The many forms of fundamentalism

[Riley259]

James Carroll wrote a column in the Boston Globe yesterday attaching fundamental aspects of religion. However, he used this broad topic as a launching point to go on a rant about the Catholic church and in particular Pope Benedicts recent apostolic letter on the Eucharist. Carroll is a disgruntled ex-priest who wants the Church to accept abortion, homosexuality, and birth control and this article is his latest attempt to make a case for it under the subterfuge of an analysis of fundamentalism in general.

boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/03/19/the_many_forms_of_fundamentalism/

 

[catsrus]

The various fundamentalisms are all concerned with “fortifying borders,” and that is a purpose of today’s Vatican. The pope’s exhortation concludes by referring to the Catholic people as the “flock” entrusted to bishops. Sheep stay inside the fence. But what happens when Catholics stop thinking of themselves as sheep?

You are correct. The entire thing is an excuse to rant against Holy Mother Church. Typical. Funny how we never read these rants by ex-methodists or ex-episcopalians. Only “ex-Catholics” who are fighting against their own inability to live according to Christ’s precepts.

In the qoute from the article I cited above, he wants to make a point that we Catholics as a “flock” think and stay inside the “fence” of Vatican teachings. As if there is something wrong with that.
An easy answer to his last question is that if “Catholics stop thinking of themselves as sheep”, then they will no longer BE Catholics nor a member of the flock of Christ.

 

[Qwikness]

That article should have been called “Catholicism is a form of Fundamentalism.” Intellectual Suicide is to be a sheep by accepting the Churches teaching of the Bible. That’s what schools and teachers are! Are we committing Intellectual Suicide by being students and letting our teachers explain Math, Literature or art to us? NO. Teachers know better, and so does the Magisterium.

 

[awalt]

Many times these thoughts come to people because they think this is a Church of humans, led by humans. It is not, we do not make up the rules, we are supposed to live by them - if we want to .