CATHOLIC RELATIVISM, EXCESSIVE CATHOLICITY

CATHOLIC RELATIVISM AND THE NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH

As a survivor of Catholic upbringing, former altar boy, choir boy, and after eight years of Catholic elementary school, four years of Catholic high school, four years of Catholic college, and umpteen years of Catholic post-graduate studies, I think I’m entitled to comment on the state of Catholicism today.

When I say I’m a survivor, I don’t mean to imply that I survived anything but normal life in Catholic schools. I survived in the sense that I never succumbed to what I can call excessive Catholicity, an embrace of policies antithetical to the best interests of America.

Normal Catholic schooling meant an excellent education in a sometimes excessively strict environment which included sporadic and sometimes severe corporal punishment administered by overwrought and, admittedly occasionally sadistic nuns, religious brothers and priests, but we survived even if scathed.

I also have to admit that most of the smacks were deserved.

Readers now looking forward to an expose’ by a renegade Papist will be disappointed. I still believe, as I was taught, that the Catholic Church is the one, true, apostolic church founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, upon the Rock of Saint Peter and descending in an unbroken line from him to the present.

I’m well aware dissenters can and will attempt to poke holes in those teachings by referring to ancient history and by offering such heresies that Jesus was not the Son of God, that the church’s lineage can not be traced in an unbroken line, etc., and I’m not about to engage in a detailed defense since I am not a theologian. I will let those scholars deal with such disagreements.

I will say that I was taught never to enter a non-Catholic place of worship, not because all Protestants, Jews, Muslims, et al. are going to Hell...

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What male writes a "relationship" column?

I've been reading Cary Tennis posts off and on for a while now and always assumed the poster was female with a given name as a variation on "Carrie."

I just discovered that Cary is a male, sort of, i.e., a homosexual male.

That explains my confusion!

Will Rogers, the Garrison Keillor of a distant generation, famously said that he wasn’t a member of any organized political party, since he was a Democrat, and that people should invest in real estate since it’s the only thing not being made anymore.

In this market, I wouldn’t invest in real estate, or bonds, or most common stocks; I’d buy gold, silver, and other precious metals and stuff them under your mattress until things shake out. (See: http://money.aol.com/.)

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Rush A-home-a: Just because the legislation represents the most significant excursion into socialism in our nation’s history, why take the time to debate and consider all the facets of a bailout? (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080929/tpl-uk-financial-bailout-d1a0d5d.html)

After all, Rosh Hoshannah is almost upon us, it’s an election year, and who really gives a damn about the economy being in the toilet?

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We will soon see whether it’s true that you can never go broke betting on the ignorance of the American people: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3089433/Barack-Obamas-top-team-believes-he-can-win-White-House-by-a-landslide.html.

If Obama wins, by a landslide or by any margin, buy a few extra mattresses, sell the furniture, hide the kids, save your shekels to pay for reparations, and start learning the details of sharia law because an Obamanian win will irrevocably alter our personal lives and the nature of our nation.

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Nowhere in our Constitution is there a provision for a God-less society, nor is there any provision that religion cannot play a role in government. The First Amendment with regards to religion: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

So, three cheers for these pastors who believe in both God and country: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802365_pf.html.