Our morally fractured society

Renew America ^ | 10-5-03 | Judie Brown

[ReformationFan]

The words of Pope Francis and Archbishop Charles Chaput should give us pause this weekend and make us think about the growing trend in our society to devalue human beings and treat them like playthings. We must not only think about the innocent souls we are discarding like trash, but about our own as well.

Much has been written about Pope Francis' interviews and insights in last few days. Some of the rhetoric has been respectful, while some not at all. But much of what I have read is insightful. For example, the following excerpt from an editorial by Archbishop Charles Chaput helps me understand the true evil that reproductive technology poses in our world.

Chaput writes: Among the many vital things the pope reminds us of in his interview is the new and drastically different condition of the modern world that God seeks to save. It's one thing to argue about abortion and sexuality when both disputants in the debate share the same basic moral framework and language; the same meaning to words like "justice"; the same set of beliefs about the nature of the human person. But it's quite another thing when we no longer have that common vocabulary. The modern world is mission territory. It's morally fractured. Our politics, as Alasdair MacIntyre once famously wrote, is civil war pursued by other means. The modern heart can only be won back by a radical witness of Christian discipleship – a renewed kind of shared community life obedient to God's commandments, but also on fire with the beatitudes lived more personally and joyfully by all of us.

[ClaytonP]

These Francis defenders are disgusting.

He gave the pro-aborts all they needed to go on killing with a clean conscious.

[Tax-chick]

Very good article.