infanticide), but assisted-suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage? You’re damming your Catholic faith and not the bishops.
(continued tomorrow)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
cinops be gone Saturday, March 29, 2008
Dear Joe Feuerherd,
Dissent is like driving your car often ten miles over the legal speed limit in any town or city. You become intoxicated with that selfish power of doing it my way. But sooner than later you will have an accident or kill yourself and others.
Thinking American Catholics are not like sheep. They study a presidential candidate from a historical point of view. Obama is today an inspirational orator. But he is no Colin Powel or Condi Rice. He is a liberal, a socialist and a leftist. At times he has the soundings of a Pied Piper. Catholic have been swing voters.
As Catholics, we live in the world but we do not promote the spirit of the world particularly when it is evil. And there is an abyss between prudential issues and absolute evil issues. It is a false, false seamless garment idea to weave them together in any way. We have such a rich Catholic heritage. It has buried all of these contemporary evils generations ago.
As a former Washington correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter let us read an excerpt of your article Joe, in the February 24th issue of The Washington Post. The piece is titled “I Voted for Obama. Will I Go Straight to …?”
“This fire-and-brimstone approach to the ballot box is the long term bequest of a conservative pope, John Paul II, enacted by a U.S. hierarchy appointed during his 27-year tenure and now by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI. John Paul’s key criterion in choosing the men who lead the United States’ 194 dioceses was their vocal support for church teachings that have been rejected in whole (birth control) and in part (women’s ordination and abortion) by many Catholics in the pews and the broader American culture. John Paul gave little weight to management or pastoral experience, as evidenced by the bishops’ handling of the clergy sex-abuse crisis.
So what’s a pro-life, pro-family, antiwar, pro-immigrant, pro-economic-justice Catholic like me supposed to do in November? That’s an easy one. True to my faith, I’ll vote for the candidate who offers the best hope of ending an unjust war, who promotes human dignity through universal health care and immigration reform, and whose policies strengthen families and provide alternatives to those in desperate situations. Sounds like I’ll be voting for the Democrat – and the bishops be damned.”
Let’s begin by stating that we all love our Catholic faith equally. Firstly, those like yourself cafeteria Catholics . Secondly, traditional Catholics who adhere to the Magisterium, Thirdly, Catholics who believe we do not have a legitimate Pope in Rome.
I have some questions for cafeteria Catholics? When you have exceptions to the Ten Commandments where do you stop? Can you make an exception for fornication, adultery and pornography? How can you call yourself pro-life and pro-family when the Democratic Party that you are endorsing with your vote is directly and indirectly promoting the absolute evils of not only abortion on demand; (infanticide), but assisted-suicide, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage? You’re damming your Catholic faith and not the bishops.
(continued tomorrow)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Planned Parenthood and Black Genocide
Planned Parenthood and Black Genocide
cinops be gone Thursday, March 27, 2008
When we live in a culture of death society, the following will hardly make any news or will be suppressed by the U.S. news media. Who cares? Maybe it will come up in conversation or speech during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in the middle of April with the presidential candidates or press conference?
“What is the number one killer of African Americans? The first time Shannon Nixson was asked this question she did not think the answer would be abortion. As a community counselor to many women in her home city, Shannon was very much aware of the prevalence of abortion among young African American women. Not until recently was she aware of the threatening reality that legalized abortion is taking the lives of an estimated 438 thousand black babies each year.
“According to the US Center for Disease Control, and Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is the research arm for Planned Parenthood, more African American babies have been killed by abortion than the combined number of deaths from any other cause. Since the legalization of abortion in 1973, there are over 14 million black babies missing from society. African American women make up 13% of the total population in America, but they are having 37% of the abortions.
“In 2004 the CDC reported 287,315 deaths in the African American community. Add to that the 438,000 annual abortions; and the deaths are at 725,315. Now take the 616,074 births in 2004 as reported by the CDC and subtract the total number of deaths. Simple calculations show that the African American community experienced an estimated human deficit of 109,241 lives in 2004. The Urban Outreach Director at Life issues institute, Arnold Culbreath, compares this deficit in the African American population to a bank account. If an individual is withdrawing more money than he or she is depositing eventually their bank account will be at a zero balance.
“Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate with Priests for Life, and the niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out against abortion from a personal experience. As a woman who has felt the pressure to get an abortion in the past, she understands that a woman has a choice to do what she wants with her own body. However, she continues by saying the developing baby has a life of its own; a life that should be protected.
“When it comes to this topic Dr. King, Arnold Culbreath, and Shannon Nixson all agree the public must be informed and educated. This is the only way to shift the current statistics surrounding the rapid death of African Americans.
“If you are interested in learning more visit www.protectingblacklife.org
“Episode 13: Protecting Black Life”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate in Spanish and Vietnamese
cinops be gone Thursday, March 27, 2008
When we live in a culture of death society, the following will hardly make any news or will be suppressed by the U.S. news media. Who cares? Maybe it will come up in conversation or speech during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in the middle of April with the presidential candidates or press conference?
“What is the number one killer of African Americans? The first time Shannon Nixson was asked this question she did not think the answer would be abortion. As a community counselor to many women in her home city, Shannon was very much aware of the prevalence of abortion among young African American women. Not until recently was she aware of the threatening reality that legalized abortion is taking the lives of an estimated 438 thousand black babies each year.
“According to the US Center for Disease Control, and Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is the research arm for Planned Parenthood, more African American babies have been killed by abortion than the combined number of deaths from any other cause. Since the legalization of abortion in 1973, there are over 14 million black babies missing from society. African American women make up 13% of the total population in America, but they are having 37% of the abortions.
“In 2004 the CDC reported 287,315 deaths in the African American community. Add to that the 438,000 annual abortions; and the deaths are at 725,315. Now take the 616,074 births in 2004 as reported by the CDC and subtract the total number of deaths. Simple calculations show that the African American community experienced an estimated human deficit of 109,241 lives in 2004. The Urban Outreach Director at Life issues institute, Arnold Culbreath, compares this deficit in the African American population to a bank account. If an individual is withdrawing more money than he or she is depositing eventually their bank account will be at a zero balance.
“Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate with Priests for Life, and the niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out against abortion from a personal experience. As a woman who has felt the pressure to get an abortion in the past, she understands that a woman has a choice to do what she wants with her own body. However, she continues by saying the developing baby has a life of its own; a life that should be protected.
“When it comes to this topic Dr. King, Arnold Culbreath, and Shannon Nixson all agree the public must be informed and educated. This is the only way to shift the current statistics surrounding the rapid death of African Americans.
“If you are interested in learning more visit www.protectingblacklife.org
“Episode 13: Protecting Black Life”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate in Spanish and Vietnamese
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Secular and Catholic Beliefs on Suffering (Ref.18)
Secular and Catholic Beliefs on Suffering (Reference # 18)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
“Secularism, concerned with life in this world only, and rejecting the idea of a future life that might compensate for the sufferings of this life, sees suffering as useless, pointless, indeed the greatest possible evil.
“Catholics believe that the suffering and death of Jesus was the most useful thing that ever happened in the history of the world, since it healed the breach between man and God that had opened with the fall of Adam and Eve. The crucifix, that instrument of ancient Roman cruelty, is the most common of all Catholic symbols; and the principal form of Catholic worship, the Mass, re-enacts the Passion (suffering) and death of Jesus.
“From this it follows that if Catholics are to live in imitation of Christ, they’re called on to suffer, and to suffer greatly – or at least to be ready and willing to suffer greatly when and if the need arises. The Catholic Church teaches that the connection between our suffering and Christ’s goes beyond mere imitation: it has a mystical quality…
“This isn’t to say that Catholicism teaches that we must be indifferent to suffering, especially the suffering of others. Far from it. The Gospels are full of stories about Jesus feeding the hungry, curing the sick, giving sight to the blind, serving the poor, casting our demons, even raising the dead. The history of Christianity abounds with corporal works of mercy. What other group has done as much to feed, clothe, shelter ,educate, and comfort other human beings as have Christian believers of the last two millennia? …
“Catholicism is a religion of Christ; hence, it’s a religion of the Cross. For this reason Catholics, in fact, not only strive to bear suffering, but also may deliberately seek it out. In the season of Lent, for example, the Catholic is supposed to embrace a certain degree of self-denial, through fasting, abstinence, and selfless labors….
“The secularist view of suffering couldn’t be more different. If, in the secularist approach to life, there’s a certain amount of ‘active hedonism’ (the pursuit of pleasure), there’s an even larger amount of what may be called ‘passive hedonism’ (the avoidance of pain). The prohibition of moral liberalism – namely, ‘Do not harm non-consenting others’ – illustrates this attitude of passive hedonism. If I must not inflict pain on others, why should I allow myself to suffer avoidable pain?
Secularists will grant that suffering is often unavoidable, but they’ll never grant that it can be a positive good. The less pain and suffering in the world, the better – period. …
“The Catholic observes a strict prohibition against suicide and euthanasia, regardless of the suffering he or others might be enduring. But from the secularist point of view, it makes little or no sense for the terminally ill person to bear his suffering until the bitter end. If such a person wished to be euthanized, this would be a perfectly rational, even a praiseworthy choice – a triumph of human freedom”
Report 18 on David Carlin’s Book, Can a Catholic be a Democrat? p. 98-100
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
“Secularism, concerned with life in this world only, and rejecting the idea of a future life that might compensate for the sufferings of this life, sees suffering as useless, pointless, indeed the greatest possible evil.
“Catholics believe that the suffering and death of Jesus was the most useful thing that ever happened in the history of the world, since it healed the breach between man and God that had opened with the fall of Adam and Eve. The crucifix, that instrument of ancient Roman cruelty, is the most common of all Catholic symbols; and the principal form of Catholic worship, the Mass, re-enacts the Passion (suffering) and death of Jesus.
“From this it follows that if Catholics are to live in imitation of Christ, they’re called on to suffer, and to suffer greatly – or at least to be ready and willing to suffer greatly when and if the need arises. The Catholic Church teaches that the connection between our suffering and Christ’s goes beyond mere imitation: it has a mystical quality…
“This isn’t to say that Catholicism teaches that we must be indifferent to suffering, especially the suffering of others. Far from it. The Gospels are full of stories about Jesus feeding the hungry, curing the sick, giving sight to the blind, serving the poor, casting our demons, even raising the dead. The history of Christianity abounds with corporal works of mercy. What other group has done as much to feed, clothe, shelter ,educate, and comfort other human beings as have Christian believers of the last two millennia? …
“Catholicism is a religion of Christ; hence, it’s a religion of the Cross. For this reason Catholics, in fact, not only strive to bear suffering, but also may deliberately seek it out. In the season of Lent, for example, the Catholic is supposed to embrace a certain degree of self-denial, through fasting, abstinence, and selfless labors….
“The secularist view of suffering couldn’t be more different. If, in the secularist approach to life, there’s a certain amount of ‘active hedonism’ (the pursuit of pleasure), there’s an even larger amount of what may be called ‘passive hedonism’ (the avoidance of pain). The prohibition of moral liberalism – namely, ‘Do not harm non-consenting others’ – illustrates this attitude of passive hedonism. If I must not inflict pain on others, why should I allow myself to suffer avoidable pain?
