I haven’t seen any posts on here for 19 hours now. Has the posting function been blocked?
I know some people did not like CAF, and all I can say is, if you don’t like the CAF idea and concept, then just don’t participate. That’s simple. However, some of us enjoy this kind of thing, and, more importantly, take satisfaction and peace in knowing that there are some venues, where intelligent, charitable discourse can take place even on controversial matters, and to be able to say the things that, for whatever reason, nobody else is saying.
We might do well to recall, if one is old enough to, what it was like back in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, when the Fatima adherent or one who accepted Humanae vitae (just to use two examples) was the “weird one”, possibly the only one in your parish (or at least the only one who would admit it, yes, it was that bad). Waiting for that monthly magazine or writing “letters to the editor” or “letters to the bishop” was a pretty wretched existence. We’d better “make hay while the sun shines” and say everything that’s on our minds — all it would take, would be a few well-placed EMP blasts, or worldwide Internet censorship, and the easy communication we have now, would be gone perhaps forever. The more we can get ideas out there while we can, the better it will be for the faithful and for those seeking. You can never know enough about our holy Catholic Faith.
None of us are anybody — I know I certainly am not — but Our Lord gave us intelligence, writing skills, and the desire to share our faith for a reason, and St Paul urges us always “to be ready for a reason for the hope that is in you”.
