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Alasdair McIntyre, in his seminal book After Virtue, described this mode of thinking as emotivism, that is, the collapsing of all moral or qualitative judgments into mere expressions of personal preference. And this kind of thinking is the besetting sin of the post-modern West.

Alasdair McIntyre, in his seminal book After Virtue, described this mode of thinking as emotivism, that is, the collapsing of all moral or qualitative judgments into mere expressions of personal preference. And this kind of thinking is the besetting sin of the post-modern West.
Fr. Rob Johansen

White House Press Secretary Spins Wife’s Tragic Death As A Positive

Some people disapprove of gay men and lesbian women. Usually those people know little or nothing about homosexuals, and their views are often based on fears or misinformation, not on facts.” (pp. 17-18).

Some people disapprove of gay men and lesbian women. Usually those people know little or nothing about homosexuals, and their views are often based on fears or misinformation, not on facts.” (pp. 17-18).
This is more of our tax dollars at work. Here is Planned Parenthood’s sex education textbook for ages 10 and up! via Pertinacious Papist

Great Story about what furnature ought to be… I know it’s wierd, go with me

A wealthy Chinese merchant decided to leave his thriving business to one of his three nephews, his only living relatives.  He told them:

“One of you shall inherit my business.  I have a problem.  He who solves it best shall be my heir.”

He handed each youth a coin, with this direction:  “This is a large room.  Go buy something that will fill this room as full as possible, but spend no more than the coin I have given you.  I shall be waiting for you at sunset.”

All day long the trio walked through the market-place.  As the shadows lengthened they returned to the house of their uncle, who asked to see what they had purchased.

The first youth dragged a bale of straw into the room, and untied it.  The pile hid two walls of the room.  The others complimented him.  The second brought in two bags of thistledown, which filled half the room. They cheered him.  The third was silent a moment before he said:  “I gave half my coin to a hungry child.  With what was left I bought a flint and this small candle.”

He struck the flint and lighted the candle, which filled every corner of the room with its light.  The old man blessed him and turned over to him his entire business.

Q & A about ‘Church & State’

I love this!

Q. Do you support the American tradition of “Separation of Church and State?”

A. I am with that great Pope Leo XIII on that one.  He said that not only is the individual obliged to serve and acknowledge God, but states have the same duty.  For further details, read (the encyclical) Immortale Dei by that wise and saintly Pope.  He reproached a well known American Cardinal Gibbons who thought the U.S. Constitution as adumbrated by a private letter of Thomas Jefferson to some Baptist ministers should be elevated to the dignity of divine inspiration.
 

Q & A about ‘Keeping up with the times’

Q. In the modern world, does not the Church have to “keep up with the times and respect honest differences?

A. Read several answers of Our Lord such as “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’ shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.”  (Mt. 7;26) or, “Do not think that I have come to send peace on earth, but the sword.  I have come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I but that it be enkindled? And I have a baptism wherewith to be baptized, and I am straightened until it be accomplished.”  (Lk. 12:49-50) or, “This is my house, a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” (Lk. 19:46)  Referring to the Scribes and Pharisees as “whitened sepulchres, beautiful on the outside but within filled all manner of corruption”.  The Church of Jesus Christ must always be a sign of contradiction to the world.

A Very Interesting (and potetenially controversial) quotation

There is a spirit of anger which pervades the writings of the modern liturgists. They are angry with the Roman Catholic Church for not bending in her liturgical practices and being more free and expressive like the Protestants.

Likewise, [they are angry that] there is not enough of a variety in scriptural readings, leading people away from a liturgy which is “Word-based”, forcing on them prayers composed by the Church centuries ago.

They are angry that the Roman Rite maintains a strict adherence to a form of the words of Consecration that is different from other rites, especially the schismatics.

Their anger rises more when they tell us that their concept of unity has not been heard. The Church has erred, they say, in its teachings about not worshipping with other religions, and it has done this chiefly by the use of an anitquated centralized liturgy which came from that most despised of meetings, the Council of Trent. It was this Council that rejected the notion of a universal priesthood of the faithful, a teaching maintained by most Protestant sects. “How can there be active participation of the ‘People of God’ without this concept?”, they sneer.

Lastly, they are angry at the constant reference to a sacrifice, which is such a “negative” thought in the spiritual lives of the People of God. Rather, the new liturgy should be known simply as the eucharist, the liturgy being now a paschal meal of thanksgiving and praise, not of petition and reparation for sin. The emphasis is not now on the saving death of Christ on the Cross, but rather on His Resurrection and His coming.The word Holy Eucharist should not be used, because that’s not what other churches do.

Certainly worthy of a pondering…