Secularists will grant that suffering is often unavoidable, but they’ll never grant that it can be a positive good. The less pain and suffering in the world, the better – period. …
“The Catholic observes a strict prohibition against suicide and euthanasia, regardless of the suffering he or others might be enduring. But from the secularist point of view, it makes little or no sense for the terminally ill person to bear his suffering until the bitter end. If such a person wished to be euthanized, this would be a perfectly rational, even a praiseworthy choice – a triumph of human freedom”
Report 18 on David Carlin’s Book, Can a Catholic be a Democrat? p. 98-100
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Our Culture has 5 Charges against C.S. Lewis
Our Culture has 5 Charges against C.S. Lewis
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
“Each of these 5 chapters (in Mere Christianity) shows a distinctive Lewis quality. These qualities could be expressed negatively or affirmatively. Our culture brings 5 charges against C.S. Lewis.
“It blames him for 3 things especially it blames Mere Christianity not just the book but the reality.
“Imagine a court case. I am sure you have heard the famous saying. If you were brought to court on the charge of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you. Lewis answers, ‘Yep!’ guilty as charged.
“Here are five charges often given to mere Christians:
#1 He is divisive. #2 He is insensitive or unfeeling. #3 He is simplistic. # 4 He is fanatical, probably the most withering criticism of the modern mind and there are these new F words. If you are a fanatic they will not listen to you. Finally, he is amateurish.
“I would like to defend these 5 characteristics. I would call them with nicer names. I would say he is confrontational instead of divisive; challenging instead of insensitive; clear instead of simplistic; Christo centric instead of amateurish; And concrete instead of amateurish. So if you like alliteration, confrontational, challenging, clear, Christo centric, concrete or more clearly, he is polemical. He gives you an either or; makes you choose. He is honest, blunt and rubs your nose into the truth. He is short and to the point, and very clear, He is indeed Christo centric and finally he is utterly practical.”
The above are excerpts from C.S. Lewis Summer Conference 2003 and a tape by Peter Kreeft, titled What Christians Believe. This is a classic tape by Peter who has written 40 odd books and has plans for a dozen more. I am transcribing the tape which I obtained from St. Joseph Radio – P.O. Box 2983 – Orange, CA. 92859 (714) 744-0336 Fax (714) 744-1998 –
www.stjosephradio.com
The above excerpts of Peter Kreeft’s talk are Maxim 5 of this blog:
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
“Each of these 5 chapters (in Mere Christianity) shows a distinctive Lewis quality. These qualities could be expressed negatively or affirmatively. Our culture brings 5 charges against C.S. Lewis.
“It blames him for 3 things especially it blames Mere Christianity not just the book but the reality.
“Imagine a court case. I am sure you have heard the famous saying. If you were brought to court on the charge of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you. Lewis answers, ‘Yep!’ guilty as charged.
“Here are five charges often given to mere Christians:
#1 He is divisive. #2 He is insensitive or unfeeling. #3 He is simplistic. # 4 He is fanatical, probably the most withering criticism of the modern mind and there are these new F words. If you are a fanatic they will not listen to you. Finally, he is amateurish.
“I would like to defend these 5 characteristics. I would call them with nicer names. I would say he is confrontational instead of divisive; challenging instead of insensitive; clear instead of simplistic; Christo centric instead of amateurish; And concrete instead of amateurish. So if you like alliteration, confrontational, challenging, clear, Christo centric, concrete or more clearly, he is polemical. He gives you an either or; makes you choose. He is honest, blunt and rubs your nose into the truth. He is short and to the point, and very clear, He is indeed Christo centric and finally he is utterly practical.”
The above are excerpts from C.S. Lewis Summer Conference 2003 and a tape by Peter Kreeft, titled What Christians Believe. This is a classic tape by Peter who has written 40 odd books and has plans for a dozen more. I am transcribing the tape which I obtained from St. Joseph Radio – P.O. Box 2983 – Orange, CA. 92859 (714) 744-0336 Fax (714) 744-1998 –
www.stjosephradio.com
The above excerpts of Peter Kreeft’s talk are Maxim 5 of this blog:
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Monday, March 24, 2008
The Wisdom of Pope Benedict XVI
The Wisdom of Pope Benedict XVI
Monday, March 24, 2008
Besides clarifying and enriching our Catholic Faith, Pope Benedict’s mind towers in reason, common sense, and natural law advocacy. Here are some gems of wisdom from March 16th to 21st of his Co-Workers of the Truth, Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1990.
March 16th entry: At the Last Supper, the Lord described the mission of the Holy Spirit in these words: “… He will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come” (Jn. 16:13) … To become a Christian means to open oneself to the receive the whole Church or – better – to let oneself be received heart, mind, and soul into the Church. When I speak, think, or act as a Christian, I do it always in union with the whole Church and in the grace of that union. … truth reveals itself only when we share the thinking of those who have gone before us. The greatness of an individual depends on the measure of his ability to share; only by becoming small, by becoming a part of the whole, does he become great.
March 17th entry: The Cross is revelation. It does not reveal any particular thing, but God and man. It reveals who God is and who man is. There is a curious presentiment of this situation in Greek philosophy: Plato’s image of the crucified “just man.” In the Republic the great philosopher asks what is likely to be the position of a completely just man in this world. … So according to Plato the just man must be misunderstood, and persecuted in this world; indeed, Plato goes to far as to write: “They will say that our just man will be scourged, racked, fettered, will have his eyes burnt out, and at last, after all manner of suffering, will be crucified …. “ The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man – that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast.
March 18th entry: In our time, the word “hope” has become a kind of magnet that attracts to itself all manner of intellectual movements. … Since the revolution of 1789 and even more through the teachings of Hegel and Marx, the dominant theme of world history has become the building of a new world…. No century before ours has known such brutal means of torture, murder, and human self destruction…. Christian hope has nothing to do with anarchy or fanaticism…. To be a Christian means to be realistic. The Christian does not flee to utopia and does not let the present world go to ruin in the name of utopias. His life is built day by day on love and responsibility. Without such Christian realism and the humble love in the small coins of everyday life, the great treasure of new life and its eternal love cannot come into being.
March 21st entry: Without God man is stunted…. For when a person no longer rises above himself in his search for God, he becomes changed – narrower, smaller. Essential organs become atrophied in him. His soul becomes coarser and less discriminating. … Only when we see God in other people despite all their faults can we be genuinely human. … we must relearn the noblest use of language – that of speaking with God. To do so , we must let ourselves be guided by the traditional Christian prayers already in existence. … I am referring to the words “our Father”, which are the source from which all further prayer flows and by which it is sustained.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Besides clarifying and enriching our Catholic Faith, Pope Benedict’s mind towers in reason, common sense, and natural law advocacy. Here are some gems of wisdom from March 16th to 21st of his Co-Workers of the Truth, Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1990.
March 16th entry: At the Last Supper, the Lord described the mission of the Holy Spirit in these words: “… He will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come” (Jn. 16:13) … To become a Christian means to open oneself to the receive the whole Church or – better – to let oneself be received heart, mind, and soul into the Church. When I speak, think, or act as a Christian, I do it always in union with the whole Church and in the grace of that union. … truth reveals itself only when we share the thinking of those who have gone before us. The greatness of an individual depends on the measure of his ability to share; only by becoming small, by becoming a part of the whole, does he become great.
March 17th entry: The Cross is revelation. It does not reveal any particular thing, but God and man. It reveals who God is and who man is. There is a curious presentiment of this situation in Greek philosophy: Plato’s image of the crucified “just man.” In the Republic the great philosopher asks what is likely to be the position of a completely just man in this world. … So according to Plato the just man must be misunderstood, and persecuted in this world; indeed, Plato goes to far as to write: “They will say that our just man will be scourged, racked, fettered, will have his eyes burnt out, and at last, after all manner of suffering, will be crucified …. “ The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man – that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast.
March 18th entry: In our time, the word “hope” has become a kind of magnet that attracts to itself all manner of intellectual movements. … Since the revolution of 1789 and even more through the teachings of Hegel and Marx, the dominant theme of world history has become the building of a new world…. No century before ours has known such brutal means of torture, murder, and human self destruction…. Christian hope has nothing to do with anarchy or fanaticism…. To be a Christian means to be realistic. The Christian does not flee to utopia and does not let the present world go to ruin in the name of utopias. His life is built day by day on love and responsibility. Without such Christian realism and the humble love in the small coins of everyday life, the great treasure of new life and its eternal love cannot come into being.
March 21st entry: Without God man is stunted…. For when a person no longer rises above himself in his search for God, he becomes changed – narrower, smaller. Essential organs become atrophied in him. His soul becomes coarser and less discriminating. … Only when we see God in other people despite all their faults can we be genuinely human. … we must relearn the noblest use of language – that of speaking with God. To do so , we must let ourselves be guided by the traditional Christian prayers already in existence. … I am referring to the words “our Father”, which are the source from which all further prayer flows and by which it is sustained.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Gospel of Life # 2 of 2
Gospel of Life # 2 of 2
Pope John Paul II’s “Evangelium Vitae” 1995
Blog - cinops be gone, Sunday, March 15, 2008
(continued from Randall A. Terry's booklet, A Humble Plea)
7) When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a ‘tyrannical’ decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings? Everyone’s conscience rightly rejects those crime against humanity of which our century has had such a sad experience. But would these crimes cease to be crimes if, instead of being committed by unscrupulous tyrants, they were legitimated by popular consensus? Section 70
The doctrine on the necessary conformity of civil law with the moral law is in continuity with the whole tradition of the Church. (72)
In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to “take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.” (73)
8) Faced with so many opposing points of view, and a widespread rejection of sound doctrine concerning human life, we can feel that Paul’s entreaty to Timothy is also addressed to us: ‘ Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.’ (2 Tim.4:2). This exhortation should resound with special force in the hearts of those members of the Church who directly share, in different ways, in her mission as ‘teacher’ of the truth.
May it resound above all for us who are Bishops: we are the first ones called to be untiring preachers of the Gospel of Life …
… Aware of their specific role, may they never be so grievously irresponsible as to betray the truth and their own missions by proposing personal ideas contrary to the Gospel of life as faithfully presented and interpreted by the Magisterium.’ (Emphasis added, 82)
9) “… The Church hears every day the echo of Saint Paul’s words of warning: ‘Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!’ (1 Cor. 9:16) As Paul VI wrote, ‘evangelization is the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.’
“Evangelization is all-embracing, progressive activity through which the Church participates in the prophetic, priestly and royal mission of the Lord Jesus. It is therefore inextricably linked to preaching, celebration and service of charity. Evangelization is a profoundly ecclesial act, which call all the various workers of the Gospel to action, according to their individual charisms and ministry.
“This is also the case with regard to the proclamation of the Gospel of life, an integral part of the Gospel which is Jesus Christ himself.” (78)
10) “Christians, like all people of good will, are called upon grave obligation of conscience not to cooperate formally in practices which, even if permitted by civil legislation, are contrary to God’ law. Indeed, from the moral standpoint, it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil. Such cooperation occurs when an action, either by its very nature or by the form it takes in a concrete situation, can be defined as a direct participation in an act against innocent human life or a sharing in immoral intention of the person committing it. This cooperation can never be justified either by invoking respect for the freedom of others or by appealing to the fact that civil law permits it or requires it. (74)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Pope John Paul II’s “Evangelium Vitae” 1995
Blog - cinops be gone, Sunday, March 15, 2008
(continued from Randall A. Terry's booklet, A Humble Plea)
7) When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a ‘tyrannical’ decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings? Everyone’s conscience rightly rejects those crime against humanity of which our century has had such a sad experience. But would these crimes cease to be crimes if, instead of being committed by unscrupulous tyrants, they were legitimated by popular consensus? Section 70
The doctrine on the necessary conformity of civil law with the moral law is in continuity with the whole tradition of the Church. (72)
In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to “take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.” (73)
8) Faced with so many opposing points of view, and a widespread rejection of sound doctrine concerning human life, we can feel that Paul’s entreaty to Timothy is also addressed to us: ‘ Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.’ (2 Tim.4:2). This exhortation should resound with special force in the hearts of those members of the Church who directly share, in different ways, in her mission as ‘teacher’ of the truth.
