Cardinal George: Would Jesus Be Welcome in Chicago?

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Dale_M said:
This isn’t the same event, but how about the 28th International Eucharistic Congress held at Soldier Field in 1926?

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Dale: “Dude. You TOTALLY Rule!” :clapping:

I’m going to show that picture to my Dad later today! He was BORN in 1924 in Chicago. He’ll love it. He’d have been 2 years old, but I bet his folks (especially my Grandmother) was there.

Out here in Orange County we do have Eucharistic Congresses at the Anaheim Convention Center. They are 3 days long and have about 20,000 coming and going, but the masses have maybe 5,000 or so.

I actually think an outdoor mass at Angel Stadium once per year would be great and would bring thousands, especially if the local parishes cancelled their late masses for that day and it was held at night.

Do they still do something like that in Chicago? On a smaller scale?

PS: Nice prayer for Syria too Dale. And AMEN.
 
_Abyssinia said:
Chicago Values, Revisited: it’s not about chicken! Cardinal francis george

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This is certainly worth a read. I especially appreciated this observation from Cardinal George:

“What is singularly peculiar about the “gay marriage” argument is the way its proponents dismiss the field of nature itself as in any way normative for human actions. We would think it odd if the government, in order to please those who desire to fly without an airplane, were to repeal the law of gravity. If nature gets in the way of a new civil right to “gay marriage,” however, that’s too bad for nature. This strikes me as bizarre.”
 
The little town of Wickliffe, Ohio (population 13,000) sponsors an annual Catholic festival that drew 35,000 people this year. Check it out: thefest.us/
 
JimG said:
This is certainly worth a read. I especially appreciated this observation from Cardinal George:

“What is singularly peculiar about the “gay marriage” argument is the way its proponents dismiss the field of nature itself as in any way normative for human actions. We would think it odd if the government, in order to please those who desire to fly without an airplane, were to repeal the law of gravity. If nature gets in the way of a new civil right to “gay marriage,” however, that’s too bad for nature. This strikes me as bizarre.”
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I particularly enjoyed this passage:

What is puzzling is the case of those who, while claiming to be believers, ignore the history of salvation and reduce God to a cosmic wimp who smiles and blesses whatever comes down the track, as if God were without intelligence or the ability to discern right from wrong. Jesus is certainly “inclusive” as the savior of the whole world who invites all to follow him. But Jesus calls us to convert to his ways, which are not ours. Among the sayings of Jesus, there are about as many that start “Woe to you…” as there are those that begin “Blessed are they…” A Jesus reduced to our wishful thinking is useless.

I think he is sadly accurate in his image that many reduce God to a “cosmic wimp” whose primary function is just to say “meh, whatever” to whatever we throw at him.
 
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