ARISE, REJOICE, GOD IS CALLING YOU (Cardinal Arinze's Commencement Address at Georgetown)

Georgetown University | 17 May 2003 | Francis Cardinal Arinze

[RobbyS]

I would be curious to know how many students at Georgetown have studied the Nichomachean Ethics.

[eastsider]

Very telling.

Very jesuitical.

[conservonator]

I think meant to convey the fact that none are excluded form the opportunity of membership in the church, rather than membership is not required.

[Gerish]

Wonderful speech - let's hope the Lord will enlighten all those graduates hearts and minds throughout their lives!

[drstevej]

Perhaps. Nevertheless, Jesus and Peter are less ambiguous. I'm not sure Georgetown is ready for either Jesus or Peter as a commencement speaker!

[eastsider]

I would be curious to know how many students at Georgetown have studied the Nichomachean Ethics.

I can't say that I know how many students have studied this great work, but at least the Nicomachean Ethics appears on Georgetown's Index to Online Great Books in English Translation that is linked to on its Philosophy Department page.

Having said that, I note that ethics is notably absent from the department's enumerated aims ("In short, the Department aims to equip its students both with technical skills in philosophy--logical, linguistic, exegetical and phenomenological--and with thorough knowledge of the great traditions of Western philosophy--ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary.").

[RobbyS]

This Church has inherited from Christ, the Apostles and her living tradition, a non-negotiable body of doctrine on faith and morals. The tenets of the Catholic faith do not change according to the play of market forces, majority votes or opinion polls. "Jesus Christ is the same today as he was yesterday and as he will be for ever" (Heb13:8). This is the Church which St. Ignatius invites all his spiritual children to love and cherish. This is the Church to which we have the joy to belong.

[RobbyS]

Obviously they are not even ready for a Cardinal Arinze.

[conservonator]

I'm not sure Georgetown is ready for either Jesus or Peter as a commencement speaker!

I don't think so either. How do you think pope pile I would fare?

[drstevej]

*** How do you think pope pile I would fare? ***

Pope Pile ????? Better kiss the ring quickly!

Georgetown is not ready for a WASP Pope at commencement. Although in an effort to emphasize diversity I would wear my Rush Limbaugh NO BOUNDARIES tie.

[eastsider]

Although in an effort to emphasize diversity I would wear my Rush Limbaugh NO BOUNDARIES tie.

The Jesuits would love it, and might even be inspired to celebrate diversity with "PRIESTS WITHOUT COLLARS" t-shirts.

[Romulus]

Thanks so much for obtaining and posting this.

[eastsider]

I knew you'd appreciate it as soon as I saw the word graduands : )

[eastsider]

I read the "graduands" in its Latin sense, without realizing the "Britspeak" connection. I hereby acknowledge, retract and apologize for my PC comment in post #12, supra : )

[eastsider]

I suspect plurity is Britspeak, too.

[Polycarp]

Thanks for posting this!

A bump and a ping!

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[kitkat]

***YET...

"I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by Me." -- Jesus

"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." -- Peter***

A simple explantion of the above:


Vatican I, Pius IX:
“We must hold as of the faith, that out of the Apostolic Roman Church there is no salvation; that she is the only ark of safety, and whosoever is not in her perishes in the deluge; we must also, on the other hand, recognize with certainty that those who are invincible in ignorance of the true religion are not guilty for this in the eyes of the Lord. And who would presume to mark out the limits of this ignorance according to the character and diversity of peoples, countries, minds and the rest?”

A shorter explanation is that when the Church says that IF you believe the Catholic Church to be the true one and do not practice your faith, then you are doomed.

Notice the capital IF.

If, on the other hand, you believe sincerely in some other religion, then you must in conscience practice it.