Adapt to what?
These viewpoints cannot be held by Catholics.
That is not my opinion but the teaching of the Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Adapt to the extremely rapid changes in th world.
That wasn’t a holier than thou comment.
Thank God!!
That is the prayer I pray the most.
And if it ever does adapt to be modern and accept all immorality as normal and accptable, then it will become irrelevant like the protestant churches that have done the same. Sounds like a great idea.
Completely wrong. Very much depends on which State it is.
Wow. So would your position be that there has been no social change or progress in the areas of, democracy, children’s rights, women’s rights, gay rights, racial equality, worker’s rights, elimination of poverty, franchise rights, animal rights… on and on…? these are all progressive or “liberal” ideas in their time.
I find it amusing when progressives refer to their ways as “modern” and “progress”, which are misleading just like their name.
Nothing that liberalism claims to have found or discovered is nothing new or original. It is the same recycled garbage that history has rejected over and over because it doesn’t work.
You’d have to pick and choose what parts of things considered “liberal”. Laissez-faire economics, Communism, and the like haven’t been on the right side of history.
Or country for that matter as the bishop, who is not an American bishop, is likely not speaking from the perspective of the American concept of civil union.
Excellent point.
Just saw this link. I posted soemthing about this in a different thread.
I always find these kinds of comments interesting, and yes, the world is becoming increasingly secular of course, because it is losing its very foothold, the faith, although those most affected by it seem none the wiser. The Church gives to humanity the most pondered answer ever sought regarding the reason for man’s existence – not only the answer, but the very means of attaining it. How very incongruous and perverse of man, therefore, to want to change both the means and the answer. The Church desires to give to mankind it’s most profound and exigent need – that of achieving salvation. In our enormous pride and confidence in our own resources and understanding, we dare to combat the ultimate Source as we side with that which is His enemy.
True, but can you name any progress in social justice gained from conservativism? Indeed, the founding of the US was quite radical. By definition, conservatism is the lack of change - keeping what has been in the past. It abhors social justice, if achieving it involves change. Dictatorship and totalitarianism are conservative ideas, much older than the radical notion of democracy. So, while Communism and Socialism work very well on a certain scale, say in a monastery, a convent, or a small village, when one introduces totalitarian government (which is contrary to the principles of these philosophies), you end up with something opposed to social justice. But this failure is not inherent to Communism, etc…You’d have to pick and choose what parts of things considered “liberal”. Laissez-faire economics, Communism, and the like haven’t been on the right side of history.
