Posted on 10/14/2004 8:27:29 PM PDT by Salvation
Done. Thank you for providing the link.
No one mentioned celebrating anyones lifestyles...just offending God.
There is no agnostic or atheist way to run a Catholic University. If it is Catholic, it is Catholic and if not, not.
A "rainbow" mass to celebrate sexual perversion is an abomination. Those responsible should be fired and taken out of contact with the public if they are professed religious.
We are taught that if we consider the reality and weight of the vision that we hope in, that that is faith. Likewise,we are taught that our eyes are limited in their ability to see certain frequencies or realities, but that there is, nonetheless, evidence in the Bible and in our natural world and natural selves for the reality of those unseeable God-caused things. This also is called faith.
When I take the hopeful vision and unseen evidence together, then I have a powerful tool to go along with the evidence that I CAN see.
Actually, it is stronger than evidence for other philosophies and opinions and beliefs of humanity.
I have a very solid basis for saying that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Let me encourage you to read again the Gospel of John and to see again the movie "The Passion."
While I believe in one God, and have read the Gospels, I cannot find it in myself to believe in reincarnation, virgin birth, or the need for salvation.
Maybe you guys should quit the false church and send your children to BYU!
No thank you. My husband attend Judge Memorial High School. He experienced reverse discrimination there. Hopefully it is still not present.
You are quite correct. The problem is that in the last dozen or so years many Jesuit institutions have either been sublimating, or eliminating altogeher references to any overt Catholic Identity.
They will usually identify themselves as "a Jesuit apostolate". This then begs the question: what exactly is a Jesuit...today?
They will make enough allusions to a vaguely Catholic identity - or past - in order to attract unwary students and their parents $$$. It is that simple!!! the saddest truth is the Jesuit order has been at the forefront of dissent in the church over the last 35 years......on every imaginable liberal agenda & issue. Particularly homosexuality.
They see the "acceptance" of gays within the church as a paramount issue. This is primarily because they have denegrated into nothing but a "pink palace", with many branch offices, locally and nationwide. And they have vast financial resources to keep going, even though their membership has shrunk to less then a third of what it was in the 60s.
I doubt any of the Christians here believe in reincarnation, either.
SS. Is your "god" not powerful enough to do what "he" wants too?
I graduated a Jesuit prep school in 1964. When next I visited the school to visit my very best Jesuit teacher at the priests' residence, I found him angry over the goings on at the prep school as early as 1969.
In 1963, there had been a debate between the egregious Fr. Drinan, then Dean of Boston College, Law School and Bill Buckley. When Drinan spoke, the prep school faculty Jesuits unanimously turned their faces to the walls as their collective expression of disapproval of the liberal Drinan. Nearly all of them wildly applauded each salvo by Buckley against Drinan as did most students.
A mere six years later, the best teacher I had ever had the privilege of having had retired because the new leadership of the school was substituting "modules in modern dance and in baking" for the Olympic classical and quite Catholic curriculum we had enjoyed. He nearly suffered a stroke explaining the educational degeneracy that had overcome previous standards.
He had already suffered one stroke that had given him substantial disability. He had been a 25-year minor league professional baseball pitcher who entered the Jesuit seminary when he finally retired from baseball. He told me that he had to become a Jesuit because in this career he was going to reach the major leagues immediately.
Today's Jesuit pygmies (or worse) stand on the shoulders of the Jesuit giants raised to the honors of the altar like St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Francis Xavier but also on the shoulders of lesser known giants of the faith and of education such as my now long-dead teacher whom I have described here.
The Society of Jesus has much in the way of assets, it is true, but history provides a means to deal with today's miscreants. The society was once suppressed for 75 years or so and survived only under the protection of Czar Peter the Great and then only in Russia. JP II took out the execrable Jesuit General Pedro Arrupe and replaced him with Paolo Dezza, a quite orthodox Catholic, but then allowed the Jebbies to have another election which resulted in the election of Kolvenbach who has spent decades waiting for JP II to die.
This set of Jebbie problems is a lot older than a dozen years or so. Not counting the good but aged Fr. Dezza, there have been three consecutive bad generals: Jan Baptiste Janssens of Belgium, Pedro Arrupe of Spain and Hans Pieter Kolvenbach of the Netherlands. Bear in mind that three quarters of the Jesuits professed the fourth vow of personal fealty to the pope, any pope. The last worthy and healthy general was the Polish Jesuit Wlodcharksy (sp.?) whose term extended from WWI to WWII. Whatever residual reputation the order may have of a positive sort is likely related to him.
Another favored expression when today's Jebbies are perpetrating mail fraud upon unsuspecting contributors and potential students of actual Catholic faith is to describe their schools as having a "Catholic heritage."
All this too will pass away. Our Redeemer liveth and He will return.
Amen! Well said!
I remember that JPII removed Arrupe, but I forgot about Dezza. How long did he last? It seems not very long at all. I almost forgot about him!
I think we MUST pray for the Jesuits to return to the original intent of their order as set forth by St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Thanks for sharing your story. How did I know that you were the one to ping for this story?? Your name just popped into my head......really.
Dont worry.....they will either reform, or die out soon. They had as many as 36,000 members in the mid 60s, now it is something like less then 11,000 worldwide.
No, it's mostly from the mainstream side against us these days.
As a mental challenge, one might consider that our vision and our minds are limited to four dimensions - three of space, one of time. And yet all of our best theories of physics indicate that there are many other dimensions, including the possibility of additional temporal dimensions. The Curse of Dimensionality (pdf).
I assert that the dimensional limitation of our vision and minds serves God's purpose (Genesis 2-3).
Moreover, Geometric Physics makes very clear the "unreasonable effectiveness of math" in our 4D experience. And that underlines Einstein's wisdom, his dream of 'transmuting the "base wood" of matter into the "pure marble" of geometry' - because 4D matter of all kinds can "arise as a manifestation of a higher dimensional vacuum". Space-Time-Matter Consortium.
IOW, all that is seen is but geometry - or as Einstein once said "reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. – Hebrews 11:13
Even the first three words of the Bible, In the beginning are wonderfully profound. All cosmologies whether cyclic, ekpyrotic, imaginary time, inflationary - big bang, multi-worlds or multi-verse … all point to fact of a beginning. As Robert Jastrow who wrote God and the Astronomers said in an interview,
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. – Psalms 33:6
The peaks indicate harmonics in the sound waves that filled the early, dense universe. Until some 300,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was so hot that matter and radiation were entangled in a kind of soup in which sound waves (pressure waves) could vibrate. The CMB is a relic of the moment when the universe had cooled enough so that photons could "decouple" from electrons, protons, and neutrons; then atoms formed and light went on its way.
Their answer? The difference is information, “successful communication” as paraphrased from the Shannon definition. The question now being engaged is where did that information (and the attendant geometry) come from?
Of course, we Christians already know the answer:
I thought it was necessary to believe that Jesus rose from the dead, to be a Christian?
I believe there is only one, all-powerful, all-knowing, God for all...not mine
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