Archbishop Chaput’s Hope-Filled Advice for Catholics in Secular America

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“With Obergefell, marriage and family no longer precede and limit the state as humanity’s basic social units grounded in nature. Instead, they now mean what the state says they mean. And that suggests deeper problems, because in redefining marriage and the family, the state implicitly claims the authority to define what is and isn’t properly human.”
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This new landscape, so hostile not only to objective morality but also to objective reality, leaves the believer with the challenge of “how to be healthy cells in society. We need to work as long as we can, in whatever way we can, to nourish the good in our country and to encourage the seeds of a renewal that can enliven our young people.”
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This looks like a very good book, and of recurs extremely relevant for today’s struggles in the United States! I’d like to read it when I have some free time!

May God bless you all! 🙂
 
…we live in a society in moral free fall, facing critical challenges to right living and the pursuit of justice in such areas as economics, education, the handing on of the faith, marriage, sexual behavior and “gender identity,” the decline of family and community, and, of course, glaring human life issues like abortion and euthanasia.
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These ^ are complex ideas to articulate an understanding of when we live in a society that is set up to erase the importance of them. It would require a long attention span of someone in order to bring them around to understand why marriage is important in a society that is designed to make life easy for those with children but without a marriage. Those kinds of attention spans and abilities to reason are harder to come by since the advent of social media.

Jabs, gotchas, attacking of straw men, and virtue signaling have replaced reasoning and reality. In the last 3-4 years this sort of ignorant virtue signaling has taken off like a rocket leaving reality and reason behind. This is all thanks to social media, where few have the attention span to devote more than 5 seconds of thought to any given topic before they signal to the world how tolerant they are of everyone.

I wonder if Archbishop Chaput’s book covers the chasm that divides information from wisdom. I see that as a major challenge with youth going forward. Information is readily available, but wisdom is almost nonexistent. I can imagine us having been given social media as a crown of thorns in appreciation of our “enlightenment”.
 
I am thankful that God has blessed my archdiocese (Philadelphia) with Archbishop Chaput.
 
Thank God for the archbishop.

We are going to have to rebuild the culture, especially education. Perhaps 3 generations have now been raised with the concept that there are no absolutes, everything is relative. But the situation is much more difficult now. In 1960 some people might disagree with your religious conclusions, but they could follow the argument, they accepted “reason” and logic.

My professors in the 1960 were often liberal and secular, but they insisted on giving attention to diverse viewpoints, required that students read “traditional” sources and agree or disagree with arguments based on evidence and reason. Today it is a different world. The “establishment” not only disagrees with where you argument leads you, for instance, to Christianity or traditional morality, they don’t accept or even know the whole basis of argument or reason, at all.

In my area the Catholic schools mostly adopted the Common Core which was pushed by Obama and Gates - big government and big business. We started our own high school emphasizing the classical curriculum, not endorsed by the diocese but the bishop gives his personal blessing.
 
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Thank God for the archbishop.

We are going to have to rebuild the culture, especially education. Perhaps 3 generations have now been raised with the concept that there are no absolutes, everything is relative. But the situation is much more difficult now. In 1960 some people might disagree with your religious conclusions, but they could follow the argument, they accepted “reason” and logic.

My professors in the 1960 were often liberal and secular, but they insisted on giving attention to diverse viewpoints, required that students read “traditional” sources and agree or disagree with arguments based on evidence and reason. Today it is a different world. The “establishment” not only disagrees with where you argument leads you, for instance, to Christianity or traditional morality, they don’t accept or even know the whole basis of argument or reason, at all.

In my area the Catholic schools mostly adopted the Common Core which was pushed by Obama and Gates - big government and big business. We started our own high school emphasizing the classical curriculum, not endorsed by the diocese but the bishop gives his personal blessing.
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Not only do they not accept the basis of reason or natural law, but if you disagree with them you are shunned,ridiculed, or attacked.
 
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