Comments for Semper Fidel at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 14 out of 14 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:02:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1901 Just a heads up for the casual reader: WJ is a left wing ideologue. Just in case you may want to discern her/his world view frame of reference in context to what is being written in these columns. - Dust Sun, 24 May 2009 21:42:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1896 Great article. As a dual national with Venezuela, I know the damaging effect of Castro, his influence and ideology have been a destructive force in the hands of Hugo Chavez. For those of you who attack the author and make apologies for these godless communists who have done everything they can to destroy the faith and separate the Church from Her children; shame on you. Dreaming about communist utopias is really nice when you live in the U.S., but the reality is something else. - Gunnar Sat, 23 May 2009 06:07:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1892 sorry i realized i combined the Notable w/the article. Please read the Notable Quote. My ?s are: How can the Church keep any one in the place of Shepherd/Father who allows his priests to escort his own children to the firing squad? Is the Vatican still silent? i don't see the difference bet Catholic Poland and Catholic Cuba. why is the Church's response so different? i want to be a faithful, loving daughter of the Church, but i don't want to be ignorant, or naive, which apparently i am. - debby Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1890 WJ, You posted... "Marlin's insistence on the 'vital historical record' is quaint." But I cannot find that passage in the article. The closest I found was similar..."vital historical value"...but one does not use quotation marks for similar comments. I find your misuse of quotes to be disingenous at best, and dishonest at worst. By the way, I'm not sure what "quaint" means to you but I would be interested to know if you are disputing the veracity of any of Marlin's article? - JDS Fri, 22 May 2009 14:59:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1888 It's ironic that Mr. Marlin's arguments here are just like some of the liberal responses to his recent death penalty column: his heart is in the right place, but he is naive to think that a continued boycott will change anything. - John T. Robinson Fri, 22 May 2009 13:43:39 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1887 Dear Sister in the Lord, can you please restate your comments in clearer English? I have know idea what you talking about. - Bradley Fri, 22 May 2009 12:07:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1886 i'm completly ignorant on this subject & hope to correct that a little by reading Against All Hope; please everyone educate me. Does this cardinal who does the evil gov't bidding in executing his own family, is he the same who would be called to consider the cause of beautification these very ones his tolerance has condemed to death? isn't this judas behavior? is the vatican silent here? is that ok? like Pius during WW2-other things at work?i feel so sick. another father against his own childre - debby Fri, 22 May 2009 11:44:14 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1885 Brillaint article! Let me just point out that Castro is not the last Cold War thug. Kim Jong-ail, sons of Kim Il-song, whom Stalin put in charge of North Korea, is still alive and executing any one who prays or questions the party line. Another matter on Cuba: A well-meaning US priest recently sent me an artcile that quotes a Cuban bishop as caliing Cuba "ideolgically plural." What an insult to those being tortured for doubting Fidel! - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Fri, 22 May 2009 11:43:45 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1884 If the author believes that embargos are successful in promoting Catholic values, we should also embargo: - OPEC countries that don't have religious freedom - China (same reason) - Europe (secular/liberal persecution of Church) - Russia (Orthodox heretics who don't recognize the Pope and persecute Uniate Catholics) - Mexico (anti-clerical) - Latin America (too nice to evangelicals) We could survive by trading with Poland, Lithuania, Vatican City and the Philippines. - Bustamante Fri, 22 May 2009 11:43:13 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1883 "It seems as though the Catholic perspective in this article is implemented simply as a means to criticize Obama's Cuba policy." I think you've discovered the interpretive formula for understanding Marlin's essays on this blog. - WJ Fri, 22 May 2009 11:42:39 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1882 What point does Marlin think is served by our Tough Guy approach to a third-rate dictator and his sorry demesne except the inflation of his status and the further impoverishment of Cubans themselves? I eagerly await him to call for our ceasing relations with China and with the Saudis. In any case, given the US' own past support (and indeed anti-democratic installment of) equally or more repressive regimes in the Americas, Marlin's insistence on the "vital historical record" is quaint. - WJ Fri, 22 May 2009 11:42:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1881 The liberals have it half wrong: Fidel is wonderful. He is evil. But this author also has it half wrong by endorsing the boycott. The fact that Cuba has survived 50 years proves that it has failed. The surest way to destabilize the communist stranglehold is to flood it with investment capital and US tourists. Not because we or Fidel are nice, but because history has shown that political freedom usual follows economic growth from capital investment. Let the markets do the Lord's work! - Pio Fri, 22 May 2009 10:41:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1880 It seems as though the Catholic perspective in this article is implemented simply as a means to criticize Obama's Cuba policy. I don't mean to question peoples' intentions. However, notice that these imprisoned Catholics said "Viva Cuba Libre" before they said "Viva Christ the King". Maybe these people were political prisoners first and Catholic prisoners second? - Mark Fri, 22 May 2009 10:41:05 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/semper-fidel.html#comment-1879 We do have a few radical ideologues representing us in Congress these days! But I ask you, do leopards change their spots? As this Memorial day approaches and the forgetful spout forth their words of appeasment, let us not forget our real representatives. - William Dennis Fri, 22 May 2009 07:34:30 +0100