A Book I Recommend

[tinytherese]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='27 October 2009 - 11:37 PM' timestamp='1256704677' post='1992571']
I recommend Victor Hugo's works (for their literary value, not for their orthodoxy, which is more than highly suspect since many of them were on the [i]Index[/i]).
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I believe this merits a

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Servant of Divine' date='28 October 2009 - 01:37 AM' timestamp='1256704625' post='1992570']
The "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy Signs" are and were tacky, distasteful, Unchristian and ignorant- especially coming from what I thought was a main stream group like the American Life League.
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Yes they are. On the other hand, catholics who admire the likes of Senator Kennedy, the abortionists best friend, are not authors that I would care to read.

[Guest Servant of Divine]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='28 October 2009 - 10:02 AM' timestamp='1256738539' post='1992703']
Yes they are. On the other hand, catholics who admire the likes of Senator Kennedy, the abortionists best friend, are not authors that I would care to read.
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If you have a sound faith- as you claim you do- than reading a book would not have any negative effect on you...

[Vincent Vega]

Would it have a positive effect, though?

[zunshynn]

[quote name='Servant of Divine' date='28 October 2009 - 06:42 PM' timestamp='1256776955' post='1992987']
If you have a sound faith- as you claim you do- than reading a book would not have any negative effect on you...
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Life is short. Why waste it on a book by "Catholics" causing strife in the Church when one could spend a lifetime reading the writings of the saints, and other good things to deepen one's faith and love of God, and never exhaust what we have available to us?

[StColette]

[quote name='Servant of Divine' date='28 October 2009 - 08:42 PM' timestamp='1256776955' post='1992987']
If you have a sound faith- as you claim you do- than reading a book would not have any negative effect on you...
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I don't see where Cmom said it would have any effect on her whatsoever. She said she would not like reading such a book, not that it would have an effect on her. Cmom, like many other parents and well phatmassers in general, only have so much time to devote to reading, so why would she read something by an author she would have no interest in because of their views?

[Winchester]

Why identify oneself as Catholic only to reject Catholic morality?

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Servant of Divine' date='28 October 2009 - 09:42 PM' timestamp='1256776955' post='1992987']
If you have a sound faith- as you claim you do- than reading a book would not have any negative effect on you...
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Why would I read anything written by pretend catholics, the real faithful ones are far more interesting.


Currently reading [i]Saints Behaving Badly[/i]

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='Winchester' date='28 October 2009 - 10:46 PM' timestamp='1256784412' post='1993081']
Why identify oneself as Catholic only to reject Catholic morality?
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Lots of reasons.
For instance, one might want to become a senator, president, ambassador to the Vatican, etc. This is much easier if one is Catholic (well, "Catholic", anyway. Forreal Catholics get branded bigots,hate mongers, and rights-strippers).

Edited October 29, 2009 by USAirwaysIHS

[Guest Servant of Divine]

[quote name='Winchester' date='28 October 2009 - 10:46 PM' timestamp='1256784412' post='1993081']
Why identify oneself as Catholic only to reject Catholic morality?
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Mr. Krozen and Ms. Kelley aren't rejecting Catholic morality. Actually they are embracing and educating on the whole of the Catholic Social Teaching, which includes more than just abortion. And if you would bother to read that book, you would know that.

[Apotheoun]

The authors of the book advocate compromise on the abortion issue, and I could never do that in good conscience as a Catholic.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Servant of Divine' date='29 October 2009 - 12:09 AM' timestamp='1256785740' post='1993101']
Mr. Krozen and Ms. Kelley aren't rejecting Catholic morality. Actually they are embracing and educating on the whole of the Catholic Social Teaching, which includes more than just abortion. And if you would bother to read that book, you would know that.
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Catholic Social teaching starts with the right to live.

[Winchester]

[quote name='Servant of Divine' date='28 October 2009 - 11:09 PM' timestamp='1256785740' post='1993101']
Mr. Krozen and Ms. Kelley aren't rejecting Catholic morality. Actually they are embracing and educating on the whole of the Catholic Social Teaching, which includes more than just abortion. And if you would bother to read that book, you would know that.
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So give some examples. From your performance on this site (the oedipus complex thread comes to mind), you're on the questionable side.

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='Winchester' date='28 October 2009 - 09:16 PM' timestamp='1256786168' post='1993105']
So give some examples. From your performance on this site (the oedipus complex thread comes to mind), you're on the questionable side.
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From what I read in the book the authors seem to think that simply lowering the number of abortions in a given year is the most that can be done. The book does not appear to be all that Catholic; rather, it appears to be more of a Democratic Party text than a Catholic one.

[Guest Servant of Divine]

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='28 October 2009 - 11:18 PM' timestamp='1256786332' post='1993108']
From what I read in the book the authors seem to think that simply lowering the number of abortions in a given year is the most that can be done. The book does not appear to be all that Catholic; rather, it appears to be more of a Democratic Party text than a Catholic one.
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Yes, rather then using our time and resources on simply making the practice illegal- which will proabably be like the Prohibition- we do need to focus on things that do lower the number of women who find this unthinkable act desirable for themselves.