Comments for A Grim Year – but Signs of Hope at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Fri, 24 May 2013 09:49:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3728 A fine piece, but with a minor inaccuracy. Bill Buckley died in February of 2008, not 2009. - WS Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:19:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3723 -21 approval rating for President B.O. most precipitous rating fall and soon to eclipse the absolute lowest. Congressional polling indicates Democrats will lose Congress next year. What is Moloch to do? Get Kmeic to write things from Malta? Cecile Richards to send Xmas abortion cards? Get B.O. to keep SAYING he won't change the status quo on federal funding for abortion? Moloch hasn't much time to get to the 60 Congressmen. What madness will he hit them with? - Gamgee Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:03:14 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3717 We are so prone to judge according to the limitations of our human minds. The prospects are indeed bleak. What we don't see is the meaning of the events that God is allowing to happen. We are like the apostles who lost Christ. When the meaning of the loss was revealed to them they spent the rest of their lives rejoicing and spreading that joy to others. Like Jesus and the apostles we must suffer and as we accept the suffering in and around us we will come to see what God is accomplishing. Exult. - Dan Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:43:04 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3716 Hadley, this year seems to be the best of times and the worst of times. Introspection and hope are my companions this year (and The Catholic Thing!). - Dan Kennedy Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:30:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3715 Here's a direct link to Fr. Neuhaus' article: http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/02/001-how-i-became-the-catholic-i-was-17 - Robert Royal Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:40:35 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3714 For Mr. Hunkins -- Fr. Neuhaus's article was in First Things, April 2002, and it can be called back for printing from the website for First Things. In response to Joseph, you cannot assume that I'm looking out "beamishly" on the world. For people in my circle, it seems to us the end of the world. After the election last year I was looking into real estate in Malta. Still, we should not fall into despair and neglect to see the signs of renewal and rewakending all about us. --Hadley Arkes - Hadley Arkes Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:37:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3713 Hadley, I wish I could have the same rosy outlook for this world, but everywhere, it seems, the mass of men are living lives of unquiet desperation, as Edward Abbey wrote, in revising Henry Thoreau. Science has given us lots of information--factoids, to use Norman Mailer's word--but no understanding. 20 centuries have come and gone and still Jesus remains the central figure of the human race, affecting more lives than all the Kings and governments that ever were. THAT ONE SOLITARY LIFE. - Joseph Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:28:49 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3712 Thank you Prof Arkes for a message of hope in these troubled times - a message especially meaningful to those of us who have converted to the faith in recent years. Can someone direct to Father Neuhaus' piece mentioned: "How I Became the Catholic I Was" ? Thank you. - Ray Hunkins Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:28:14 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/a-grim-year--but-signs-of-hope.html#comment-3711 A good piece,indeed, as one has been battered all year by the antics of liberal elitist ideologies. Those mentioned icons of the past with their sustaining virtue and clarity of thought will be surely missed. There will be others that will follow in their footsteps because the pursuit of truth and happiness is the aim of every man of virtue. Maybe there are signs of hope as so many become aware that a Godless government unrepresentative of so many of its people is in our midst. In God we trust? - Willie Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:14:37 +0100