Comments for Lessons of the Season, Seen and Unseen at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:42:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3985 I am assujming that the good Hadley Arkes is either not Catholic or that as one doesn't know that you do NOT refer to the Mass as a "service". "I had gone to St. John’s to see the service directed by the son". Fr. Scalia is an excellent homilist. - Gretchen Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:40:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3621 Mr. Hannity humiliated himself and caused great scandal when he berated Father Tom Eutuenuer about contraception a couple of years ago. I hope and pray he has gone to confession and come around to Church teaching since then. It has caused me to take everything he says under caution. - OPNY Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:07:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3620 Dr. Arkes: A footnote on Mr. Hannity. He was challenged by Fr. Thomas Euteneuer who is, as you know, the Director of Human Life International (HLI). because Sean was telling his audience that contraception was the lesser evil vis a vis abortion and therefore permissable. Euteneuer wanted to speak to Sean privately, but he was invited to be on a TV hookup wherein he told Sean he would not give him the Eucharist because of his obstinacy (in my opinion-lack of knowledge) on the subject. - William H. Phelan Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:07:20 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3619 Many of our fellow Catholics think it is old fashion to live up to the beliefs of the Church. If you buck the tide, you are called a 'fuddy duddy'. In response to an argument, I often hear, "After all there are more important issues than abortion". I congratulate the Republicans and conservatives who almost pulled it off in New York. - H Koczur Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:06:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3617 "Mr. Sean Hannity, of the Fox Network, one of my favorite commentators, fell into a comparable mistake in one of his political commentaries. And though the subject was political, it was curious that nothing in Hannity’s Catholic background alerted him to what he was apparently failing to see." -- You havent been listening to him for very long, have you. - Joe Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:29:04 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3615 Pilate, conducting the first opinion poll, put it to the crowd and they shouted, "Give us Barabbas!" Today, polls in a democracy seems to hold similar sway and alarmingly the public appears to favor same-sex marriage almost 50-50 despite the fact that only a small fraction of the population is homosexual. It would seem that the tyranny of a tiny minority, supported by a politically correct mass corporate media, will wind up giving us the thief instead of the saviour once again. - Joseph Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:28:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3614 Thank you, Dr. Arkes. In the same vein, I often cite the fact that I have 5,670 years of Judaeo-Catholic teaching on my side in these "social issues" discussions until I realize my "opponents" have no idea what Judaism or Catholicism teach. They live in a world of "feeling rather than thought..changing religion into poetry and therapy..banish(ed) intellectual distinctions...truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative..to quote Flannery O'Connor. - William H. Phelan Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:27:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3616 The Republicans are not pro-life either. The main reason for that is their support for a policy denying an increase in welfare payments to unmarried welfare mothers who have more children while on welfare (the family cap). Such a policy implicitly tells welfare mothers to abort their babies instead of allowing them to be born, and is therefore pro-abortion. On the other hand, working families have dependency exemptions and child tax credits to help them with raising children. - blue8064 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:31:08 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3613 Prof. Arkes was privileged to hear such a homily. For those of us who are dwelling in the Catholic wilderness where the silence on abortion and marriage is profound, it would be a great good to have those homilies available - perhaps on line? Does Father Scalia have a web site or, if he does not, could he be pursuaded to establish one? - Ars Artium Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:37:48 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/lessons-of-the-season-seen-and-unseen.html#comment-3612 Unfortunately many, embroiled in their busy shopping schedules, will brush off this story of truth as just another seasonal tale. But this season is about the birth of Truth. One truth that seems certain to any rational mind is the existence of evil. A look at 911 and the millions of exterminations of the last century should be convincing. If there is evil there must be good. Liberal relativism seems naked in view of reality. To recognize evil admits to truth. Evil cannot be non-evil. Can it? - Willie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:37:18 +0100