Comments for The Mystery of Charity at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 25 May 2013 22:40:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9376 Z, that was a bit of humor, meant to make the same point you did. Re-read the passage - and smile, - Robert Royal Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:14:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9365 I am not sure who it was who EVER thought that foundations and grants make 'heroes'. This comment is nonsensical. In the last 150 years alone we have had St Bernadette of Lourdes who spoke a low Patois, which Our Lady graciously shared with her, and if you wish to believe it, a barely educated Portuguese shepherd boy from a remote hill town, who could barely learn his Catechism. Oh, and before those two, we had Maximin (another tiny shepherd) and Melanie of La Salette, maybe semi-literate, not to mention Faustina Kowalska, who was a rough and ready Polish peasant. And wjhat did we get from Harvard? BF Skinner and, far more dreadful, the Rotenburg Foundation; you really have to look up Judge 'Rotten-burg', because if you don't you will never believe how his trainers are electric-shocking kids in America, right now, TODAY. - Z Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:10:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9305 @kendallpeak: While some of the demons might be hiding some of their deeds, some need not even try, for they have their apologists in what was once Christendom who excuse not only the slaughters of decades ago as a necessary cracking of eggs for the millenial omelete but also those of today as understandable reactions to such events as the Crusades (see Presdient Clinton's surreal remarks soon after 9/11). While I know that just-war-theory is not the theme of Dr. Royals article, it nonetheless reminds me, as does the Miracle of Lepanto, that the end of war will only come with the Second Coming andthat those who in the meantime want what is left of Christendom to disarm are either horribly naive or in the serivce of the serpent written of in Genesis 3:15. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:41:36 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9299 We are not weak. We are just under attack from every direction. Same as it ever was. - GABRIEL Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:51:47 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9298 I'm with Peguy. Man remains the despicable creature he has been since the Fall. Nothing has changed. - Grump Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:51:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9296 But much has changed. In the past, not only in Rome, but throughout the world, organized evil proudly showed it's feathers with public mass killings and ritual sacrifices. There is now a great light in the world, and even the Hitlers and Stalins, while they still exist, try to hide their deeds in the dark. - kendallpeak Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:59:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9295 Thank you for your fraternal correction, Dr. Royal. I missed the jump between St. Stephen's day and Peguy's play. With all that has happened since Joan's time (circa 1430) and today, I might share Peguy's despair. - Manfred Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:50:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9294 Manfred, I don't know what religion you practice, but the Catholic Church has a long history of thinking of Christ as a physician. Cf. "He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted" (Luke 4:18). And this from one of Augustine's sermons among the innumerable places where Augustine and other Church Fathers use that image: "If God, the heavenly doctor in charge of us, said to you, 'Do you want to be cured?' wouldn’t you say, 'O yes! I do!' Or perhaps you wouldn’t say it, because you think you are perfectly well, and that means your illness is worse than ever." - Robert Royal Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:34:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-mystery-of-charity.html#comment-9293 I would dispute Peguy's description of Christ as a "physician" and I could understand the disappointment that "nothing had changed". One must go to Gen. 3:15 where the Lord says to the serpent (Satan, who has just seduced Adam and Eve)I will put enmity between the seed of the Woman and your seed and He will crush your head and you will strike at His heel. We are in a cosmic war which will endure until the end of the world. Do not forget that one of the "coatholders" of the men stoning St. Stephen was Saul, who was to become St. Paul, probably the greatest apostle of the Church. I have been to the Loire valley, including Chinon castle where Joan met the dauphin. Her mission was Divine in origin as the voices she heard were those of Saints who guided her. At Chinon, in order to test her, she was introduced to the "dauphin". Joan turned and walked over to a young male "servant" who was in fact the dauphin in mufti. The "ecclestical court" were Burgundian Catholic bishops who betrayed her to the English who burned her at the stake. That is how one knows Joan's life and death were truly Catholic as evil is continually opposing good, even in the life of this simple instrument who finally wins it all by her reward of eternity with God and the Saints who guided her. - Manfred Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:31:38 +0100