Comments for Global Sectarianism at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 22:05:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/global-sectarianism.html#comment-3867 What bunk. You are certainly reading things into what P.B. Jefferts-Schori has said. I just read that the Episcopal Church has 250 schools in Haiti. Episcopalians seem to know something about expending effort for those most in need of God's mercy. - Effie Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:58:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/global-sectarianism.html#comment-3866 I think the essence of Episcopalianism is to be found in a prayer from their prayerbook: ...and we thank thee (God) for thy goodness and lovingkindness to us and to all people everywhere. Episcopalians prefer to focus on the knowledge and love of God, rather than on making laws or denigrating others. Satan is that part of ourself which walks away from God. - Ann Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:58:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/global-sectarianism.html#comment-3156 "They are not more universal than the universal Church. Despite their presence in international bodies and prestigious intellectual circles, we might call the whole confused mess global sectarianism." Spot on. Phony community is phony universality and vice versa. A noxious ping-pong match between the two characterizes most of our social thought today, to the detriment of real places, real people, faith, and reason. Yes, the "community" has gone mad, as in More's day. - Ronald Thomas Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:32:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/global-sectarianism.html#comment-3122 As new convert to the Church from Anglicanism, I feel lucky to have stumbled upon Flannery O\'Connor's letters -- especially to a new convert named Cecil Dawkins. She is famous for her cocktail party comment about the Eucharist. But a RCIA class could do worse than to spend a session reading selections from her correspondence. One gem: "scratch an Episcopalian and you're likely to find ANYTHING." I can vouch for that. - Graham Combs Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:31:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/global-sectarianism.html#comment-3120 There are some teachings in Catholicism that are hard for me to swallow. Which is precisely why I remain a Catholic. Truth is never what you want it to be. If your creed is only what agrees with you, it is wishful thinking. I find Catholicism true precisely because it is hard. Jesus didn't promise us an easy life. He promised a path to salvation. An Episcopal bishop who thinks the truth can be molded to the present thinks, as Chesterton put it, that the truth is determined by clocks. - Michael Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:24:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/global-sectarianism.html#comment-3119 Well Professor, another fine Monday morning opus. In our society so obsessed with diversity and multiculturism this article might be considered narrow minded. You see, one religion is as good as another and to evangelize is only to engage in arrogance. The fact that Christ was the only religious founder who claimed to be God is irrelevant. Could it be that diversity is a euphemism for relativism and a recipe for tyranny and nihilism? For the sake of diversity must one abandon his principles? - Willie Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:12:00 +0100