Posted on 06/04/2003 7:26:11 AM PDT by RAT Patrol
I'd be surprised if Colson had anti-Catholic issues. He brought on a devout Catholic as director of Justice Fellowship, Pat Nolan. I don't know Colson, but I know Pat Nolan very well. Faith is so much a part of both of their jobs that I simply could not imagine Pat working with Colson if there was any anti-Catholic attitude.
Quite true, and an African speaking truth may well be more difficult to dismiss (by the West) than another white European.
I think that Africa is the focus of Christianity these next few decades,... The focus of the poverty, disease, and chaos that runs rampant through Africa will be able to be brought into sharp focus by a Nigerian Pope the same way that the despair and oppression of Communism was revealed by a Polish Pope.
Not to mention the fact that Christianity is experiencing its highest growth in Africa. The answer to Aids, as well as all that ails Africa, is more holy living.
Islam and Christianity will be engaged in a mighty struggle if Arinze ascends to the Seat of Peter, and it will be in West Africa that the conflict will be the sharpest, not Jerusalem.
I am not even Catholic, but I want a Pope who speaks up for Christians, not a syncretist or a compromiser. I do not see why an African Pope cannot speak for all Catholics, as you seem to infer, Remole. That is why the Church is called the Body of Christ. The Eurocentricism of all Christianity had its last day in the 20th Century.
You don't think that the problems of Islamo-fascism, Consumerism, Socialism, and Tribalism can be dealt with by an African ?
Those ALL are problems keenly experienced by Africans, Europeans, and Asians, as well as those of this hemisphere.
This riffraff is about as Catholic as my little Cairn terrier.
Yesterday Lane spoke at a memorial service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Speaking before America's most powerful media figures, Lane told a simple story about a man who loved and served Jesus Christ. It was a side of their colleague that many of them had never really known—a side scarcely mentioned in the voluminous media coverage of his death.
Above is the entirety of his mention of the Mass. Have you heard of a memorial service at St. Patrick's that has NOT been Catholic? Assuming you're Catholic, your Pecksniffian nitpicking does you or any of us no credit.
I really don't care if you consider it nitpicking and I'm certain you know what you can do with your indignation. Colson was deliberate in his slight
"But what most viewers did not know was that David was a committed Christian. David had grown up in a Methodist home. And while he had a strong understanding of the Gospel growing up, it wasn't until two years ago, according to Lane, that Bloom "effectively came to a saving knowledge of Jesus and started a real faith journey.""
"Yesterday Lane spoke at a memorial service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Speaking before America's most powerful media figures, Lane told a simple story about a man who loved and served Jesus Christ. It was a side of their colleague that many of them had never really known—a side scarcely mentioned in the voluminous media coverage of his death."
Oh, for heavens's sake.
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