May it resound above all for us who are Bishops: we are the first ones called to be untiring preachers of the Gospel of Life …
… Aware of their specific role, may they never be so grievously irresponsible as to betray the truth and their own missions by proposing personal ideas contrary to the Gospel of life as faithfully presented and interpreted by the Magisterium.’ (Emphasis added, 82)
9) “… The Church hears every day the echo of Saint Paul’s words of warning: ‘Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!’ (1 Cor. 9:16) As Paul VI wrote, ‘evangelization is the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.’
“Evangelization is all-embracing, progressive activity through which the Church participates in the prophetic, priestly and royal mission of the Lord Jesus. It is therefore inextricably linked to preaching, celebration and service of charity. Evangelization is a profoundly ecclesial act, which call all the various workers of the Gospel to action, according to their individual charisms and ministry.
“This is also the case with regard to the proclamation of the Gospel of life, an integral part of the Gospel which is Jesus Christ himself.” (78)
10) “Christians, like all people of good will, are called upon grave obligation of conscience not to cooperate formally in practices which, even if permitted by civil legislation, are contrary to God’ law. Indeed, from the moral standpoint, it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil. Such cooperation occurs when an action, either by its very nature or by the form it takes in a concrete situation, can be defined as a direct participation in an act against innocent human life or a sharing in immoral intention of the person committing it. This cooperation can never be justified either by invoking respect for the freedom of others or by appealing to the fact that civil law permits it or requires it. (74)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Gospel of Life # 1 of 2
Gospel of Life # 1 of 2
Pope John Paul II’s “Evangelium Vitae” 1995
cinops be gone, Satuday,March 15, 2008
1) It is therefore a service of love which we are all committed to ensure to our neighbor, that his or her life may be always defended and promoted, especially when it is weak or threatened. Section 77
2) Too often it happens that believers, even those who take an active part in
the life of the Church, end up by separating their Christian faith, from its
ethical requirements concerning life, and thus fall into moral subjectivism
and certain objectionable ways of acting. (95)
3 The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we
recognize that we are dealing with murder…. (58)
4) To be truly a people at the service of life we must propose these truths
constantly and courageously from the very first proclamation of the
Gospel…
In the proclamation of this Gospel, we must not fear hostility or
unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which
might conform us to the world’s way of thinking. (cf. Romans 12:2), 82
5) We are facing an enormous and dramatic clash between good and evil,
death and life, the “culture of death” and the “culture of life.” We find
ourselves not only ‘faced with’ but necessarily ‘in the midst of’ this conflict: we are involved and we all share in it, with the inescapable
responsibility of choosing to unconditionally pro-life. (28)
At the root of every act of violence against one’s neighbor there is a
concession to the ‘thinking’ of the evil one, the one who ‘was a murderer from the beginning’ (John 8:44) …
But God cannot leave the crime unpunished: from the ground on which it has been spilt, the blood of the one murdered demands that God should render justice. (cf. Genesis 37:26): Isaiah 26:21’ Ezekiel 24:7-8) From this text the Church has taken the name of the ‘sins which cry to God for justice,’ and, first among them, she has included willful murder.” (8-9)
6) Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore
radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the
common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. (72)
The above are excerpts today and tomorrow from a booklet, A Humble Plea, To Bishops, Clergy and Laymen – Ending the Abortion Holocaust by Randall A. Terry, 904-461-9834 – www.randallterry.com
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
P.S. The Encyclical has a powerful message. If you can’t be persuaded by the evil of abortion and euthanasia nothing else will. In my own special edition of The Gospel of Life from “Inside the Vatican” - April 1995, there are 105 Sections in 50 pages. I will duplicate these pages & hand deliver them, in the next several days, to the offices of State Senator Lou Correa and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.
P.P.S. (There will be no postings during Holy Week.)
Pope John Paul II’s “Evangelium Vitae” 1995
cinops be gone, Satuday,March 15, 2008
1) It is therefore a service of love which we are all committed to ensure to our neighbor, that his or her life may be always defended and promoted, especially when it is weak or threatened. Section 77
2) Too often it happens that believers, even those who take an active part in
the life of the Church, end up by separating their Christian faith, from its
ethical requirements concerning life, and thus fall into moral subjectivism
and certain objectionable ways of acting. (95)
3 The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we
recognize that we are dealing with murder…. (58)
4) To be truly a people at the service of life we must propose these truths
constantly and courageously from the very first proclamation of the
Gospel…
In the proclamation of this Gospel, we must not fear hostility or
unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which
might conform us to the world’s way of thinking. (cf. Romans 12:2), 82
5) We are facing an enormous and dramatic clash between good and evil,
death and life, the “culture of death” and the “culture of life.” We find
ourselves not only ‘faced with’ but necessarily ‘in the midst of’ this conflict: we are involved and we all share in it, with the inescapable
responsibility of choosing to unconditionally pro-life. (28)
At the root of every act of violence against one’s neighbor there is a
concession to the ‘thinking’ of the evil one, the one who ‘was a murderer from the beginning’ (John 8:44) …
But God cannot leave the crime unpunished: from the ground on which it has been spilt, the blood of the one murdered demands that God should render justice. (cf. Genesis 37:26): Isaiah 26:21’ Ezekiel 24:7-8) From this text the Church has taken the name of the ‘sins which cry to God for justice,’ and, first among them, she has included willful murder.” (8-9)
6) Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore
radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the
common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. (72)
The above are excerpts today and tomorrow from a booklet, A Humble Plea, To Bishops, Clergy and Laymen – Ending the Abortion Holocaust by Randall A. Terry, 904-461-9834 – www.randallterry.com
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
P.S. The Encyclical has a powerful message. If you can’t be persuaded by the evil of abortion and euthanasia nothing else will. In my own special edition of The Gospel of Life from “Inside the Vatican” - April 1995, there are 105 Sections in 50 pages. I will duplicate these pages & hand deliver them, in the next several days, to the offices of State Senator Lou Correa and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.
P.P.S. (There will be no postings during Holy Week.)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Pravda and the New York Times
Pravda and the New York Times
wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com./ Thursday, March 13, 2008
Modern liberalism has no boundaries. With that kind of liberalism anything goes. True liberalism differs from false liberalism. I graduated in 1952 from a Jesuit Liberal Arts College and deplore modern liberal’s prostitution of the word liberal. The true liberals are the today’s conservatives.
Modern liberalism has no pillars, relativistic and the kind we have with political and religious correctness. It is culture of death’s suicide for America.
In the decades following the end of World War II in 1945 we had a Cold War with Communist Russia. The newspaper of renown in Moscow was Pravda (Truth).
Pravda was the mouthpiece of the Communist Party and truth according to the Party. Without the presidency of Ronald Reagan the Commies could have won.
In our country we had these fellow travelers during the Cold War. They were also known as useful idiots for communist Russia. They were around a lot in the so-called peace and anti-war movements. They would protest for things like unilateral nuclear disarmament and nuclear freeze. It made many feel so wonderful but it was out of touch with reality with what was best for America and the free world. We have them today. Many of them hate America and the military.
Well the newspaper of renown in America today is still The New York Times. Sadly, the NYT is a mouthpiece for the secular culture also known as the culture of death values. For example, homosexual marriage is the same as marriage between a man and a woman. They support other evils like embryonic stem cell research, abortion on demand, assisted-suicide and euthanasia. They report the general news through this prism. They deliberately marginalize any pro-life or family values. And as a result, they are kind of screwed up with that perspective in reporting the news to Americans. They hate President Bush and conservative Americans both Republican and Democrats.
It is most unhealthy for a nation to have a corrupt media. General Electric is the owner of MSNBC which has become a mouthpiece for the Obama presidential candidacy. New York Reuters, Fri. Feb. 29, 2008 reported nearly 70 percent of American believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey.
The research done on the new media by Robert and Linda Lichter, and Stanley Rothman in their book, The Media Elite found that:
45 % of the media described themselves as either atheist or agnostic, compared to only 9 % of the general public.
89% of the media reported that they seldom or never attend church, compared to only 25% of the general public.
6% of the members of the media reported that they attended church weekly, compared to 42 % of the general public.
94% of the media either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, “Abortion on demand should remain legal,” compared to 51% of the public.
88% of the media thought that “Television is not critical of traditional and religious values.”
55% of the members of the media strongly agreed with the statement, “Adultery is acceptable,” compared to 30% of the public.
An awareness of the above is common sense.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish or Vietnamese.
wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com./ Thursday, March 13, 2008
Modern liberalism has no boundaries. With that kind of liberalism anything goes. True liberalism differs from false liberalism. I graduated in 1952 from a Jesuit Liberal Arts College and deplore modern liberal’s prostitution of the word liberal. The true liberals are the today’s conservatives.
Modern liberalism has no pillars, relativistic and the kind we have with political and religious correctness. It is culture of death’s suicide for America.
In the decades following the end of World War II in 1945 we had a Cold War with Communist Russia. The newspaper of renown in Moscow was Pravda (Truth).
Pravda was the mouthpiece of the Communist Party and truth according to the Party. Without the presidency of Ronald Reagan the Commies could have won.
In our country we had these fellow travelers during the Cold War. They were also known as useful idiots for communist Russia. They were around a lot in the so-called peace and anti-war movements. They would protest for things like unilateral nuclear disarmament and nuclear freeze. It made many feel so wonderful but it was out of touch with reality with what was best for America and the free world. We have them today. Many of them hate America and the military.
Well the newspaper of renown in America today is still The New York Times. Sadly, the NYT is a mouthpiece for the secular culture also known as the culture of death values. For example, homosexual marriage is the same as marriage between a man and a woman. They support other evils like embryonic stem cell research, abortion on demand, assisted-suicide and euthanasia. They report the general news through this prism. They deliberately marginalize any pro-life or family values. And as a result, they are kind of screwed up with that perspective in reporting the news to Americans. They hate President Bush and conservative Americans both Republican and Democrats.
It is most unhealthy for a nation to have a corrupt media. General Electric is the owner of MSNBC which has become a mouthpiece for the Obama presidential candidacy. New York Reuters, Fri. Feb. 29, 2008 reported nearly 70 percent of American believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey.
The research done on the new media by Robert and Linda Lichter, and Stanley Rothman in their book, The Media Elite found that:
45 % of the media described themselves as either atheist or agnostic, compared to only 9 % of the general public.
89% of the media reported that they seldom or never attend church, compared to only 25% of the general public.
6% of the members of the media reported that they attended church weekly, compared to 42 % of the general public.
94% of the media either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, “Abortion on demand should remain legal,” compared to 51% of the public.
88% of the media thought that “Television is not critical of traditional and religious values.”
