Friday, April 29, 2005

From The Eternal Battle of The Church Militant Department:

(Ok, technically speaking, it's not eternal. The day of ultimate victory will come. In His time.)

Today's target of opportunity is the CINO colleges. In an article entitled CINO No More?, Malcolm A. Kline of campusreportonline.net gives me hope for the future of Catholic higher education.

The elevation of Pope Benedict XVI to the Papal Suite at the Vatican might give some of America’s Catholic colleges and universities the chance to be more than Catholic in Name Only (CINO).
“Catholic theology is not individual reflection but thinking with the faith of the Church,” then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in a 1999 U. S. visit. “If you will do other things and have other ideas of what God could be or could not be, there is the freedom of the person to do it, clearly.”
“But one should not say this is Catholic theology.”


Who's afraid of a third world papabile?


When Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze thought out loud with the faith of the Church in a 2003 commencement address at Georgetown University, 70 professors at the Catholic school sent the dean a letter of protest. One theology professor actually walked off the stage.
“In many parts of the world, the family is under siege,” Cardinal Arinze had said. “It is opposed by an anti-life mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia.”
“It is scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions and cut in two by divorce.”


Now an example of the thinking of the enemy we face.


Many Catholic professors viewed this as cognitive dissonance. Many other Catholics saw in it the old-time religion, mainly those of the denomination who still attend Mass.
Contrast the Cardinal’s clarion call with a letter sent by a Gonzaga University Professor of Religious Studies to his colleagues in the faculty at that Jesuit College. Professor Robert J. Eagen sought to clarify the Church’s position on homosexuality.
“It is true that the current official Vatican teaching forbids any genital expression of these feelings on moral grounds,” (emphasis mine) Professor Eagen wrote, “but this is disputed by many distinguished Catholic theologians and other intellectuals and scholars.”


"Genital expression" sounds so much more pleasant than sodomy, buggery, or violation of the Natural Law. Then Eagen steps in it.


“I myself believe it is the result of continuing to make judgments based on an obsolete paradigm.”


If you believe The Church bequeathed to us by The Word Incarnate Himself is nothing but an "obsolete paradigm" you have two choices. The smart choice is to repent and confess your sins to God through the Sacrament of Penance and then avoid this sin in the future. The other choice is just foolishness.





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