Canadian Catholic Newspaper Mentions Truth, Cites Brokeback Mountain

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I don’t know about anyone else, but this kind of writing about truth and referring to Brokeback Mountain as truth is disturbing. I would expect this kind of article to appear in secular newspapers, but this one is in a Catholic newspaper. Canada’s largest Catholic newspaper to boot.

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For an article that uses the word truth so often, why wasn’t He Who is Truth mentioned once?
 
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Aureole:
I don’t know about anyone else, but this kind of writing about truth and referring to Brokeback Mountain as truth is disturbing. I would expect this kind of article to appear in secular newspapers, but this one is in a Catholic newspaper. Canada’s largest Catholic newspaper to boot.

Academy Awards - The Truth Will Set Moviegoers Free

For an article that uses the word truth so often, why wasn’t He Who is Truth mentioned once?
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You mean other than the fact that cowboys herd cattle, not sheep?
 
And what is your truth on the subject? Please back up your claims with first-hand experience.
 
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Aureole:
I would expect this kind of article to appear in secular newspapers, but this one is in a Catholic newspaper. Canada’s largest Catholic newspaper to boot.
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Doesn’t sound very Catholic to me. Sounds more like left-wing agenda wrapped in the “skin of religion” to try and legitimize ‘his’ opinions. And people wonder why Protestants think Catholics aren’t Christians…this is just more fuel on the fire.

Lisa
 
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Academy Awards - The truth will set moviegoers free
BY MICHAEL SWAN
The Catholic Register
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Good Night and Good Luck, Capote, Munich, Brokeback Mountain and Crash are all tales of the sacrifices people make to tell the truth and the tragedies they suffer when they evade the truth. Taken together, they ask the question: Are we capable of sacrifice or doomed to tragedy?
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I am left wondering what type of “truth” (“my truth” vesus “the Truth”) that this writer is referring to? Also what redemptive “sacrifice” and suffering and *self-defeating * choices that leave one “doomed to tragedy” that this Catholic writer is referring to in a Catholic publication?

I am reminded of Pilate’s question to the Truth standing before him:

“Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.” Pilate said to him, "What is truth?’” John 18:37-18
 
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gilliam:
You mean other than the fact that cowboys herd cattle, not sheep?
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Herding cattle and not sheep? Maybe I missed something but I don’t get it…
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Liberalsaved:
And what is your truth on the subject? Please back up your claims with first-hand experience.
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2357 of the Catechism explains what a Catholic paper should or should not be writing is truth in this instance.
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It should be shocking, but it seems too common these days.

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That’s actually where I found out about the article. I do read the Catholic Register on occassion, thus far I haven’t seen much in it that’s so blatantly opposed to Catholic doctrine though.
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Lischou:
Doesn’t sound very Catholic to me. Sounds more like left-wing agenda wrapped in the “skin of religion” to try and legitimize ‘his’ opinions. And people wonder why Protestants think Catholics aren’t Christians…this is just more fuel on the fire.

Lisa
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That’s what I was thinking as well. If the writer really wants to write in this fashion, why would he be working for a Catholic newspaper? A better question would be why the Catholic newspaper published it in the first place?
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Article excerpt:
I am left wondering what type of “truth” (“my truth” vesus “the Truth”) that this writer is referring to? Also what redemptive “sacrifice” and suffering and *self-defeating * choices that leave one “doomed to tragedy” that this Catholic writer is referring to in a Catholic publication?

I am reminded of Pilate’s question to the Truth standing before him:

“Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.” Pilate said to him, "What is truth?’” John 18:37-18
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Thank you, and yes this does seem much like Pilate. Unfortunately it seems that many, including those who are within the Church, seem to want to be more like Pilate and less like Christ.
 
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Aureole:
Herding cattle and not sheep? Maybe I missed something but I don’t get it…

2357 of the Catechism explains what a Catholic paper should or should not be writing is truth in this instance.

That’s actually where I found out about the article. I do read the Catholic Register on occassion, thus far I haven’t seen much in it that’s so blatantly opposed to Catholic doctrine though.

That’s what I was thinking as well. If the writer really wants to write in this fashion, why would he be working for a Catholic newspaper? A better question would be why the Catholic newspaper published it in the first place?

Thank you, and yes this does seem much like Pilate. Unfortunately it seems that many, including those who are within the Church, seem to want to be more like Pilate and less like Christ.
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Having a Catholic student so astute in defense of the faith gives me reason for hope in our neighbors north of the border. 👍
 
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Aureole:
Herding cattle and not sheep? Maybe I missed something but I don’t get it…
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Cowboys, by definition, herd and tend cattle.

Since the movie characters in question herd and tend sheep, they are strictly speaking not cowboys. However, “sheepboys” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it 🙂
 
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setter:
Having a Catholic student so astute in defense of the faith gives me reason for hope in our neighbors north of the border. 👍
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Thank you, but I’m really not doing anything particularly special. There are many Catholic Canadians far more astute and actively defending the faith than I.
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Erich:
Cowboys, by definition, herd and tend cattle.

Since the movie characters in question herd and tend sheep, they are strictly speaking not cowboys. However, “sheepboys” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it 🙂
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Oh, wow… I get to feel silly for missing that one. :o
 
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