55% of the members of the media strongly agreed with the statement, “Adultery is acceptable,” compared to 30% of the public.
An awareness of the above is common sense.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish or Vietnamese.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
More than half of the twenty Catholic colleges hosting this vile play are Jesuit. As a graduate of a Jesuit College what are the Jesuits trying to prove? In recent statements Pope Benedict XVI has urged the Jesuits to fidelity and loyalty to the Church.
The Vagina Monologues is a sexually explicit and offensive play that favorably describes lesbian activity, group masturbation, and the reduction of sexuality to selfish pleasure. The performance makes a mockery of Catholic teachings on life, love and sexual ethics.
Two decades ago, Pope John Paul II issued Ex corde Ecclessia, and explicit directive for the renewal and reform in Catholic higher education. Pope Benedict continues the call.
That is why Pope Benedict summoned all 225 presidents of U.S. Catholic colleges to Washington, D.C. for a private address in April. This Jesuit behavior is like in your face. It is also an insult to all Catholics who contributed and built these colleges. I hope there are consequences.
“In the holy season of Lent and just weeks before the Holy Father visits the United States, these nominal Catholic colleges will shame themselves publicly in defiance of Catholic morals and basic civility,” said Patrick J. Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society (CNS)
“Most disturbing of all is the return of the monologues to the University of Notre Dame,” Reilly said. “In the absence of moral leadership, Notre Dame will again thumb its nose at Bishop D’Arcy, who has publicly condemned the play and chastised the university.
In the Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College. CNS refused to recommend Notre Dame, noting one professor’s chilling comment that ‘a kid who is struggling with his faith will sink like a stone.’ But Newman Guide editor Joseph Esposito expressed hope that Notre Dame would strengthen it Catholic identity.
CNS has contacted the president of each host college by mail, urging them to halt the play. CNS is calling on its more than 20,000 members and other Catholics like yourself to convey their concerns about the Monologues to college presidents. Here are several of them.
Loyola Marymount University University of San Francisco
Fr. Robert Lewton, S.J., President Fr. Stephen Privett, S.J., President
rlawtons@lmu.lmu privet@usfca.edu
Fordham University University of Notre Dame
F. Joseph McShane, S.J. President Father John Jenkins, C.S.C. Pres.
president@fordham.edu Jenkins.1@nd.edu
Saint Louis University University of Detroit Mercy
Fr. Lawrence Biondi, S.J. Pres. Fr. Gerard Stockausen, S.J. Pres.
biondi@slu.edu gstock@udmercy.edu
Loyola University New Orleans College of Holy Cross
Fr. Kevin Wildes, S.J. President Fr. Michael McFarland. S.J. Pres.
wildsk@loyno.edu mmcfaria@holycross.edu
George H. Kubeck
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
More than half of the twenty Catholic colleges hosting this vile play are Jesuit. As a graduate of a Jesuit College what are the Jesuits trying to prove? In recent statements Pope Benedict XVI has urged the Jesuits to fidelity and loyalty to the Church.
The Vagina Monologues is a sexually explicit and offensive play that favorably describes lesbian activity, group masturbation, and the reduction of sexuality to selfish pleasure. The performance makes a mockery of Catholic teachings on life, love and sexual ethics.
Two decades ago, Pope John Paul II issued Ex corde Ecclessia, and explicit directive for the renewal and reform in Catholic higher education. Pope Benedict continues the call.
That is why Pope Benedict summoned all 225 presidents of U.S. Catholic colleges to Washington, D.C. for a private address in April. This Jesuit behavior is like in your face. It is also an insult to all Catholics who contributed and built these colleges. I hope there are consequences.
“In the holy season of Lent and just weeks before the Holy Father visits the United States, these nominal Catholic colleges will shame themselves publicly in defiance of Catholic morals and basic civility,” said Patrick J. Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society (CNS)
“Most disturbing of all is the return of the monologues to the University of Notre Dame,” Reilly said. “In the absence of moral leadership, Notre Dame will again thumb its nose at Bishop D’Arcy, who has publicly condemned the play and chastised the university.
In the Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College. CNS refused to recommend Notre Dame, noting one professor’s chilling comment that ‘a kid who is struggling with his faith will sink like a stone.’ But Newman Guide editor Joseph Esposito expressed hope that Notre Dame would strengthen it Catholic identity.
CNS has contacted the president of each host college by mail, urging them to halt the play. CNS is calling on its more than 20,000 members and other Catholics like yourself to convey their concerns about the Monologues to college presidents. Here are several of them.
Loyola Marymount University University of San Francisco
Fr. Robert Lewton, S.J., President Fr. Stephen Privett, S.J., President
rlawtons@lmu.lmu privet@usfca.edu
Fordham University University of Notre Dame
F. Joseph McShane, S.J. President Father John Jenkins, C.S.C. Pres.
president@fordham.edu Jenkins.1@nd.edu
Saint Louis University University of Detroit Mercy
Fr. Lawrence Biondi, S.J. Pres. Fr. Gerard Stockausen, S.J. Pres.
biondi@slu.edu gstock@udmercy.edu
Loyola University New Orleans College of Holy Cross
Fr. Kevin Wildes, S.J. President Fr. Michael McFarland. S.J. Pres.
wildsk@loyno.edu mmcfaria@holycross.edu
George H. Kubeck
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Report # 17 onh David Carlin's Book "Can a Cath. be a Democrat?"
Report # 17 on David Carlin’s Book “Can a Catholic be a Democrat?”
wwwcinops.begone.blogspot.com/ Tuesday, March 11, 2008
David Carlin will compare the Secularist view and the Catholic view on the issues of abortion and euthanasia. The author will also deal with future topics: Suffering, Catholic Excuses, American Secularism and its History, Liberal Christianity, Fellow-Travelers of Secularism, and finally my name for the Father of the Catholic Useful Idiots, Mario Cuomo.
“Secularists aren’t moved (or at lest, if they’re logically consistent, shouldn’t be moved) by the idea that the life of a fetus or a terminally ill person has intrinsic, objective value. From their empiricist-naturalist point of view, such a life can have only whatever “value” might be assigned to it by us humans. If a pregnant woman, decides that the fetus in her uterus has no value – or, at any rate, a significantly lesser value than other values she’s concerned with – it becomes thus. If, on the other hand, she ‘wants’ the child enough, it takes on a completely different value.
“Of course, in the case of abortion, the fetus itself has no vote, since it’s incapable of having or expressing an opinion. But in the case of euthanasia, the patient ideally has the decisive vote. If, from a secularist viewpoint (i.e., a naturalist-empiricist view-point), he decides that his life no longer has value, or at least not enough value to warrant going on, when his life has indeed no value ( or relatively no value), and thus, it’s morally allowable – even laudable – to terminate it. In cases where the patient’s condition has deteriorated to a point at which he’s no longer competent to determine the value of his life, then a delegated agent ( a close relative or perhaps the doctor) would – presumably in accordance with the patient’s own last wishes or his best interests – make the crucial judgment.
“The Catholic view is totally different. According to it, the fetus has its own value, intrinsic, objective, irrevocable: the value of every human person/ Hence, it doesn’t matter what subjective value or disvalue anybody – including the mother in whose womb it temporarily resides – might wish to assign to it. Therefore abortion can’t be morally permitted. Neither can euthanasia whether voluntary or involuntary. It makes no difference whether the person to be killed expresses a clear wish to be killed, since, according to the Catholic view, even if a man expressly wished to destroy his own life, his objective value as a living human being doesn’t vanish thereby. Thus, he may not be killed even at his own request...
“That’s because, according to the Catholic view, the individual human person is created ‘in the image and likeness of God’ (Gen. 2:26) and thus carries a special dignity that sets him apart from the rest of nature. His human soul is immaterial, not by any biological process but created directly by God, and so it won’t cease to exist with the death of the material body. According to the doctrine of the Incarnation, so high was the value of this body-soul composite made in God’s image that it wasn’t unworthy of the Second Person of the Trinity to become human; and by taking human nature to himself, God in turn elevated it even further. Finally, Christ’s death in the flesh freed humanity from sin and made it possible for all of us to be eternal partakers of God’s divine glory”…. 95-96
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
P.S. During Holy Week, March 17-23, 2008 no articles will be posted on the blog.
wwwcinops.begone.blogspot.com/ Tuesday, March 11, 2008
David Carlin will compare the Secularist view and the Catholic view on the issues of abortion and euthanasia. The author will also deal with future topics: Suffering, Catholic Excuses, American Secularism and its History, Liberal Christianity, Fellow-Travelers of Secularism, and finally my name for the Father of the Catholic Useful Idiots, Mario Cuomo.
“Secularists aren’t moved (or at lest, if they’re logically consistent, shouldn’t be moved) by the idea that the life of a fetus or a terminally ill person has intrinsic, objective value. From their empiricist-naturalist point of view, such a life can have only whatever “value” might be assigned to it by us humans. If a pregnant woman, decides that the fetus in her uterus has no value – or, at any rate, a significantly lesser value than other values she’s concerned with – it becomes thus. If, on the other hand, she ‘wants’ the child enough, it takes on a completely different value.
“Of course, in the case of abortion, the fetus itself has no vote, since it’s incapable of having or expressing an opinion. But in the case of euthanasia, the patient ideally has the decisive vote. If, from a secularist viewpoint (i.e., a naturalist-empiricist view-point), he decides that his life no longer has value, or at least not enough value to warrant going on, when his life has indeed no value ( or relatively no value), and thus, it’s morally allowable – even laudable – to terminate it. In cases where the patient’s condition has deteriorated to a point at which he’s no longer competent to determine the value of his life, then a delegated agent ( a close relative or perhaps the doctor) would – presumably in accordance with the patient’s own last wishes or his best interests – make the crucial judgment.
“The Catholic view is totally different. According to it, the fetus has its own value, intrinsic, objective, irrevocable: the value of every human person/ Hence, it doesn’t matter what subjective value or disvalue anybody – including the mother in whose womb it temporarily resides – might wish to assign to it. Therefore abortion can’t be morally permitted. Neither can euthanasia whether voluntary or involuntary. It makes no difference whether the person to be killed expresses a clear wish to be killed, since, according to the Catholic view, even if a man expressly wished to destroy his own life, his objective value as a living human being doesn’t vanish thereby. Thus, he may not be killed even at his own request...
“That’s because, according to the Catholic view, the individual human person is created ‘in the image and likeness of God’ (Gen. 2:26) and thus carries a special dignity that sets him apart from the rest of nature. His human soul is immaterial, not by any biological process but created directly by God, and so it won’t cease to exist with the death of the material body. According to the doctrine of the Incarnation, so high was the value of this body-soul composite made in God’s image that it wasn’t unworthy of the Second Person of the Trinity to become human; and by taking human nature to himself, God in turn elevated it even further. Finally, Christ’s death in the flesh freed humanity from sin and made it possible for all of us to be eternal partakers of God’s divine glory”…. 95-96
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
P.S. During Holy Week, March 17-23, 2008 no articles will be posted on the blog.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Comments on Sat. and Sun.'s Useful Idiots
Comments on Saturday & Sunday’s Useful Idiots
Monday, March 10, 2008
Let’s take a week before we have very serious comments. It is going to take time to digest the info & check it out. I can post your comments anonymously. Can we blame the mistaken liberal Jesuits for their influence on the Kennedys?
