2012 Orange County Catholic Prayer Breakfast

2012 Orange County Catholic Prayer Breakfast

In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Wed. Sept. 19, 2012

PLAN IF YOU CAN FOR AN EXCITING MORNING:

Guest Speaker: George Weigel - Author of Pope John Paul II biography, Witness to Hope

Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center- Topic:

“The King’s Good Servant, But God’s First”:

Catholics In Defense Of Religious Freedom

DATE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012

TIME: 6:30 -9:00 AM, ROSARY, PRAYER SERVICE, SPEAKER AND BREAKFAST -

DURING THE ABOVE TIME, CARMELITE SISTERS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYERS AND MUSIC. THERE WILL ALSO BE A PATRIOTIC SALUTE TO THE COUNTRY.

TOURS OF CATHEDRAL CAMPUS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING BREAKFAST

THERE WILL BE SELF-GUIDED TOURS; 5 DOCENT STATIONS; ABOUT 1-1.5 HRS.

11 A.M. - MASS AT ST. CALLISTUS CHURCH ABOUT 6 BLOCKS AWAY.

LOCATION: THE CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL, FUTURE CHRIST CATHEDRAL OF THE DIOCESE OF ORANGE - 13280 CHAPMAN AVE., GARDEN GROVE, CALIFORNIA

ATTENDING: THE MOST REVEREND DOMINIC M. LUONG, D.D., M.S., AUXILIARY BISHOP OF ORANGE

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! - INDIVIDUAL = $35, --- GROUP OF TEN - $350

CALL 949-528-3223 FOR MORE INFO OR REGISTER AT www.catholicpb.com

Now let’s check out the superb mind of the guest speaker - George Weigel in his “The Catholic Difference” article, September 7, 2012. Here are some excerpts.

“The 2012 presidential race is a contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This is a contest, to take symbolic reference points, between Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Hobbes tried to drive religious conviction out of the modern public square, while Burke fashioned a vision of political modernity that drew in part on the rich social pluralism of the Catholic Middle Ages. In a Hobbesian world, the only actors of consequence are the state and the individual. In a Burkean world, the institutions of civil society - family, religious congregation, voluntary association, business, trade union and so forth - “mediator” between the individual and the state, and the just state takes care to provide an appropriate legal framework in which those civil-society institutions can flourish.

In a Hobbesian world, the state - “Leviathan,” in the title of Hobbes’s most famous and influential work - monopolizes power for the sake of protecting individuals from the vicissitudes of a life that is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” In a Burkean world , civil society provides a thick layer of mediation -protection, if you will-that cushions the interactions between individuals and life’s challenges…”

George H. Kubeck - Without doubt you’re going to have a great time if you can stay for the morning.