Comments for Statesmen and Women at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Fri, 24 May 2013 07:08:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/statesmen-and-women.html#comment-4553 I wonder whether it was in response to the late John Paul's proclamation that the well-known English novelist Hilary Mantel took it on herself to write a literally criminal novel which reverses history, making a villain of the great Saint Thomas and a hero out of the monstrous Thomas Cromwell? Certainly there is something internally and infernally consistent about the way that the English establishment has embraced this repulsive pack of lies, which no historian would have endorsed, and actually made it a part of its day-to-day talk. If you talk with an educated Englishman today, you are apt to hear revolting attacks on Saint Thomas made in perfect good faith, on Mantel's authority. This sort of thing makes one believe in the Devil. - Fabio P.Barbieri Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:03:57 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/statesmen-and-women.html#comment-3148 As a homeschooling mom for the last 12 years we have studied alot of history. Politicians either do not understand the meaning behind "Seperation of Church and State" or else they do and just throw it around abusing it in order to justify their own agendas. I vote the latter. Seperation of Church and state simply meant that there was no state church. Not that God was to be banished from politics. It was mostly to stop the Puritans from forcing people to pay taxes to the puritan (or other)church. - suzanne Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:09:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/statesmen-and-women.html#comment-3142 Too bad our new Amb. to the Holy See, Miguel Diaz doesn't share the same vision as St. Thomas More. It's also too bad this heel-clicker to his leader, Barack H. Obama, the president most hostile to Catholicism in my memory, decided to put his boss' interests above his Lord's. More than merely, too bad. It's too tragic. What a waste of so much "education" this man's been overly fortunate to have received. (A fellow alum of St. Thomas Univ., Miami, FL) - Steven Barrett Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:09:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/statesmen-and-women.html#comment-3140 We ought to obey God and not man, and render unto Caesar that which is his, and render unto God that which is His, presenting the dilemma for the Catholic politician who often finds his or herself bowing to the secular over the Divine for the sake of temporal expediency. In his last days, Sen. Ted Kennedy wrote desperately to the Pope for a final blessing, which was granted despite the Senator's support of abortion. Perhaps only God can square these extreme differences and grant mercy - Joseph Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:33:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/statesmen-and-women.html#comment-3138 Thomas More who died the king's faithful servant, but God's first presents a contrast to Thomas Cromwell who later became chancellor but died the king's servant first and lost his head because of the king's displeasure. Surely if there be an eternity, they cannot both share the same level of happiness. One has to wonder if today's Catholic politicians who seek moral vindication under the decorous mantra of separation of church and state, ever give thought to the eternal consequences. - Willie Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:27:07 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/statesmen-and-women.html#comment-3137 Statesmenship is a deep relationship of shared duties that men enter into with other men. It is very different anthropologically and historically from the bonds we form with women. St Thomas More and all of Catholic tradition till the last forty years has understood this. The title of this article shows a deep confusion that Catholics should clear up not add to. - dr pence Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:26:04 +0100