Sadly, the Kennedy Clan needs a conversion and become disciples of Pope John Paul II’s Gospel of Life before we can even attach the Catholic label to their names. And let’s stop pretending & hiding the horrible influence that the Clan has had on other politicians in the Democratic Party. Let’s check it out.
Congressional Voting Records
1. Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act-passage (110th)
2. Marriage Amendment Act (109th)
3. Terri Schiavo: Federal court review (109th)
4. Child interstate Abortion Notification Act (109th)
5. Abortion in military medical facilities (109th)
6. Coercive abortion/ United Nations Population Fund (109th)
7. Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act: passage (109th)
8. Human Cloning Ban: passage (108th)
9. Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: passage (108th)
10. Unborn Victims of Violence Act (108th)
On all of the above issues the following Catholic Democratic Congresspersons voted against the Catholic position on 8, 9 or 10 issues:
Raul Grijalva AZ, Joe Baca CA, Xavier Becerra CA, Anna Eshoo CA, George Miller CA, Grace Napolitano CA, Nancy Pelosi CA, Lucille Roybal Allard CA, Linda Sanchez CA, Loretta Sanchez CA, Hilda Solis CA, Ellen Tauscher CA,
Mike Thompson CA, Diane Watson CA, Rosa DeLauro CT, John Larson CT, Luis Gutierrez IL, Michael Capuano MA, William Delahunt MA, Edward Markey MA, James McGovern MA, Marty Meehan MA, Betty McCollum MN, Wm .Lacy Clay MO, Frank Pallone NJ, Tim Bishop NY, Maurice Hinchey NY, Carolyn McCarthy NY, Charles Rangel NY, Nydia Velasquez NY, Peter Defazio OR, Robert Brady PA, Patrick Kennedy RI, Charles Gonzales TX, James Moran VA
Now let us check out the vote of the Catholic Republican Congresspersons. They did not get any special religious advice. On all of the above issues the following Catholic Republican Congresspersons voted in agreement with the Catholic Position on 8, 9, or 10 issues.
Rick Renzi AZ, Devin Nunes CA, George Randanovich CA, Ed Royce CA, Ginny Brown-Waite FL, Lincoln Diaz-Balart Fl, Mario Diaz-Balart Fl, Phil Gingrey GA, Steve King IA, Ray Lahood IL, Dave Camp MI, Thaddeus McCotter MI, Kenny Hulshof MO, Wakter Jones NC, Michael Ferguson NJ, Frank LoBlondo NJ, Christopher Smith NJ, John Porter NV, Peter King NY, John McHugh NY, James Walsh NY, John Boehner OH, Steve Chabot OH, Patrick Tiberi OH, John Sullivan OK, Philip English PA, Timothy Murphy PA, Kevin Brady TX, Doc Hastings WA, Paul Ryan WI.
The above is taken from the Scorecard of Catholics in Congress: CATHOLIC ADVOCATE, A Project of the Morley Institute for Church & Culture.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Let’s take a week before we have very serious comments. It is going to take time to digest the info & check it out. I can post your comments anonymously. Can we blame the mistaken liberal Jesuits for their influence on the Kennedys?
Sadly, the Kennedy Clan needs a conversion and become disciples of Pope John Paul II’s Gospel of Life before we can even attach the Catholic label to their names. And let’s stop pretending & hiding the horrible influence that the Clan has had on other politicians in the Democratic Party. Let’s check it out.
Congressional Voting Records
1. Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act-passage (110th)
2. Marriage Amendment Act (109th)
3. Terri Schiavo: Federal court review (109th)
4. Child interstate Abortion Notification Act (109th)
5. Abortion in military medical facilities (109th)
6. Coercive abortion/ United Nations Population Fund (109th)
7. Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act: passage (109th)
8. Human Cloning Ban: passage (108th)
9. Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: passage (108th)
10. Unborn Victims of Violence Act (108th)
On all of the above issues the following Catholic Democratic Congresspersons voted against the Catholic position on 8, 9 or 10 issues:
Raul Grijalva AZ, Joe Baca CA, Xavier Becerra CA, Anna Eshoo CA, George Miller CA, Grace Napolitano CA, Nancy Pelosi CA, Lucille Roybal Allard CA, Linda Sanchez CA, Loretta Sanchez CA, Hilda Solis CA, Ellen Tauscher CA,
Mike Thompson CA, Diane Watson CA, Rosa DeLauro CT, John Larson CT, Luis Gutierrez IL, Michael Capuano MA, William Delahunt MA, Edward Markey MA, James McGovern MA, Marty Meehan MA, Betty McCollum MN, Wm .Lacy Clay MO, Frank Pallone NJ, Tim Bishop NY, Maurice Hinchey NY, Carolyn McCarthy NY, Charles Rangel NY, Nydia Velasquez NY, Peter Defazio OR, Robert Brady PA, Patrick Kennedy RI, Charles Gonzales TX, James Moran VA
Now let us check out the vote of the Catholic Republican Congresspersons. They did not get any special religious advice. On all of the above issues the following Catholic Republican Congresspersons voted in agreement with the Catholic Position on 8, 9, or 10 issues.
Rick Renzi AZ, Devin Nunes CA, George Randanovich CA, Ed Royce CA, Ginny Brown-Waite FL, Lincoln Diaz-Balart Fl, Mario Diaz-Balart Fl, Phil Gingrey GA, Steve King IA, Ray Lahood IL, Dave Camp MI, Thaddeus McCotter MI, Kenny Hulshof MO, Wakter Jones NC, Michael Ferguson NJ, Frank LoBlondo NJ, Christopher Smith NJ, John Porter NV, Peter King NY, John McHugh NY, James Walsh NY, John Boehner OH, Steve Chabot OH, Patrick Tiberi OH, John Sullivan OK, Philip English PA, Timothy Murphy PA, Kevin Brady TX, Doc Hastings WA, Paul Ryan WI.
The above is taken from the Scorecard of Catholics in Congress: CATHOLIC ADVOCATE, A Project of the Morley Institute for Church & Culture.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
The Original Catholic Death Culture Idiots - 2
The Original Catholic Death Culture Idiots – 2
Sunday, March 9, 2008
We will continue from where we left off yesterday.
“Thus the basic lines of pro-choice rhetoric were sketched out by Catholic theologians, at the residence of America’s most famous Catholic family, nine years before the Roe v. Wade decision. The late President Kennedy had already laid the foundation for the argument that a Catholic politician must not attempt to enact his private religious views; now his brothers were prepared to take the next step forward. They were ready …they were personally opposed to abortion, but …
“Once the Roe decision was issued, and the question of abortion did become a hot political topic, liberal Catholics were ready with their reasons why Congress should not move to overturn the Supreme Court decision. The US bishops pleaded for Congress to act, but Catholic politicians held back. FROM 1977 THROUGH 1987 THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TIP O’NEILL – A CATHOLIC DEMOCRAT FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND A KENNEDY ALLY – SAW TO IT THAT NOT A SINGLE VOTE WAS TAKEN ON ANY MEASURE TO RESTRICT ABORTION.
“As liberal Catholic theologians in the US did their utmost to obfuscate the moral principle involved –that the deliberate killing of innocent human beings can never be justified – the Vatican made every effort to clarify that issue. In a 1974 Declaration on Procured Abortion, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced: ‘It must in any case be clearly understood that whatever may be laid down by civil law in this matter, man can never obey a law which is in itself immoral, and such is the case of a law which would admit in principle the liceity of abortion. Nor can he take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.’
“Pro-life leaders quoted the Vatican document to liberal Catholic legislators, but they argued in vain. The defenders of legal abortion were now fully entrenched in their position, and – with respectable theologians still provided support in scholarly journals and newspaper editorial columns – insisted that their stand was in keeping with a carefully nuanced Catholic view.
“Years passed the number of babies aborted steadily rose, and the practice that had once been unthinkable gradually became accepted. In frustration, pro-life Catholic questioned why their bishops did not take action to discipline the wayward politicians. The Code of Cannon Law stipulates that anyone actively involved in an abortion – the woman who procures it, the doctor who performs it, the man who pays for it – is subject to the penalty of excommunication. (The excommunication in this case is latae sententiae, which means that it takes effect immediately by virtue of the offense; there is no need for any public announcement of the penalty.) If this penalty is invoked for involvement in one abortion, conservative Catholics wondered aloud, how could it not apply to those lawmakers aloud, how could it not apply to those lawmakers who, by their votes, allowed tens of thousands of abortion? …
“Pope John Paul II made another valiant effort to clarify the issue with his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) ‘ Abortion and euthanasia,’ the Pope wrote , ‘ are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize.’ Every Catholic is under a “grave and clear obligation to oppose’ such laws, he said. Since a law allowing abortion is intrinsically unjust, ‘it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law or to vote for it.’” {Please study the two articles and come up with your observations.)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
We will continue from where we left off yesterday.
“Thus the basic lines of pro-choice rhetoric were sketched out by Catholic theologians, at the residence of America’s most famous Catholic family, nine years before the Roe v. Wade decision. The late President Kennedy had already laid the foundation for the argument that a Catholic politician must not attempt to enact his private religious views; now his brothers were prepared to take the next step forward. They were ready …they were personally opposed to abortion, but …
“Once the Roe decision was issued, and the question of abortion did become a hot political topic, liberal Catholics were ready with their reasons why Congress should not move to overturn the Supreme Court decision. The US bishops pleaded for Congress to act, but Catholic politicians held back. FROM 1977 THROUGH 1987 THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TIP O’NEILL – A CATHOLIC DEMOCRAT FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND A KENNEDY ALLY – SAW TO IT THAT NOT A SINGLE VOTE WAS TAKEN ON ANY MEASURE TO RESTRICT ABORTION.
“As liberal Catholic theologians in the US did their utmost to obfuscate the moral principle involved –that the deliberate killing of innocent human beings can never be justified – the Vatican made every effort to clarify that issue. In a 1974 Declaration on Procured Abortion, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced: ‘It must in any case be clearly understood that whatever may be laid down by civil law in this matter, man can never obey a law which is in itself immoral, and such is the case of a law which would admit in principle the liceity of abortion. Nor can he take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.’
“Pro-life leaders quoted the Vatican document to liberal Catholic legislators, but they argued in vain. The defenders of legal abortion were now fully entrenched in their position, and – with respectable theologians still provided support in scholarly journals and newspaper editorial columns – insisted that their stand was in keeping with a carefully nuanced Catholic view.
“Years passed the number of babies aborted steadily rose, and the practice that had once been unthinkable gradually became accepted. In frustration, pro-life Catholic questioned why their bishops did not take action to discipline the wayward politicians. The Code of Cannon Law stipulates that anyone actively involved in an abortion – the woman who procures it, the doctor who performs it, the man who pays for it – is subject to the penalty of excommunication. (The excommunication in this case is latae sententiae, which means that it takes effect immediately by virtue of the offense; there is no need for any public announcement of the penalty.) If this penalty is invoked for involvement in one abortion, conservative Catholics wondered aloud, how could it not apply to those lawmakers aloud, how could it not apply to those lawmakers who, by their votes, allowed tens of thousands of abortion? …
“Pope John Paul II made another valiant effort to clarify the issue with his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) ‘ Abortion and euthanasia,’ the Pope wrote , ‘ are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize.’ Every Catholic is under a “grave and clear obligation to oppose’ such laws, he said. Since a law allowing abortion is intrinsically unjust, ‘it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law or to vote for it.’” {Please study the two articles and come up with your observations.)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
The Original Catholic Death Culture Idiots - 1
The Original Catholic Death Culture Idiots - 1
Saturday, March 8, 2008
“At the time when Humanae Vitae appeared, it would have been unthinkable for a Catholic politician to endorse legal abortion. As late as 1971, Senator Ted Kennedy – who was later to become the Catholic politician most closely identified with the pro-abortion cause – wrote to a constituent that
‘ Legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life.’ Senator Kennedy added that Americ. culture should ‘fulfill its responsibility to its children from the moment of concept.’
