Comments for What Is an "Honorary" Award? at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-an-qhonoraryq-award.html#comment-11444 What I so much like about Fr. Schall's essay is that, true to his Jesuit training and tradition, he makes several important distinctions, each of which further clarifies the issue, before he makes his definitive conclusion. Bravo, Fr.Schall! - John McCarthy Thu, 17 May 2012 05:24:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-an-qhonoraryq-award.html#comment-11415 It must have been difficult for Fr. Schall to write this piece about his beloved Georgetown University. In doing so he sets an example of courage, a rare virtue these days. I would like to associate myself with the remarks of Frank and John above. Fr Schall asks for and deserves our prayers. - Ray Hunkins Tue, 15 May 2012 05:30:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-an-qhonoraryq-award.html#comment-11412 Fr. Schall's comments are profound and simple. The deepest insights generally are those that, when displayed, strike us as obvious. "One must assume that whoever invited the person to be honored found grounds for agreement or praise....An institution awards the HHS secretary high honors because it admires her." Yes, exactly. Those simple and, once expressed obvious, comments cut through the thick, sophistical and disingenuous self-defense that always seems to follow the conferral of an honorary degree or an award by a Catholic institution to someone who seems to stand undeniably at odds with Catholic truth. - John Yocum Tue, 15 May 2012 03:38:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-an-qhonoraryq-award.html#comment-11410 "Tell me who you honor and I will tell you what you are." My father passed eight years ago, two months after my mother. He was a selfless man who sacrificed much for his children. He loved us. He could also be one tough disciplinarian who had no problem applying his hand or a belt across my derriere if I got out of line as so many times I did growing up and he was the one who made sure we were in church every week. My father was the definition of tough love and as much as I hated (yes hated) his methods at the time and sneered at him, the successes I enjoy today are because of a man who had the courage to love but also not tolerate insolent and misbehaving children and assumed his role as the last, firm, and immovable impassable line of good order and discipline. So I will offer a variation to the sentence above: "Tell me WHAT and WHO you tolerate and I will tell you what you are." That the Sebelius invitation has not been opposed with swift and decisive action holding those who approved responsible and to account by Church leadership is glaring. Ditto for the President being allowed to speak at Notre Dame. Jesus Christ, for all of the love He preached and forgiveness he bestowed, had one moment of Divine righteous anger and proceeded to initiate a decisive cleansing of His Father's Temple that had become infested with secular avarice. The Church has always been and continues to be surrounded by evil and hatred but that is a far cry from being infested by same. "Tell me WHAT and WHO you tolerate and I will tell you what you are." Time for the leaders of the Church to apply some tough love like my father. The press, the world, and the ignorant will sneer and vent their shrill hatred and contempt. So what else is new? If Church leadership is afraid of this, perhaps they have no business being leaders in the first place. In the long term, the Church will be respected and admired. Our separated Protestant brethren will stand up, cheer and perhaps many of them (like myself) will Cross the Tiber and the Church will get closer to becoming ONE. "Tell me WHAT and WHO you tolerate and I will tell you what you are." - Frank Tue, 15 May 2012 03:25:35 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-an-qhonoraryq-award.html#comment-11409 The same argument ("Tell me who you honor....") was put forth when, after his resignation during the child abuse scandal, Cardinal Law was given the honorary position of archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica in Rome. - Walter Tue, 15 May 2012 03:21:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/what-is-an-qhonoraryq-award.html#comment-11406 Thank you, Fr. Schall, for discussing with candor a contemporary event at Georgetown. To reinforce how far Georgetown overreached in giving this award, one should spend 5.19 minutes at youtube.com and SEARCH: Kathleen Sebelius v. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and watch a gentleman dispatch Ms. Sebelius. Georgetown can only regret its blunder of having this former governor of Kansas and present HHS secretary within three zipcodes of its campus. - Manfred Tue, 15 May 2012 02:08:04 +0100