Posted on 08/17/2013 9:21:52 AM PDT by marshmallow
Oh, more than that. It permits one to live.
This particular priest spends most of his time on the road, criss-crossing the state, doesn’t watch TV, doesn’t often see a newspaper. So it says in the article. He didn’t even hear about all the publicity until days later.
He asked for the young woman’s name as he was leaving -— according to another article -— and was told she would be taken to the hospital in Quincy. That’s when he made plans to visit her. It seems he was interested.
To tell the truth, I’ll have to look it up. I’m not really faulting the guy, considering the circumstances.
Certainly, in ordinary circumstances, only Catholics can be absolved and anointed.
Or if she were not already baptized, he could baptize her on the spot if she requested it. I don’t think the medics would have any reason to object to her getting her head wet.
Spit it out.
There’s a reason I quit the Catholic church.
I wouldn't define optimism as "permitting" life. Promote, maybe, but not permit. Even pessimistic realists live.
No doubt.
A society without faith, hope and love which transcends the here-and-now won't even barely procreate (if they can help it) let alone flourish across generations. A person without faith,hope and love -- I don't know. I won't go there.
Just saw this, and had to share it. From an interview with Walker Percy.
Q. What kind of Catholic are you a dogmatic Catholic or an open-minded Catholic?
A. I dont know what that means. Do you mean do I believe the dogma that the Catholic Church proposes for belief?
Q. Yes.
A. Yes.
Q. How is such a belief possible in this day and age?
A. What else is there?
Q. What do you mean, what else is there? There is humanism, atheism, agnosticism, Marxism, behaviorism, materialism, Buddhism, Muhammadanism, Sufism, astrology, occultism, theosophy.
A. That's what I mean...
Q. I dont understand. Would you exclude, for example, scientific humanism as a rational and honorable alternative?
A. Yes.
Q. Why?
A. Its not good enough.
Q. Why not?
A. This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end and then be asked what you make of it and have to answer, Scientific humanism. That wont do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less. I dont see why anyone should settle for less than Jacob, who actually grabbed aholt of God and would not let go until God identified himself and blessed him.
Q. Grabbed aholt?
A. A Louisiana expression.
A society without faith, hope and love which transcends the here-and-now won't even barely procreate (if they can help it) let alone flourish across generations. A person without faith,hope and love -- I don't know. I won't go there.
Just saw this, and had to share it. From an interview with Walker Percy.
Q. What kind of Catholic are you a dogmatic Catholic or an open-minded Catholic?
A. I dont know what that means. Do you mean do I believe the dogma that the Catholic Church proposes for belief?
Q. Yes.
A. Yes.
Q. How is such a belief possible in this day and age?
A. What else is there?
Q. What do you mean, what else is there? There is humanism, atheism, agnosticism, Marxism, behaviorism, materialism, Buddhism, Muhammadanism, Sufism, astrology, occultism, theosophy.
A. That's what I mean...
Q. I dont understand. Would you exclude, for example, scientific humanism as a rational and honorable alternative?
A. Yes.
Q. Why?
A. Its not good enough.
Q. Why not?
A. This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end and then be asked what you make of it and have to answer, Scientific humanism. That wont do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less. I dont see why anyone should settle for less than Jacob, who actually grabbed aholt of God and would not let go until God identified himself and blessed him.
Q. Grabbed aholt?
A. A Louisiana expression.
The problem is in blurring what 'faith' means.
Muslims 'flourish', in spite of total faith in the wrong god. Most of them even seem to have more stable families from my experience, at least in comparison to Western single motherhood which has just about become the norm (almost half of all new births are to single mothers in the US).
Afghanistan has one of the highest birth rates, too.
What's actually funny is that the idea of humans 'flourishing' is similar to an argument I made about the necessity of humans thriving (term that I used). A lot of people here had a problem with it.
I wouldn't have had a problem with it.
Christian Scientists are neither Christian nor scientific. They believe that sickness and death are all just mistakes of the “mortal mind”. But “mortal” means subject to death, so how can something be subject to death, if, according to them, there is no such thing as death?
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