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SOME NEWS AND SOME COMMENTS
ON THE NEWS
STUDY SAYS EDUCATION LIBERALIZES RELIGIOUS
VIEWS
The old wisdom was the more educated you are, the less likely
you will be religious. But a new study says while education doesn’t
drive people away from God, it does give them a more liberal
attitude about who’s going to heaven. A sociology professor
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says each year of education
ups the odds by 15% that people will say there’s “truth
in more than one religion.” (USA Today)
Comment:
Is it true that there is “truth in more than one religion”?
Of course, it’s true! I have known that since I was knee-high
to a grasshopper! But are all religions equally true? Of course
not! Elementary logic will tell you that! All the truths that
I find in other religions I find in the Catholic religion but
in no other religion except the Catholic religion do I find the
fullness of truth. As far as “who’s going to heaven
and who’s not going to heaven” is concerned, all I
know is this: The Catholic religion gives a person the best opportunity
for going to heaven and no one who knowingly and culpably rejects
the Catholic religion can possibly go to heaven. But, of course,
I know that there are some Catholics who will wind up in hell
and some non-Catholics who will wind up in heaven. But please
don’t jump to unwarranted conclusions on what I have just
written here. Please read it carefully.
NY ARCHDIOCESE CRITICIZES CITY’S
SEX ED MANDATE
The Archdiocese of New York called a new city requirement that
sex education be taught at all public middle and high schools
“troubling,” and some Catholic officials said they
would advise Catholic parents not to let their children participate.
In the first serious challenge to the mandate, a spokesman for
the archdiocese said the church’s position was that parents,
not the schools, should educate children about sex. (New York
Times)
Comment:
I wonder how many parents who send their children to public school
have a clue about what their children are taught in the area
of sex (and all that that implies!) And remember that “teaching”
includes not only what is explicitly taught but also what is
implicitly omitted. For example, no public school teacher is
allowed to tell the children that it is a sin to have intercourse
if you’re not married or that it is a sin to have homosexual
relations or that it is a sin to commit adultery or that God
wants husbands and wives to stay together. In public school,
sex is primarily plumbing and hygiene.
ORDER DISMISSES PRIEST OVER WOMEN’S
ORDINATION
Father Roy Bourgeois, who refused to renounce his increasingly
public campaign to see women ordained as priests, has been notified
of his dismissal by his religious order. A letter to Bourgeois,
signed by the superior general and general secretary of the Maryknoll
order in the U.S., said the dismissal was necessary because of
his “defiant stance” in opposition to church teaching.
(New York Times)
Comment:
Dear Father Bourgeois, I hate to see you go. God knows we need
priests. My suggestion to you is that you make a long retreat,
during which you will have leisure to decide whether or not you
want to be a Catholic. I hope you’ll decide in favor of
being a Catholic. If you do, then please come back and re-apply
for a renewal of your faculties as a priest. What part of “women
cannot be ordained to the priesthood” do you not understand?
I have to think that you never realized what it means “to
be a priest”. It means to be the living, walking, breathing
incarnation of Jesus Christ the Bridegroom of the Church. Only
a male can be a bridegroom! |
Saturday,
29 October
