In Tulsa, we had priests from Nigeria, Tanzania, India, and Sri Lanka. They spoke English I could understand. The Church has always been international.
If you have a difficulty with a foreign-born priest, Bill, what are you doing to promote vocations to the priesthood from your parish/diocese?
There’s a militant liberal woman in my car club. If anybody calls it “the Christmas” party she gets upset and lectures us that it’s “the holiday” party. Virtually everybody else calls it the Christmas party unless she’s around. It simply isn’t worth the political correctness lecture. (As far as I can see nobody likes this woman but there really isn’t any way to exclude her.)
At the two huge defense companies I’ve worked at in the last three years Merry Christmas was actually forbidden as “potentially offensive.” Anybody who is going to say it looked around to ensure nobody overheard. I know it sounds ridiculous. But I was lectured by the senior VP regarding a conversation the HR lady had overheard in the cafeteria on concealed carry. Apparently, the HR lady thought it was “potentially offensive.” This company had one of the most socially sterile environments I’ve ever experienced. It reminded me of something written by a German who had been in the Hitler Youth. “Every conversation was the same, ‘my, what a wonderful time we’re having here at camp.’ We were terrified of saying something that would get us in trouble.”
Ah, so now they have to pass laws telling us what we are allowed to say, not what we cannot.
That’s a good picture of George Beverly Shea, who won a Lifetime Grammy Award; died 4-16-2013 at 104 yrs. However Billy Graham is mentioned in the O’Reilly article.
HMMMmmm...
I thought we already had one:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Oooops; my bad. It says CONGRESS.
Truly, the more I come to know God, the less religious I become. In fact, “religion” today is completely unimportant to me. God, however, influences every area of my life. Well, those areas that I (a sinner) allow him to rule.
I remember seeing a billboard, once that said “freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion”.
IMO, that’s wrong. Freedom of religion most definitely does mean freedom from religion - meaning that every free individual right has as much right to choose to not have a religion as to choose the religion of his choice.
But freedom from religion means you may not be forced to be a member of a religion, or to engage in any religious practice. What it does not mean is freedom from exposure to the sight of other people freely exercising their own religions.
You have a right to not engage in religious activities. You do not have a right to forbid others from engaging in religious activities in your presence.