Comments for Shahbaz Bhatti and the Stuff of Saints at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 17:58:16 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/shahbaz-bhatti-and-the-stuff-of-saints.html#comment-6663 Holy New Martyr Shahbaz, pray for us. - Steven Clark Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:01:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/shahbaz-bhatti-and-the-stuff-of-saints.html#comment-6334 You have to be sensible about this. Religious freedom does not include acts which would contravene the moral law, or the state law unless state law contradicts the moral law. No citizen has the right to take the law into their own hands and murder someone. - Elizabeth Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:54:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/shahbaz-bhatti-and-the-stuff-of-saints.html#comment-6315 First things first, Welcome to the TCT Ashley! Second, wonderful article! Im gald to have heard of this Shahbaz Bhatti. Third, howerever, is that I can't help but to agree with Barry Brummet (and to some extent, Bill). At least in the examples he used, Barry was right, the Aztecs horrid human sacrifices should have been stopped, just as the cathars should have been stamped out or at least supressed, as they were spreading a dangerous and destructive philosophy. So, while Shahbaz may deserve to be a saint, I don't know if we need a 'patron saint for religious freedom'. - Aeneas Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:09:22 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/shahbaz-bhatti-and-the-stuff-of-saints.html#comment-6313 I agree entirely with this wonderful article and would ask for this wonderful example of being a real Roman Catholic Christian to be soon recognised for what it is.. Sainthood...A real Martyr... Shahbaz Bhatti pray for us who are still alive on this earth trying to be good Catholics.. Shahbaz which sounds very like the Urdu and Hindi word Shaabash, for "well done" thou good and faithful servant enter into rest with Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit. - michael jaffray king Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:12:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/shahbaz-bhatti-and-the-stuff-of-saints.html#comment-6312 And, that we should never forget that "cult" is the root of "culture." - Louise Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:01:08 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/shahbaz-bhatti-and-the-stuff-of-saints.html#comment-6311 Barry, Isn't this exactly why an unexamined, undifferentiated ecumenism should be shunned at all costs? - Louise Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:59:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/shahbaz-bhatti-and-the-stuff-of-saints.html#comment-6310 Welcome to TCT, Mrs. McGuire. I have to admit I am somewhat confused by this column. Was Mr. Bhatti killed because of his Catholic faith or because he was disrupting the political status quo? As Cdl Newman wrote:"I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious....". Priests and bishops are killed in Muslim countries rather frequently. Should they be Beatified as well? As you point out, Dignitatis Humanae (and the New Church) is only 45 years old. Perhaps there are a few wrinkles we must iron out. Thank you for your column. - Bill Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:24:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/shahbaz-bhatti-and-the-stuff-of-saints.html#comment-6309 But weren't his assassins practicing freedom of their religion? I'm not asking this to be clever or flip, but to put it to you that some religions have principles entirely at odds with those derived from Christianity. Should Cortez' successors have allowed the continuation of Aztec human sacrifice, for instance, or was suppressing it the right thing to do? Maybe the medieval Church was right to suppress the Albigensians, as well. Those Congressional hearings being held on radical Islam are doomed to fail, it seems to me, if it isn't recognized that it is the ideology behind the radicalism that is the problem. - Barry Brummet Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:49:14 +0100