Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago, claims RCF has no evidence

Roman Catholic Faithful ^ | Spring/Summer 2001 | Stephen Brady

[Burn24]

It's easy to see how people slide into moral relativism, isn't it? You could equate a French Resistance fighter in WWII to a teenage Palestinian homicide bomber and come at it from endless angles of thought and analysis, and what you'd have in the final analysis are two dead guys.

Who really, really believed in something once.

[patent]

>>>It's easy to see how people slide into moral relativism, isn't it?

It is much easier to be a relativist. There are indeed somethings we can't judge, and this impossibility makes relativism so attractive because it makes dealing with that fact easy. The mere fact that we may not be qualified to judge a particular issue, however, does not mean there is an eternal truth there. That truth is not changed by our social customs, but is set by the living God. Our understanding of that truth may change, but it does not. Fully accepting all of this is a very hard line to walk down. It is so easy to fall off the line toward either side and say (in error) "its all relative" or "its all a sin." Catholicism seeks a balance in truth, not in ease.

God bless,

patent

[patent]

>>>does not mean there is an eternal truth there

Should be "does not mean there is NO eternal truth there"

[Burn24]

God bless,

Back at ya!

[RobbyS]

Re: #29. They don't want him to touch gay issue, is that right?

[RobbyS]

the conservatives don't like homosexuals. THIS conservative likes many of the gays he has known, but I think they suffer from a kind of madness.

[Proud2BAmerican]

I’ll give you one example. He was invited to speak before one of the umbrella groups for gay Catholics. He got up and promptly started lecturing them about the Catholic view of homosexuality, right down the line. You may not like that he hasn’t shut enough of these groups down, but he clearly holds firm to the faith, and is not afraid to speak it.

Thank you. That is what I was looking for, and it's encouraging to hear that he did that. It certainly tempers my criticism of him, and makes me believe that my faults with him stem more from my lack of understanding of all the relevant issues (that is, there's more than meet's the eye to what is required to accomplish the things he needs/wants to accomplish).

[Proud2BAmerican]

It is not a valid form of the Sacrament, and thus is an abuse.

I thought it was valid in extreme circumstnaces? (i.e., the scene in Braveheart where the priests walk up and down the lines of Scottish soldiers?)

[Notwithstanding]

My sentiments, exactly. Good idea, poorly executed.