Comments for The Book of Life at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 02:56:52 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/the-book-of-life.html#comment-340 just an unimportant word comment -- I like the older translation from the Imitation of Christ better: "I would rather feel compunction than know how to define it." I think the point is better made with a less common word!!! - mary Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:34:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/the-book-of-life.html#comment-102 The old Catholic wisdom was suffocated by TV 50 yrs ago. If we could pry it out of the Catholic home, many wonderful things would happen. The Holy Spirit could get a word in edgewise and holy lives and vocations would flourish. The cynic would say it cannot be done, but leadership consists precisely in getting people to do what they otherwise would not. Catholics are ready for calls to heroic self-sacrifice, esp along these lines, and would probably even ask, "What took you so long" - Lee Gilbert Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:41:48 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/the-book-of-life.html#comment-101 We are in a battle for supremacy with modern science, which places itself higher in the realm of certainty than the testimony of God Himself. The Church abets this nonsense when Her clergy acts as if Scripture must be conformed to the demands of science rather than vice versa. THIS is what is keeping people away: our lack of confidence in the testimony of God. Where are the souls with the courage to stand up and call a spade a spade? Science is not the infallible oracle people think it is. - James the Least Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:18:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/the-book-of-life.html#comment-100 If there in no mortal sin and no Hell, who would be bothered? It would be someone given to ascetic practices. The Church decided at VC II that there would be no lines in the sand. We are all in this together, each to follow his own conscience. 50 million abortions?, sodomite marriage?, embryonic stem cell research? What could be left, beastiality? Without "Fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom", it is over! - William H. Phelan Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:31:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/the-book-of-life.html#comment-99 We have lost a sense of first things. Facts have been generally replaced with narrative and the narrative is generally secular. Technology has provided a seeming alternative to the concept of a higher power. Technology seems to offer the promise of a super-self. Technology has much in common with the tree of knowledge in the center of paradise. I fear it will have the same influence on our lives. Original sin seems to be expressed anew in every age. It would be helpful to know the past. - Joe Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:21:11 +0100