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Posted on 03/13/2012 4:24:23 PM PDT by NYer
The point of my post is that when an academic in a non-religious field is asked a question about religion, his opinion has no more weight than that of any person with no expertise.
Thank you for posting a great theological work. Yes I’ve read it.
I’m sorry, my last post was supposed to be to you.
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-—Gutting teaches courses to first year Philosophy students at Notre Dame and includes the writings of radical philosopher Peter Singer.-—
Parents willingly pay $30k/year for child abuse. Who’s the idiot?
You’ll notice this man doesn’t teach in the THEOLOGY Dept., but the Philosopy Dept., so why would anything he has to say about a crucial part of Catholic Teaching be relevant?
If I was him, I would have pointed them towards someone else for an educated answer then.
Amazing arrogance.
guess he never heard of St Athanasius, who defended Christ’s divinity against the Arians, who were getting control over much of the church.
And actually, if he thinks if the majority think differently, the church should change, he’s lost his argument, because white rich Americans are only a small percentage of the Catholic church.
Of course, Obama is doing his best to spread abortion and homosexuality to Christians in Asia and Africa, but he is opposed by the churches here.
Not really.
And the churches in Africa and Asia are growing.
O ok so we’re safe then.
This is the "Catholic" university which hallucinates that it is the Catholic Yale of the Midwest (in alleged academic quality which says more negative about Yale than positive about Notre Shame). Yale which was founded as a school for Congregationalist teaching and has degenerated into a largely agnostic and atheist institution (see Bill Buckley's 60-year ago book God and Man at Yale and it has gotten far worse since then) is probably marginally more Catholic than Notre Shame. My wife found her Catholic Faith because she attended and graduated Yale and met up with the actually Catholic resistance there.
Harvard and Columbia and Dartmouth (Laura Ingraham and Dinesh D'Souza) and probably Princeton and maybe even Brown (Bobby Jindal) have similar Catholic undergrounds. Serious, disciplined Catholicism including many conversions, some priestly vocations, Catholic writers, etc. Even Texas A. and M. (see The Aggie Catholic online newsletter).
Most of Notre Shame's actually Catholic faculty members: Charles Rice, Ralph McInerney, Dean Clarence Mannion, are dead or retired and appear ever more distantly only in the rear view mirror of the university.
For me, the last straw was the despicable hospitality shown Obozo a couple of years ago when he was honored (despite being enemy in chief of the Catholic Church in the US) by an honorary law degree (as if his actual Harvard Law degree were not enough of a farce) and with the opportunity to give a commencement address in the football stadium otherwise dominated by the giant mosaic known as "Touchdown Jesus."
A previous client of mine, good and holy elderly priest from Colorado, afflicted with Parkinson's in his old age made the trip to Notre Shame to protest Obozo's appearance by carrying a cross on the sidewalks on campus. Jenkins, the sorry excuse for a priest who is to Notre Shame (its president) what Robespierre was to the French Revolution, gave orders to Notre Shame security and/or South Bend cops that resulted in the manhandling and arrest of the faithful priest, Fr. Norman Weslin, among many others. Each and every presiding bishop of each and every Illinois diocese (from Francis Cardinal George on down) publicly condemned Notre Shame for inviting and honoring Obozo as did our Illinois State Knights of Columbus convention. My bishop urged parents NOT to send their kids to Notre Shame.
May Notre Shame be consigned to the dustbin of history.
When are you going to publish your memoirs, BlackElk? I’m sure everyone in our homeschool association would buy a copy!
Did I hear something about Black Elk publishing his memoirs? How about self publishing on Amazon, I’ve been told it’s very cheap and easy!!
We can all write really good reviews, too.
:-D
Because their "Catholicism" is at this point no more than a marketing ploy.
I just proposed it, although I’m sure I’m not the first. E-book publishing is low-overhead, too. I’d recommend it to my friends just for the alliteration, compound-complex sentences, quality adjectives, and vociferously vivid invective. If a student wanted to become a great polemicist, there are much worse examples than BlackElk.
yes, and that’s why Obama’s ambassador to Liberia wrote an article a couple days ago bashing “christians” for the homophobia in Africa.
I worked in Africa, and the problem is that gay sex isn’t a big thing, but the gay agenda, that undermines marriage and that encourages gay sex as normal, is an affront to good people, even those who are traditional...
The one thing I am very happy is that my University of Connecticut women Huskies beat the women of ND for the Big East college basketball championship. If they have to meet again, my UConn women beat ND again to get to the NCAA’s championship.
Opps, forgot to say “may” my UConn women beat ND in the March Madness college b-ball round.
You would think that because the Christian churches over there are a LOT more conservative, they have a better opportunity to stand up to that nonsense.
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