Comments for Sowers of Discord at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 18 out of 18 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 03:05:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3547 The liberals can and do say just anything that comes into their heads but as Catholics we are so careful to say what we believe to be the truth. We rarely say anything unless we can give evidence of the truth of it. That makes our job so much harder. I can only equate it as the difference of climbing a mountain and sliding down it. - Happly climbing! - Blessings - Rene - Mrs. Rene O'Riordan Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:40:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3506 Nothing new under the sun. The secular media is anti-Christian and very hostile to Catholicism in general which it intentionally seeks to discredit. This is just another shameful attempt. My advice, gird your loins and follow the Magisterium of the Church in your personal life, in your community, and politically. - Charles Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:32:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3489 Dr. Royal: We shouldn't be surprised that Ms. Sullivan rushes in to establish that Catholics disagree on serious matters. You have heard the terms: dissidents, dual magisterium, etc. They are used by Catholics to describe other Catholics. Pro-contraception Catholics tend to be pro-abortion, since abortion is the perfect "contraceptive." Catholics are NOT united and our enemies, when it is to their advantage, love to point out the fact. - William H. Phelan Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:46:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3488 Pio, I don't know why, but you're making excuses for the religion reporter at one of the most prominent periodicals in the world. She was capable of finding an American priest in Rome willing to spread malicious gossip about Archbishop Burke. Don't you think she's resourceful enough to find out what Catholics mean by scandal? - Robert Royal Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:46:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3487 Jake, If I hear you, I don’t know how you can accuse TCT writers without accusing yourself of the same thing. TCT speaks directly about ideas, and we must never be tolerant of bad ideas, but can you say they speak badly of persons? I can certainly see how you might be confused with post modern society pushing “tolerance” as the new Charity, but there is no “new” charity, and the tolerance you seem to promote is badly corrupted. Mr. Royal, good article-wrong language for msmedia addicts. - Achilles Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:42:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3486 Let us not forget those pesky Nielsen ratings. The "mainstream" or "mass" media are neither... their market share is shrinking faster and faster. Liberal-media is a more accurate label... while they are still around. Well said Mr. Royal. - Carl Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:41:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3485 hey RR! lets set up a bake-sale-fund for your lawsuit! cuz any correction will be deepsised & even the under 40 crowd will need magnifiying glasses to read it. how bout this? STOP reading all the trash out there, stop shopping at Brookstone & GAP et al, stop supporting anti-God films, music, media, start helping the poor & troubled personally-show up & work at soup kitchens & Pro-life centers. look people in the eye & bring them the Lord. school sends home TIME KIDS-it goes in the trash UNREAD - debby Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:56:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3482 Pio: You are giving Ms. Sullivan the benefit of the doubt, as if this were a cool mathematical calculation. Take it from someone who's been in the trenches for 25 years. This is a case when it's necessary, as our Lord counseled us, to be wise as a serpent. There was no intention to be fair here, but to make it appear that people who think Kennedy constituted a grave public scandal are simply revolting kooks. - Robert Royal Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:26:04 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3483 Mr. Royal, I don\'t disagree with your analysis of the entire situation and my objective was not to give Ms. Sullivan the benefit of the doubt. I simply tried to read the specific passage from the viewpoint of someone new to this website and this debate. From that perspective, I think there is reasonable ambiguity about the context of "grave" in your original column. Stated another way: if I were your lawyer, I would counsel you strongly to save your money and not take legal action here. - Pio Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:21:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3484 There is nothing new in the contention that the "mass media" is rife with anti-Catholic sentiment, but virtually bereft of anti-semitism, in particular. One can draw whatever inference he or she wants from this fact, but it nonetheless is true on close scrutiny. TIME mag, at one time commanded respect under the objective wings of Henry & Claire Booth Luce (the latter converted by Bishop Sheen) is now not fit to line a bird cage. The only way to respond to TIME's claptrap is to sue the bastards. - Joseph Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:20:34 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3481 If pedophilia is a "grave scandal" and the Kennedy funeral is a "another grave scandal", the descriptive phrase "on par with" can be reasonably used to link the two, even if the circumstances of each are vastly different. (Abortion itself is indeed worse than pedophilia.) The geographic linkage of both scandals to Boston could also suggest (although I certainly don\'t think this was your intent) that something amiss in the Archdiocese of Boston is at the root of these two grave scandals. - Pio Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:47:48 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3476 Catholics are being put to the test. Our situation is not as clear-cut as that of Monsignor O'Flaherty in Nazi-occupied Rome. The evil we face is inextricably intertwined with much goodness, concern for others, and generosity. As one brilliant young woman (Holy Cross and Georgetown Law graduate) commented on separating from her socially-concerned, left-leaning friends: "But what about the baby?" Ah, there is the rub. - Ars Artium Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:32:35 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3480 Jake, when writing publicly, it would be silly to include a lot of self-effacing rhetoric simply because one does not want to come across as self-righteous. The articles are short and meant to be INFORMATIVE and to the point. For too long, Catholics have cowed their speech and bowed down to the modern idea that if we condemn anything, we are, by virtue of the fact that we sin, condemning ourselves. We must boast in Christ and speak boldly and plainly. Christ himself was accused of hypocricy. - Teresa Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:14:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3479 The Catholic Thing's writers always have such lovely articles! But they seem so out of touch with their own sinfulness...I'm not saying that because they sin they have no right to comment (hypocrites can be the best tellers of truth), but in doing so I think they should be more aware of their own fallenness. When you start sounding like everything would be utopia if not for the people who make the mistakes you happen not to, you become no more or less "for God" than the liberal media you fight! - Jake Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:09:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3478 I am sure Time magazine has it online. It is an article from years back, about one Saint Augustine of Hippo. It was near the back of the magazine. The article was quite offensive, and it helped me realize how anti-Catholic the magazine really is. In this article, Augustine is accused of those things which many anti-Catholics like to bring up: the invention of original sin, the splitting of the Catholic Church, and other such absurdities. It is really quite a sad article. And a sad magazine, too. - Nick Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:08:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3477 Let me alert readers early today that The Catholic Thing has a strict policy in the Comments section. Disagree with ideas or acts, do not attack persons. Let's try to practice charity even in controversy. - Robert Royal Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:37:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3475 It seems that when one wants to attack the truth, but has no substantive facts he uses familiar all inclusive phrases, for example, such as "they say, everybody knows, or recent studies have shown." I can just imagine a research paper with these kind of references!. It would soon be in the trash. Such should be a fitting final disposal for Ms. Amy's paper.As the Church speaks out, as it should, and intelligent writers call the media and elitists to task, we can expect more journalistic deceit. - Willie Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:15:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/sowers-of-discord.html#comment-3474 The poor modern liberal media are going to be in constant paroxysms when, with Cardinal Pell on the congregation for Bishops too, Catholics virtually never burn incense to Caesar. Hope you become fabulously wealthy after your defamation case Prof. Royal, you could start up a whole Catholic internet media business - no one watches TV anymore. - Outback Catholic Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:02:06 +0100