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Inspired by the new Mormon thread, here’s a related question that has been bugging me recently.
At a non-religiously-affiliated school-wide luncheon meeting at our Catholic campus, a Mormon led the group in the mealtime blessing. An officer of the sponsoring group, a Mormon, had invited another Mormon friend to ask God for the blessing on the food. Both the officer and his friend are very nice, highly-capable people.
In the first place, the fact that we have a student organization officer who is a Mormon rather scandalizes me (I voted against him out of principle last year). Secondly, that a Mormon would ask for the blessing scandalizes me too. Still, he is praying as a representative of the school so there may be grounds for it to be strictly legitimate, as to some extent he has represented himself as a Catholic. On the other hand, when he prays to God out loud, are we all praying to the same God?! The words of his prayer were fully orthodox, albeit ‘Protestant’-sounding in their rambling nature. No sign of the cross before or after, of course.
The school probably didn’t know he was going to do this. Even if it did, it may not have cared - tough to say.
Question:
At a non-religiously-affiliated school-wide luncheon meeting at our Catholic campus, a Mormon led the group in the mealtime blessing. An officer of the sponsoring group, a Mormon, had invited another Mormon friend to ask God for the blessing on the food. Both the officer and his friend are very nice, highly-capable people.
In the first place, the fact that we have a student organization officer who is a Mormon rather scandalizes me (I voted against him out of principle last year). Secondly, that a Mormon would ask for the blessing scandalizes me too. Still, he is praying as a representative of the school so there may be grounds for it to be strictly legitimate, as to some extent he has represented himself as a Catholic. On the other hand, when he prays to God out loud, are we all praying to the same God?! The words of his prayer were fully orthodox, albeit ‘Protestant’-sounding in their rambling nature. No sign of the cross before or after, of course.
The school probably didn’t know he was going to do this. Even if it did, it may not have cared - tough to say.
Question:
- Was this scenario unacceptable and at some level sinful?
- Was this scenario unacceptable but merely inappropriate?
- Was this scenario acceptable but not ideal?
- Do you have some other nuanced position?