Comments for The Great Unraveling at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 25 May 2013 11:47:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-great-unraveling.html#comment-2610 You're silly Bradley...the writers here have more than likely read far more Luther than you ever will. Why does everyone who comments on this page or First Things have to be so hopelessly pedantic? Also I think you need to learn more about Christian hope if you think that it somehow has something to do with accepting the mass genocide of innocent children. Hope is Christian...giving up and being assimilated to evil is definitely not (and if it is at the church you go to ..find a better one!) - Jacob Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:48:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-great-unraveling.html#comment-2606 Fr. Schall correctly diagnoses the mess of modern society: truth is relative, evil is indeed real, and souls are at risk. That being said, I would repeat a prior observation of the visible absence of Christian hope in columns like this. I think Martin Luther (gasp!) provides an appropriate theological conclusion in the hymn A Mighty Fortress: "And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us, we will not fear, for God hath willed his truth to triumph through us." - Bradley Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:59:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-great-unraveling.html#comment-2605 That is where we find ourselves. Does anyone out there not think that a reckoning is coming? Reality has a way of reviving the verities. Historically it has always been a painful process. - watcher Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:53:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-great-unraveling.html#comment-2604 Excellent article. By virtue of how these things have permeated some Catholic spheres, we have a generation of people trying to make a designer religion out of Catholicism. Magazines and periodicals cloaked under the guise of Catholic, are advancing it all as are some bands of theologians (the pseudo-magisterium), still unsilenced in spite of their public dissent. There's no greater time to pray. The change I hope for is only that which is aligned with Truth. - Diane Korzeniewski Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:55:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-great-unraveling.html#comment-2603 There is an old Southern parable which applies to our culture. How do you boil a frog? Not by throwing him into boiling water but rather by placing him in lukewarm water ans slowly raising the heat until he dies and he never suspects what is happening. - Joseph Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:48:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-great-unraveling.html#comment-2602 Schall rightly points out hazard in valuing others as objects rather than ends. Except we are products of natural selection objectively 'valuing' survival -- a natural world wherein men are objects in an already unraveled ethical frame. Every day we make choices with limited intelligence. How does a triage nurse, for example make the moral choice between critical patients. Or the man who has to layoff one of two employees? It seems to me that the moral way is really an un-natural law. - L Kramer Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:58:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-great-unraveling.html#comment-2601 Excellent article. This new found freedom from orthodoxy has permitted us to redefine human personhood. Are we getting to the point whereby science and the State will decide human value? Are defective infants and mentally impaired adults to be discarded like broken toys? There are some Catholic ethicists who would have us believe that a person who is mentally unable to appreciate the Creator, is not a person. Yes. In this age of genetic engineering, we must simply redefine human personhood. - Willie Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:56:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-great-unraveling.html#comment-2600 Wow! Talk about powerful! We are entering a new "dark age" that will relegate humans to "things" that only an intellectual elite will decide is worth keeping or getting rid of (yes, killing). Plato spoke of his Philosopher Kings and these elite believe they are just that. The church must stand uncompromisingly for truth and sacredness of life. Never back down, never surrender. - Fr Tim Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:56:19 +0100