Posted on 03/09/2007 9:39:24 PM PST by Caravaggio
In the face of modern challenges to the Faith, Catholics who have a high profile in media, culture and government have a very grave responsibility to witness it correctly; otherwise, they will be held accountable in heaven for their anti-witness which affects the faith of millions.
For example, last Friday Sean Hannity took a few moments out of his afternoon radio show to make an apology. When I heard that the rather brash Hannity was actually going to apologize for something I was interested to find out what that would be. At first he sounded very sincere in saying we have to take responsibility for our mistakes. Fine so far. Then he went on to tell his hearers that he had taken two bites of a chicken sandwich that day because he had been traveling and literally forgot it was a Friday of Lent. He stopped eating it when he realized it was a Friday, but he used the opportunity on the show to make a fairly big deal about the "eat meat on Friday and you can go to hell" issue.
Well, even though he claims to be a "good Catholic," Hannity is hardly a credible commentator on Catholic matters. The chicken sandwich scandal was fairly trivial in the overall scheme of his show, but it said much more about the depth of his faith than anything else. I suspect that a great number of Catholics live their faith in the same way—rule-bound and juvenile—but we need something better from a public "Catholic" like Hannity. We need a vibrant witness of someone who knows and embraces his Faith as deeply as he articulates his political passions.
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How is that possible if Sean doesn't oppose radical pro-abortion politicians in his own party like Rudolph Giuliani or uses his influence to convince his audience to vote for such a candidate?
NFP is a legitimate way of spacing children that the Church approves of, however one must be careful not to fall into the trap of using it with a "contraceptive mentality".
From http://www.catholic-pages.com/morality/contraception.asp
Pope Paul VI makes it clear that the first question to ask is "Do we have grave reasons for avoiding a pregnancy at this time?" If the answer is "Yes", then NFP and only NFP is a legitimate way to avoid pregnancy. If the answer is "No", then even NFP may lead you into the same exclusion of God, lack of trust and faith in God and anti-life/anti-child mentality that birth control so often does. Using NFP should be an occasion of sadness for a couple that present difficulties preclude the joy of another child.
Read the full link if you have time. It's worth it.
Probably just the way talk show personalities are.
This is a subject that touches a nerve with me. For a "personality" with influence to fail to show repsect for the clergy is inexcusable.
Bill Clinton set an example for a generation of Americans to lie without a second thought. The influence is a responsibility. Hannity is out of line, if for no other reason than for failing to be a gentelman in public to a priest.
Tribemike, your shilling for Hannity has now passed beyond the absurd into the insane.
As is yours for Euteneuer....look at all the posts damning Hannity...
Did any of these "good, consistent, non-cafeteria catholics " first go to their brother and admonish him before judging him ? Of course not.
Whats the matter, if I don't agree with your faulty logic, it is unwelcome? I suppose you buy into the humans-cause-global-warming dogma as well.
Having sex on a day in which the wife is not fertile is not circumventing God's will in granting children. It is a decision the husband and wife make each time they have sex. If they desire sex but the day isn't right, they abstain.
This thought process is very different from a contraceptive mentality when you expect the wife to take a dangerous medication for months/years on end so you can have sex whenever you feel like it.
Just curious, are you Catholic?
Amen!
chapter and verse here please....
BTW, the command to propogate is how God sees it. He says fill the earth, children are a blessing....
Euteneuer smugly thinks he is in God's will with his formal program of contraception but he is deluding himself.
Please. Making that leap in logic you have officially jumped the shark.
Actually I have emailed Hannity (quite a few times actually) when I've heard him make erroneous statements about the faith.
One other thing, no-one on this board is "damning" Hannity (show me "all the posts" that say Hannity is doomed going to hell - that's what "damning" is, right? Show me). If not stop making such outrageous, untrue statements.
All we're doing is pointing out how his mistake as a public figure could be damaging to the faithful.
Moreover, the only person who seems to be "judging" around here is you by your name-calling and attributing motives to people you know nothing about (i.e. calling Fr Euteneuer gay and other people hypocrites).
He is not erring as badly as Euteneuer is on birth control though. Euteneuer has a formal sterilization program going with Catholics running under the radar of using non-invasive or artificial items like drugs or devices.
His program is one that will stub out the catholic community in a generation as he smiles and assures his clients they get a pass on sinning with his "natural planning" birth control methods. If successful, Euteneuer's program would drastically shrink the catholic population until it is easily overwhelmed by the heathen in later generations.
All this is a product of deep, advanced science of the last 20 years that no other catholic generation could benefit from. If he were to explain this to Pius X, he would be excommunicated on the spot. Instead he smiles and condemns Sean Hannity in a pius smugness that makes the rankest hypocrite cringe.
Also, he cowardly avoids rancorous apostates on the left because he is afraid of them. Hannity is easy because the padre knows he would be deferential and say nothing to impugn the institution.
A whole different subject, I know a guy who picked strawberries in the fields in California when he was a kid about 50 yrs ago. Immigration came and everyone started running away and he took off. His brother finally caught up with him and told him that he didn't have to run because he wasn't an illegal.
What a story!
You're not quoting the full Canon, and thus missing Canon 1253, which allows Bishops' conference to make modifications to the abstinence rule...which is what they USCCB did in 1966, explicitly stating on Nov. 18, 1966 that American Catholics no longer had to abstain on Fridays and suggesting that American Catholics practice more personal forms of penance and self-denial. This is doctrinally sound pursuant to Canon 1253.
So, you're wrong in stating that American Catholics must abstain from meat on Fridays year round.
See Catholic Lady's post 122 for the full quotes.
Sorry, that should say canonically sound, not doctrinally sound.
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