“But even in those days, before Roe v. Wade decision, the stage was already being set for a Catholic capitulation on the abortion issue. And Ted Kennedy should have been aware of the plot, because it was hatched under the auspices of his family. Most Americans were taken by surprise by the Roe decision (1973), which struck down state laws restricting abortion. But the Kennedys were ready; for the better part of a decade they had been preparing their rhetoric for such an opportunity.
“In July 1964, several liberal theologians received invitations to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis port, Massachusetts, for a discussion of how a Catholic politician should handle the abortion issue. Notice now that abortion was not a major political issue in 1964. Ostensibly the meeting has been called to provide advice for Robert Kennedy, who was running for a New York Senate seat. But a candidate was not likely to face questions about abortion in 1964; the Kennedy planners had the more distant future in mind.
“The participants in that Hyannisport meeting composed a Who’s Who of liberal theologians, most of them Jesuits. Father Robert Drinan was there, as was Father Charles Curran ( the leader in the dissent against Hunanae Vitae; his writings on moral issues were later condemned by the Vatican). Father Joseph Fuchs, a Jesuit professor at Rome’s Gregorian University, was on hand; so were the Jesuits Richard McCormick, Albert Jonsen, and Giles Milhaven. (Milhaven was later instrumental in the early public works of ‘Catholics for a Free Choice;’ McCormick would become the Rose Kennedy professor of the Kennedy Institute for Bioethics at Georgetown University, & spend years teaching theology at N.D.
“For two days the theologians huddled in the Cap Code resort town as guests of the Kennedys. Eventually they reached a consensus, which they passed along to their political patrons. Abortion, they agreed, could sometimes be morally acceptable as the lesser of two evils. Lawmakers should certainly not encourage abortion, but a blanket prohibition might be more harmful to the common good than a law allowing abortion in some cases. And a danger to the common good would very likely arise if political leaders sought to impose their own private views on public policy.
“The conference at Hyannisport offered a rare example of teamwork between academic theologians and practical politicians. The skillful operatives of the Kennedy family would round up the votes to end restrictions on abortion and eventually to provide public subsidies. The Jesuit theologians would provide protective cover for that effort, ensuring that Catholic colleges, universities, and theological journals gave a sympathetic reading to the politicians’ public statem.”
The above from Chapter 6, Waiting for Roe in Philip F. Lawler’s book, The Faithful Departed The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture, Encounter B. 2008
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
“At the time when Humanae Vitae appeared, it would have been unthinkable for a Catholic politician to endorse legal abortion. As late as 1971, Senator Ted Kennedy – who was later to become the Catholic politician most closely identified with the pro-abortion cause – wrote to a constituent that
‘ Legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life.’ Senator Kennedy added that Americ. culture should ‘fulfill its responsibility to its children from the moment of concept.’
“But even in those days, before Roe v. Wade decision, the stage was already being set for a Catholic capitulation on the abortion issue. And Ted Kennedy should have been aware of the plot, because it was hatched under the auspices of his family. Most Americans were taken by surprise by the Roe decision (1973), which struck down state laws restricting abortion. But the Kennedys were ready; for the better part of a decade they had been preparing their rhetoric for such an opportunity.
“In July 1964, several liberal theologians received invitations to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis port, Massachusetts, for a discussion of how a Catholic politician should handle the abortion issue. Notice now that abortion was not a major political issue in 1964. Ostensibly the meeting has been called to provide advice for Robert Kennedy, who was running for a New York Senate seat. But a candidate was not likely to face questions about abortion in 1964; the Kennedy planners had the more distant future in mind.
“The participants in that Hyannisport meeting composed a Who’s Who of liberal theologians, most of them Jesuits. Father Robert Drinan was there, as was Father Charles Curran ( the leader in the dissent against Hunanae Vitae; his writings on moral issues were later condemned by the Vatican). Father Joseph Fuchs, a Jesuit professor at Rome’s Gregorian University, was on hand; so were the Jesuits Richard McCormick, Albert Jonsen, and Giles Milhaven. (Milhaven was later instrumental in the early public works of ‘Catholics for a Free Choice;’ McCormick would become the Rose Kennedy professor of the Kennedy Institute for Bioethics at Georgetown University, & spend years teaching theology at N.D.
“For two days the theologians huddled in the Cap Code resort town as guests of the Kennedys. Eventually they reached a consensus, which they passed along to their political patrons. Abortion, they agreed, could sometimes be morally acceptable as the lesser of two evils. Lawmakers should certainly not encourage abortion, but a blanket prohibition might be more harmful to the common good than a law allowing abortion in some cases. And a danger to the common good would very likely arise if political leaders sought to impose their own private views on public policy.
“The conference at Hyannisport offered a rare example of teamwork between academic theologians and practical politicians. The skillful operatives of the Kennedy family would round up the votes to end restrictions on abortion and eventually to provide public subsidies. The Jesuit theologians would provide protective cover for that effort, ensuring that Catholic colleges, universities, and theological journals gave a sympathetic reading to the politicians’ public statem.”
The above from Chapter 6, Waiting for Roe in Philip F. Lawler’s book, The Faithful Departed The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture, Encounter B. 2008
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
The Church's Great Temptation - # 2 of 2
The Church’s Great Temptation - 2 of 2
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ ,Thursday, March 6, 2008
The author Phil Lawler believes that American Catholicism is facing a crisis with what I called the 30 million ex-Catholic American Lost Souls. He notes that 10.1 % of the U.S. population had left the Catholic faith. Thus for every new convert, the Church is losing roughly four cradle Catholics. This is another most serious challenge to our Catholic Church. And again in my mind the role models for fallen away Catholics are the Catholic in name only politicians.
There is no doubt in my mind that the defeat of Catholic-in-name only politicians and their removal from office ought to be the top priority for the pro-life and marriage movement in 2008. The hours you work on the phone and in the precincts will secure the defeat of a few in each diocese.
Many Catholics have such an attachment to one political party that they are willing to go to hell with it. That is too bad. It is time to face the reality. Our religious community understands hell. They can also be role models. It is time for all to reregister and register to decline to state. Also to see that Catholics who go to Mass on Sundays are all registered to vote for 2008.
In the presidential elections we are going to focus on the life issues. Each bishop is faced with different choices: immigration, health care, and the life and marriage issues? They are all important. The first two are prudential issues; the second two are absolute and inherently evil issues. We know that the National Conference of Bishops has stated that the most important political issue in America is the life issue. But will that message get out to the voters. I am looking forward to the message of Pope Benedict XVI when he arrives in April 15-20th. Particularly, to his talk with the presidents of the Catholic Colleges & Universities.
There is no moral dilemma with the pro-life movement.
To sell out your Catholic Faith to a group that advocates the two A’s, the two E’s and the two SS’s is evil. These are five absolute evils promoted directly and indirectly by the CINOPS who are the role models for one of the largest religious group in the U.S.A. the thirty million ex-Catholic American Lost Souls.
There is a shock page coming up this Saturday which I will quote from Philip F. Lawler’s book: The Faithful Departed - The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture, Encounter Books, 2008.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ ,Thursday, March 6, 2008
The author Phil Lawler believes that American Catholicism is facing a crisis with what I called the 30 million ex-Catholic American Lost Souls. He notes that 10.1 % of the U.S. population had left the Catholic faith. Thus for every new convert, the Church is losing roughly four cradle Catholics. This is another most serious challenge to our Catholic Church. And again in my mind the role models for fallen away Catholics are the Catholic in name only politicians.
There is no doubt in my mind that the defeat of Catholic-in-name only politicians and their removal from office ought to be the top priority for the pro-life and marriage movement in 2008. The hours you work on the phone and in the precincts will secure the defeat of a few in each diocese.
Many Catholics have such an attachment to one political party that they are willing to go to hell with it. That is too bad. It is time to face the reality. Our religious community understands hell. They can also be role models. It is time for all to reregister and register to decline to state. Also to see that Catholics who go to Mass on Sundays are all registered to vote for 2008.
In the presidential elections we are going to focus on the life issues. Each bishop is faced with different choices: immigration, health care, and the life and marriage issues? They are all important. The first two are prudential issues; the second two are absolute and inherently evil issues. We know that the National Conference of Bishops has stated that the most important political issue in America is the life issue. But will that message get out to the voters. I am looking forward to the message of Pope Benedict XVI when he arrives in April 15-20th. Particularly, to his talk with the presidents of the Catholic Colleges & Universities.
There is no moral dilemma with the pro-life movement.
To sell out your Catholic Faith to a group that advocates the two A’s, the two E’s and the two SS’s is evil. These are five absolute evils promoted directly and indirectly by the CINOPS who are the role models for one of the largest religious group in the U.S.A. the thirty million ex-Catholic American Lost Souls.
There is a shock page coming up this Saturday which I will quote from Philip F. Lawler’s book: The Faithful Departed - The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture, Encounter Books, 2008.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Church's Great Temptation - 1 of 2
The Church’s Great Temptation – 1 of 2
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ , Mar. 5, 2008
Let us always take a look at the big picture. Remember Pope John Paul II is looking down on us; you can’t fool him as we try to follow in his footsteps. Any bishop is only as good as his advisors. If there are serious mistakes made in the past put the blame on his advisors. A bishop is lucky if he has a balance in his advisors. I am thinking of the orthodox-Magisterium type. And very few of the bishops have them. What has happened over the years is due to the religious correct advisor department? In some ways, this is similar to the political correctness within our culture. The pursuit of the truth is set aside by prejudice, social and old family democratic biases. That Democratic Party is dead today.
When Pope John Paul visited the Americas he dealt with some bishops who were strongly influenced by liberation theology. And with the Church’s option for the poor they came up with some strong arguments particularly in Central America and South America. There are still quite a number within the U.S. Church’s bureaucracy. The idea was that we need to work with socialist and communists to bring about real change in the structure of the country for the sake of the poor. Pope John Paul II had the experience of communists in Poland. He tried to straighten out the ones in the Americas. Many of them did not listen to him. After all he is of Polish background and what does he know about American politics. The encyclical Gospel of Life did not make too much of impression on them. I guess the same can be said for the present Pope who is German.
In America today there is something similar going on. Many of our Latino parishioners have been suffering long enough. Families and children have been separated for years. There is a cry for justice. Catholic Social Justice informs us educates and persuades us that our Latino community can get a better deal from the Democratic politicians than from the Republican politicians. So let us not focus too much on the life and marriage issues where our supporters (the rotten apple Catholic Role Model Politicians) are very weak. For example, on the distribution of Pro-life literature, let us see what our advisors the lawyers have to say. The lawyers of the Baptists and the Evangelicals allow distributing pro-life literature left and right. Maybe, we need to get rid of our lawyers and get a new set. The mindset of these lawyers is democratic. Remember now these types of advisors are the ones that got the bishops into trouble in the past.
