This is a very rich document. And the quote from St. Augustine made my day!
1 posted on
09/22/2011 9:47:54 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
To: Siobhan; Canticle_of_Deborah; NYer; Salvation; american colleen; Desdemona; StAthanasiustheGreat; ..
2 posted on
09/22/2011 9:50:55 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: Pyro7480
Ha, the quote from St. Augustine would make a great tshirt for the next election — and slogan!! I loved it too.
3 posted on
09/22/2011 10:06:06 AM PDT by
bboop
To: Pyro7480
Where positivist reason dominates the field to the exclusion of all else and that is broadly the case in our public mindset then the classical sources of knowledge for ethics and law are excluded. This is a dramatic situation which affects everyone, and on which a public debate is necessary. Indeed, an essential goal of this address is to issue an urgent invitation to launch one.A pretty audacious invitation.
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John Fogarty said in an interview, when asked what it's like to be a rock star, "...just be who you are."
4 posted on
09/22/2011 10:12:37 AM PDT by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: Pyro7480
Neither Protestantism nor Islam puts much stock in reason per se, nor does positivism, the Pope points out. But Catholics also are apt to dismiss the Natural Law tradition. Of course, if we abandon the notion that there is things as human nature, then those in power will feel free to use or even alter the human body as though it were a mere object.
7 posted on
09/22/2011 10:26:20 AM PDT by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
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