Comments for Imagine at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Fri, 24 May 2013 11:36:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2219 Lee, I appreciate your passion, but you give a rather narrow idea of Catholic duties. Francis of Assisi once said preach the Gospel always and when necessary use words. He knew many need to hear that. As a writer, I've taken this as a warning about how, when, and where to speak. And if, and to whom. There are good precedents. St. Thomas Aquinas doesn't mention Jesus in De Ente et Essentia or several other works. Was he suffering from a"fundamental crippling disorientation"? Or being a Catholic? - Robrt Royal, Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:52:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2216 Robert Royal: Your response to Bradley's complaint is a lightning bolt illuminating the mindscape. Public Catholicism is or should be all about Jesus and proclaiming Him to the world. That is the mission of the Church and of every Catholic, including intellectuals. That Jesus is missing from so many of your articles does not mean that you have not struck the right balance between intellectual and devotional, but rather that TCT suffers from a fundamental, crippling disorientation. - Lee Gilbert Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:31:05 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2213 its a hot tough road this narrow way to the Promised Land. we are the remnant-we need to remember that. we need faith in Christ first, put all our Hope in Him, radically commit our whole lives as best we can to Him, some will follow,most wont. America has never been our final destination. i hope i can sing when its my turn at the scaffold. right now, i trust He is working out my vocal cords in the daily living of this life He graces me with. thank you everyone at TCT for ALL your help - debby Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:29:48 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2214 Will, I believe you've put your finger on a serious fault line and have it exacty right. If democracy is not rooted in something real and right, it can decay spectacularly. It's often been pointed out, for instance, that Nazism came to power through democratic elections. Bradley: you have a fair point. TCT was created to be more public Catholicism than devotional, but the two must be yoked together. We'll try to take that insight more into account in the future. - Robert Royal Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:29:34 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2212 It seems to me, and I wonder what Robert Royal thinks, that it is not at all improbable that the long-term effect of what we sometimes call "post-modernism" is the end of the modern liberal state as we know it (though perhaps this will take a great deal of time, just as the kind of Occamist voluntarism which planted the seeds of the modern liberal state took a considerable amount of time to develop). How long, after all, can our two-state solution (modern politics, post-modern philosophy) last? - Will Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:41:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2211 Thank you Robert Royal, excellent food for thought! Bradley, your word counting is exhiliratingly accurate, your psuedo scientific conclusions tell us a lot more about you than the wonderful writers here. This is no cousin to Fox news. - Achilles Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:50:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2210 TCC perpetuates this loss and, amidst the cultural carnage, is sorely lacking in the Christian virtue of Hope. This month's word count: "Jesus" is used 3 times in columns, "Mary" none (excluding a reference to Mary Cheney), and "Obama" is used 18 times(!!). While "God" is used plenty, the word alone is insufficient: it is the Incarnation that defines Catholicism. So while the writing here is good, deep and thought-provoking, TCC risks being nothing more than a first cousin to Fox News. - Bradley Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:09:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2209 Thanks so much for this article; it gets at the heart of why we homeschool. When people have asked us over the years how we will "deal with" the problem of our children not being socialized in public schools, our response has been consistent and immediate. The real question is how will they protect their children from the damage done to them by the socialization in schools. - Jennifer B Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:08:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2207 Schools cannot be uncomfortable with faith or anything else; only humans can, and the humans aren't voting in their school board elections. This commentary reminds me of the folks who finally come to Mass to protest only after the local bishop has to consolidate parishes for poor attendance, or perhaps the millions and millions who offer teddy prayers, not prayers, for the soul of a poor old man who self-destructed. It's always somebody else;s fault, isn't it. - Mack Hall Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:55:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2206 My parents would not recognize today's culture. It is hard for one who is too old to be part of this pop culture to understand the hysterical adulation given to some individuals. It helps to remember that this generation has been incubated on the proposition that absolute freedom and autonomy are good, thus rendering any absolute truths as homophobic. It seems to me that the recent histrionics over a pop figure are a crying out for something to believe in, as vacuous as it might be. Good piece. - Willie Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:18:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/imagine.html#comment-2205 It was upon our arrival in Prague last week that news of Michael Jackson's death began to dominate both CNN International and the BBC--the only English-language TV available. I couldn't help thinking--even as I heard Czech waiters speaking to German and Italian tourists in English--that America mostly influences the world now for all the wrong reasons. - Brad Miner Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:42:07 +0100