Comments for Memo to Rudy Giuliani at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 13 out of 13 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Fri, 24 May 2013 07:42:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6521 Mack, What i am suggesting is a tactical maneuver to break the Roe/Doe logjam, to kick the decision back to the states where we can win. - Austin Ruse Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:08:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6513 The whole column is dated. It should've been written four years ago back before he launched his campaign. As it were he ran one of the most underwhelming campaigns in modern history, especially given his early lead in the polls and all the money he had raised. Thus, no one is bringing up his name as a serious candidate. He's simply not in the discussion. - Phil K. Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:09:32 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6511 Austin, what your column reveals is how pathetic the choices are on the right. Rudy's grandstanding during 9/11 aside, he has virtually no qualities to be considered presidential timber. Then again, looking at all the other empty suits on both sides of the political spectrum, there are no candidates with either the gravitas, intelligence, moral integrity nor statesman-like qualities that stand out. Then again, we get the leaders we deserve as a nation that has bred so many morons who care nothing as long as they have their bread and circuses as diversions, living and breeding in ignorant "bliss." What terrible times we live in. Money and machinery have long since overtaken human virtues, which declined after the onset of the Industrial Revolution. The Victoria Era was perhaps not the best of times nor the worst, but it at least was a time when honor and high morality generally prevailed and were lofty goals to be striven for, when good character, proper public deportment and probity were esteemed values. American continues its inexorable descent into total moral decay as reflected in the deficiencies and depravities of its would-be leaders. If only a Voltaire existed today to provide the biting satire needed to dissect body politic to reveal the ills that will bring about its demise. - Grump Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:06:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6510 Mr. Ruse: I forwarded your comments onto the Mayor's firm. Hopefully, he reads them - not because I fully agree with your approach (prayer can still change his mind more than political positioning), but as you said in your article, it's a "shot" in the right direction. - Ryan Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:40:22 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6509 In sum, you would vote for a man who says something to the effect of "I'm in favor of mass murder, but I don't mind if you're not." - Mack Hall Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:54:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6507 Dear Bill, I was speaking to myself as much as to you, and, having been in the Church for only nine years (in our second conversion), I still have some residual "emotional attachment"--that, and I'm always hoping that our dear leaders will be better than they turn out to be. It is my own fault. I guess that this time of apostasy will pass just as others have throughout history, but it's like a dash of cold water in the face to realize suddenly that those other times lasted several hundred years before being resolved, and many a generation of hopeful, faithful Catholics never lived to see it. I guess our only choice is to take refuge in the Lord. So if you see Jesus with someone clinging to His ankles for dear life, that's me. - Louise Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:27:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6506 Dear Louise: Thank you for your gentle words of instruction. Rest assured that after the last fifty years, no thinking Catholic should have any "emotional attachment" to any leader in the Church. My purpose in writing is to alert my fellow readers in my (I hope not presumptuous) way to be alert and not accepting of what de Toqueville described as the "Common Opinion" (everchanging) which drives democracies and now appears to drive some of the hierarchy, priests and laity. When BXVI was asked what he perceived as the future of the Church, he responded it lay in "small, convinced communities". - Bill Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:25:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6505 Dear Bill, Recall the words of the Psalmist: "It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in men. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes." Apparently, he means even the Princes of the Church. If we didn't have such an intense (albeit unacknowledged) emotional attachment to those in whom we have put our trust, it wouldn't be so painful when our trust is betrayed. That's the thing about the Church: it will break your heart ever time. - Louise Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:12:07 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6504 Rudy is pro choice, pro same sex marriage, he lives in an irregular marriage and he takes Communion from the Cdl/Abp of N.Y. in St. Pat's. Andrew Cuomo is pro choice, pro same sex marriage, lives in an irregular marriage and he takes Communion from Bp Hubbard. The NY Catholic bishops meet with Cuomo within the last few weeks to discuss aid to Catholic schools and the state of his soul never is discussed. Why? It's BUSINESS. - Bill Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:34:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6502 I work with a lot of types i would not want my daughters to marry. - Austin Ruse Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:55:09 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6499 Interesting approach, Mr. Ruse. "Catholic" politicians-you work with them because it is pragmatic to do so; but at the same time you would not want your daughter to marry one. - Bill Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:45:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6498 States rights. Same fundamental issue that began the Civil War, if I remember my history correctly. One of the aspects of modern American ethos is the forgetting that we are the United States of America .. not a monolithic federal government. Your analysis is a definite step in the right direction. - Yvonne Rinaldi Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:34:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/memo-to-rudy-giuliani.html#comment-6493 The only difference between my experience and thoughts here and Austin's is that I lived in NYC during the '60s and '70s when it truly was worse. This is the best political writing I have ever read. - John Dunkle Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:08:47 +0100