Comments for Civility and Morality at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:48 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1370 Personally, I pray for the day when there is NO religion and the first one to go should be Catholicism, (to which I was born into), but which has consistanlty been an oppressor of women since it's inception. That is not to say I support abortion, I do NOT, but I realise there are many evils in our society and we should give them all equal treatment and honest debate. - Fiona Crowley Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:51:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1368 Dear Professor McInerney, As an Irish Catholic, born and rasied in Ireland, I know only too well the power the church has held over the masses in the past. To me you represent this oppressive type of leader. I am bemused that a man of philosophy is so narrow minded and fearful of our new president simply giving a commencement speech! Where was all the outrage when the previous President authorised torture? How about the death penalty? Sincerley, disappointed, but not surprised! - Fiona Crowley Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:50:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1346 The Iraqi War may have been controversial in America. The Pope's opposition to it should not have been for Catholics. Both abortion and the slaughter of innocent lives are evils. - neither of which should be min Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:53:44 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1341 To compare a controversial war with the war on innocent unborn children is completely fraudulent. Over 50 million children slaughtered on the altar of humanistic worship eclipeses the Iraq War significance. Disagree with Bush if you wish, but this unmitigated slaughter of innocent unborn is unprecedented in human history. Notre Dame's president is in full revolve to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Father Jenkins Return to Christ. Be Obdedient. - Theo Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:05:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1340 dear ron: where do you find adamant support for pres. bush on this website? i think you are reading into comments. if you want to know who I voted for, between Kerry & Bush, Bush; bet Gore & Bush, Bush. NOT because i am a Republican. i am a CATHOLIC before i am an American. Each election, there was only one candidate who was anti-abortion. Kerry was another CINO who disgraces our beautiful Faith for political gain. Gore is a joke. i was never adamantly behind Bush. He was my only Choice. - debby Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:27:47 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1339 A plea for civility and love of neighbor on an internet forum is certainly appropriate. But this Notre Dame controversy raises again the narrowness of view of these dissenters. Those who object to the President's presence might well ponder their adamant support of the last President who waged war over the Pope's objections and sent thousands if not hundreds of thousands to their deaths. This does seem selective devotion to truth (or I fear Republican base building). - Ron Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:55:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1337 "In a city there are lots of different kinds of people, and to belong there you have to give latitude to diverse attitudes." In the City of God, there is only one kind of people--Catholic, Christian people--and that is the city I wish to belong to. You may keep your City of Man, Mr. Miner, and luxuriate in all its supposed splendors to your heart's content. (Also, the notion that "urbanity" is the proper end of education for a Catholic simply boggles the mind. Whatever happened to "truth?") - James the Least Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:33:26 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1338 Dear Mr. Least: Where I live, here in the world into which I was born, in the place to which the Lord has led me, I have neighbors who are Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, and some I-don’t-know-what-I-ams, and the civility in our little town is a joy. I’m not sure I’m exactly luxuriating in the City of Man, but I am sure urbanity is an end of education, although not the only end. –Brad Miner - Brad Miner Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:33:14 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1333 AMEN! Don't you think this is because we don\'t really believe in LOVE? Him? His crazy love 4 me alone? The all too common lack of decorum & social graces in every cultural venue has denigrated us to ashes. At our core we as a people have lost our sense of sin, do not know who we are in our dignity as created in God's image, cant in truth love ourselves, our neighbor, let alone our enemy. we are bankrupt. But if today we began to believe HE IS MINE, HE WANTS ME, He will raise us up from ashes - debby Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:04:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1332 Thank you, Brad Miner, for a thoughtful piece. You must understand the tremendous pressure that the Catholic "man in the street" faces, as he feels he is entirely alone. I have been in an FSSP chapel for ten years-yes, eight years before Summorum Pontificum. I knew of the problems in the Legionaries of Christ (not about the child) 15 years ago. When I mentioned these items in conversation, I was considered a fool. Now? S.P. in 2007 and the Vatican is investigating the Legion. It matters? - William H. Phelan Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:50:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/civility-and-morality.html#comment-1331 Amen. Several years ago my husband got into a rather heated argument with, of all things, a lawyer. The lawyer invited my husband outside to "settle the matter" at which point my husband said to him, "so you will settle with fists what you can't settle with words - no wonder you are a real estate lawyer and not a litigator." And in this case, the pen is mightier than the sword! Keep up the good work. - Liz Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:50:05 +0100