tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1100008184768312241.post8107763270387419514..comments2009-12-05T13:16:21.525-05:00Comments on In Vita Fidelis: The Pope allows Anglicans back into the fold -in droves!Juanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07032636825364332341noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1100008184768312241.post-20991435136300695872009-11-09T02:04:54.184-05:002009-11-09T02:04:54.184-05:00I took umbrage once... It made me kind of dizzy......I took umbrage once... It made me kind of dizzy...Cristianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505312309904157993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1100008184768312241.post-84397444329776162522009-11-02T14:59:08.890-05:002009-11-02T14:59:08.890-05:00I take umbrage on your unprovoked attack on the Je...I take umbrage on your unprovoked attack on the Jewish people! It is unbridled aggression!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14851377262620397434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1100008184768312241.post-43311143300519946702009-10-23T13:34:20.885-04:002009-10-23T13:34:20.885-04:00Just one correction, the speech to NARAL was deliv...Just one correction, the speech to NARAL was delivered by the president of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Katherine Ragsdale, not a bishop. You can find a snippet of her speech in the Aug./Sept. edition of "First Things".Juanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032636825364332341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1100008184768312241.post-86898940434910474902009-10-22T13:38:49.660-04:002009-10-22T13:38:49.660-04:00You say, "Which direction best guarantees the...You say, "Which direction best guarantees the survival of Christianity?", but I would be cautious with your choice of words. The Church is not a growth industry or a political party. In the same way, contrary to what some people say, the Church does not have "positions" on "issues", it has teachings for our lives. We are the Church, but the Church does not "belong" to us, anymore than it "belongs" to the Pope. The Church belongs to its founder, Christ. As such, our obligation, as it is also the Pope's, is to be faithful to His teachings as understood through Scripture and tradition. This is regardless of whether it makes us popular or "guarantees" our survival. This Pope is something of a wry realist when he concedes that our's is a Church that may have to become smaller in order to remain faithful. But a minority faithful witness is not fruitless witness, like yeast in leavened bread (a metaphor he uses for today's Christian). And this witness already is showing its first fruits. Among the most dynamic and growing parts of the Church, are its more traditional orders and diocese. If fact, if the situation is one of contraction, it is in fact good compared to the more liberal churches, such as the Episcopal Church. To me, when you have such a church as the Episcopal Church, which has not only boasted a gay bishop in an openly gay relationship, but has also had bishops who have questioned the divinity of Christ, or more recently, a female bishop who, speaking before NARAL, declared abortion to be a blessing, you have a church that has definitely lost its way. There is more concern in the Episcopal Church today for political correctness than for doctrinal fidelity. <br /><br />In the end, it is traditionalists everywhere who stand to inherit the earth (by this, I do not mean any triumphalism, but rather, as in: "the meek shall inherit the earth"). It is simply a fact of life that if family is not on the top of your list of values, if you are inclined to other things, that you will likely not reproduce with the same assiduity. But this, in the end, is besides the point of our fidelity.Juanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032636825364332341noreply@blogger.com