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Learn to Fight Back: The Truth About Abuse
1. IT’S NOT ABOUT CATHOLIC PRIESTS
FACT: Catholic priests do not offend at a higher...
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“I stand with the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, who held that the truth of Catholicism is best appreciated from within the confines of the Church, just as the windows of a cathedral, drab enough when seen from the outside, shine in all their splendor when viewed from the inside.”
Catholicism, Robert Barron (via mariellacecilia)
(via tenacious-catholic)
“Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. I find it in myself and don’t dislike it any less.”
Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“A new 10-part documentary with its roots in Chicago — filmed in 15 different locales ranging from Athens, Jerusalem and Mexico City to Germany, Istanbul and Uganda — is shining a unique spotlight on the history and tenets of the religion shared by a billion people worldwide.”
“I don’t want a religion that accepts me for who I am. I know who I am and am unimpressed. I want a religion that calls me to be better than I am even as I resist it.”
Matthew Archbold (via deigratia21)
It sure is refreshing to hear the calm voice of reason every now and again! This is an excellent read from the Psychology Today blog.
An Airport Encounter by Archbishop Timothy Dolan
As I was waiting with the others for the electronic train to take me to the terminal, a man, maybe in his mid-forties, waiting as well, came closer to me.
“Are you a Catholic priest?” he kindly asked.
“Sure am. Nice to meet you,” says I, as I offered my hand.
He ignored it. “I was raised a Catholic,” he replied, almost always a hint of a cut to come, but I was not prepared for the razor sharpness of the stiletto, as he went on, “and now, as a father of two boys, I can’t look at you or any other priest without thinking of a sexual abuser.”
What to respond? Yell at him? Cuss him out? Apologize? Deck him? Express understanding? I must admit all such reactions came to mind as I staggered with shame and anger from the damage of the wound he had inflicted with those stinging words.
“Well,” I recovered enough to remark, “I’m sure sorry you feel that way. But, let me ask you, do you automatically presume a sexual abuser when you see a Rabbi or Protestant minister?”
“Not at all,” he came back through gritted teeth as we both boarded the train.
“How about when you see a coach, or a boy scout leader, or a foster parent, or a counsellor, or physician?” I continued.
“Of course not!” he came back. “What’s all that got to do with it?”
“A lot,” I stayed with him, “because each of those professions have as high a percentage of sexual abuse, if not even higher, than that of priests.”
Read the rest here.
“I don’t need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.”
G.K. Chesterton (via becket)
(via crusadermaximus)
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The secularist view seems to be that a person of faith engaged in a political debate will – if he is allowed – simply cite some verse of scripture which he finds dispositive of the issue and then stand pat, impervious to argument.
[However, w]hen I read the Catholic case against gay marriage, for example, I am not convinced by it; but I find there is very little Leviticus-quoting or invocation of papal authority. What I read are elaborate tissues of argument and reason, open to disputation and vulnerable in the usual way to quibble, rejoinder, and refutation… . [A]ctually what’s infuriating about people like Finnis is not any adamantine fundamentalism but their determination to actually argue on matters that many secular liberals think should be beyond argument, matters that we think should be determined by shared sentiment or conviction. My experience is that many who are convinced of the gay rights position are upset more by the fact that their argumentative religious opponents refuse to take the liberal position for granted than they are by the more peremptory tactics of the “bible-bashers.”
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