Comments for Quinquagesimo Anno at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Fri, 24 May 2013 21:16:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/quinquagesimo-anno.html#comment-12592 Mr Esolen, More than that, it is the rejection of the valid claims of society on part of the Right and its hyper-individualism, reinforced with the mythology of the Frontier. The Right mostly rejects Solidarity, something it needs to be tasked with, when they trumpet the virtues of Solidarity. For instance, the Church teaches that the poor have just claim on our superfluity. And the State exists to pursue Justice, so poor relief is a valid function of State, yet too many on the right reject this argument and ask the poor to be relieved by Charity alone. - Gian Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:48:15 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/quinquagesimo-anno.html#comment-12586 The opinion about the acceptability of public viewing of pornography proves, in case we needed any further proof, the complete anti-social nature of the sexual revolution: steeped in selfishness. - Tony Esolen Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:17:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/quinquagesimo-anno.html#comment-12585 Dear Grump, I'm just 63, but I have vivd memories of how shaken we all were on that horrilbe day in November 1962. But with all due respect, I do think it is possible to exaggerate the effects of that event on our natinal pyshce. Two years later, LBJ was elected in his own right by a landslide and many were filled with optimism over apparent progress in civil rights and the War on Poverty. But soon revolutionary forces that had been hibernating for decades set fire to the cities becuase progress was not on their agenda. More fires were set when LBJ decided that he did not want to be the first US President to lose a war to Communists, and the one-time darling of Liberlas was denounced as a new Hitler and even accused of being behind the Kennedy assassiantion (Remember McBird?). It was not really out of no place that America became awash in drugs and promiscuity became the norm. People we're not getting stoned and fornicating to help themselves cope with JFK's death. WE have neer been the same again. It is significant both that last version of what we supposed to call the Extraorindary Rite was published in 1926, during Papa Ronali's papcy, and that he continued the practice ex-communicating Communists. I point this out because some would have us believe that ever since Pope John the Church has been just fine is Marxism and Freemasonry. Keep tellint the truth, Dr. Royal. And thank you, Sue, for your input. To add to what you wrote about the Catholic sixties, just as Catholic historian Paul Johnson notes that sometimes decades don't start on time, sometimes they start ealeir than we think they do. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:58:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/quinquagesimo-anno.html#comment-12584 Read "How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma" by Anne Hendershott in the Wall Street Journal. But there's even more ...that was the decade that Father Hesburgh set things the Church up to crumble on contraception (read at EWTN.com "HEART ATTACK: CATHOLIC ACADEME MEETS "EX CORDE ECCLESIAE"") and wound up becoming chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation. There's quite a bit more to the Catholic sixties than meets the eye. - Sue Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:55:20 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/quinquagesimo-anno.html#comment-12582 I have understood for many years now that 1962 was a pivotal year in our country and the world. I believe the same as you in this article. I also wondered for many years how NAZI Germany became so complete in German society. There is always that question: How did it happen in Germany? But now I think we are living in 2012 (1933). I believe the United States is following the same history as Germany of the 1930's. We don't have concentration camps but our thinking is being changed in ways that are perverse and just wrong. The 2010's are our 1930's similar to Germany. One party -Democrates- are doing and getting everything they want. Who in 1962 would have ever thought it possible? Our Lady of Fatima pray for us! - Hoss G Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:33:20 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/quinquagesimo-anno.html#comment-12581 The only problems the US Church had 50 years ago were the dalliances of the Kennedy brothers? Really? - Walter Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:21:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/quinquagesimo-anno.html#comment-12579 Thank you for an excellent article, Dr. Royal. The good news is we still have the Boy Scouts, the prosecutors in Philadelphia and now the NCAA. Hopefully, some of the leaders in the secular world and the Catholic laity and some excellent bishops and priests will be able to alleviate some of the insanity in today's world. - Manfred Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:30:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/quinquagesimo-anno.html#comment-12578 Back in '63 I was just out of the Navy and catching up after 3 years mostly at sea or serving abroad. That was the year after the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory prayer in public schools is unconstitutional. For many of us who grew in the '50s, there was still optimism in the air but that largely vanished the following year when JFK was assassinated and the nation lost whatever innocence it might have had. The national psyche was badly wounded after that horrible event and never recovered. Now a doddering 70, I look back and see a better country and a better people from the days of my youth. The "broad consensus" you refer to does not surprise me any more than the public opinion polls that show a sizable number of people, perhaps a majority, favor same-sex "marriage" -- an idea that would have be unthinkable in 1962. So much for the advance of civilization. - Grump Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:07:11 +0100