[mlizzy]

Protestants have put up with these kinds of insults in the Religion Forum for at least a decade. The least that Catholics could do is be as thick-skinned as the Protestants have been IMO.

I just finished reading about St. Sophia [Eastern Orthodox saint] and her three young daughters, all martyrs, and no one would ever refer to her as being [or needing to be] thick-skinned, yet all of her children were killed right in front of her in the most tortuous of fashion, while she looked on encouraging them as they were about to see God. In other words, there's nothing to give glory to being thick-skinned [which could also be called insensitive or callous]; quite the opposite. Thick-skinned does not equate with strength. Some of the most sensitive people are the strongest [in Jesus]. Did not Christ even cry from the Cross?

That being said, NYer, doesn't use the adjectives/nouns you listed, so I would think her suggestion could at least be considered.

[Alex Murphy]

....there's nothing to give glory to being thick-skinned [which could also be called insensitive or callous]; quite the opposite. Thick-skinned does not equate with strength...

Just when I'd thought I had heard everything - being thin-skinned is a virtue. Sainthood for the thin-skinned! Who will be the Patron Saint of the Abuse Button? I'm going to walk away now, before I make a martyr out of soneone.

[metmom]

Jesus didn’t whine about being treated unfairly or call others *haters* or *bigots* because they disagreed with His beliefs and ask someone to make a rule to keep them from speaking up.