It is not only with immigration but also with health care and other issues like jobs. Many people are too poor even to pay for health care. We need a National Health care system, operated by the government and similar to what is in Canada and Europe. But who is going to pay for these freebies?
We are not going to focus in on who provides the Immigration Reform or Health Care. Don’t start calling them socialists. We do not live in a perfect world. Generally in the prudential social justice issues the democrats have been more attune to Catholic Social Justice Issues. However, this has not been true during the last eight years of the Bush administration. However, we seem to communicate better with these Catholic-in-name-only politicians. It is wrong to work with CINOPS even if we have theologians who agree with them. The CINOPS
are anathema to our Catholic Faith and stooges for the Culture of Death?
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
www.cinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ , Mar. 5, 2008
Let us always take a look at the big picture. Remember Pope John Paul II is looking down on us; you can’t fool him as we try to follow in his footsteps. Any bishop is only as good as his advisors. If there are serious mistakes made in the past put the blame on his advisors. A bishop is lucky if he has a balance in his advisors. I am thinking of the orthodox-Magisterium type. And very few of the bishops have them. What has happened over the years is due to the religious correct advisor department? In some ways, this is similar to the political correctness within our culture. The pursuit of the truth is set aside by prejudice, social and old family democratic biases. That Democratic Party is dead today.
When Pope John Paul visited the Americas he dealt with some bishops who were strongly influenced by liberation theology. And with the Church’s option for the poor they came up with some strong arguments particularly in Central America and South America. There are still quite a number within the U.S. Church’s bureaucracy. The idea was that we need to work with socialist and communists to bring about real change in the structure of the country for the sake of the poor. Pope John Paul II had the experience of communists in Poland. He tried to straighten out the ones in the Americas. Many of them did not listen to him. After all he is of Polish background and what does he know about American politics. The encyclical Gospel of Life did not make too much of impression on them. I guess the same can be said for the present Pope who is German.
In America today there is something similar going on. Many of our Latino parishioners have been suffering long enough. Families and children have been separated for years. There is a cry for justice. Catholic Social Justice informs us educates and persuades us that our Latino community can get a better deal from the Democratic politicians than from the Republican politicians. So let us not focus too much on the life and marriage issues where our supporters (the rotten apple Catholic Role Model Politicians) are very weak. For example, on the distribution of Pro-life literature, let us see what our advisors the lawyers have to say. The lawyers of the Baptists and the Evangelicals allow distributing pro-life literature left and right. Maybe, we need to get rid of our lawyers and get a new set. The mindset of these lawyers is democratic. Remember now these types of advisors are the ones that got the bishops into trouble in the past.
It is not only with immigration but also with health care and other issues like jobs. Many people are too poor even to pay for health care. We need a National Health care system, operated by the government and similar to what is in Canada and Europe. But who is going to pay for these freebies?
We are not going to focus in on who provides the Immigration Reform or Health Care. Don’t start calling them socialists. We do not live in a perfect world. Generally in the prudential social justice issues the democrats have been more attune to Catholic Social Justice Issues. However, this has not been true during the last eight years of the Bush administration. However, we seem to communicate better with these Catholic-in-name-only politicians. It is wrong to work with CINOPS even if we have theologians who agree with them. The CINOPS
are anathema to our Catholic Faith and stooges for the Culture of Death?
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
More Rotten Apples as Catholic Role Models!
More Rotten Apples as Catholic Role Models
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
I don’t know why no one has written a book on the voting records of these Catholic political scoundrels during the last two decades. There is enough evidence that we are WITNESSING AND EXPERIENCING the biggest religious con-operation of so-called Catholic POLITICIANS in U.S. history.
Let us check out the U.S. Catholic Senators from the Scorecard of Catholics in Congress. This is Project of the Morley Institute for Church & Culture.
Senate Voting Records
1.) Funding of overseas pro-abortion organizations (109th)
2.) Funding of embryo-killing stem cell research (H.R. 810) (109th)
3.) Child Custody Protection Act (S.403): passage (109th)
4.) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA) (109th)
5.) Federal Marriage Amendment Act (109th)
6.) Harkin Amendment to endorse Roe v. Wade (108th)
7.) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003: passage (108th)
8.) Abortion in military medical facilities (109th)
9.) Feinstein Substitute Amendment (single-victim substitute) (108th)
10.) Unborn Victims of Violence Act: passage (108th)
Senators Tom Harkin (IA), Senator Dick Durbin (IL), Barbara Mikulski (MD), Jack Reed (RI), Maria Cantwell (WA), and Patty Murray (WA) VOTED AGAINST THE CATHOLIC POSITION ON ALL OF THE ABOVE ISSUES.
Senators Chris Dodd (CT) and Patrick (VT) VOTED AGAINST THE CATHOLIC POSITION ON NINE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES.
Senators Edward Kennedy (MA) and John Kerry (MA) VOTED AGAINST THE CATHOLIC POSITION ON EIGHT OF THE ABOVE ISSUES.
For a breadth of fresh air let us congratulate Senators Sam Brownback (KS), Jim Bunning (KY), Pete Domenic (NM), and Senator George Voinovich (OH). THEY ALL VOTED THE CATHOLIC POSITION ON ALL OF THE ABOVE ISSUES. (They happen to be registered Republicans.) There a 25 U.S. Catholic Senators that use the Catholic label when running for elections. For over a year they have received my e-mails but they are most likely deleted. The above is a matter that should be written about by all writers in Catholic newspapers and periodicals.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
I don’t know why no one has written a book on the voting records of these Catholic political scoundrels during the last two decades. There is enough evidence that we are WITNESSING AND EXPERIENCING the biggest religious con-operation of so-called Catholic POLITICIANS in U.S. history.
Let us check out the U.S. Catholic Senators from the Scorecard of Catholics in Congress. This is Project of the Morley Institute for Church & Culture.
Senate Voting Records
1.) Funding of overseas pro-abortion organizations (109th)
2.) Funding of embryo-killing stem cell research (H.R. 810) (109th)
3.) Child Custody Protection Act (S.403): passage (109th)
4.) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA) (109th)
5.) Federal Marriage Amendment Act (109th)
6.) Harkin Amendment to endorse Roe v. Wade (108th)
7.) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003: passage (108th)
8.) Abortion in military medical facilities (109th)
9.) Feinstein Substitute Amendment (single-victim substitute) (108th)
10.) Unborn Victims of Violence Act: passage (108th)
Senators Tom Harkin (IA), Senator Dick Durbin (IL), Barbara Mikulski (MD), Jack Reed (RI), Maria Cantwell (WA), and Patty Murray (WA) VOTED AGAINST THE CATHOLIC POSITION ON ALL OF THE ABOVE ISSUES.
Senators Chris Dodd (CT) and Patrick (VT) VOTED AGAINST THE CATHOLIC POSITION ON NINE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES.
Senators Edward Kennedy (MA) and John Kerry (MA) VOTED AGAINST THE CATHOLIC POSITION ON EIGHT OF THE ABOVE ISSUES.
For a breadth of fresh air let us congratulate Senators Sam Brownback (KS), Jim Bunning (KY), Pete Domenic (NM), and Senator George Voinovich (OH). THEY ALL VOTED THE CATHOLIC POSITION ON ALL OF THE ABOVE ISSUES. (They happen to be registered Republicans.) There a 25 U.S. Catholic Senators that use the Catholic label when running for elections. For over a year they have received my e-mails but they are most likely deleted. The above is a matter that should be written about by all writers in Catholic newspapers and periodicals.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Monday, March 3, 2008
30 Million ex-Catholic Lost Souls
30 Million ex-Catholic American Lost Souls
Monday, March 3, 2008
Let us get to the source of the above title. We will quote extensively from the Survey Finds Religious Landscape in Flux. It is by Eric Gorski, AP, and Posted: 2008-02-25 and filed under: Nation News
“The U.S. religious market place is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiance or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey finds….
Mainline Protestant churches are losing membership, but non-denominational churches are growing, according to a survey by Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life….
“The American religious economy is like a marketplace – very dynamic, very competitive,” said Lugo, director of the Pew Forum….
More than one-quarter of American adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or no religion at all, the survey found. Factoring in moves from one stream or denomination of Protestantism to another, the number rises to 44 percent.
One in four adults, 18 to 29 claim no affiliation with a religious institution….
The Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any faith tradition because of affiliation swapping, the survey found. While nearly one in three Americans were raised Catholic, fewer than one in four say they’re Catholic today. THAT MEANS 10 PERCENT OF ALL AMERICANS ARE EX-CATHOLICS.
The share of the population that identifies as Catholic, however, has remained fairly stable in recent decades thanks to an influx of immigrant Catholics, mostly from Latin America. Nearly half of all Catholics under 30 are Hispanic, the survey found.”
The question is: Are there any Catholic role models for these ex-Catholic Americans? Do we have any? There is a lot of confusion. For example, in April 2004, the Vatican’s leading prelate – second only to the Pope – on the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze, declared unequivocally that ambiguously pro-abortion politicians should be denied Holy Communion. Cardinal Arinze said such a politician “is not fit” to receive Communion. “If they should not receive, then they should not be given,” he added. Why can we not help out the Catholic Church and the bishops and get rid and vote out of office all Catholic-in-name politicians? Some bishops follow the above and some don’t.
Let’s focus in like a laser beam on some other examples. This is in the 108th Congress, U.S. House of Representatives. (NRLC Scorecard) These Catholic politicians voted against Natural Law and the Catholic position on 1) Human cloning ban: 2) Abortion in military medical facilities: 3) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban 4) Unborn Victims of Violence Act. For California, their names include: Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi, Hilda Solis, Lucile-Royball, Grace Napolitano, Linda Sanchez, Joe Baca and Loretta Sanchez (voted NV on the Human Cloning Ban),
The above politicians (CINOPs) use the Catholic label and are making fools of Catholic American voters in California and in particular our Latino population and their family values. We have rotten apples as role models. Finally, is there nothing to be said for their political party that is promoting the five absolute evils a) Abortion on demand b) Assisted-Suicide c) Euthanasia d) Embryonic Stem-Cell Research and 2) Same-Sex Marriage? More rotten apples tomorrow:
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Let us get to the source of the above title. We will quote extensively from the Survey Finds Religious Landscape in Flux. It is by Eric Gorski, AP, and Posted: 2008-02-25 and filed under: Nation News
“The U.S. religious market place is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiance or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey finds….
Mainline Protestant churches are losing membership, but non-denominational churches are growing, according to a survey by Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life….
“The American religious economy is like a marketplace – very dynamic, very competitive,” said Lugo, director of the Pew Forum….
More than one-quarter of American adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or no religion at all, the survey found. Factoring in moves from one stream or denomination of Protestantism to another, the number rises to 44 percent.
One in four adults, 18 to 29 claim no affiliation with a religious institution….
The Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any faith tradition because of affiliation swapping, the survey found. While nearly one in three Americans were raised Catholic, fewer than one in four say they’re Catholic today. THAT MEANS 10 PERCENT OF ALL AMERICANS ARE EX-CATHOLICS.
The share of the population that identifies as Catholic, however, has remained fairly stable in recent decades thanks to an influx of immigrant Catholics, mostly from Latin America. Nearly half of all Catholics under 30 are Hispanic, the survey found.”
