[ultima ratio]

Brilliant piece.

[Notwithstanding]

On all accounts - I agree.

This author is spot on.

He has voiced all of my random thoughts - and very eloquently.

Thanks for posting.

[Aquinasfan]

Excellent article.

Rabbi Lapin’s moral integrity and plain speaking have done more for Christian-Jewish relations than a thousand futile ecumenical symposia and weasel-worded scriptural trade-offs brokered by pressure groups and Vatican appeaseniks.

Ouch.

[Eala]

"Rabbi Daniel Lapin quoted" ping.

[Eala]

A great piece on The Passion.

[pgkdan]

WOW! What a wonderful article!

[GirlShortstop]

Rabbi Lapin's moral integrity and plain speaking have done more for Christian-Jewish relations than a thousand futile ecumenical symposia and weasel-worded scriptural trade-offs brokered by pressure groups and Vatican appeaseniks.

Alleluia and Amen!

[TradicalRC]

Two weeks ago, Lapin predicted that the film "will become famous as the most serious and substantive Biblical movie ever made" and that "the faith of millions of Christians will become more fervent as Passion uplifts and inspires them". Pity no Catholic bishop has gone on record in equally enthusiastic vein.

I believe that there is an old school definition of a liberal that says he is a person who refuses to take his own side in an argument.

Pity. Sometimes your own position is absolutely the right one. It sort of dovetails into the definition of a fanatic as one who redoubles their efforts after having lost sight of his goal.

The Church has historically stood against the more egregious extremes of liberalism such as communism, socialism and fascism. However, as the world's disenchantment with those more explicit versions of secularism becomes apparent, we now face the more daunting challenge of the softer secularisms, such as environmentalism, liberalism and feminism, to name just three heads of the Hydra.

This will call for an ever increasing discipline in all fields of argument: As Catholics we need to have better logic, better rhetoric and better empirical evidence. As well as other aspects of culture, notably the world of Art which has become a sub-culture which constantly attacks Christian culture and absurdly tries to lay the blame for the sins of modernism and "post-modernism" at the feet of devout Christians.

[Dajjal]

Bumpus ad summum