Comments for Mother’s Day in Massachusetts at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:27:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mothers-day-in-massachusetts.html#comment-11311 Amen. You speak the truth. And you write it. Thank you. - Gordon Jewett Thu, 10 May 2012 21:59:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mothers-day-in-massachusetts.html#comment-11284 What was the moral upbringing in the Trump family? In the eighties I worked for one of the many publishers who were chasing Donald Trump for the book that became THE ART OF THE DEAL. At the same time, papers were publishing stories about the methods the Trump Organization and others used to clear properties for "gentrification" and redevelopment. It wasn't pretty and in fact when a former roommate found himself in that situation, New York's infamous tenants' court offered no relief from similar tactics. I was already questioning the abortion culture and found no virtues promoted, rather vices celebrated (that artful dealing) in the progressive and evolved world of New York's culture industry. Is it an accident that Hilary Mantel's bestselling novels about Cromwell portray St. Thomas More in the negative? I have encountered this hostility toward the saint in the book industry before. What was the harshest criticism thrown at Orwell? That he was a "moralist..." The worst thing any writer can be apparently. But I also recall the devout women who knelt and prayed the rosary before an abortion mill near 30th and Madison Avenue around the corner from another publishing house where I worked. My Catholic-from-the-cradle boss never mentioned it to me. I couldn't stop thinking about it. - Graham Combs Tue, 08 May 2012 16:30:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mothers-day-in-massachusetts.html#comment-11277 God bless these good people. - Dave Tue, 08 May 2012 03:16:33 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mothers-day-in-massachusetts.html#comment-11276 Yes. Some seem to believe that free will means will to anarchy (do your own thing). That only works if there is no truth, as some believe as well. Sin is the path away from truth, love and life. Turning one's back to life is to turn one’s face to death. Everything in the world will pass away and those who make their morality earth-centered have tied themselves to that which will pass away. We are free to choose which direction we take on the path of life or death. We are not free to pick our favorite reality from a vending machine. - Other Joe Tue, 08 May 2012 01:52:11 +0100