Comments for The Church's Worst Enemies at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 04:08:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11893 Dear MAT: It was the Creator: The Holy Trinity, that founded and set in motion the Holy Catholic Church expressly to be the mediator between humans and God, not, as you seem to infer, the hand of man. So, unless you intend to blaspheme that you know better than God, our creator, what we need to be freed from sin, please kindly pack up and put away your wicked snares. It is seriously bad form to attempt to beguile the faithful. PS. All "paths" lead to Rome. - Darren O. Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:16:13 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11878 Alas, as times change so must the Church. Not in the message it teaches but its position relative to humanity. The church must not continue to try to be an intermediary between the created and the Creator. She must adapt and learn to run alongside the created as each individual follows their own inner path to the Creator. The Path is Jesus the Christ. The Path is Unconditional Love of all Creation. - MAT Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:03:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11860 Perhaps levity is the true soul of wit. In which case here's to your thumb sir! m's all around! - Layman Tom Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:05:49 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11858 @Charlie: It's an easy answer: It stands for my thumb, which must have hit the M key below the J key when I typed Fr. Schall's name into the composition are of our website. Sorry about that. I've corrected it. - Brad Miner Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:30:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11857 This isn't quite on topic, but I was wondering what does the "m" stand for in "S.J.m" at the end of Fr. Schall's name? I have seen "S.J.n," which I think means that the person is a Jesuit novice. But I have not seen "m" before. Thank you to whoever is able to answer this question! - Charlie Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:19:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11856 The "social justice" Catholics have reduced the rich teachings of the Church to some stale nostrums in favor of a welfare state. Actually, that same social teaching is ineradicable from all the other teachings of the Church, regarding sexuality and the family, authority and obedience, freedom in and for the truth, the role of the Church in the world, and so forth. If you don't understand what the Church teaches about marriage, you'll never understand what she teaches about the common good. - Tony Esolen Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:18:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11855 Yes. Those who rage against the roadmap to redemption and try to destroy it are not as dangerous as those who would alter the plan to make the way "easier". Christ warned us about the broad way to hell, the one paved with good (as defined in worldly terms) intentions. - Other Joe Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:14:39 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11849 Thank you Fr. Schall for another judicious, urbane, and penetrating analysis of our state of affairs. Most of us readers of The Catholic Thing and other publications like it cry to heaven "how long, oh Lord, how long?" I have to remind myself that Judas was at Our Lord's side for three years and that his spirit has never left the Church. I also have to remind myself about the wheat and the tares, and our Lord's patients with the tares lest good wheat be swept up too. The hardest part of the battles we face lies within us, in our own ongoing need for conversation and for cultivation of the virtues, especially fortitude, temperance, and patience. For this we can look not only to Our Lord but also to our Holy Father, who mindful and more of all the great trials facing the Church in our days nonetheless retains optimism, hope, and youthful spirit. I hope that we all join with the bishops during the Fortnight of Freedom to fast and pray not only for religious liberty but for the conversion of those who from within the Church wreak the greatest havoc and harm. - Dave Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:20:05 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/the-churchs-worst-enemies.html#comment-11847 Father Schall, Such is the bitter fruit of "social justice," the idea that man alone can solve the problems of this world by being a busy body do gooder attempting to do what we think is right for others while forgetting to seek Christ's forgiveness first. Apart from Christ, we can do nothing good. There is inequity and tragedy in the world everyday on a par that none of us can imagine but what we all know of it makes us sick and our heart goes out to those suffering the brunt of the misery. All of us want to help someway and I've resigned myself to the inescapable fact that I can help a little part of the world at a time but not the whole. None of us can save the world, it's already been done, would be a duplication of effort and besides, to do so would be to suffer as Christ suffered, a torture and death beyond magnitude of thought and description. The enemies of the church are the narcissists walking point for social justice. They are unfortunately everywhere outside and inside the Chruch. - Frank Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:36:04 +0100