Comments for Lessons from Central Europe at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 05:36:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/lessons-from-central-europe.html#comment-13407 It will be heroes such as Archbishop Marcel Lefevbre who we will honor in coming decades and centuries. - Dan Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:49:16 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/lessons-from-central-europe.html#comment-13398 Once again I find myself disagreeing with Prof. Wood. Things continue to deteriorate in this country for Catholics, for those with "unacceptable" civic values, for those of us who believe in the right to be born and that marriage is a sacrament. Once this was only a problem in the classroom, now it obtains in the workplace as well. I have encountered it in several large, well-known corporations. Those in positions of responsibility can behave without the restraints of decency and civility. Now it may well be worse in San Francisco or New York (where I lived and worked for years) or here in South East Michigan, but to say that it isn't serious is troubling. But the American Church herself remains in a weird denial. After years in publishing and law school, nothing this administration has said or done has surprised me in the least. Easily foreseeable even in the legal sense of that term. Europe has to take care of Europe. I'm worried about this country where I was born, where I live, and where my ancestors lived, worked, fought, and died since colonials times. I am so weary of this trivializaton of a true and thorough transformation that has taken place in institutional, cultural, academic, and corporate America. It's real Prof Wood, real and brutal and indecent and unconstitutional and immoral. - Graham Combs Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:57:34 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/lessons-from-central-europe.html#comment-13397 When the time comes to honor the heroes and celebrate milestones it will be wrenching for the Church in this country. They missed the saintly men and women of our local parishes, many of whom have passed on. For 40+ years they prayed and gave witness and rescued the unborn, unknown to their pastors. If they were noticed at all it was to be called out for being "judgemental" and lectured about the seamless garment. For many years the March for Life went ignored by many diocese in this country, except for an embarassing attempt to change it to a warmer time of the calendar. Our Church is going to need to be educated about the history of what Cardinal Dolan now calls the premier civil rights issue of our times and those who brought the cause forward. The Church missed so much. It is a little disturbing (though only a little)that the Church is finally stirring now when the government is directly attacking it and not when it could have moved more energetically for others. - John Hinshaw Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:46:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/lessons-from-central-europe.html#comment-13396 What the communist regimes could not achieve in Central and Eastern Europe - namely, the destruction of Christianity - the influx of Western culture is doing now with terrifying ease. Even Poland (where I was born and raised) has a major political party that supports abortion, homosexuality and the rest of this hellish litany of "individual rights". Totalitarianism is far less effective than hedonistic materialism. - Hieronymus Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:04:49 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/lessons-from-central-europe.html#comment-13394 That's what's so ironic. There was a philosophy teacher who literally converted me to Catholicism without seeming ever to have tried. But she turned out to be a leftist Catholic and she refused to ever talk to me again simply for asking her how she could vote for Barack Obama after all the stuff about how beliefs really do matter. Leftist Catholics are responsible for this and so are the conservatives who won't throw them out or at least keep them from destroying the church in America further. (As long as our first priority is fitting in among the secularists and not Christ we're going to continue to have big problems.) - Jacob R Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:00:19 +0100