Best wishes for your blog.
It is very important to keep up the pressure on both Catholic politicians and the GOP in order to advance the social teaching of the Catholic Church.
I will keep your work in my prayers.
God Bless
A wonderful follow-on to CatholicKerryWatch! My own interest is in religion in the public square generally, and differentiating how the American Revolution saw same against how others (for example, the French & Mexican Revolutions) saw same.
I followed a link from Mark Shea's blog, Catholic & Enjoying It!, and I've added your new blog to my own blog rool.
Onward & upward. Let's hold their feet to the fire.
cehwiedel
I found you through Domenico Bettinelli. My congratulations on your work, and I hope to learn much from you about carrying the fight to my part of the world.
I am excited to be able to be in a discussion group where all of us can discuss our Catholic Faith and what we can do to stand by it in the future. God Bless you all!! I know we won't always agree, but what a wonderful way to open the dialogue for the future of our church..
Don't worry. Four years from now you will be getting complaints about how you keep picking on Giuliani while giving Andrew Cuomo a free pass just because he isn't running.
Excellent idea for a blog. I'll be reading. Thanks.
Good for you! Wish I were as articulate in airing my views, which agree with yours. It'll be especially interesting to see what the bishops do about active prochoice Catholic lawmakers--in both parties. I hope they don't just drop the subject because it's not an election year any more.
We especially have to keep tabs on the catholic pro-lifers as they go on all the talking head shows to show off their new ol time religion...
Well?
Get on with it! Where are the posts? Lots going on you know. Time to be a'doing!
Best of wishes on your adventure!
I have a question to all of you here, is abortion to save the life of the mother allowed, ever? I have read that one can. To be honest, I don't need it to be that way. I would never have an abortion no matter what, but I am curious of how you understand dogma. I have been on another board for a short time and just left it because they called me a "modernist". I wasn't quite sure what that meant, but now I realize that what it means is that I believe in Vatican II, and they don't. Secondly, I was under the impression that the church no longer needs us to try and convert the Jewish people, but their response to me was actually quite strong. They quoted something from dogma from the 7th century. They made the claim that the Jews betrayed Christ. How can one be following God's plan and betray Christ at the same time? The final question, and a good question, is this. .if in fact the church has changed it's mind in these matters, what does that say about the infallability of the Pope, this was also questioned. I left that group because I have no desire to be part of a Levebre type group. They are no different than Kerry Catholics to me, and wish to cause ooodles of dissention in the church. Help me out if anyone can with these answers, and thank you in advance. I don't know old church doctrine, and so I was really lost here.
Sandy,
Welcome to our blog, and thanks for your comments. In answer to your inquiries:
1) American Life League: "Is abortion ever medically necessary?", and an article on this question from Touchstone -- both of which would articulate a Catholic understanding, and quite distinct from the "health of the mother" as referenced in legislation and the Supreme Court cases, where the term "health" is so ambiguous it can be stretched to encompass just about anything and is thus rendered meaningless (see this discussion of the issue by Priests For Life.
As to the question of whether contemporary Catholics should evangelize the Jews, it is a complex issue, and this blog (and comments box) may not be the appropriate vehicle for such a discussion -- but I've written extensively on this issue here. (My short answer is that Jews are not exempt from the Church's calling to evangelize, but in light of past history the Church has taken a more cautionary approach and with greater respect for religious freedom than it has done in the past).
Regarding Vatican II, I have encountered several ways to approach it: the 'traditionalists' who criticize it to the point of denying the authority of the post-Vatican II church and papacy and the "progressives" who use it as an excuse to justify radical changes in liturgy (and morality) contrary to the teachings of the Church. My own advice is to avoid both extremes and stick with the Holy Father and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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