The question is: Are there any Catholic role models for these ex-Catholic Americans? Do we have any? There is a lot of confusion. For example, in April 2004, the Vatican’s leading prelate – second only to the Pope – on the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze, declared unequivocally that ambiguously pro-abortion politicians should be denied Holy Communion. Cardinal Arinze said such a politician “is not fit” to receive Communion. “If they should not receive, then they should not be given,” he added. Why can we not help out the Catholic Church and the bishops and get rid and vote out of office all Catholic-in-name politicians? Some bishops follow the above and some don’t.
Let’s focus in like a laser beam on some other examples. This is in the 108th Congress, U.S. House of Representatives. (NRLC Scorecard) These Catholic politicians voted against Natural Law and the Catholic position on 1) Human cloning ban: 2) Abortion in military medical facilities: 3) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban 4) Unborn Victims of Violence Act. For California, their names include: Mike Thompson, Nancy Pelosi, Hilda Solis, Lucile-Royball, Grace Napolitano, Linda Sanchez, Joe Baca and Loretta Sanchez (voted NV on the Human Cloning Ban),
The above politicians (CINOPs) use the Catholic label and are making fools of Catholic American voters in California and in particular our Latino population and their family values. We have rotten apples as role models. Finally, is there nothing to be said for their political party that is promoting the five absolute evils a) Abortion on demand b) Assisted-Suicide c) Euthanasia d) Embryonic Stem-Cell Research and 2) Same-Sex Marriage? More rotten apples tomorrow:
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
To Be Catholic, and Proud of it! # 2of 2
To Be Catholic, and Proud of it! # 2 of 2
wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Sunday, March 2, 2008.
Here is the second part of Russell Shaw’s mind-boggling article that appeared in the Columbia, the monthly publication of the Knights of Columbus in August, 2001. It may take time to digest the seriousness of its contents and we continue tomorrow with Thirty million ex-Catholic American Lost Souls.
“Catholic intellectuals, academics and opinion leaders soured on the (Catholic) subculture, set out to dismantle it and largely succeeded. Much of its infrastructure disappeared. Much of that remained “CATHOLIC IN NAME ONLY.”
(As an organization, I am proud to say, the Knights of Columbus withstood this assault – something whose importance is by no means as widely recognized as it deserves to be.)
In his shrewd popular history American Catholic (Times Books, 1997), Charles Morris call what happened a “ fearsome exercise” – no less than “the dangerous and potentially catastrophic project of severing the connection between the Catholic religion and the separatist American culture that had always been the source of its dynamism, its appeal, and its power.”
And that power includes political and cultural clout. The ability – and often, the desire – of Catholics to influence public policy and public institutions in light of Catholic values sharply declined along with their identification with their Church.
And now? Given the magnitude of the problem, there is no easy solution. But the outlines of the answer are clear.
It comes down to reconstituting a viable new Catholic subculture in the United States. This is more than restoring the subculture that was – American Catholicism as it existed in 1930’s and 1940’s. That can’t be done and should not be attempted.
The need instead is for a new subculture, with institutions reflecting the Second Vatican Council and the pontificate of John Paul II. It should serve as a kind of cultural home base, a source of formation, preparing Catholics to engage – and in time let us hope, evangelize – secular culture, rather than join it on its own terms. As sociologist Joseph Varacalli remarks in Bright Promise, Failed Community (Lexington Books, 2000), Catholics need to “roll up their sleeves and start the painful process of putting the pieces … back together again.”
To say it will be hard is a huge understatement. Along with much else, careful thought and planning are essential.
Here is a suggestion. Earlier this year (2001), the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center opened its door in Washington, D.C with generous support from the Knights of Columbus along with other groups and individuals. As part of its program, it will house a team of scholars engaged in research and reflection on the Church and culture.
The suggestion is that they concentrate on what needs to be done to rebuild a strong Catholic subculture in the United States and other countries that have experienced a process – and results – similar to those American Catholicism has suffered. It will be a huge job. Let’s begin.”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com/ Sunday, March 2, 2008.
Here is the second part of Russell Shaw’s mind-boggling article that appeared in the Columbia, the monthly publication of the Knights of Columbus in August, 2001. It may take time to digest the seriousness of its contents and we continue tomorrow with Thirty million ex-Catholic American Lost Souls.
“Catholic intellectuals, academics and opinion leaders soured on the (Catholic) subculture, set out to dismantle it and largely succeeded. Much of its infrastructure disappeared. Much of that remained “CATHOLIC IN NAME ONLY.”
(As an organization, I am proud to say, the Knights of Columbus withstood this assault – something whose importance is by no means as widely recognized as it deserves to be.)
In his shrewd popular history American Catholic (Times Books, 1997), Charles Morris call what happened a “ fearsome exercise” – no less than “the dangerous and potentially catastrophic project of severing the connection between the Catholic religion and the separatist American culture that had always been the source of its dynamism, its appeal, and its power.”
And that power includes political and cultural clout. The ability – and often, the desire – of Catholics to influence public policy and public institutions in light of Catholic values sharply declined along with their identification with their Church.
And now? Given the magnitude of the problem, there is no easy solution. But the outlines of the answer are clear.
It comes down to reconstituting a viable new Catholic subculture in the United States. This is more than restoring the subculture that was – American Catholicism as it existed in 1930’s and 1940’s. That can’t be done and should not be attempted.
The need instead is for a new subculture, with institutions reflecting the Second Vatican Council and the pontificate of John Paul II. It should serve as a kind of cultural home base, a source of formation, preparing Catholics to engage – and in time let us hope, evangelize – secular culture, rather than join it on its own terms. As sociologist Joseph Varacalli remarks in Bright Promise, Failed Community (Lexington Books, 2000), Catholics need to “roll up their sleeves and start the painful process of putting the pieces … back together again.”
To say it will be hard is a huge understatement. Along with much else, careful thought and planning are essential.
Here is a suggestion. Earlier this year (2001), the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center opened its door in Washington, D.C with generous support from the Knights of Columbus along with other groups and individuals. As part of its program, it will house a team of scholars engaged in research and reflection on the Church and culture.
The suggestion is that they concentrate on what needs to be done to rebuild a strong Catholic subculture in the United States and other countries that have experienced a process – and results – similar to those American Catholicism has suffered. It will be a huge job. Let’s begin.”
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
To Be Catholic, and Proud of it! # 1 of 2
To Be Catholic, and Proud of it! # 1 of 2
Saturday, March 1, 2008
This article written by Russell Shaw appeared in the Knights of Columbus’s Columbia in August 2001. There is a paragraph in there that blew me off my seat. It is the paragraph I will start with in conclusion tomorrow. Here is the article.
“Catholics make up one-fourth of the entire U.S. population, but their clout is nowhere as great as that would suggest. Why not?
The story goes like this. During the 56 years since the end of World War II in 1945 American Catholics more and more have been assimilated into American secular culture – they entered the mainstream. In many ways, that was good. In many other ways, though, it was not.
For Catholics, as for other groups sloughing off old values and beliefs and replacing them with new ones from the secular culture. A problematical process in the best of circumstances, it has particularly troubling implications in this case, since American secular culture during this time was growing ever more hostile to religious faith and morality.
Still, American Catholicism might have withstood assimilation reasonably well, except for something else. Beginning in the last 1950’s and continuing until now, the Catholic subculture pretty much collapsed.
It had been built by several generations of American Catholics with enormous sacrifice and effort. And although it had its limitations, by the middle of the 20th century it was a thriving enterprise, embodied in and sustained by a vast institutional infrastructure – schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, institutions and organizations of all kinds, and all resoundingly Catholic and proud of it.
This subculture could have mediated the assimilation process for Catholics, helping them retain a strong religious identity even as they were merging with the mainstream. But something else happened instead.
Catholic intellectuals, academics and opinion leaders soured on the subculture, set out to dismantle it, and have largely succeeded. Much of its infrastructure disappeared. Much that remained became CATHOLIC IN NAME ONLY. (As an organization, I am proud to say, the Knights of Columbus withstood this assault – something whose importance is by no means as widely recognized as it deserves to be).”
So it wasn’t secularism or the ACLU that did us in. It was our own leadership. What a sad and tragic historical decision. Now let us move ahead and read of another catastrophic consequence of the above decisions.
Survey Finds Religious Landscape in Flux Eric Gorski, AP – Feb. 25, 2008
“The study release Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is unusual for it sheer scope, relying on interviews with more than 35,000 adults to document a diverse and dynamic U.S. religious population….
The Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any faith tradition because of affiliation swapping, the survey found. While nearly one in three Americans were raised Catholics, fewer than one in four say they’re Catholic today. That means roughly 10 percent of all Americans are ex-Catholics.”
This means that about 30 million Americans are ex-Catholics. All the Saints and in particular St. Dominic would be crying and weeping to learn of this. And what are we as faithful Catholics doing about this tragedy? (Cont’d tomorrow)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish or Vietnamese
Saturday, March 1, 2008
This article written by Russell Shaw appeared in the Knights of Columbus’s Columbia in August 2001. There is a paragraph in there that blew me off my seat. It is the paragraph I will start with in conclusion tomorrow. Here is the article.
“Catholics make up one-fourth of the entire U.S. population, but their clout is nowhere as great as that would suggest. Why not?
The story goes like this. During the 56 years since the end of World War II in 1945 American Catholics more and more have been assimilated into American secular culture – they entered the mainstream. In many ways, that was good. In many other ways, though, it was not.
For Catholics, as for other groups sloughing off old values and beliefs and replacing them with new ones from the secular culture. A problematical process in the best of circumstances, it has particularly troubling implications in this case, since American secular culture during this time was growing ever more hostile to religious faith and morality.
Still, American Catholicism might have withstood assimilation reasonably well, except for something else. Beginning in the last 1950’s and continuing until now, the Catholic subculture pretty much collapsed.
It had been built by several generations of American Catholics with enormous sacrifice and effort. And although it had its limitations, by the middle of the 20th century it was a thriving enterprise, embodied in and sustained by a vast institutional infrastructure – schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, institutions and organizations of all kinds, and all resoundingly Catholic and proud of it.
This subculture could have mediated the assimilation process for Catholics, helping them retain a strong religious identity even as they were merging with the mainstream. But something else happened instead.
Catholic intellectuals, academics and opinion leaders soured on the subculture, set out to dismantle it, and have largely succeeded. Much of its infrastructure disappeared. Much that remained became CATHOLIC IN NAME ONLY. (As an organization, I am proud to say, the Knights of Columbus withstood this assault – something whose importance is by no means as widely recognized as it deserves to be).”
So it wasn’t secularism or the ACLU that did us in. It was our own leadership. What a sad and tragic historical decision. Now let us move ahead and read of another catastrophic consequence of the above decisions.
Survey Finds Religious Landscape in Flux Eric Gorski, AP – Feb. 25, 2008
“The study release Monday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is unusual for it sheer scope, relying on interviews with more than 35,000 adults to document a diverse and dynamic U.S. religious population….
The Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any faith tradition because of affiliation swapping, the survey found. While nearly one in three Americans were raised Catholics, fewer than one in four say they’re Catholic today. That means roughly 10 percent of all Americans are ex-Catholics.”
This means that about 30 million Americans are ex-Catholics. All the Saints and in particular St. Dominic would be crying and weeping to learn of this. And what are we as faithful Catholics doing about this tragedy? (Cont’d tomorrow)
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish or Vietnamese
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